Product information

Color

Black

Light Source Type

Light Emitting Diode

Power Source

Corded Electric

Brand

CHAUVET DJ

Item Weight

2.4 Pounds

Style

SlimPAR 38

Voltage

240 Volts

Bulb Features

rgb,sound-activated

Are Batteries Included

No

Product Dimensions

10.9"L x 10.8"W x 14.6"H

Item Weight

2.4 pounds

ASIN

B00465SJEE

Item model number

SlimPAR 38

Customer Reviews

4.2 121 ratings

4.2 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#22,760 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
#382 in Stage Lights

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

No

Date First Available

October 6, 2010

Color Name

Black

Output Wattage

20 Watts

Color Screen

No

Wattage

20 watts

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Product Description

It’s an LED PAR 38 with a slim casing—only 2.5 inches thick—that can go almost anywhere. Boasting 75 red, green and blue LEDs, the fixture offers 3- or 7-channel of DMX control. Or you can use its built-in automated and sound-activated programs and variable speed-pulse effect for use on the fly. It also offers static colors and RGB color mixing with or without DMX and built-in power linking for quick set up and break down.

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4.2 out of 5

121 global ratings

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Customers like the brightness, performance, ease of use, and color selection of the electric light. For example, they mention it's a great product, works well, and is easy to set up. They appreciate the deep colors and the control and range of colors. That said, opinions are mixed on the quality.

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33 customers mention27 positive6 negative

Customers like the brightness of the light. For example, they mention it's a great light, awesome, and works well to light up the dance floor. Some say the lights do a good job in small dark areas and that it delivers amber quite well.

"...unless you are doing a pro stadium sized gig, these lights are indeed bright enough. However, the narrow beam issues are very real...." Read more

"...The lights seem fine, they just don't work as well as I expected with the Obey40." Read more

"...Nice and bright, the price is good, no fan means it's silent, a great budget light for bands or other stage use...." Read more

"...just can't get a real amber/yellow, but this RGBA fixture delivers amber quite well...." Read more

17 customers mention17 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the performance of the light. They mention that it works great with a controller, as a standalone unit, and for linking them together. They also say that the sound activated mode works well over a wide range of volume and musics.

"...They also work with Chauvet congtrollers, I use an Obey 3 (one of the most basic) and they work wonderfully...." Read more

"...and automatic modes are aesthetically pleasing and the sound activated mode works well over a wide range of volume and musics...." Read more

"Fantastic lights for the price and they work great with a controller" Read more

"...The connectors work fine, even with a friction fit...." Read more

13 customers mention13 positive0 negative

Customers find the electric light easy to use. They say it's very bright, slim, and powerful. Some customers also say the setup time is greatly reduced.

"...And I want wireless for obvious reasons as the setup time is greatly reduced. DJ Don" Read more

"...I down sized for from metal par cans, so much lighter and easier to set up. No more dealing with gels falling out when moving around." Read more

"...Found it easy to setup and configure for either stand-alone or DMX operation. The unit is light weight, but feels like it will be durable...." Read more

"I love these SlimPAR 64's. They were easy to setup and program. Very light weight, and they throw off a ton of light for a small LED...." Read more

11 customers mention11 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the color selection of the electric light. They mention that the colors are deep, they love the control and range of colors, and the amber bulbs give them more color choices. The fixture is visible and functions to minimize color fringes. It renders and makes a color temperature adjustable white, and it throws strong and deep pools of color. The color switching is really flexible while using the controller.

"...The colors are deep. As with every LED light I've used, the whites are not really white...." Read more

"...aesthetically pleasing when the fixture is visible and functions to minimize color fringes aka rainbow edges on shadows...." Read more

"...They won’t survive rough handling.The color is well mixed, so if you want an orange spotlight, you get orange to the edges, with the..." Read more

"...You won't get a great white light out of this, but for colors it looks really nice." Read more

10 customers mention10 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the value of the light. They say it's a great item for the price, with great features and good quality. Some customers also mention that the light is very bright for the value.

"Fantastic lights for the price and they work great with a controller" Read more

"...Nice and bright, the price is good, no fan means it's silent, a great budget light for bands or other stage use...." Read more

"Very bright and versatile light. Great item for the price. It has a small footprint yet provides a lot of illumination...." Read more

"LOVE these lights! Such a great product and price...." Read more

7 customers mention7 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the weight of the electric light. They say it's lightweight, portable, and convenient to use. Customers also mention that it has a small footprint yet provides a lot of illumination.

