New colours for Wizard Extreme ??

I'm pretty sure they're just pieces of dichro glass on a wheel Barrie. It's just a case of finding some pieces of solid colour dichro glass...  Amazon? eBay?

what he says. The MSD250 dies a slow and painful death. When they're new and made by Philips they're decent, and the degradation is so slow that you rarely notice day in day out. Give the optics a good clean, a new lamp and away you go. I've always thought them pretty vivid colours TBH.

Has the bulb been aligned properly in the holder ????. See below:--

Adjusting the lamp
The Wizard Extreme lamp assembly is adjusted at the factory. Due to
differences between lamps, however, fine adjustment may improve
performance.
1. Disconnect the fixture from AC power.
2. If you are:
Using a controller, turn on the Wizard Extreme and select white
light with the open gobo.
Not using a controller, flip DIP-switch pins 3 and 10 on. Flip all
other pins off. Apply power to the Wizard Extreme. After it has
reset, the fixture produces a white light with an open gobo for
adjustment purposes.
3. Wait for the lamp to reach full brightness.
4. To reduce the number of images, deflect the light stream away before
it strikes the mirror drum by holding a small hand-held mirror in front of
the it. Lamp adjustment is also easier if you reflect onto a white surface
5. Make adjustments using the
three lamp-adjustments screws:
If there are off-center hot
spots in the images then the
lamp is not centered in the
reflector. Pull the hot spots
into the center of the image
fields with small adjustments
of the lamp-adjustment
thumbscrews.
If the light is brighter in the center of the images than it is at the
edge, then the lamp is too far forward in the reflector. Pull the lamp
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in by turning all three screws clockwise 1/4-turn at a time until the
light is evenly distributed.
If the light is brighter around the edge of the images than it is in the
center, or if light output is low, then the lamp is too far back in the
reflector. Push the lamp out by turning the screws
counterclockwise 1/4-turn at a time until the light is bright and
evenly distributed.


Edited by simonp1100 - 24 May 2017 at 7:58pm

Thanx for that Simon.  Downloading and printing out the PDF manual was one of the first things that I did.

Main thing i sthat, for me, the colours are 'not in-yer-face' enough; but I haven't taken it out on a gig as yet so they may look much better then.

The colours remind me of when I bought some Equinox Power Flowers a couple of years back, I was hoping that they'd be a good replacement for my MAD PowerFlowers which have done sterling service over the years but are very heavy - the colours were disappointing, didn't stop me using them until one failed completely and the other started to disassemble itself.

I'm sure that I'll get used to it; either that or spring for some Rush Wizards


Edited by BJtheDJ - 24 May 2017 at 9:23pm