Hey

Well I aquired 2 of these from a closed down nightclub, never been used as they were brought by mistake so I got them cheap. Anyway opened them up, nice sleek black finish to them with the typical NJD letters down the side, haha. On the bottom of the light is as expected with NJD the IEC Kettle lead power plug and a bulb output switch (50% or 100%) brightness. Now at the top back of the light we have 2x 5-pin DMX slots, an input and an output as well as our dip switchs for the DMX Channels, again as expected, theres also a jack input for 0-10v controllers, which i must say I havnt used/tested.

Now to the good stuff, the NJD DMX-250 comes with a combined gobo/colour wheel featuring 7 dichcloric colours and pattenrs. Upon initial testing of the light I had gobo problems as I got half and half of a gobo on BOTH lights which led me to believe it was a design fault. Phoned up NJD and got through to a tech guy who told me to open them up and use a small allen key to adjust the gobo wheel until gobo's lined up nicely, spot on both lights work a treat (only to be opened by a conpetant electrical person).

The NJD-DMX250's have bright clear beams, which are also helped by a small external focusing knob on the front. There are several build in patterns such as gobo scroll, figure of 8 and strobing. The units again function in both Solo, Maser/Slave and DMX mode. When running in Solo or Master/Slave mode you can adjust the dip switchs to give a few different effects, for example you can do one combo to limit the light to the first 3 colours, the second combo will limit the light to last 3 colours and a third combo will set the light to strobe. You can also in master/slave mode set the dips so that it reverses the mirrors pan/tilt if for example lights are opposite each other or you say have 4 of them and want a symetrical effect with a difference.

The lights use the stand A1/259, 250w halogen lamps found commonly (I know chris does some good deals on them) and the size of the lights fit most flightcases made for scanners (check first). Ive never had a problem with a fuse going on one of the lights yet and they have both reached around 400 hours gigging time now, the only thing to go is the bulb, lol.

Anyway, apart from the gobo problem and the fact the setup uses a 5-pin DMX lead instead of 3 the lights are good. If you plan to connect these to a controller that uses 3pin ask chris and he can sort you out with converter leads (depending on lights/connections). Aside from that, for the money they are nice budget lights to have hold of, however personally i prefer my colourscans. I rate the NJD-DMX250's a good 8/10


Regards
Mike

Hey

Well found out today that there was a minor software problem on some of the DMX-250's with their built in program, if you have a faulty one NJD will replace the board/chip whatever for free if you ask them about it. This problem doesnt bother me however as I run through a DMX Controller.

Oh and no replies? does anyone love me?


Cyas
Mike

nice review mate,

oh, whats the sound to light response like? isit very fast and accurate? because this seems to be something that suffers on slightly cheaper end dmx fixtures in generall, cheers

- tom