I'm very surprised by the low R9 value. How does it look on skin tones? is the ballast silent? What is the total draw? If the ballast isn't efficient, you might blow a fuse running two of these off a single circuit.
We were surprised by the low R9 value as well, however when we compared it to the Arri 1.2k HMI you see in the background the R9 was just slightly lower than a top of the line HMI. Tungsten is still king of color. The demo ballast we had was not silent, but Hive explicitly told us that they were doing a running design change to improve that. Typically these lights would be used outside a window or at some large-ish distance, so the ballast noise wouldn't be an issue. If you're using it indoors in a studio setting you'd want to make sure you got the newer ballast design. We didn't measure the current draw and the demo unit has long since been sent back to Hive, so you'd have to contact them. As far as skin tones go, it was a bit too complex for us to test that day. There are so many gradations of skin tones that it's quite a complex test for any non-obvious problems (like some of the older cheap LED fixtures). What I can say about the color is that it was visibly "different" than the Arri HMI. We saw that when shining the two lights on the back wall. Sorry if our testing seemed incomplete. We'll try to include power measurements next time. We typically only have a day with demo units.
You’re using a color meter to take an output reading. The C700 was not made for that purpose and the readings are not correct.
I'm very surprised by the low R9 value. How does it look on skin tones? is the ballast silent? What is the total draw? If the ballast isn't efficient, you might blow a fuse running two of these off a single circuit.
We were surprised by the low R9 value as well, however when we compared it to the Arri 1.2k HMI you see in the background the R9 was just slightly lower than a top of the line HMI. Tungsten is still king of color. The demo ballast we had was not silent, but Hive explicitly told us that they were doing a running design change to improve that. Typically these lights would be used outside a window or at some large-ish distance, so the ballast noise wouldn't be an issue. If you're using it indoors in a studio setting you'd want to make sure you got the newer ballast design. We didn't measure the current draw and the demo unit has long since been sent back to Hive, so you'd have to contact them. As far as skin tones go, it was a bit too complex for us to test that day. There are so many gradations of skin tones that it's quite a complex test for any non-obvious problems (like some of the older cheap LED fixtures). What I can say about the color is that it was visibly "different" than the Arri HMI. We saw that when shining the two lights on the back wall. Sorry if our testing seemed incomplete. We'll try to include power measurements next time. We typically only have a day with demo units.
All Plasma lights have weak R9's.
the color spectrum is beautiful. sad to see the technology dying in the general consumer space.