Beatopper Spot Light Moving Head LS10

0:01 It's the Spotlight and it's from a company called Beat Topper

Right guys, first of all I have done a video on that light over there which is the Mini Moving Spider. I will also put a link in the description to that light as well but what we're looking at today here is this one. It's the Spotlight and it's from a company called Beat Topper. It's a small moving head and it's one of those sort of wolf in sheep's clothing. Now, first of all, back in the day when moving heads first came out, they were very big. They were also very expensive. They had discharge bulbs in them. So they got very hot, expensive to run and just a nightmare. I mean, it's like any new technology you pay through the nose. A little bit like, you know, you get the latest iPhone, it's going to cost you a fortune.

You know released after that you're going to get it quite cheap but then it's slightly different here because this isn't like an iphone what's happened here with this light is because technologies move forward things are getting smaller more compact brighter more powerful that's what's happened here you've got a small moving head that is exceedingly bright very powerful and it's got some good features as well in a small package Now, also, pure logic here. Let's look at physics. A very simple way of looking at physics. When you have a big object and you want to move that quite fast, you need a lot of force. Also, what happens is, you know, you're going to have a time difference between, let's say, it being stationary and moving.

2:21 Internal workings

Whereas the smaller the object, the less time it's going to take to get to its ultimate speed because there's less mass for the motors and everything to move around. So what I'm getting at here is now we've got a complete package of modern day tech where you've got a small moving head that is very bright. It's got good functions like the more expensive models. But it's damn fast. I mean, it's like a bloody whip it. All right. Now what I have done as well, I've taken some of the screws out. There's one left. I'd like to show you the internal workings. Okay. So what have we got? So the voltage is 240 AC 90 50 to 60 Hertz. The light source is one piece high powered LED rotating gobos, seven metal gobos and white. And then the color

You've got a seven-piece gobo, so you've got white and rainbow, sort of a flow effect there. Control mode, you've got auto, sound, DMX 512, master slave, and you can choose between 9 and 11 channels. So enough of that, I'm just going to turn it on, okay? So if you see this is normal with any sort of light like this, of setting itself up and then it should start now if it carries on doing what it did earlier it should go to sound to light which it's doing right now so so you can see that it is damn fast now again you can expect to have some kind of sound from the motors so don't worry about that so what i'm going to do now i'm going to take the camera no actually i'm gonna no actually i'll take the camera

4:15 For example, let's say the bride's coming into the room

Off the stand, I'm using the, sorry about that, I'm using the iPhone. It's pretty decent actually, I haven't used my other camera for ages because this is so good. So you can see there's a nice effect, alright? So you've got different effects on the gobos. Now on the front of the light, you can move... If you're familiar with controls like this, they are pretty much box standard universal with all lighting. So you've got your menu so you can go through the menu for example DMX sounds like Master Slave and so on. Also, you can go up and down, so you can set different parameters like speed maybe, or you just want it to say go on white. There's a really nice open effect here with just the white LED, which would be great with DMX. So for example, let's say the bride's coming into the room.

Five or six years ago a small light like this you wouldn't have dreamt of using something like this for a follow spot because it wouldn't have been very bright but this is exceedingly bright. All right so I'm going to turn the light off and again it's sort of daylight outside but that is showing up quite nicely. All right so what I'm going to try and do is open it up so Right, what I'm going to do now you do not do because if you do something like this you are indeed going to void your warranty. So by me opening up it means you can have a look inside it without you having to open up your light. All right so what we've got here we have the two wheels we have our gobo wheel there and we have our color wheel and just at the back there

6:57 Actual overall head is very light

Is the led now the first thing i did see with this light was the heat sink at the back and that tells me something very quickly is the led is going to be very bright because it's got a heat sink to dissipate the heat okay so the model is ls10 just to let you know all right um now also if we look inside there there's not much going on Actual overall head is very light. So now, if you think about it, what I said earlier about small being able to go faster, if it's light as well, then that means there's less weight for it to move around. So of course, it's going to be very agile. All right. So there you go. So applications for something like this. Again, a small maybe.

Fun bar, a pub, a small restaurant. That may sound stupid in a restaurant but it isn't because you could have something like this in the restaurant just sweeping the floor very slowly. If you're going to use it I highly recommend you use DMX because then you can set it to move so it's not going to blind people while they're eating. Definitely mobile DJs, and I would say for the price a couple of these, you know, one either side of your setup on a podium. If you do not want to go down the DMX line, if you're going to get two of them, then you've got to do Master Slaves. So what you do there is you would go out... of the main unit to the next one then this would be the master you'd set this one and then the other one would be the slave and again you can have them to do exactly the same thing they can go the same direction or mirror image so i'd probably more like go mirror image so and what that basically means is when the head on the left

Is say moving in, the head on the right would be moving in. You can have them move the same direction but I just like the mirror image effect really. Alright so there you go, this is the Spotlight, again it's from Beat Topper and the model is LS10. Also here I have, like I said I've done a video on this already, the Mini Moving Spider. Now I will put links in the description. On both of these lights, I believe there's a code there where you can get a bit of a discount as well. Also, you can get more information on them. But please leave a comment, you know, have you got lighting like this? Have you got one of these? What do you think of them? Now, I'm going to finish this video with something that is, I believe, very important because...

9:26 Nowadays yes you can still buy very expensive moving heads

It's about finances. Now if we go back let's say 10, 15 years or even further when moving heads first came out they were very, very expensive and what that meant is if anything went wrong there was a great expense to get them fixed. Nowadays yes you can still buy very expensive moving heads. And if indeed something goes wrong within the designated sort of time where it's got a warranty, you should theoretically be able to get it fixed for free. Unless, of course, you open it up yourself, try and fix it and then think you can't send it back. If they find out that it has been opened by the user, then you could void your warranty. So never open anything up. Always get a professional to do it. But of course, like I said, you buy something expensive, it goes wrong after 12 months, you're probably going to have a big expense to get that fixed. On the other hand, something like this, which is relatively inexpensive, if it goes wrong within the 12 months, you still should be able to, under warranty, get it fixed or have a new one or whatever.

Then you've got to work out the finances. Well, is it worth getting it fixed or maybe just chucking it or keeping it for spare parts? You know, so if you think about it, you spend a thousand pounds on a light and if it goes wrong after 12 months, you're not going to throw it away. You're going to make damn sure it's going to be fixed, even if it costs one or two hundred pounds. Whereas a light like this, I don't know the exact price, but let's say 100. So I'm just saying 100 and to get it fixed after 12 months is going to cost you 40. Well, you might want to get it fixed, but if it's going to cost 60 or 70, there's no point. You might as well add another 30 and get another one. So I hope you understand the logic there. Like I said, there will be info in the description on both of these. Thank you for watching.

Practice and enjoy.

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