Coidak CO804 60W 54LEDS Super Bright RGB LED PAR Stage Light with DMX512 Control for Disco Club Party Bar

Everyone told me not to "waste" my money on this kind of light, but I ignored their advice and am very glad I did. These instruments were every bit as good as "name" brand choices that cost up to ten times as much. They are light, bright, and quiet. They stay cool to the touch at full intensity. While there is a bit of a discrete cut-off at the low end, when you go from intensity 1 to intensity 0, it is actually much less of a change than I see in those "name" brands. Among the warnings I got were these: they fail frequently. Well, not yet, and I've used them for a couple of shows. Not thousands of hours, but over a hundred each. No failures. If that does worry you, though, buy a spare. At this price, it's still a terrific deal. Another warning: They won't be UL or CE approved. Well, it turns out that UL approval is not all that common for theatrical lights, and that this light is CE approved. (People warned me also that "CE" is often faked, and one can easily verify this by looking at the "CE" identifiers on other products. I did as much research as I could and came to the conclusion that the vendor is asserting these light genuinely meet the CE standard. As I understand it, that is reported by all who say so on the honor system, so trust is at your discretion, industry-wide.) Coidak does actually list some of their other products in the UL database, so they do meet that level when they want to. But, again, UL listing is not universal in theater lights. Another warning: They will have bad color. Well, they are a bit red/blue at 100% on all LEDs, but they are consistent from one instrument to the next, and my experience has been that color varies noticeably from one manufacturer to another. Matching colors among lights is just part of the game, no matter who makes yours. With a bit of tweaking, I was able to get all the colors (including real white, and a warm "amber" white) I wanted. The one complaint I have about these lights is that they have no pass-through power socket. Each one has a permanently attached three-prong AC plug.. Some lights use a twist-and-lock power cord that connects to an "in" side to power the light, and that can be connected to an "out" socket on the same light to pass power along to the next one. Since lights like these are low power (my Kill-A-Watt says these pull just under half an amp at full intensity), you can run quite a few on one circuit. The twisting plugs have the advantage that you can't easily shock yourself with them. Three-prong plugs make that easy, particularly if you are reaching into some blind space in the hope of inserting one (a maddeningly common activity in low-budget theater). But, the plus side is that you can plug these into any three-hole outlet. The twisting cable requires an adapter. All-in-all, I'd knock off a quarter-star for the lack of a power pass-through. But, to the nearest whole star, that's five, so that's my score.

This was so good I bought a bunch more for a theater. Let's be straight, a fully professional LED light? No. A great multi-purpose light to get you up and going? Absolutely. The Coidak gives a lot of function for not much cash. The colors are very saturated, and the beam in the small blackbox theater is not super wide, but in a medium-size it's working really really great. All of the program functions are easy enough to navigate through but you really want to use it via DMX. One of the only downsides to this light is that you're stuck with 8 CHNL DMX mode, you can't make it 3, or 5, but really you can just program around the chnls you don't need. It's very very light, and it runs very quiet, the chnl display on the back runs dark so as to not be distracting, it's very easy to install and get going. The power cord is not very long and the bracket holes are pretty small so a normal stage light clamp will not fit through but these are only small details. The best feature is that it gives you a lot to play with for a very small price. I've run these in for improv, stand-up, sketch, they work great for burlesque because they're so saturated. The 'pop' on really quick but that means they snap off really fast if you need quick blackouts or light changes. Highly recommended -Review is my own opinion, no solicitation for this review took place-

Love these lights. I was going to order some different lights but they were going to take over a month to arrive. We put on a production of Esther. These worked great. They are not super bright, but they work great for lighting a stage for a play. For the price of most lights you could buy three or even six. So it is a moot point. The colors are grand. Hard and brilliant to soft and dreamy. I purchased an inexpensive light before and was worried about the loudness of the fan. The fans were so quiet. All four fixtures together we quieter than my one old fixture. I have had very limited experience with DMX. They programmed easy. It is odd that there is no standard for the lights. My other fixture has a difference sequence of sliders on the controller to turn them on and off. This is not a problem if you are using a program. It is however if you want to run them manually. On my controller these lights use 4 5 6 7 and 8.

Power cord got damaged so quickly. The ends that connect to the back of the unit ripped and the 3 wires were exposed. It is a fire and shock hazard. Beware. Besides the power cable issue the unit however is very bright and does a good job. I just feel like it's a waste of money because it didn't last at all.

We have these setup on our church stage. So far haven't used it in a live setting (we just put them up, but I am able to control them and setup scenes using our dmx controller. setup was easy and haven't had any issues with these yet but again We just put them up. I will update in a month or two on their performance once we have regular use of these, but I think they output good lighting, it's bright. the only minor complaint is when it fades it seems a bit choppy. but for our simple needs this will work. UPDATE 7-28-2018 So not even a year after buying these one has died on us. It will no longer power on. We use these lights once a week on sundays for worship. The others are still working just fine a little disappointing because it didn't even last a year. I hope the others continue to work well I will keep updating every 6 months or so. Deducting 1 star