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[Tim Weaver]

Has anyone compared the brightness of these 2 fixtures? My band has 4 of the ColorPallettes and they work well enough for us. I want to buy some more similar units, and I saw that the technostrobe looks the same, but doesn't do individual cell addressing and has simpler back panel controls.

Is that the only difference? Are they just as bright as the ColorPallette? If so thats the way I'm going because they are considerably cheaper. All we use them for is simple stage washes in stand alone mode. No need for fancy controls or anything. Someday I might hook them up to a console, but even then they would be solid color washes....

[Tim Palmer]

I have 4 of the rgb techno strobes. I have seen the color pallets, which are about twice as large as the TS, have more LEDS and have more control than the TS, thus are more bright as well

[Tim Weaver]

Aahhh, I didn't realize they were smaller that the CP.

So, how bright are they? Do you ever use them for front lighting as a wash? Or only as rear lights where they appear bright because you are looking into the leds?

[Tim Palmer]

They are pretty bright, i use them for dance floor wash and reaer truss wash, some eye candy for the crowd, etc. Here is a video taken inside my garage in the daylight, you can see how bright they are in indirect day light.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm3V64j_8DA

[Tim Weaver]

Youtube to the rescue!

Here is a video of the TechnoStrobes right next to the ColorPallettes and some colorstrips too. It shows the size and brightness relationship really well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JfAs1kokIY

[Gene Declue]

We use 6 TS panels on stands (2 per) behind the band and 5 on mic stand bases on the floor in front of us.  Covers most events we do...

[Tim Palmer]

Any pics of that set up?

[Tim Weaver]

I bought a technostrobe to compare with my colorpallettes.

The TS is about 85-90 percent as bright as the CP. It also has the (what I see as an) advantage wherein the RGB channels don't get broken into pixels like the colorpallette.

You see, on the CP you use channel 1 to set how many pixels you see on the device. Unfortunately they put the 1 pixel option on the 255 value of that channel. So now you have to park that channel on 255 for each fixture you have IF you want it to be a color wash. If the 1 pixel option was at the 0 value for channel one it would be a non issue! Now if your console doesn't have parking functions you're screwed because any time you record a scene, you'll be fading that first channel through all its values until it hits full intensity and makes the whole panel come on. STUPID!

The TS on the other hand does the same thing, except that it doesn't have seperate pixels. The first channel sets the fixture functions by; solid RGB, then presets, then sound active mode. So you see, that by leaving the first channel of the fixture alone you get a standard RGB wash light! Yay! The TS is a 6 channel light. Function, R,G,B, strobe, and dimmer.

Combine all of that with the fact that it's quite a bit cheaper and that makes the TS a hands down winner for me if you intend to use it as a wash light and you use a decent console. If you plan on using the presets, I think its a little schizoid for me. I prefer the standalone presets in the CP's.

But hey I'm using them for a country band. What do I know!....

[Duane Massey]

Tim, that's one of the main reasons I avoid spec'ing Chauvet products. Their channel assignments and functions are so WTF and not compatible, even with other Chauvet products, that I would love to just slap their "engineering" guys.

[Tim Palmer]

Another thing I find with the Chauvet dmx controls is that i get erratic behavior, like a panel will get out of sync with the others when you are sending out effects presets to them, you can fire the same cue contain the same value and 9 out of ten times all panels in the cue will react as expected but there is that one time that one panel will be out of sync with the rest and it stays there until you send another value. The chauvet tech support, service manager and marketing manger all tried to tell me it was because of the control board I was using ( Bluelite x1) yet I personally went down to their shop and showed them using one of there own crappy hardware boards and was able to demonstrate it to them........

[Gene Declue]

Not to hijack a thread, but did you find a remedy for the Chauvet erratic behavior?  I have the same problem on my T-Strobes...