FEATURE PROJECTION LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS Applied Electronics kick-started their LDI with a double-yoke accessory to the Source Four Par called the Kick Stand. The yoke works as a floor stand that rests on three points, or it can be folded back on itself and rigged to a pipe. Another new product on the stand was the LA25 Line Array Tower with a load capacity of 1,500 pounds. One person can assemble the selferecting tower in about 30 minutes. Also on the Applied Electronics stand was the LSC line of products. Their new MDR DMX data distributor is available with an RDM module and an optional wireless receiver. It <strong>com</strong>es in a 5-output model or a 10-ouotput model and it will be available in January 2009. Avolites used their LDI stand this year to launch their new Titan operating system for the Pearl and Diamond 4 series consoles. It was developed from the original D4 Operating System and adds new features to the Diamond 4 and the Pearl Expert. Lee Vestrich of Bulbtronics, which offers a line of lamps and production expendables for film, video, TV, concerts, nightclubs and themed entertainment. Barco brought a number of new High End Systems lighting and control products including the ShowBeam 2,500-watt automated wash luminaire and the ShowGun 2.5 automated luminaire. Also making its first appearance at LDI was the DMX Processor 8000 for Wholehog software. The Alpha Beam 1500 made its debut on the Clay Paky stand. The 1,500-watt automated fixture produces a concentrated beam of parallel light similar to an ACL, but with more power. It features a new focusing system, 14 gobos (six rotating and eight fixed), two rotating prisms, CMY color mixing, color wheel, rotating beam shaper, 0 – 100 percent dimmer plus a precision dimmer on separate channels, iris, strobe and three <strong>com</strong>binable linear frost effects. The Alpha Beam 300 was also featured on the Clay Paky stand. Like its 1,500-watt big brother, the 300 produces an ACL effect with a 300-watt source. Other features include eight fixed gobos (four gobos plus 4 beam angle reduction gobos), a patented frost effect, “soft mode” and “hard edge” mode, CMY color mixing and color wheel and electronic ballast. Chauvet unveiled a number of new products this year, including a hard edge spot moving yoke fixture with an LED source. The Q Spot LED 250 uses number of white sixwatt LEDs but it looks to the naked eye like a more conventional lamp source. Other new products included the Stage Beam, a white LED-fitted moving yoke fixture with nine independently controlled cells that converge in the air to produce a single white beam; the Chauvet Legend 6500, an LED moving yoke fixture with RGBW color mixing; the Legend 4500 is a scaled-down version of the Legend 6500 with RGBW color wash; the Colorado 6, an automated and upgraded IP66-rated version of the Colorado 3 wash bank with 108 LEDs arranged in three concentric rings and RGB color mixing; the Colorado 2, a bigger version of the Colorado 1 with the addition of white LEDs for more precise color temperature control; the Colorado Batten 80i, an RGBW LED color wash batten with control modes that vary from three to 80 channels, 4.2 billion colors, 80 2-watt LEDs and adjustable preset color temperatures; and the Colordash Batten, a <strong>com</strong>pact LED bank system intended for use as a cyclorama, border or strip light The TMB “Village” products including: ProTester 19 Mobal cable tester by GDS; PufferSphere spherical display system from Pufferfish; ProFan high velocity DMX-controlled wind machine and TMB’s new ProPower NCB Series: non-conductive power distribution without the rubber. Also featured: Kinesys motion controls’ Libra load cell K2 motion control software; Green Hippo HippoCritter, HippoPortamus, the Hippotizer V3 R2 and Hippotizer’s V3.0.12. New to the TMB distribution family is Sand Network Systems, including SandBox multi-protocol hardware for Ethernet, USB, DMX and MIDI and W- DMX by Wireless Solutions. TMB architectural products included: Blues System by Global Design Solutions (GDS); curveLED video displays; Digital Festoon’s DFS color changing LED display system; Falcon fixtures by Alpha One; Leader Light’s new LED Sound Panels and the Pro LED Point MR16s. Also featured was Innovative Film and TV’s Solaris Quasar and T-Light strobe lights and lightning machines and the FinnLight Toplight with Space Bag. 28 <strong>PLSN</strong> NOVEMBER 2008
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