Betopper LM0740 7 Times 40 W RGBW 4 in 1 Zoom and Beam Wash Bee Eye Moving Head Club DJ Light

0:00 They basically said Jonathan would you like to use one of these lights

Alright ladies and gentlemen, I think I'm going to start calling any videos I do or start off sort of demos in the kitchen, the kitchen tabletop demos. Well, why not? Anyway, first of all my disclaimer, I've sent this light for free but they haven't paid me to do any form of promotion. They basically said Jonathan would you like to use one of these lights? All we want you to do is show it off and in return... Everyone's happy. So this is the LM0740. It's a 740 watt RGBW, that's red, green and blue and white. 4-in-1 zoom and beam and wash BI. Now it is a moving head and we're going to open the box. So of course by doing this you'll see exactly what you get. Sound to light, which is what we will be doing today. Master, slave, the usual. So, you know, and again, I have talked about lights like this before, but if we go back many, many years, you had very expensive moving heads that cost an absolute fortune and they were out of the pocket of most...

Mobile DJs, but now it's not only lighting companies and big nightclubs that have got moving heads. A mobile DJ, small show that you do weddings with, if you've got a DMX controller and you've got one or two of these, or ideally two really, you know, so you've got symmetry, they're going to look pretty stunning. Okay, so open the box. First of all, we have what I call the destruction manual, also known as the instruction manual. And the first thing I've noticed that I do like, that does show we got a bit of pro here, is it's got a power con connector. Now these are very similar to speak-ons. Now if you're not familiar with a speak-on, normally that is the plug that you would plug into the back of your speaker. So you push in and you twist and they click in place.

2:19 What else have we got here?

I mean, it shouldn't really happen, but if Mr and Mrs Joe blogs get behind the speakers and they pull out a plug, you know, a jack, it's quite easy to do. But we speak on, and not many people that Joe public know how to use these, so they'll be tugging away thinking what's wrong. So of course, when you put this in, you push in, twist, and it clicks in place. When you want to take it out, you pull down, twist, and just pull out. So there you go. Alright, so what else have we got here? We have got our hanging bracket for light trussing rig. It seems good quality and it's not. This now is telling me this light's pretty good because this isn't cheap and flimsy. Sometimes you get lights and you just think, well, what have you done? It's not that good. We have got a short DMX cable.

Now again, you know, you're going to probably have your own DMX cables. Hazardous guess, this is going to be sort of over a metre or thereabouts. So something like this is great just to hook one to the other. Right, so here we go. Drum roll. It's quite a heavy piece of kit. There it is. And I should have somewhere a tape measure. So again, we can give you an idea. of what it well you can see what it looks like but the actual dimensions so the head itself from tip to toe you're looking roughly seven inches that's just over excuse me 17 centimeters um how wide is it the head itself is a good six inches now you'll notice that that turns which is quite nice okay Alright, let's have a look and yep, okay, base of it is, let's have a look, is 9 inches by 3 inches deep. Not bad little thing. Of course I am going to turn it on but very impressive, nice LCD screen display and instead of buttons we've got

5:24 Power power

The DJ Tutor is available for purchase at www.ellaskins.com I mean, most people will know what that does, but if you don't, very simply, you press menu, you run through the different shows and then when you get to a specific show, you can go, for example, let's say a certain power of the lights, you know, whether you want it bright or dim, and then you can go up and down, get it brighter, dimmer and press enter. And then, of course, that will keep that particular show. But having said that, I'll be really honest with you, a light like this, you do need to run it DMX. If you've just got the one and you're doing sound to light, you know, alright, stick it in the corner of the room, but it's just going to go and do its own thing, you know, whereas if you do master slave, you have symmetry, they're going to move together.