"...They are light weight enough you can even ziptie them poles if need be...." Read more

"...brighter than the 56 size class LED Pars in the slim flat form factor convenient for transporting and up-lighting with a yoke that folds open to be..." Read more

"...Great item for the price. It has a small footprint yet provides a lot of illumination. I use it for special church events for lighting effects...." Read more

"...Good features as well. I down sized for from metal par cans, so much lighter and easier to set up...." Read more

6 customers mention6 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the appearance of the electric light. They mention that it is nice, aesthetically pleasing, and in an excellent Amber pattern. The manual and automatic modes are aesthetically satisfying, and the sound activated mode works well over a wide area. Overall, most find the product to be a great product for a stage production.

"...The colors of the LEDs are dispersed in a pattern that is aesthetically pleasing when the fixture is visible and functions to minimize color fringes..." Read more

"...Nice and bright, the price is good, no fan means it's silent, a great budget light for bands or other stage use...." Read more

"These lights are awesome, nice and bright. They work well with our freeware dmx controller application as well." Read more

"great product for a stage production and worked well." Read more

15 customers mention7 positive8 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the quality of the electric light. Some say it's solidly built and great quality, while others say it has poor quality and unreliability. Some customers also mention that the lights are cheap and not as strong as they would like.

"...using them in a church or other permanent installation, given the unreliability. At the moment they work for me.---..." Read more

"...need to be handled with a little bit of care and they should last for good long while...." Read more

"Not so strong as I would like, but for the price it’s ok. We decide to use some of them to illuminate the drums and it’s so cool!..." Read more

"These lights are solidly built, and great quality. The pictures don't illustrate that there are 'jumper' cables affixed to all of the outlets...." Read more

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Mark Riddle

Slim, powerful, easy

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2014

Style: SlimPAR 64Verified Purchase

UPDATE: There have been some reviews that say these lights aren't bright enough. I'm really not sure what application they are using them with, but I've small-medium sized outdoor gigs (night of course) and 4 of these lit up the stage amazingly well. I also have SlimPar 12IRC's and I can tell you I get complaints from the musicians that they are blinding. So unless you are doing a pro stadium sized gig, these lights are indeed bright enough. However, the narrow beam issues are very real. Unless you are a duo on a small club stage, you will need more than 2. Also, if you have problems with the shipper, or customer service, why are you posting it in a product review? that's a seller feedback issue.

ORIGINAL REVIEW: I replaced my ColorStrip Mini's with a couple of these. I wanted light weight, low power consumption and brightness for my jazz band. Brightness was very important as we play a variety of venues from large outdoor events to small indoor clubs. I went with the 64's instead of the 56's simply because I wanted the brighter lights. I researched the luminosity ratings directly from the Chauvet web site. Each of these lights are double what a ColorStrip Mini puts out.

The name Slimpar is appropriate as these lights are slim. The come with a double positionable hanging bar that lets you set them on the ground or hang them on a lighting pole. They are light weight enough you can even ziptie them poles if need be.

I used these for an outdoor stage and they worked beautifully. The colors are deep. As with every LED light I've used, the whites are not really white. Its really a pale blue, but it doesn't really detract at all. The white setting is white enough for me.

These lights are very low power consuming and you can diasy chain the power together so you really only need to plug one light into a socket and then you can plug the neighboring lights into eachother.

Two caveats: these lights are not metal body, they need to be handled with a little bit of care and they should last for good long while. You can't just through them around like you could with metal par cans. The other caveat is that the beams are a bit narrow. You don't get the wide wash of light you do with a Colorstrip or similar type light. But again, the ColorStrips are way too dim for many of my applications unless you have several of them together.

If you need lights that can fit most anywhere and don't drain your circuits AND provide a bright light, these will work nicely. They also work with Chauvet congtrollers, I use an Obey 3 (one of the most basic) and they work wonderfully. As with the power chords, you chain the controller cables from one to the next light and they all function together very easily.

The back panel settings are a little crypic but these lights will retain their last setting if power is lost, unlike the ColorStrip mini. That is very helpful if you lose power after spending the time and effort setteing them up.

9 people found this helpful

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Polychrome Platypus

The best LED fixture in the PAR 64 class. Bright, colorful, portable, and convenient to use.

