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Our Elation Lighting rep stopped by the office yesterday with some great new fixtures! Here’s what we saw:
If you have any questions about any of Elation’s products, just let us know. They’re dependable and road-worthy! One of my customers bought a fairly large rig with Design Spots, Impression washes, and LED Par fixtures, and he’s had nothing but great things to say about them! Contact your JSHAA sales person for more info!
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Lot’s of new product announcements!
Apollo is excited to announce that a major part of its 2010 new product lineup is a result of exclusive USA distribution agreements reached with two European manufacturers.
Despite numerous dealer requests, Apollo chose to let the market evolve before entering the LED arena – until now! Select units from English lighting brand Multiform’s line of quality, mid-range priced LEDs will be available from Apollo in January 2010. Click here to view the units chosen. They will prove ideal for a variety of event production applications, with additional products becoming available later in the year.
A second new product path for Apollo will be taken as a result of an agreement with Italian manufacturer Spotlight Srl. The company’s upscale MINI line of architectural lighting fixtures and Apollo’s gobo expertise will combine to offer designers high quality projection and accent lighting solutions for retail and architectural applications, including window displays, exhibit areas, hotels, museums, and houses of worship. Click here to view the products.
As experts for almost 35 years in the stage world, with thousands of lighting installations worldwide, we have closely scrutinized the state of the art of rigging. ETC has developed this new range of rigging products with the same spirit of pioneering technological innovation that brought the industry the Source Four spotlights. Prodigy™ hoists and QuickTouch™ controls literally and figuratively raise the bar – setting new standards for safety, smarter design, and affordability.
But the technological innovation is just one part of our plan to serve this market. ETC is partnering with the most experienced and qualified rigging installers and supporting them with our unmatched project management, service and manufacturing to provide complete, safe and affordable rigging solutions.
Click here for more information.
Lighting & Electronics has a few new fixtures coming out this year. Click here for more information. I’m anxious to check out their new LED Worklite:
Lex has introduced its new line of EverGrip
Maintenance-Free Molded Multi-Cable Assemblies. EverGrip connectors go through two separate molding processes to ensure that they are exceptionally tough, remarkably safe, and maintenance free. Click for more info.
They’ve also added a new dimmer aimed at the motion picture market, the 1.8k Slim Dimmer. The Slim Dimmer is an 1800 Watt, 120VAC electronic dimmer with NEMA 5-15 (Edison) connectors. It is a compact, rugged, unfiltered dimmer with onboard fader control and digital intensity display.
Littlite now has an add-on accessory for their very successful line of LED Littlites, the "Littlite Dimmer Controller". It provides dimming control for multiple Littlite lampsets in any combination of High Intensity, Low Intensity and LED up to a 1 Amp draw. It operates on an input voltage of 12-28 VDC. Standard 2.1mm connectors for power supply input and output to lights.
Rosco has re-vamped their Flamex line.
Roscoflamex fire retardants have been formulated to meet the extreme needs of the entertainment industry, designed to treat the wide range of diverse materials used in scenery, props and costume construction. Roscoflamex products meet fire retardant standards as established by NFPA, ASTM, ANSI, and UL and have been approved by the CA Fire Marshall and New York City Fire Dept.
SeaChanger is continuing to produce some amazing lighting products.
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Nautilus is the first outdoor color engine with a LIFI® plasma source that delivers 10,000 lumens out of the fixture while using only 330 watts of power. The LIFI® source leads a new class of solid-state plasma light sources that combine the best features of solid-state electronics and full spectrum plasma emitters. |
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The Nautilus Wash is the first all-inclusive outdoor fixture from SeaChanger that provides soft illumination using a LIFI® plasma light source. This self-contained dichroic color changer has an internal power supply, 4 channel DMX and RDM capability for easy operation. |
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The Nemo Profile is the first SeaChanger color-changing fixture with a LIFI® plasma light source. Using your existing ETC Source Four® front-end barrels and an assortment of ETC FOV optics, the Nemo comes equipped with a dimmer wheel to control the intensity of the light output. |
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The Nemo Wash is the first all-inclusive fixture from SeaChanger that provides soft illumination using a LIFI® plasma light source. This self-contained dichroic color changer has an internal power supply, 4-channel DMX and RDM capability for easy operation. |
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The CTE is the latest in the SeaChanger line of lighting products designed to deliver an energyefficient class of high intensity lighting, using proven plasma technology. The CTE is the first replacement lamp, which includes a housing and reflector, that turns your ETC Source Four® lens barrels into a LIFI® plasma source. |
StageJunk has come out with another great tool for technicians: The Ratcheting Ultimate Focus Tool. All the great features as the Ultimate Focus Tool, but now with a ratcheting head.
Thern Stage Equipment introduced their new Brickhouse Front-Loading Counterweight Arbor Systems. Some of the features and benefits include:
The Cygnus™ 200W Wash is an extremely efficient next-generation LED wash light, one of the only luminaires in the world to use integrated RGBW LED elements for excellent in-lens color mixing.
There’s more new product info coming in, so as soon as I get the info, I’ll be passing it along!
Contact your JSHAA sales person for more information or to place an order!
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I’ve been so busy the last couple months that I haven’t spread any news!