Better still, which is really the ultimate way of using a light like this, is of course DMX. I'm pretty sure it's 512 and you can set your own shows and of course... The great thing with DMX is the whole light will come to life because if you want it to just be white, you can. Red, you can. Green, you can. Blue, you can. A multi-mix. If you want it to turn, you can. I mean, possibilities are endless with DMX, completely. Quick look at the back. We have DMX in, DMX out. Of course, power in. And power out. So again, with the power out, what you can do with these is you can daisy chain them basically. I'm not sure exactly how many heads that of course should be somewhere in the destruction manual description. You've got fuse here and a power on off button. So, you know, we're looking pretty pro here because the cheaper varieties of moving heads quite often don't have a power on power off. It's just plug them in and away you go.

6:54 The cheaper ones definitely do not have PowerCon in and out

The cheaper ones definitely do not have PowerCon in and out. PowerCon in and out is of course taking it to the next dimension, it shows its good quality. If we turn it onto its side, what I'll do now, hold on, if I've got it like that, is now this bracket is basically for the bottom. So what you do is you push it in And then twist these. I'm just going to do the one and that locks that in place. Now you've got four feet here, of course, so you can just leave it self standing. I would not recommend you do that at all if you've got that on some kind of plinth. Make sure it's definitely secured. It has to be secured because The moving head itself will move quite a bit and even though it's relatively heavy, you know over a period of an entire night that's going to start moving around and you don't want that falling on the floor. So what you can do which is what I've done many times is if i can just put it to that kind of angle in between the feet and the base

If the feet are on a secure platform, you've got a bit of a gap in between the bottom and whatever it's on. So again, I don't recommend you do this, but this is what I have done. I would get a ratchet strap and I would go in this handle underneath the complete moving head and then up. ...through the next handle and down, and you can ratchet that in place. Now again, if you're going to use a ratchet strap, do not have it as tight as you would normally have it if you've got a ruck of speakers on top of each other because the handles are plastic and if you overstrain them, they're going to break. But it's just pure logic. I mean, if you ratchet it so it's secure and it's not going to move, then...

It's not going to move, that's it. Right, so pause the camera and let's turn this sucker on. Actually what I will do is this. So if you have a listen, push in and you've got that lovely click sound. So again, push in and twist and you can hear it click. Now if I try and take that out, I can't, okay? So like I said earlier in the video... You know, Mr and Mrs Smith or Billy down the road who's come out, he's pissed and he's at the party and he just likes making trouble. He's going to turn up and try and pull that out. It's not going to happen unless, of course, he knows to pull and twist and that's it. So push in, twist, away you go. Just a small recommendation when you're putting the power con in, make sure, of course, the off switch is engaged. Turn it on and...

10:02 This is something that happens with practically every single moving he

If I turn it around, we should now having, yep, a reset. So this is something that happens with practically every single moving head. Don't expect it as soon as you turn it on for it to light up because it's got to set itself. So the stepper motors in there and everything have got to sort of just set up ready for the show. Okay, zero, zero, one. LED display. Right, so let's go to menu. You see, first time I'm using this, so unless it's not ready yet. Ah, here we go. Ah, so we've got address. So there, we can address it. Now, if we look down here, we've got fixture. And again, I'm just doing this for the first time now, so I'm trying to use pure logic here. So let's just zoom in a bit. Let's just move the camera down slightly. There.

Okay, so presumably fixture is of course which fixture we're using. Manual information factory reset. So I'm going to go down to manual, enter. Okay, so all right, so we can pan, we can pan fine, tilt, speed, strobe, red, green. Basically here we can go through the colours. So what I'm going to do here, instead of me wasting your time now by me trying to work this out, I'm going to pause the camera, get it to do some kind of show and be straight back. All right, there we go. I got it working. Okay, so if I go back to menu, it pretty much was fixture, enter, and then if I go down there, it had run mode. So if I press enter on run mode, then again, I'll just zoom in slightly so we can get a better idea. So there you go. So if I just go menu again, again with one of the first screens we saw DMX, fixture and so on. So I went to fixture, again press enter, DMX mode, we're not doing DMX, go down to run mode and I'm on sound, enter.

12:32 Hold on, where are we now?

