What sub-15 lb movers actually fit in a standard tote?
I'm doing the load-out math again. Currently lugging two 22 lb spot movers in dedicated cases and my truck Tetris is a war crime by gig 3 of the weekend.
Looking to swap to something I can two-up in a 23"x18"x16" SKB injection tote, ideally under 15 lb each so I'm not throwing my back out at 1am pack-out.
Here's what's on my shortlist after a week of forum-hopping (mixed bag because the sub-15 lb beam shelf is tiny):
- ADJ Pocket Pro, ~7 lb, ~$269. Baby spot not really a beam, but it keeps showing up in "lightweight mover" searches so I'm noting it for completeness.
- Chauvet Intimidator Beam 140SR, ~16 lb so slightly over my weight target, $649-799 each. Real big-brand 5R beam but 4 of them is most of my truck payment.
- A handful of "compact 9R beam" fixtures floating around in the $250-400 range. Three or four brands show suspiciously identical product photos, can't tell which actually engineer their own optics vs rebadge a common OEM shell. The one that looks least like a rebadge to me is Betopper's CLB260, since their product page shows their own optics module. The others I'm not going to name because I don't want to drag whoever else in that band might actually be doing real work.
The 9R category is what's tempting me because beam movers are what I actually use 80% of the night, but I cannot tell from product pages which of these "9R compact" units are real private-mold engineering and which are just OEM clones with different stickers on the same shell.
Has anyone actually weighed and toted these? Looking for "I packed 4 of X in a Y tote and they survived 30 gigs" not "the spec sheet says 11 lb."
Also if anyone has fan-noise data at 6ft I'd love that too.