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Chauvet Professional is a top name in entertainment lighting, and the company continues to deliver new and innovative products to the market. Joining the existing Maverick series of spots, washes, and a beam is the brightest of the washes, the Maverick MK3 Wash. In this Road Test, we'll travel in and around the full-featured MK3 Wash moving head fixture to learn all about it.
* Fixture Head
The MK3 Wash is exactly that, a wash light. Albeit, an extremely bright wash light! You certainly can't miss the 15-inch diameter head filled with an array of 27 40W Osram RGBW multi-chips, with a rated life expectancy of 50,000 hours. That's over 1,000 watts of LED power! I think it is bright enough, and flexible enough, to be used in any application you would need a 1,200W to 2,000W discharge moving head. If you're a numbers guy, the illuminance is 89,200 lux @ 5m for 7° and 2,814 lux @ 5m for 45°.
The fixture has a variable color temperature correction (CTC) channel, which adjusts the white color temperature from 2,800K all the way to 10,000K. What's great is, once you set the color temperature, it remains when using the color mixing channels. Also included is a background color wheel channel, which has a ton of preprogrammed colors including preset values of CTC (2700K/3200K/4200K/5600K/ 8000K). The red diode has some orange in it, closer to a Rosco R19 than a medium red like Rosco R27. The blue diode is a primary blue, close to Rosco R80.
The 7°-45° (field angle) motorized zoom was speedy and can be used as an effect in itself, changing from narrow to wide in under one second. The beam angle is listed at 5°-29°. It is impressive to see an extremely bright thick colored beam transform quickly - almost disappearing - into a soft wash. Or the other way - a beam quickly appearing out of a soft wash. Zoomed in to a...