All user reviews for the Contest STB 520

I use these machines club since September 2012.
This is a fairly popular machine that has a lot of people, and apparently in quite satisfied, however, for my use it is not a very competitive product with its quality.
Who says use club, said use "intensive", not in the sense of Strober permanently, but in the sense that the machine is turned on several days each week, and a malgrès not really intensive use, showing signs of weakness After a few months after buying new.
The features are not bad in themselves, two-channel intensity, speed and armor function. Only, or that there is sin in the design and manufacturing quality.
This is the Chinese component neither more nor less, feeding problems, strobe which freaks, of really poor quality original xenon tubes ... already three failures on 3 machines in less than a year ... It is puzzling. Meanwhile in another club, I own FL1800D Geni (also sold under many other brands, JB Systems, Dune, MacMah etc.), which certainly does not function blinder but turn smoothly for 3 years and yet are more stressed than the STB 520.
Brightness level, it is still below the FL1800 is average.
Very very blah as a machine, it is better for a similar price. Note 3 to the poor quality of components and assembly compared to other strobs same quality.

Machine quite satisfactory, despite the rather special internal program (instead of the shield effect in DMX channels).
This is also what prevents the use of the potential effect.

Fairly light compared to other strobe identical but other brands.

Apart from that, the price / quality ratio is good enough, the effect blind (30f / s) is really at the top, despite the fact that it is not as usable as the atomic.

Another negative point, the safety ring on the latest version is really misplaced, it prevents full rotation of the lyre grip, one wonders what happened at that time by the head of the guy who decide to fuck here ..

With experience and the same budget, I would buy the property.

- How long have you use it?
for about 3 years (2005), bought used at 70 €

- What is so special that you like most and least?
most: powerful (1500W), but with the power that can be easily resolved,
even with a blue filter over it !!!!! deposit
I saw no less!

- Have you tried many other models before buying it?
a small strobe, but 70 joules, in short, the stuff that has nothing to do.

- How would you rate the quality / price?
Excellent: solid and robust design, lamp which has never yet been changed, integrated circuit breaker, switch setting: musical mode, automatic mode (with adjustable speed and power by the switches) or by DMX.

- With experience, you do again this choice? ...
of course it does.

short, a super strobe I strongly advise