CAME-TV Boltzen Perseus Bi-Color 55W SMD Soft Travel Lights Review

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The CAME-TV Boltzen Perseus Bi-Color 55W SMD Soft Travel Lights look to be a good solution for anyone who wants a compact, affordable, self-contained lighting travel kit.

The lights feature a unique yoke that allows them to fold flat so that the panels are easy to stack on top of each other. This allows three lights and accessories to be placed inside a relatively small-sized hard case.

Being able to stack three lights that can be run via flight-safe batteries together inside a relatively compact case makes a lot of sense if you travel a lot and operate as a one-man band or part of a small crew. I am not sure why we haven’t seen more manufacturers create lighting kits for this very reason.

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Litepanels Sola ENG lighting kit

Way back in 2012 I bought a Litepanels Sola ENG lighting kit that I used to take on assignments around the world. This was a self-contained three-light kit that came in a hard case and could be powered via flight safe batteries.

Traveling lighting kits are often a compromise between size, power draw, and output. You usually can’t have your cake and eat it too.

So, let’s see if the CAME-TV Boltzen Perseus Bi-Color 55W SMD Soft Travel Lights are up to the task of being a good traveling lighting solution. For this review, I will be looking at the P-1800B-3BATTERY Kit.

KEY FEATURES

  • 3x Boltzen Perseus Bi-Color 55W SMD Soft Travel Lights
  • 3x CAME-TV Mini 99Wh V-Mount Batteries
  • Color: 3200K-5600K
  • TLCI 97+, CRI 96+ (claimed)
  • Dimming: 0-100%
  • App Control
  • Remote Control
  • FX Modes
  • 55W Draw
  • AC (110V-240V) DC (12V-24V)

Concept

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The concept was to make affordable, good color quality, decent output panel lights that were suitable for travel.

They needed to have a low power draw so they could be run via flight-safe batteries for long periods of time. They also needed to feature a design that allowed multiple lights to be packed down into a travel case.

Build Quality

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The build quality of the CAME-TV Boltzen Perseus Bi-Color 55W SMD Soft Travel Lights isn’t going to win any awards.

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While the housing seems reasonably robust, the dials and buttons are cheaply made and they are not very tactile.

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The locking mechanisms and the yoke frame are nice and robust, but because of the way they work, I think you are going to need to tighten them with an Allen key every now and then.