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2014

Style: PAR64RGBAVerified Purchase

The Chauvet SlimPar 64 RGBA is much brighter than the 56 size class LED Pars in the slim flat form factor convenient for transporting and up-lighting with a yoke that folds open to be used as a floor stand or closed to use as a standard hanging fixture yoke. The addition of Amber LEDs improves the quality and range of colors the fixture can render and makes a color temperature adjustable white. The manual and automatic modes are aesthetically pleasing and the sound activated mode works well over a wide range of volume and musics. Remote DMX control is responsive and precise and can also use either manual dimming or the auto program modes. Also has the pass through power and pass through 3 pin DMX cabling expected for these fixtures. For those purchasing more than one Chauvet also sells a convenient carry bag, the CHS-25, which has also been included in 4-pack sets of these (when offered, sometimes also included a stand).

The Chauvet design for this type has come advantages over its competitors. The colors of the LEDs are dispersed in a pattern that is aesthetically pleasing when the fixture is visible and functions to minimize color fringes aka rainbow edges on shadows. The simplest color wedge pattern fixtures are a problem in that regard. Competing fixtures using regular grid patterns that have equal numbers of Red Green Blue and Amber LEDs aren't using the available area as effectively because the different LED colors aren't equally efficient and bright, so they're balanced by turning the bright ones down. The Chauvet fixture uses 39 Red 39 Green 51 Blue and 51 Amber LEDs to achieves a good white balance at maximum drive on all the LEDs for the greatest brightness.
Although the American DJ products claim an advantage for up-lighting with connectors that attach power and DMX cables to the sides of the case rather than the back allowing them to be set low to the ground. I find there's no problem with ground clearance for cables at back of the Chauvet at a very low height and I find I lay the cables to/from and then along the wall for up-lighting rather than directly from fixture to fixture, which actually makes the rear connector cabling slight more tidy. The rear connectors are also a more useful orientation when mounting the fixture on a portable stand stand or truss and for any traditional theatrical lighting (pipe) mount.

The DMX control is conceptually straightforward in 4 channel mode, with the channels representing dimmer settings for Red, Green, Blue, and Amber. In 8 channel mode, the 1st 4 channels are R,G,B,A, as before, Ch5 when non zero selects 1 of 16 predefined color macros, Ch6 sets the speed of the effect transitions or strobe rate selected by CH7 which sets modes offering either RGBA, Pulsing to On, Pulsing to Off, Pulsing On-Off-On, Automatic Color-to-Color modes either fading, snapping through 4 colors, or snapping through 8 colors and a final "sound activated" mode that goes from color to color on its own. Ch8 is a master dimmer.

If not using a DMX controller the rear button controls allow the user to select from 15 static colors, mix a custom color, or use pre-programmed 4 and 16 color modes either switching or fading between colors at either a programmable speed or sound activated. The program modes remain useful with multiple fixtures because any number of fixtures can be slaved to a master fixture using the DMX ports and cables so that master fixture acts as the controller for the slaves and they all have the same output at the same time. Because DMX is wired multi-drop rather than repeated as with all such arrangements this independent Master/Slave DMX cannot not be mixed with regular DMX control on the same DMX cable span and while any fixture on the chain be the master, using one at an end with a DMX terminator at the other end avoids any unexpected DMX glitches.

NB: The size numbers used for these fixtures are inherited from glass envelope incandescant Parabolic Aluminized Reflector lamps. but they aren't replacements for each other. Inexpensive PAR 64 size incandescant lamps use as much as 1,000 watts to shine at 40,000 (very hot and very white) lux while the Chauvet 30W LED fixture shines with 1325 white lux, but can reach any color of the rainbow and won't set fire to objects at close range along the direct light path.

23 people found this helpful

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Amazon Customer

Only OK with Obey 40

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2016

Style: PAR64RGBAVerified Purchase

I purchased four of these lights to use with the Chauvet Obey 40 controller. I have not been able to get them to work in any mode other than stand alone. They also always seem to be in sound activated mode even when set to 8 or 4 channel mode. I was using canare microphone cable to connect them, but think this may be a big part of my problem since the impedance is different for mic cable and dmx cable. I also purchased a dmx terminator to help make sure I have a clean signal. I will update this review once I try the lights with the proper cable. *Update*
These are still a little quirky with the Obey 40 controller, but they are at least working now that I ran the DMX cable. I find that I have to adjust the sliders to get them to respond after a power reset. I am also unable to adjust the lights individually while leaving the rest of the lights on. The lights seem fine, they just don't work as well as I expected with the Obey40.

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David Tayman

Awesome lights and great value

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2022

Style: SlimPAR 64Verified Purchase

Fantastic lights for the price and they work great with a controller

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