Betopper LM120 Demonds Eye LED RGBW Moving Head Opened Up

0:01 Here it is, the LM120 from Beat Topper

All right, ladies and gentlemen, I did promise. Here it is, the LM120 from Beat Topper. Now then, video one, we had a look at it and we saw two of them working together in video one. I did mention about the possibility of me pulling it apart. So if you don't like to see things naked, I suggest you close your eyes now. But on the other hand, if you don't mind, watch. But first of all, something really important. And this... is very important can't stress this enough if you buy a new item electronic item and you personally open open it up to check to make sure it's working or you just like me you want to look inside very likely you'll void the warranty so i make videos like this so you don't have to secondly you may be wondering why it's on the bed well

That's my son in the bath, if you can hear him. Well, very simply because when I open up most items, the last thing you want is for them to bounce the screws on a table and fall on the floor. Small screws, of course, being on a bed or some cloth, it means they just fall on the cloth and don't bounce around everywhere. So, if I show you first of all, okay, before we take the cover off the front... of the 120. it came in two pieces so firstly what you have to do not that you will do it because i just told you not to is take away the back cover that will reveal a very very large heat sink and the fan so the heat sink is there for one reason and one reason only to help dissipate the heat generated by the leds now even though leds

Don't get as hot as the likes of discharge bulbs they will still get quite warm so of course you need a heat sink so if you think about it um what the heat sink is doing it's adding surface area to the metal plate here which means it's it's allowing more heat to disappear instead so in other words if you just had a metal plate on the back Well, that would get hot, of course. A fan on it, yes, it's going to cool it down. But what happens with the heatsink is the heat will now start to move up all of these small little fins. As it moves up, the fan cools them down. So in other words, you've just got more surface area, pure logic there. So once I took the back away, there were four more screws to reveal the front.

2:50 Really, but what I like about

And there you go, drum roll. Well, not much to look at really, but what I like about this is the fact it's so simple. It is, I mean, in a way it's genius. So what we have, and even though I haven't had this on while the head of the moving heads been taken off. The cover, and I don't want to do that because it could be A very bright, well actually A very dangerous, B very bright. You know, I don't want to destroy anything here and it's probably not a good idea to turn it on while it hasn't got its covers on. But I'm using Pure Logic here. Now it's RGBW, red, green, blue and white.

4:18 The actual glass, well it's not glass, it's plastic

The other side of the fan, you can see the hole where the heat sink is and of course the fan will pull and draw out the heat from the heat sink. Okay, so now the actual glass, well it's not glass, it's plastic. I think I mentioned in the last video it was similar to the sort of thing you'd have in a bathroom so people can't see your naughty bits. Well this is pretty thick and Pretty solid and I like how it's made. I mean, that's one of the reasons why. I think there's probably a lot of engineering gone into this and thought process to get the really nice wicked effect. Well, that's the thing that really caught my eye with this particular light is... No, I'm not going to say that yet. I'm going to say that in a little bit. But what we've got is we've got a very thick piece of plastic here that...

7:09 Moving parts

Generates a really nice effect on the wall and a visual effect of the light.

So that's the back, very simple, loads of air vents and there's no point opening it up because or the rest of it because in here you've probably got a big power supply and some stepper motors so motors of course to move the head around and motors to move the actual light itself around now then what was i on about earlier on okay now if you're familiar with a lot of moving heads generally what you have is you will have and just bear with me here because this does make perfect sense what you've got is you have the light itself generating light it shines through the room and hits the wall Now let's imagine that you're in a country like the UK where 99% of the venues now will not allow you to use smoke.

So what you've got there is you've got a light that's generating an image from the head itself onto a wall and in between that image Eye candy because the light itself, the head generates a really nice kind of design. So for example if of course as you should do you've got this set up on a DMX controller and you've just got it stationary you can have a nice kind of display of moving lights that looks good because of the plastic In the front of it, whereas a lot of moving heads have just got white, red, green, blue.

And when I say most of them, the cheaper varieties, of course, when you start looking at spending two, three, four, 500 in excess of a thousand pounds, euros or dollars, then of course, you will have a little bit more eye candy because you've got Prisms and Gobos and the like. But what they've done here...

With the 120s they pretty much designed ahead without any moving parts in here that moves okay and that's the big plus here because the more moving parts you have the more chance there is of things going wrong all right so let me know in a comment what you think and let me know also if you've got one of these if you've got any products from beat topper just let me know all right now i hope that's been a help And I will be using this in about a week actually, the two of them. I've got a couple of gigs lined up and thank you for watching and as ever, thank you, practice and enjoy.

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