JSHAA News

LED Worklite from L&E

Introducing the latest addition to L&E’s family of Flood Lights: The LED Worklite. Rugged yet compact, bright yet energy efficient these new LED floodlights are the best of both worlds. This product is a white light LED that runs off a minimal amount of power while providing a smooth wash of light ideal for use as general down lighting wherever you need it.

Suggested List Price $1200

We currently have a demo unit in our

Grand Rapids office if you’d like to take a look!

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.

More info can be found here.

SeaChanger is continuing to produce some amazing lighting products.

	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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:

• Ergonomic Loading with front-loading design and weight shelves that allow counterweight bricks to be loaded at the most convenient location.
• Secure Operation provided by sloped weight shelves that eliminate spreader plates and use gravity to hold counterweight bricks in place during operation.
• Self-Engaging Gate (Image A) is spring-loaded to fully enclose arbor structure and prevent accidental escape of counterweight bricks.
• Longer Travel Distances than possible with traditional side-loading arbors due to the compact designs.
• Convenient Installation using traditional T or J bar wall frames.

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!

It’s been a busy few weeks over at the ol’ Hyatt place! We’re renting space to a movie that’s shooting here in Grand Rapids, so their art department has turned a chunk of the building into a workshop. To be honest, it looks like Christmas threw up!

What else is new? Let’s see….

Beginning Monday August 3, Apollo is starting a summer gel special:

When consumers purchase a minimum of 10 sheets and/or one standard roll
of Apollo Gel from an authorized Apollo dealer between 8/3/09 – 9/22/09, they can receive $1/sheet and/or $15/roll cash back from Apollo.

Not bad, eh?!! Keep in mind, that our office does not stock Apollo gel (if there’s enough of a demand, we can start stocking it), but the factory is in Indiana, which is just a one-day UPS trip away! We do require a minimum order of 5 sheets of Apollo gel. List price is $7.25/sheet, $45/12ft roll, $90/24ft roll.

XLRJ45 is an adapter to convert a DMX512 XLR connector to a RJ45 connector. The XLRJ45 adapter makes it possible to use any CAT-5 ethernet cable as a DMX512 cable. XLRJ45 is available in four versions, 3-pin male or female XLR or 5-pin male or female XLR. The different adapters can be mixed to make for example a 5-pin to 3-pin cable. XLRJ45 is very useful for making a DMX512 cable quickly and at a very low cost.

All 4 varieties are IN-STOCK in the Grand Rapids office!!

ETC is proud to announce that Paletta and Lustr LED fixtures are now shipping! They join the Vivid™ fixture to complete the Selador Series by ETC product range. All three are available in 11” (1-cell), 21” (2-cell), 42” (4-cell) and 63” (6-cell) lengths.

Lighting control with your iPhone or iPod Touch!

ETC’s iRFR application – supported by Eos, Ion, Element, Congo® and Congo jr consoles, as well as the Eos and Ion Remote Processor Units as well as the Congo Light Server, can be downloaded from the iTunes store and provides touchscreen-based remote control from wherever you are in your venue. Of course, you need a closed wireless network!

Since anyone can download this software and no factory hardware is required, security controls are provided to prohibit unauthorized access to your lighting control system. The application requires iPhone software 2.0 or higher and iTunes 8.0+.

Eos/Ion software 1.7 or Element software 1.6 or higher is required for use of the iRFR on those platforms.

With the iRFR on Eos/Ion/Element, you can:

• Select channels and set parameter data
• Playback and edit cues
• Park channels
• Conduct dimmer and channel checks
• Patch conventional fixtures
• Manipulate color
• With the iRFR on Congo/Congo jr, you can:
• Select channels and set parameter data
• Playback and edit presets
• Conduct dimmer and channel checks
• Patch conventional fixtures
• Calibrate Scroller Rolls

ETC is donating all proceeds from the sale of the iRFR application to Behind the Scenes or Light Relief. There are two separate applications available, the iRFR – BTS and iRFR – LR, supporting these two charities respectively.

To download the iRFR – BTS application and donate to Behind the Scenes, visit:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=318210456&mt=8

To download the iRFR – LR application and donate to Light Relief, visit:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=318217989&mt=8

With all film possibilities coming up in Michigan, we’ve started to provide quite a variety of products to the production teams.

CALDIGIT offers various RAID solutions for people in the multimedia industry. CalDigit is the one source supplier for Video Editors, Photographers, and the Music Industry. CalDigit is your complete RAID solution choice, at an affordable price.

Composite Components Company is an Academy Award Winning effects company providing the filmmaker with a systematic and comprehensive approach to state of the art traveling matte composite photography. Featuring the Digital Series of traveling matte backings including: Digital Green®, Digital Blue™, Digital Video Blue™ and Digital Red™ fabric screens and paints.

Aerosol snow!!! We’ve got a great source for this low cost set-decorating product, as well as snow blankets and non-biodegradable snow.

Of course, CITC still has SnoBiz, a fantastic bio-degradable snow product.

Contact your JSHAA sales person to place an order!