This Light Is Truly Amazzzzing!!! Betopper LM108 Moving Head Light Wash Review

0:00 Time for another review

Right, ladies and gentlemen, time for another review. I'm using the iPhone, so you know me in editing. It's like, yeah, just start it and roll. Anyway, in the kitchen, got this light here from, I think this is how you pronounce it, B-Topper. So it's the LM108. That's the model number. Now, I do quite a few reviews on lights, DJ kit, and also a few lights for bikes and stuff. But anyway... This here is a rather nice piece of kit. Now, I'm going to explain as much as I can about this moving head, but firstly and more importantly, something that a lot of people don't think about when they buy a new product and they open the box, what's the packaging like? Now you may think, well, what has the packaging got to do with the product inside?

1:57 It's solid, it's sturdy

It's very simple because if a company can be bothered, and I mean bothered to make sure that the packaging that the product is surrounded in is of good quality and is sturdy so the product doesn't get knocked about. That in itself means that the product and the company must be good because they have spent the time to make sure that the product you've got in the box There it is. Alright, now, seriously, I mean, some of you may be thinking, why on earth is he on about this? But the amount of products I've opened up, and you've got a bit of foam in there and that's it. But what they've done, they've got cardboard around the foam. It's solid, it's sturdy. Now that, to me...

Tells and says, sorry, says quality. OK, that is it. It's quality. I've got a cat jumping around here now. As usual, cats are in the house. So there you go. All right. So as soon as I opened the box and I took the product out, I was thinking, yes, we've got a bit of quality here. OK, so what have we got? We have got a stage light moving head. Now. DJs are using these more and more because I honestly, personally think gone are the days of a lot of... Oh God, if you could see this now, the cat's gone in here where all the cutlery is. Sorry. Gone are the days now of a lot of small to medium shows having loads and loads of lights. There's no need. A couple of good quality lights, you know, three or four of them and that's all you need. Less is more. In fact if you look at some of the roadshows out there and you look at the setup they haven't got lights all over the place so there's cables dangling everywhere. There's just maybe four or six or maybe sometimes eight lights and that's it. It looks professional.

Alright, so here it is. It's the LM108. There will be information in the description on this product, including links where you can go and get it from. Now, this is quite a heavy piece of kit. It is very, very well made. And again, like any item like this, you can have it standing up or, of course, you can turn it around. So there's settings. To do just that. Now, it feels good. It doesn't feel plasticky. It's got a bit of weight to it. Now again, a lot of companies now who make moving heads have gone, oh, we can make that. We can make it a lot cheaper, a lot easier, cut corners and chuck it out there for peanuts. But of course, peanuts you get monkeys. You pay a few pounds, euros, dollars, and all of a sudden you're annoyed because your product breaks after six months.

4:57 You do get full colour mixing

Don't blame the product, blame yourself for buying inferior items. So what have we got here? It's RGBW, red, green, blue and white. So you've got full colour mixing. You have 36 LEDs in here. So I'm going to turn that on. Now I do have the destruction manual with me so I can give you the exact specifications. 3 watt LEDs, you've got 8 red, you've got 10 green, 10 blue and 8 white. Now you do get full colour mixing. Now again one reason I like doing lighting products in broad daylight is because you can see how bright they are and this is very bright indeed. Okay so power supply 100 to 240 volts so It's universal, rated power is 100 watts, control mode, auto, sound, DMX and master-slave. So in other words, the auto, it will do its own thing, okay? So this preset shows in here, so you can press a couple of buttons and it will do some kind of light show for you. But of course then if you link two together, you can do master-slave,

Or a mirror image, which I like. So sound again is sound to light. So if you're like me and you're not really fussed about a DMX controller and you just want the lights quite often to just do flashy things with the beat, you can set it sound to light. Also DMX. So it's 512 DMX protocol and you can use practically, well in fact you can use any DMX controller. The other one again, as I said earlier, is Sound to Light. Sorry, not Sound to Light, Master Slave, I beg your pardon. So what you do there is you can have, depending on how many you've got, that is really bright, say a minimum of course of two. One, no point. But if you have two, what you will do is you will set the first head as the master, program that and then set the others for slave so they will copy what the master is doing.

7:47 It's got its own little readout here, and it's not a really simple rea

From, let's say, the best way of using it down to, not the worst, but the best way really is, of course, DMX controller because then you have a full control of what you want the light to do. And also, DMX mode, if you've got a decent controller, you can make up your own shows. That's the best one. The next one is Master Slave. You can set the main head to maybe go just green, red, blue or maybe go through its own show and then plug in the next one and that will copy. The other one then is sound to light which is basically it will flash away and it'll just do its own thing. Of course we do have our own shows in here anyway. Alright so another great feature which shows quality is... It's got its own little readout here, and it's not a really simple readout. It's a good quality readout here. We've got slow mode at the moment. So if I go down, sound mode and press enter. So there we go. Now we're on what's known as sound mode.

Looking at it, it's quite fast. Again, the depth of the head is probably, I would hazard a guess to say, sort of three and a half to four inches. The actual size of the light itself, I would say, is about six or so inches. And again, it's not light. It's got a bit of weight to it. So let's have a look. Oh, that is bright. I've said that a couple of times, but it is really bright. Okay. So what have we got here? We've got DMX address 0 to 512 like I said. Channel mode, you can choose between 9 channels or 16. Show mode, auto blackout and hold. Slave mode, we've got slave 1 and 2 and master. You can choose the shows, there's 4 shows to choose from. So inside here they have made 4 shows. So I have, don't know what they are, hold on, let's have a look, hold on. In fact, if we go, oh this, actually this is show mode, so this is one of them. So if we go sound sense, let's have a look, pad inverse, show mode, enter, yep. Okay, what else can I tell you here? Okay, so we've got white balance, red 0 to 255, green 0 to 255, same with blue and white.

10:21 Two handles that seem very, very sturdy

The backlight, which is on and off. Factory default, yeah. We've got offset settings, pan offset and tilt offset. So pan offset is 128 to 127, tilt offset 128 to 127, and we've got fixture reset as well. Alright, so I'm going to turn it off because that's really bright. Alright, we've got switch here as well to turn it off. Now also again with the power input, we've got a plug for power input but also we've got an adapter here so we can go out of this into the next unit. So basically what that means is you can have power in from the main supply here and then just go directly out to the input of the next head. And we have on off there and we have DMX in and out. Two handles that seem very, very sturdy. And I can see here, bits of the box falling down, small areas here where we can use for fixings for, let's say, if you want to elevate this and have it hanging upside down. So something like that. All right, so all in all, very impressed LM108. And it's just, it just feels good.

Like I said at the beginning of the video, you know, sometimes you get a piece of kit and, you know, you pay 49, 50 quid for it, 20, 30 quid because you can get lights now. Seriously, you can buy a set of speakers for 50 quid now that look fantastic but they're going to sound terrible, okay? Seriously, they're going to sound terrible. I would be happy to put this in a professional show. And not have to worry about it. In fact, I like it that much, I might have to buy a second one because having one light's great, but then it's nice to have two. So I'm going to have to contact the company and see if I can buy a second one off them. Anyway, there it is. It's great. It's absolutely brilliant. So it comes with the manual. And again, if you understand DMX protocol...

It's probably going to be very simple, but it is very, very bright. 36 3-watt LEDs. I mean even one 3-watt LED is bright, but there's 36 of them, alright? So like I said as well, there will be info in the description on this. Thank you for watching, practice and enjoy, and I'm now going to turn the phone off. Thank you.

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