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QUASAR SCIENCE USER REVIEW

The growing, but still quite niche tube light market includes this new solution from Quasar Science QUASAR SCIENCE Q-RAINBOWRGBX

WORDS ADAM GARSTONE

where it was impossible to reset the colour back to white. Other options include HSL and +/- Green. More fun are the effects, my favourites being Short Circuit – flashy electrical style, and the Police Light, which imitates red and blue police car lights (though I believe there’s a law against impersonating the police, strictly speaking). Sadly, there is no Lightsaber option – you have to make the noises yourself. The DMX implementation allows Lead/Follow mode, so that a single Rainbow lamp can control several others – including over wireless – meaning you can build panels from multiple tubes. At around £505 for the 2ft tube, £670 for the 4ft, and £895 for the 8ft (all prices excluding VAT) the Quasar Science Q-Rainbow RGBX series isn’t cheap, but they are extremely solidly built, flexible linear lights.

surprisingly hefty and strong structure – though probably not strong enough for Lightsaber battles with the sound department. One end of the tube has a Neutrik powerCON TRUE1 power connector (beneath a rubber cap) and the power switch. The other end has the DC input, DMX IN and OUT and the user interface. There is wireless DMX support as well as wired. MENUS The user interface is a small OLED screen, with left, right and select buttons, and is extremely simple – just scroll through the menu options with the left and right buttons and select with, er, well, with the select button. There are the usual colour temperature presets, as well as continuously variable steps (100K). There are also primary and secondary colour presets – though the firmware in the review unit had a weird bug

he LED revolution has produced a bewildering variety of new lighting fixtures, in an astonishing array of form factors. Of the new forms, the linear lamp has really taken off – either as Kino style arrays, or as individual tubes. Quasar Science has a new linear, multicolour LED lamp – the Q-Rainbow RGBX. Available in 2ft 25W, 4ft 50W and 8ft 100W, the lights have a built-in power supply that handles anything from 100V to 265V, as well as 10V to 26V DC. The tube itself is very sturdily manufactured, with the back half an aluminium extrusion (which also seems to function as a heat sink) and a white, plastic diffuser on the front. Each end is protected by a thick, rubberised cap (removable) that should give some protection against water and dust ingress – though there is no quoted IP rating. It makes for a

A SINGLE RAINBOW LAMP CAN CONTROL SEVERAL OTHERS

ABOVE All the colours of the rainbow at your

fingertips, but you have to supply your own Lightsaber audio.

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