Here’s what I’m covering, just skip to what looks interesting!
ETC announces the discontinuance of the Emphasis® Control System. We will no longer accept new orders or provide quotations for future sales of Emphasis 2D and 3D.
ETC Controls Product Manager Sarah Clausen states, “Emphasis provided a great bridge from our older conventional control systems to our next generation of lighting control offered in the SmartFade®, Congo™ and Eos® control systems. With the launch of the Ion® and Congo jr consoles, we believe we are now offering our customers a choice of flexible lighting controls ready for 21st century lighting technology.”
As always, ETC will continue to provide technical support and repair services for Emphasis Control Systems in the field.
Effective on July 18, 2008, ETC stopped accepting orders for the Expression® and Express™ line of control consoles. This includes the Expression 3, Insight™ 3, Express 250, Express 125, Express 72/144, Express 48/96, Express 24/48 and all Expression, Insight and Express Lighting Playback Controllers. As with all ETC products, they have reserved parts to service the units in the field for years to come.
ETC Marketing Manager David Lincecum comments: “The Expression family of consoles has had an incredible 22-year run, and thousands of these desks are running shows around the world. It should go without saying that ETC will offer the same high level of support we have always provided for these products for many years to come. We look forward to the continued success and growth of our incredible array of new consoles in the SmartFade®, Congo™ and Eos®/Ion® lines and we are already seeing that they will enjoy the same kind of success.”
Following a successful launch at Lightfair in May, we are now accepting orders for the newest SmartLink® product: the Unison® DRd!
The all-new Unison DRd dimming enclosure offers a large number of new features, while maintaining the quality and value you’ve come to expect from the Unison DR. The new DRd uses the same Sensor®-style dimming and switching modules you are familiar with, combined with an all-new dimming processor, to offer your projects the best dimming performance ever in a Unison product.
And now, with the new SmartLink Architectural Control Processor (S-ACP) becoming a part of the Unison family in DRd, you have access to plug-and-play architectural lighting controls and superior dimming in one package. Simply add a SmartLink Station Power Module, and you can use the 5- and 10-button SmartLink stations on budget-oriented projects, getting cost-effective preset and sequence control with powerful dimming capabilities and increased capacity.
Also available, the new SmartLink Timeclock brings low-cost, easy-to-use time-of-day control to ETC Unison®, Sensor®, and SmartPack® dimming, as well as to SmartSwitch™ relay systems.
With the increasing popularity of Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, and the opening of their iTunes App Store, it was only a matter of time before apps were being written for our industry. Here’s a round-up of the ones that I’m familiar with along with a link to a recent article in Live Design.
Leading the way is Wybron with their LDI award winning Gel Swatch Library. I’ve got this one on my iPhone and use it frequently. It’s a great way to do a basic color comparison between manufacturer’s gels before pulling out the "analog" swatchbooks. Hopefully Wybron will add the Apollo gel catalog to the app soon….
Also from Wybron is the CXI Color Calculator and Infogate for the iPhone/iPod Touch. If you use the Wybron CXI unit, the CXI Color Calculator app is definitely a must-have, especially if you’re programming off-line. If you’re using Wybron’s Infotrace, then you’ll definitely want the Infogate for the iPhone app.
D!HV Productions has introduced two apps, the full-featured Light Calc and the free Light Calc Lite. With the free version, you enter some basic info about your fixture and calculate the beam spread. With the full-featured version, you can pick from a library of fixtures, beam spreads and lamps.
Still working with gear that uses dispswitches to calculate DMX addresses? Try the free app, appropriately named, Dipswitch. It does the math for you!
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For more apps, check out the recent Live Design article.
Now that the ACN and RDM protocols are being implemented by equipment manufacturers, Wybron’s Infotrace looks like it should be implemented in any new facility design.
It’s a lot easier for you to read about it on Wybron’s site than for me to try to explain it. Take a look. It’s an amazing system.
Quick roundup of some of my favorite new products shown at LDI:
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We’ve recently added some new vendors to our line card!
I’m very excited, particularly, about ProCo Sound. ProCo is based in Kalamazoo, MI and is one of the leading manufacturers of audio cables. Check out their website. They’ve got everything!
Also new is Mackie! Speakers, mixers, recording gear…
In this month’s newsletter from City Theatrical, they had a nice background article on why their fixture irises are the best. Good pictures of the manufacturing process, too. Here’s a link to the article.
City Theatrical also announced yesterday that they have acquired all designs and patents for Candle Lite Unlimited, for which they have been the exclusive distributor since the beginning. With this aquisition they plan on adding improvements and new technologies to these great flicker candles.
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Our sales rep from Rosco stopped by for a quick visit last week. He brought along the Rosco X-Effects projector, which has now been replaced by the X24 X-Effects projector. It’s a little difficult to describe what it does, so take a look at the video clips on their website.
We have our Apollo Right Arm and ETC SmartFade ML set up in our Grand Rapids demo room. We will be part of our rental inventory once we’ve finished showing them off. If you haven’t seen them, make arrangements to stop by! The SmartFade ML is a great little moving light console, and the Right Arm is smooth as silk.
As always, for more information and pricing, contact your nearest JSHAA sales office:
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(608) 280-0985
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(602) 438-9555
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(888) 438-9555
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