Varytec Hero Wash 640FX

Purchased 2 of these and all I can say is they’re possibly too much for my needs they’re club standard lights. Output is impressive and the sound mode works well. I chose these over the lesser Hero 320 for their split colour display and additional beams for more variety. They have a bit of whirr to them but once the music is on that becomes irrelevant. If I had one complaint is that it doesn’t come with a dedicated remote which I’ve had to buy separately and I’m yet to test to see if it works with them. I presume this is because they’re designed for larger venues with DMX in mind and an array of other lights operated from a proper desk. Overall, a lovely investment and no doubt they will impress people. Couple them with a bit of smoke, stand back and enjoy the show!

First of all...
fans let's say medium noise level, can live with that on the private parties
for the features and light output if we talk on price/performance ratio very well, if we compare robe fixture - long way to go.

about the quality....
can't say anything good about.
1) adjustable PVM? 25k is still hitting your ears with high frequency.
2) almost all heads had transistor fails before led.
3) optics between leds and lenses will burn. i guess we'll have one fixture soon.
4) if we look on symetrical side we have few heads that lenses center is not in the center.. is that defect?
5) some times need to reset fixture (lenses rotation). just loose their position
6) handles? hmm, feels like someone: ok, 21st century, go modern ways. remove that. that's not that bad, but c'mon +5 work speed on rigs.
7) 40w on each eye? feels like more about up to 30w

repairs are kind of cheap if you what you doing, but repair heads after each event bruhh.. think about that

It has a decent output power (maybe not 40w per LED) and average color mixing, with a pleasant and useful "Aleda like" lens rotation, but has 2 annoying problems:

- NOISE: fans are very noticiable, with most shows is not problem, but in a little stage, some musicians like violinist tell us to power off because its sound is disturbing.

- MICRO DIFFUSER LENS DROP OFF: each unit has 6 micro-diffusser lenses (like frost, 1 per LED) which drops ALMOST ALL IN ALL UNITS (even a repaired one). The result of this is an awful color mix, more noticiable in white, where it seems a lot of RGBW little spots (like flower in Robe Spiider). This problem disables this fixture as key light, so if you want as main light, take care of RMA time if your units suffer this.