Re: 1w individual RGB vs 3w Tri-Color... are they the "same"
Tested out two bar shape LED lights tonight.
Chauvet ColorBand Tri (Twelve - 3 watt Tricolor RGB LED's)
Daisy LED420B lights (Sixty - 1 watt LED's - 12 of ea - RGBAW)
Given the specs, one would expect the reds, blues and greens to be similar and the colors using whites and amber to be better on the Daisy lights. This expectation proves fairly accurate. On reds greens and blues, the LED420B is a little brighter and covers a wider swath, but it's not a big difference. However, when the LED420B's amber or white is on, it is a night and day difference! No contest. The LED420B has good color across the board too. Closest thing to doing the full spectrum of colors as any light I've owned.
Negatives for the LED420B are 1) you can see the individual LED's, so it has a bit of a DJ look, 2) it's heavy compared to the ColorBandTri, and 3) the mounts I got hold it farther away from what you hang it on than the ColorBandTri's brackets. You have to clamp it very tightly to keep it pointed where you want. I've made up new brackets for both lights to help center the weight better, but the Daisy light is still harder to hang.
The ColorBandTri's are about half the weight, same length, half the size in the other 2 dimensions, and half the cost of the Daisy LED420B
They are TriColor LED's so you see what you are getting when you look at the light. They are thin. and stick like and because of that, can be positioned in unusual and useful ways. I was able to mount my Colorband Tri's vertically on mic stands. There is no way you could do that with the LED420B's. They'd just fall over because of their weight and brackets.
I bought the Daisy's for flood lighting, and the ColorBandTri's for mood/effects lights. They both are good at what they were purchased to do.
btw, I did try taking pics but my camera is "auto" and kept adjusting when a light was brighter. It made the brighter lights look dimmer!
