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The newest addition to the Wybron family, the Cygnus 200W Wash, is now in production. Recently, the company's Colorado Springs facility put together an order of 12 white Cygnus units, a special request for Fordham University, who ordered them through PRG New Jersey.
Fordham's snowy-coloured Cygnuses will provide an unparalleled LED experience. Cygnus, one of the only LED luminaires on the market to employ an integrated RGBW quad die, greatly eliminates rainbow shadows caused by other LED lights. It also employs in-lens colour-mixing, meaning that the colour seen on the fixture is the same seen on the stage.
It's also astoundingly bright - up to five times as bright as competing fixtures - and provides excellent colour as well as whites up to 92 CRI. "We've finally achieved output levels and colour rendering quality that allow LED fixtures to become something more than a novel wall wash," says Wybron director of technologies, John Sondericker III.
Before they're shipped, each Cygnus is individually colour calibrated using an advanced proprietary process. Wybron's history with gels and dichroics, in which there sometimes can be wide variation, has informed the current system, which employs RDM to ensure that each unit's components are working correctly to provide consistent colour. This means that every Cygnus that ships will produce the same colour, whether in the same batch or separated by months or years.
Also instrumental to consistency is Cygnus' advanced thermal management system. Many LED lights can suffer from high temperatures at the junction, which over time can affect the light output, allowing the colours to degrade and the luminous flux to wane. Wybron has solved this issue with an active cooling system that continuously oversees and adjusts Cygnus' temperature and ensures a long, long life of consistent colour and maximised output. This system also contributes to the efficiency of the device.
8th March 2010
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