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AMERICAN DJ 46HP LED A sound to light and full DMX light

First look November 2009

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0:00 It's from a company called American DJ

Alright folks, video number one on this guy here. It's from a company called American DJ. It's known as the 46 HP LED. Now first of all I'm going to pause the camera and just give you a bit of a closer look. By the way it is exceedingly bright. Hold on. As you can see, exceedingly bright. Now Brian S Red in the States has done quite a bit on up-lighting and this I believe is the baby.

Right, now I'll be honest with you, this guy, it's more, not necessarily only for the pros, but it is to a certain degree high end because you have full colour mixing. Alright, we've got DMX controls on this, it will do sound so light as well because we've got an inbuilt microphone, but I mean this sort of unit... What you can do, you can do so much more with it as opposed let's say to just having a white light or a red light or a green light. You can near enough get I suppose in a sense all colours of the spectrum. Right now this is quite funny actually. I'm going to go through some of the colours. We've got Tipton Blue, Light Sky Blue, we've got Sky Blue, we've got Brilliant Blue, we've got Light Green Blue, we've got Bright Blue, Primary Blue, Congo Blue, Pale Yellow Green, Moss Green, Primary Green.

1:30 We've got golden amber

But, yeah, I'll check this out. We've got golden amber. Now, I'm not kidding you, alright? Golden amber, agolo gold, pale amber gold, medium amber and bastard amber. See, that's what he says! Look, look! Look what he's got! Oh dear, love it! I love it! That is so... Oh God, you gotta laugh on here. Oh, sorry! White. Right, here we go. I'm going to be reading this from the specifications, alright? So the LEDs, we've got 18 1-watt LEDs, so 54 watts in total, OK? Any safe working position, so basically you can stick it any how, which, where but why. And I reckon the reason they've said that is because it's LEDs, it does not get hot. I mean, like I've said in other videos where LED lights are concerned.

2:27 In other words, it will flow through all of those colours

If, let's say you had a similar light from years ago and you bunged it next to a curtain, you'd be running out of the room very soon because the whole place would be on fire. Alright, so voltage 100 volts, 24 volts, sorry 47, 63 kilohertz, power draw is only 25 watts, okay, fuse 120 volt 2 amp, the weight is 3.57 pounds which is 1.62 kilos, Dimensions. Well, you know, it's that big. There you go. Those are dimensions. Colours. RGB colour mixing. So in other words, it will flow through all of those colours. Believe it or not. Right. Now this guy here has got three years warranty. Now again, hold on, let's pause the camera. You see what I do like is that when I personally used to buy lights years and years ago, they used to give you a one year warranty and cross their fingers because

9 times out of 10, something could go wrong. Well of course with LEDs now, they're laughing because theoretically nothing should go wrong and quite often this is what happened with all lights because it got so hot all the time things started to wear away a lot quickly or quicker. The reason being... Thank you for watching.

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