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Lightfactor at PLASA 2005

Lightfactor Sales will be showing a variety of its core theatre and performance orientated products available from Italian manufacturers SGM and LDR; Wireless Solutions from Sweden; Xilver from the Netherlands and LightProcessor from the UK.

New from SGM is Synthesis, the first of a new generation of moving head fixtures designed and built by SGM for top-level professional applications. Synthesis features several ground-breaking firsts (see separate SGM story).

Lightfactor has enjoyed huge success with SGM’s PALCO LED colour-changer over the last 12 months. Units have been sold to leading rental companies like Fineline, Essential Lighting and PRG and have been used on a myriad of applications. The elegant flat faced fixture is for both indoor and outdoor use (IP65 rated) utilising new technology, and featuring stylish design.

To help blend harmoniously into surrounding architecture, PALCO uses a series of high-power Luxeon LEDs (with RGB colour mixing - 5 blues, 20 greens and 24 reds). The PALCO is currently available in two models, with 3W (PALCO 3) or 5W (PALCO 5) LEDs.

The new PALCO 3 mobile is protected to IP22 and features motorized pan & tilt movement. Its DMX controlled with optional remote control unit. The fixture features RGB colour mixing and a combination of high-power Luxeon 3W/1W LEDs (7 blue, 18 green, 24 red). It has a luminous flux, 2,200 Lumens and a colour temperature: 5,500°K (variable). PALCO 3 Mobile is available with a range of interchangeable lenses 8°, 25°, 40°, 10°x 22° (elliptical) horizontal and vertical. The pan is 0° - 350° and the tilt is +15° / -70 degrees.

A selected range of SGM’s ‘Regia’ lighting control consoles will be on show on the Lightfactor stand. They are popular for their versatility, ease of use and reliability. SGM consoles combine a clear user-friendly control panel and a constantly updated operating system with sturdy hardware. The consoles are designed to take the complexity out of lighting control, allowing lighting designers to concentrate all energies on their creativity.

Offering 1024 DMX channels, 2 DMX out lines and one independent DMX line in, the Desk Pilot 3000 is a colour TFT touch screen graphic display for direct access to the fixture functions shown on the display. It has capacity for up to 200 cues and offers 4 encoder wheels (to control the Palette parameters of a fixture during editing or programming and for allocation of the values of the various program screens) The Desk Pilot 3000 offers 20 keys for direct access to Playbacks and 10 keys for direct access to playback functions like Time, Release, Cue-List, etc. and the Shape Engine.

The Xolar LT from Xilver is a batten shaped long-throw lighting fixture designed for touring and installations. It combines a revolutionary new design approach with a wide-range of new applications.

The Xolar LT has a total beam angle of 2 degrees. It contains 16 segments either as individual, sectional or a single unit, and is controlled via DMX and the Xilver serial interface. Each segment uses Xilver’s unique patent-pending color-combining system. This system produces a homogeneous colored beam and can integrate external effect filters, lenses and optional diffusers. The unit is calibrated to achieve a consistent and stable color output throughout changing temperatures. It features a total of 48 Luxeon high power Lumiled LED sources - 16 Red Luxeon I, 16 Green Luxeon III, and 16 Blue Luxeon I, controlled in a 30-bit modified smooth resolution.

The standard 2 degrees optic (4 degrees with beam homogenizing filter) creates a parallel light beam resulting in an intense homogeneous colored beam, easily capable of throwing 100 metres. It is ideal for cycloramic or long-throw applications.

From Swedish company Wireless Solutions AB, Lightfactor is focusing on their latest in-production products including the Black Box transmitters, receivers and repeaters. Wireless Solutions W-DMX Black Box Outdoor is an exterior wireless data solution based on the proven technology of the company’s PLASA award-winning W-DMX Black Box indoor model (also see separate news story).

LightProcessor manufactures an extensive range of fully-featured lighting control products, including the ever popular QCommander and QCommander II moving light consoles, LightProcessor Zip desks and the hugely successful Paradim and Dimension dimming ranges. PLASA 05 will feature the latest models in the LightProcessor Dimension range of installation dimmers.

Dimension 1210 is a wall mounted dimmer and the latest addition to the Light Processor installation dimmers. Available as single or three phase, with MCB breakers on each circuit, user-replaceable triacs plus many other features. Keenly priced, it’s available as DMX or DMX with onboard memory.

The LightProcessor Dimension 12 Channel Rack mounted dimmer. This is a fully featured touring dimmer at great price. DMX controlled it offers single or three phase operation, 12 MCB breakers with an RCD option. Features accessed via the front panel LCD display include individual or multiple DMX addressing of channels; individual or global channel test; inbuilt scenes for test DMX and power-up; three dimming curves – switch, square and linear; individual pre-heats on each channel plus individual ‘max out’ on each channel.

LightProcessor’s Paradim digital touring dimmer is now available with 125 A Cee Form or PowerLock in/out. The 72-way version offers 24 dimmer channels and 12 hard powered channels, and the 96-way offers 36 dimmer channels and 12 hard power channels.

Paradim installation dimmer is a low-cost, 6-scene, 6 channel dimmer, available in 6 x 10A, 6 x 16A or 6 x 20A formats. It can be hard wired or rack mounted, single or three phase and encompasses fire alarm settings, onboard scene memory. Scenes stored in the dimmer can be recalled by any of the LightProcessor series of Scene Recall Button Stations, either with LED indicators, faders or simple buttons.

The Dimension Memory dimming range consists of 12 or 18 channel units of 10 Amps-per-channel, which can be wired as 3 phase or single. The 1210 and 1810 units can be split between different zones - one zone of 18 scenes, two of 12 and six or three of 6. Channels are allocated to zones via central programming from any DMX desk, and they don’t have to be divided in any pre-determined way.

Both Paradim and Dimension can be used in conjunction with one another.

LightProcessor’s handy series of DMX signal processing products includes the QDMuX, QStore, QMerge and QBuffer - the latter available in both truss and 19" rack-mounting version. The QBuffer is incorporated into the DMX chain immediately after a desk. The QStore can store in memory 64 presets of all 512 channels.

After programming the QStore can take the place of the desk and run a show - running automatically, operated manually or by a simple binary input trigger. In a backup situation pre-stored scenes can be recalled in any order and switched or faded in.

The QDMuX offers 24 channels of DMX to analogue decoding in a 1U rack-mount. It’s a convenient interface between standards, the DMX line being connected through 5-pin XLR's to the front or 3-pin XLR's to the rear.

Lightfactor is the UK distributor for Italian manufacturer LDR, who have developed a comprehensive range of theatrical and architectural display luminaires using the latest optical design techniques. Based in northern Italy, LDR has its own design and assembly facility to ensure consistent quality and availability. Its large range of products includes a choice of followspots with discharge and tungsten halogen sources, condenser-optic profiles and a complete range of Fresnels and PCs for both theatrical and architectural applications. LDR is committed to providing high quality products and offering a fast, friendly service.

Featured products at PLASA include the Canto 250HR ceramic followspot, which is the result of cooperation between Philips Lighting and LDR. The new Canto 250HR is based on the new ceramic lamp from Philips, which provides 3200 K and a CRI>90. The Xpress Moving introduces 'a new concept in lighting' - , which combines the high technology of a Studio Due moving head with the functionality of an LDR colour scroller. The new Xpress power distribution is compact and lightweight specially designed to feed a single XPress colour scroller.

A complete range of LDR pole operated yokes are available for both LDR theatrical and architectural range.

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Lightfactor at PLASA 2005

8th September 2005

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