Members BillESC Posted September 24, 2012 Members Share Posted September 24, 2012 Blizzard steps up the competition with its' newest offering, the Puck Fab 5 scheduled to ship early November.This flat style fixture features 7 x 15W five in one diodes offering RGBAW color mixing. This 5/9 channel fixture comes Wicicle enabled for wireless control and will be available for under $ 260.00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Axisplayer Posted September 24, 2012 Members Share Posted September 24, 2012 Might actually be time for me to consider a revamped lighting rig. It is starting to get interesting....finally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dcastar Posted September 24, 2012 Members Share Posted September 24, 2012 Originally Posted by BillESC Blizzard steps up the competition with its' newest offering, the Puck Fab 5 scheduled to ship early November.This flat style fixture features 7 x 15W five in one diodes offering RGBAW color mixing. This 5/9 channel fixture comes Wicicle enabled for wireless control and will be available for under $ 260.00 Wow... That IS a nice fixture. As long as they don't "forget" my order this time around, I might purchase 6-8 of these.Edit: Is there a product page for this fixture yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BillESC Posted September 24, 2012 Author Members Share Posted September 24, 2012 The page will be up in the next couple of weeks. They're going to get the photometric data from a random fixture off of the production run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TrickDog Posted September 24, 2012 Members Share Posted September 24, 2012 Oh No! It might be time to upgrade. But when my wife finds out, where will I live? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mate_stubb Posted September 24, 2012 Members Share Posted September 24, 2012 So at 105W for the Fab 5 vs 120W for the Q+, any comments on relative brightness of the 2 fixtures? It would be nice to have more brightness from the amber LEDs, but not at the expense of r,g, or b. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BillESC Posted September 24, 2012 Author Members Share Posted September 24, 2012 Originally Posted by TrickDog Oh No! It might be time to upgrade. But when my wife finds out, where will I live? Somewhere BRIGHT and COLORFUL... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BillESC Posted September 24, 2012 Author Members Share Posted September 24, 2012 The Q12+'s use 2.5w diodes and there are only six each of white and amber. The new Fab 5 uses 3w diodes and there are seven of each white and amber plus of course RGB. I suspect the Fab 5's will be as bright if not brighter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mate_stubb Posted September 25, 2012 Members Share Posted September 25, 2012 So doing the math: Q+ has 30W each of R, G, B, plus 15W each for W and A. Fab 5 has 21W each of R, G, B, plus 21W each for W and A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mutha Goose Posted September 25, 2012 Members Share Posted September 25, 2012 Originally Posted by BillESC The Q12+'s use 2.5w diodes and there are only six each of white and amber. The new Fab 5 uses 3w diodes and there are seven of each white and amber plus of course RGB.I suspect the Fab 5's will be as bright if not brighter. From their FaceBook announcement: Ladies and gentlemen, meet the brand new Puck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators MrKnobs Posted September 25, 2012 Moderators Share Posted September 25, 2012 Originally Posted by Axisplayer Might actually be time for me to consider a revamped lighting rig. It is starting to get interesting....finally. Maybe.I played a show Sun night where the hired lighting company had Blizzard Q6As. They were just about completely useless, not nearly bright enough even 8 - 10 ft away from the performers. It would have to have been pitch black for them to have any effect. Outdoors in the city at night it never gets that dark.Terry D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MFlanagan Posted September 25, 2012 Members Share Posted September 25, 2012 Originally Posted by MrKnobs Maybe.I played a show Sun night where the hired lighting company had Blizzard Q6As. They were just about completely useless, not nearly bright enough even 8 - 10 ft away from the performers. It would have to have been pitch black for them to have any effect. Outdoors in the city at night it never gets that dark.Terry D. You have to be kidding me!!! I have Q6A's and I have to be sure not to run them at full or the front line band members are blinded. My guess it the lighting company was running them at much less than full power... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Miko Man Posted September 25, 2012 Members Share Posted September 25, 2012 Originally Posted by MrKnobs Maybe.I played a show Sun night where the hired lighting company had Blizzard Q6As. They were just about completely useless, not nearly bright enough even 8 - 10 ft away from the performers. It would have to have been pitch black for them to have any effect. Outdoors in the city at night it never gets that dark.Terry D. Terry, have you been able to do any of the photometric comparisons on LED and other fixtures that you were contemplating doing? Mark C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators MrKnobs Posted September 30, 2012 Moderators Share Posted September 30, 2012 Originally Posted by Miko Man Terry, have you been able to do any of the photometric comparisons on LED and other fixtures that you were contemplating doing? Mark C. I got sidetracked. I do have some Q12A's racked up in my studio main room, and some par 64 500w lamps. I have a watt meter and a lumen meter, so I guess there's nothing holding me back now. Terry D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators MrKnobs Posted September 30, 2012 Moderators Share Posted September 30, 2012 Originally Posted by MFlanagan You have to be kidding me!!! I have Q6A's and I have to be sure not to run them at full or the front line band members are blinded. My guess it the lighting company was running them at much less than full power... That's quite possible.Terry D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StratGuy22 Posted October 7, 2012 Members Share Posted October 7, 2012 Originally Posted by MrKnobs I got sidetracked. I do have some Q12A's racked up in my studio main room, and some par 64 500w lamps. I have a watt meter and a lumen meter, so I guess there's nothing holding me back now. Terry D. Get on it brah!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mate_stubb Posted October 28, 2012 Members Share Posted October 28, 2012 News page is up on the website:http://www.blizzardlighting.com/inde...invade-america Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KF650SB1000 Posted November 28, 2012 Members Share Posted November 28, 2012 I think it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BillESC Posted November 28, 2012 Author Members Share Posted November 28, 2012 In actuality, only a few manufacturers are building the Fab 5 fixture. It seems every manufacturer over there offers every other manufacturer's products as well as their own. All are trying to grab market share. It takes a good deal of time and many visits to the factorys to get an understanding of the Chinese business model. Just because a web site says "We manufacture" doesn't mean that they do. They could be in an apartment running multiple web sites selling numerous product lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StratGuy22 Posted November 28, 2012 Members Share Posted November 28, 2012 What do you mean by last LED bulb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KF650SB1000 Posted November 28, 2012 Members Share Posted November 28, 2012 Originally Posted by StratGuy22 What do you mean by last LED bulb? Fixed... *Latest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StratGuy22 Posted November 28, 2012 Members Share Posted November 28, 2012 Originally Posted by KF650SB1000 Fixed... *Latest Ah yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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