Betopper LED Mini Flat Par Light 54 X 1.5W RGB for Band Singer Mobile DJ Club @Betopper #Betopper

0:01 Short review here of this light from a company called Beatopper

Right, ladies and gentlemen, short review here of this light from a company called Beatopper. The actual spelling is B-T-O-P-P-E-R, so I think it's Beatopper. But anyway, what we're looking at is the LED Mini Flat Power Light. You have 54 1.5 watt RGB, that's red, green and blue, 3-in-1 LEDs. First of all, my, well actually my disclaimer, I'm not getting paid to do this video. The company did send me the product.

Very often companies will say, you know, we'll send you some money or we'll do like an affiliate type of thing but I don't really want to do that because what that means is then the review is almost me trying to promote the light so I may get some click-throughs and whatnot whereas what I prefer to do Two and a half inches deep, and it comes with its own stand. And I'll be honest with you, the stand's a bit flimsy, but while I talk about the light, you'll probably get the reason why it is. Okay, so like I said, you know, you've got 54 one and a half watt LEDs. Now that is quite a bit. If I pointed at the camera briefly.

You can see it's very bright and if you can hear something in the background, that's a fan. So it does have its own fan. Now, a couple of years ago, Beat Topper sent me this and I've still got it to this day. This is the LM0910RG. So that's a full-on moving head, a couple of lasers in there as well. And I've still got that.

5:25 Admittedly, this is plastic, okay?

Perfectly it's a really nice light what i will say about this mini power can and i think one of the the main reasons why i wanted to review this is i looked at the price now i've been asked not to uh give the price for very good reason because and this is pure logic because fly slices prices Do fluctuate. So if I gave you a price today of X, it could be Y tomorrow or it could be Z the following day. And of course, it could be different wherever you are around the world. Now, like a lot of park hands like this, you know, if you're not familiar with this sort of screen, then where have you been for the past 10, 20 years? This is your very basic sort of... Information for the likes of DMX also shows you what channels you're on. So very quickly, if we start from left to right, far left, we have the selection for the different types of shows or effects and then the next two are up and down so you can run through the different.

Types of shows um so you can see as i go through here it's running through you know so we've got from one to nine there let's have a look let's go to something else so let's reset there we've got colors there so so you can see col so i mean it's a very basic kind of readout but you do sort of get the general idea so we could stick to that color there and then far right Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor. 008S. Now that's the model number. I will put all the information in the description. So, plastic. There it is. You've got a small lead attached to it. Now, why do I like this? Why am I even bothering doing a review on this? Well, simply because you've got loads of different kinds of power cans out there and a lot of them are very expensive.

8:08 Kit does not last forever

Now, admittedly, this is plastic, okay? You know, the metal for the stand is relatively thin. But then, you know, you're not paying big bucks at all. And I'll be honest with you, straight to the point, the actual light itself is exceedingly bright, very bright. So, you'd only probably need one or two of these. In fact, sort of one either side of your DJ booth. This is something that's universal with kit and this is pure logic. Let's say you buy a light, say for example there's something like this in a shop store near you 300 pounds, dollars or euros. Now I'm not sure what that would be in your monetary system but 300 pounds is quite a few. It's quite a bit you know. I mean it's not the sort of amount that you take out your back pocket and throw away. You'd have to think about spending that sort of money on say just one light. Now again this could vary wherever you are around the world.

10:00 To the in of the third

But basically in the United Kingdom, if you buy something for X amount and let's say within a year it breaks, then of course you're within your right. I believe so. I'm pretty sure this is correct to take the item back to the place where you bought it from and they will either exchange it for you or fix it if the item they don't make them anymore. Then they should be obliged to get you the next thing very close to the item that you bought originally. The trouble is, after a year, let's say you spent £300 and it breaks. Now theoretically, you're now in a position to have to fix the item at your cost. So it's going to cost you money to get the item fixed. With something like this, and let's get straight to the point here, alright, you know, I mean, I'm going to be very transparent here. Within a year, if anything happens, yes, you know, you're within your right to send the item back, get a refund or get a replacement. But after a year, because of the actual cost, it's probably not even worth getting it fixed. You know...

Because it was so cheap. So let's say, for example, you had 10 of them and after a year, one or two broke, which is not inevitable, but that's life. Kit does not last forever. Then in a way, you've got a couple of pieces of kit that you could use maybe for parts. Now again, I'm not saying you should start pulling your items open and start delving inside of them and stuff. You know, you need to make sure you are a trained electrician and you know exactly what you're doing but what i'm getting at here is that it's all about cost you know i mean for the price of one of these all right now again go online check it out um that is the equivalent of you going out to an average restaurant and having a starter and maybe a main course or maybe even just a main course

That's how inexpensive this light is. And that's one of the reasons why I wanted to make a video on it. It's because it's cheap. It is cheap in the way of if you're a startup DJ or you've got a very sort of minimal kind of show and you've always looked at other DJs and thought, wow, wouldn't it be nice? I don't think it sounds like, wouldn't it be nice? Attached to, you know, so you go from out to in to the next one, then out of the second one to the in of the third and so on. But I'll be honest with you, to get the full potential, you do need to use a DMX controller. Having said that though, if you just want uplighting, so for example, the client has said, you know, we like turquoise, we like indigo, we like blue, we like violet, we like red, we like yellow.

You can get colour mixing on these, so you know you can slightly change the feel and the tone of the room by of course the light you use. Now these are really bright and again like I said for the price you can't go wrong. Alright so once again don't forget check out the link in all the information in the description it's It's the Beatopper LED mini flat power light, 54 1.5 watt LEDs and again, LED technology has moved on leaps and bounds in the past 15 years. If you look at some of the old videos of LED lights, they were just naff and now, I mean, they are just so much better in every single way possible. So there you go, there it is. Very simple. And again, what can you say about this? I mean, it's very simple, but it does the job. So again, if you are the sort of DJ band, maybe you're a cabaret act and you haven't got a big budget, then a couple of these and away you go. Now, I'm going to finish this video with something pure logic here.

Let's imagine you had one of these against a wall 100 meters away and you had a similar light against the wall, another different wall 100 meters away but the other one was say 200 and that's going to be a fraction of the cost. Now from a distance you would see the image, the light, you would also see the effect on the wall But to be quite honest, it would take a really good keen eye to determine which light was better. So what I'm saying here is that if you think by spending a great deal of money on a light is going to make you a better DJ, you're wrong because of course it's about how you DJ. 99% of the public out there would not know... A 500 watt moving, sorry, 500 pound euro dollar moving head from something that you bought off eBay for 75 pounds. All right? Most people wouldn't. Of course, unless you start indeed using DMX and, you know, you've got different mirrors in there and gobos, that's fair enough. But let's be honest, you have one of those against a wall, next to it you have something...

5 times the price, not many people are going to know the difference. So thank you very much to the guys at Beatopper for sending me the light and again I've had this one for ages, I've used it quite a few gigs. Thank you for watching, don't forget, check out the info in the description, practice and enjoy.

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