So if I'm there now on run mode, we've got a couple of... Hold on, where are we now? Yeah, we've got an icon there that's showing up or down. So we can go up and we can go through DMX, host, sound, and I've just gone to sound and press enter. Pan invert, let's have a look. Enter, open, let's go down. Oh no, close, open, let's just enter that. God, this is really bright. Let's go. No signal. Enter. Clear. Hold. Sensitivity. I presume that's based on how close or far you are away from the PA system. I'm just going to enter that. All right. So let's just go back a bit. There we go. Right. What I'm going to do now, again, I'm going to pause the camera. and try and get some kind of slower show but i don't know if you can see it's quite fast and i think modern day technology so i'll start again what modern day technology is able to do is manufacture manufacture products uh moving heads with the internal parts of the head itself being relatively light so of course what that means is if the

The actual arms haven't got much weight to move around. It means they can go a lot faster. Again, that's just down to basic physics. Right, so pause the camera a second. Right now behave. Behave. All right. So what it's doing now, it's going through pretty much all of the shows it can do. Now you'll notice that the centre of the moving head will actually move in and out. Which is a great feature because it means that it's not just one beam that's one size. This beam or the beams can get quite wide or small. Strobe, I mean that's pretty decent actually. I know everyone keeps on saying and I should definitely get a DMX unit.

15:07 Yes, I am still in the kitchen

I mean, I might go old school and just get one of the DMX controllers with sliders on from way back in the day. I don't know, we'll have to see. That's quite nice actually. Alright ladies and gentlemen, yes, I am still in the kitchen. God knows what the neighbours think of me, I tell you what. And yeah, I've just bunged out a load of haze. And here we go, look at it! Okay, so it's running through all of the shows it can do.

Bit of a strobe thing going on there. I mean, that is very powerful. Definitely. Now again, being RGBW, we have red, green, blue and white. So you've got a full colour mix there. So don't expect it just to be only red, only green, only blue. I mean, with RGBW, you can have practically any colour.

16:26 Please, by all means, put a comment

That is a nice effect. I like that effect a lot. So, again, let me know what you think. I will be using this at gigs. Please, by all means, put a comment. Have you used any lights like this before? Have you used this light? Let me know what you think. I've got to try and find my way back to the light now. Hold on, let's put the light back on. In behind the kitchen. Oh dear, it's a good job I live by myself, my son. He's upstairs now. He knows me. He's like, oh, dad's doing his usual thing. He won't come in here. But what I will have to do very shortly is open the kitchen door, let smoke out and hopefully no one's going to call the police or fire brigade. Oh, Jonathan, you all right? Yeah, I'm fine. There you go. All right. So basically what we've got, you've got a wash beam effect, vortex kaleidoscope. OK, so the front mirror disc.

You know, you've got variable direction. Let's have a look. You've got full brightness control as well. And again, the lamp is rotary. So the lamp itself moves. A lot of lights, what you tend to find is the lamp will stay in one position and then the mirrors will move. But here, the lamp moves. Okay, so light source is 740 watt RGBW, so it's four-in-one. Now the lifespan allegedly is 50,000 hours so again it depends how much you use it and I recommend with any light like this. It's not as bad as the old sort of discharge lamps but um You know, if you're going to use something like this and you turn it off, don't pick it up straight away and bung it in the back of the van. Just let it cool down a little bit. LEDs do not tend to be as hot as sort of discharge lights, lamps, but, you know, they're expensive pieces of kit. So don't start chucking around the back of the van at the end of the night. I know if you're anything like me, you just want to get home, but...

A little bit of time spent. Okay, you've got control mode, you've got audio which is sound, also DMX 512, voltage AC 100 to 240 volt at 50 to 60 hertz, colour temperature which is 2800 Kelvin to 8500K known as Kelvin and again what I didn't say earlier on which is what you have got which is very good and it proves the quality you've got. A colour screen. DMX channels is either 12 or 18. The spot angle is 4.5% up to 45%. So you can get a nice fine beam on this. I mean, 4.5% angle. That's pretty damn good. Up to 45%. And the net weight is just over 6kg. So there you go, ladies and gentlemen. Beatopper! Thanks for watching, practice and enjoy.

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