– one of six moving heads in the range. Designed to generate stunning aerial effects, the Stryker Beam is a dedicated moving head beam fixture that utilises a 100W LED light source and comes with an extensive feature set. It’s a versatile, great value-for-money moving head that creates a wide variety of mid-air beam effects – ideal for mobile entertainers and event companies looking for a portable lighting solution. At just 12.8kg (28.4lbs) and 464mm at its largest dimension, the Stryker Beam packs a punch for a fixture in this class.

Powered by a 100W LED, it offers a 6-degree beam angle to deliver an incredibly bright, focused beam. You can also change things up using one of the supplied gobos or prism wheels, or adjust the focus via the menu panel or DMX – all features that I’ll go through in this review. Starting with the outside, the Stryker Beam is a decent-looking large moving head – as expected – with Eliminator branding on the panel and main unit, but it’s not in your face ( something I’ve aways hated).

The overall size is 292mm (l) x 303mm (w) x 464mm (h) (11.5” (l) x 11.9” (w) x 18.3” (h)). The front of the unit features a digital screen with four push buttons on the right-hand side: ESC (no/ back), UP, DOWN and SET (yes/enter). ELIMINATOR STRYKER BEAM eliminator stryker beam Layout of the menu is a little On the bottom of the different from the norm, with omega bolts, and three options either side of the bracket itself is also centre screen. The UP and DOWN the back, you have buttons allow you to move and out, and the between, whilst SET Let's you 3-pin and 5-pin enter change modes, set channels the Stryker Beam and select other functions.

Once fixture. The unit you get your head around it, the with large rubber system menu is quite intuitive. placement and a loop is also provided. MODE is for setting the SCENE output power, you’ll mode – it’s another word for to-access replaceable MANUAL, but it has 10 scenes that you can manually set within Internally, apar t the screen and you can also set LED engine, is a a scene time of 0-25 seconds, if wheel with 11 you want to move between those plus open.

A scenes automatically. For all function also those manual users, you have the can be kept sharp, primary/secondary (master/slave) of the projection options here. Furthermore, AUTO the fixture also is set by default, so you can just function that can plug and play. any of the gobos. DISP allows you to set the screen brightness, screen saver mode, and screen rotation (if you are flying the fixture), whilst DMX indicates modes for quick diagnosis of a DMX connection.

ADDR is for setting your DMX channel 001-512. SCENE/ MANUAL allows you to access scenes 1-10 and the different channels within the fixture, as well as setting a fade time. ADVA gives you access to pan/tilt inversion, data hold (if DMX signal is lost) and reset modes, as well as giving you the option to offset scene time. STAT is really for the nerds of us!

You can view all the stepper info, fixture status, temperature, software version, and the main thing that DJs really care about – the LED time. Another handy feature here is the serial number, which it seems cannot be changed – useful in the sad case of theft. On each side of the case are carry handles, which you’ll need with the 12.8kg (29lbs) of weight. 76 unit are four It’s important to note that two the mounting of the gobos are beam reducers. included.

On There are also two rotating PowerCON in prisms – 8-facet and 16-facet – options of both and the fixture does allow for DMX, making prism layering. You have full a well-loaded 540-degree pan and 270-degree is equipped tilt action, along with 16-bit feet for easy fine control (should you require safety cable that much precision). The colour Next to the wheel features 13 colours plus find an easyopen, along with a 6-colour flag fuse. for multi-colour effects.

The 6-colour flag is separate to the from that main colour wheel, combining red, metal gobo green, blue, orange, purple and gobo options pink dichroics in a wedge-shaped motorised focus pattern. This can also be used to means patterns generate a multi-coloured output, regardless which looked awesome in use. The distance, and previously mentioned motorised offers a shake focus can be controlled via the be engaged for panel or DMX, whilst a frost filter delivers a 50-degree wash effect.

ELIMINATOR STRYKER BEAM While the product does have a built-in auto mode and sound mode (and you can link units together via primary/secondary), I found these modes were random, strobe-heavy and super-fast. If I’m being honest, I believe a fixture of this type, with the advanced options available, should be controlled using DMX – and the Stryker Beam has 16- and 19-channel DMX modes. As many of you will know, have a fascination with the Wolfmix W1 controller, and thankfully the Stryker Beam profile was already in the Wolfmix system.

I also ran the fixture on the ADJ Link desk. On both controllers, the moving head has a beautiful, smooth movement. The dimmer runs from 0-100% with zero drop off and the strobe runs from 0-20Hz, which with multiple units would take you back to 90s tranceland. The colour wheel delivers bright and vibrant colours through 13 dichroic filters (plus open white).

It was interesting to note some random and new (to me) colours: one called Reseda, which looks the same as the green; a blue and a royal blue found it hard to spot the difference); and one that made me giggle – ‘silver’. ELIMINATOR STYKER BEAM eliminator stryker beam The metal gobo wheel features 11 patterns (plus open spot) and includes a good range of shapes like flowers, swirls, stars and dots. But for me it’s only when you use the 8-facet and 16-facet prisms that this moving head comes alive.

The delight of prism layering takes this fixture up a step when compared to its competitors in the same market. The separate I 6-colour flag allows for multi-colour effects. Add a bit of prism rotation and you are at the next level! Whilst I couldn’t test the Stryker Beam on an actual event, as I only had one unit, I did enjoy having a good play with its features across two control desks in the office.

I even took it outside at night, where I shot the light across the yard to produce a wide effect at distance – certainly a larger space than most dancefloors! The new Eliminator Stryker Beam is a fantastic new light at an extremely competitive price point. Since ADJ took on the Eliminator brand, it’s taken a while (I for their products to reach us in the UK – but it was worth the wait. Now it really does feel as though they’re shaking up the DJ market.

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