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left: Clay Paky’s Pasquale Quadri and Light Relief's Rick Fisher

Clay Paky Makes Heavy Contribution to Light Relief

LONDON – Clay Paky’s President/CEO Pasquale Quadri presented the lighting industry charity Light Relief with a £ 5,000 ($7,991) donation. The charity supports those with financial aid in the industry who experience hard times. Pio Nahum, chief commercial officer for Clay Paky, says, “Without the lighting designers who use our equipment so imaginatively and who willingly feedback to our R&D, Clay Paky could not be so successful. It’s important to us that we acknowledge our appreciation and offer our support to those individuals who need it. Light Relief is the perfect way for us to do this.”

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Blizzard Lighting Puck Fab5

Blizzard Fab5 Series LED Fixtures

Blizzard Lighting’s Fab5 Series LED fixtures will incorporate 15W, 5-in-1 RGBAW LEDs with internal color mixing achieved with red, green, blue, amber and white nodes. The first two fixtures, due out in November, are the Puck Fab5, pictured left, and ToughPAR Fab5, below right. The Puck Fab5, a new variation of the Puck series flat LED par can, will feature seven of the new 15W 5-in-1 LEDs.

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RED Lighting Pixel Par and Pixel Square

RED Lighting’s Pixel Par and Pixel Square LED fixtures feature COB (Chip on Board) technology, where the sources are mounted on a flat circuit board at an imperceptible distance from each other for a homogenized effect. Output is considerable — up to 100W per chip — with a minimal luminous flux decadence and a lower heat production. The Pixel Par LED works with just a single 100W three-in-one RGB tri-COB LED and consumes 120W power. It is 215mm by 215mm by 240mm in size and weighs 2.5kgs. The Pixel Square has 16 30W RGB tri-COB LEDs, with 560W power consumption. It is 345mm by 165mm by 380mm in size and weighs 5.2 kgs. Both feature 60 degree beam angles and power-in specs of AC 110V-240V and 50Hz/60Hz.

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A.C. Lighting Named North American Distributor for Prolyte Group

TORONTO — Prolyte Group, a manufacturer of truss, roof systems, crowd barriers, staging and hoists, named A.C. Lighting Inc., based here, as its distributor for North America. The company’s manufacturing facilities are in Wakefield, U.K.; Leek, The Netherlands;  and Slatina, Romania. Prolyte also offers custom manufacturing through its Litestructures and Brilliant Stages divisions.

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Jeremy Schilling, president, Road Radios

Road Radios Opens Office in Nashville

LOS ANGELES — Road Radios, LLC announced the opening of their new office in Nashville, TN starting Nov. 1, 2012. The company was founded in 2004 and has grown into a major provider of two-way radio equipment for entertainment, sports and corporate event production. “We are excited about bringing our operations to the heart of the Country Western market and look forward to providing excellent communication needs and unsurpassed custom service to our clients,” said Jeremy Schilling, president of Road Radios.

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Squarepusher's LED helmet

Squarepusher Pushes Creativity with digiFLEX LED Helmet

LONDON – Electronic musician Squarepusher uses just a single tile of displayLED’s flexible LED product digiFLEX to create a futuristic display on a helmet. The helmet uses the musician’s own software to convert sound to graphics, which appear on the visor during the performance and tie in with imagery on the larger screens of the show’s backdrop. Squarepusher has been on tour with the LED helmet throughout the US, Europe and Brazil.

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Studio 54 Sportpaleis

Robe Lights Studio 54 Sportpaleis Disco Inferno

ANTWERP, Belgium – About 12,000 disco divas stepped out to the 2012 Studio 54 Sportpaleis event in Antwerp, Belgium to strut their best dancefloor moves and grooves to the sounds of the 1970s. The event featured Robe moving lights along with other gear supplied by Total Event Support. LD Peter Vervloesem designed the event; the centerpiece of the arena design was a massive chandelier in the roof made up from 400 x 40 cm mirror balls flown above the stage.

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GigaCore family

Luminex GigaCore 12, 14R, 16Xt Ethernet Switches

MONTREAL – Luminex Network Intelligence, a Belgium-based developer of lighting control, pro audio and video data distribution equipment for the entertainment industry, is debuting in the US its new range of Gigabit Ethernet switches to cope with the demands of lighting and AV installations. The three new models – GigaCore 12, GigaCore 14R and GigaCore 16Xt – are  managed through a web interface.  They meet and support all industry protocols and offer a user-friendly experience with an industry-specific outlook and optimized defaults.  The products come with a built-in redundancy system providing a reliable and easy-to-set-up backbone for users’ networks.

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Wildcats

Bandit Brings the ‘Madness’ to Kentucky Basketball

LEXINGTON, KY – The Wildcats’ Basketball season kicked off with a light show provided by Bandit Lites. The packed arena watched as the entire basketball court transformed into a 94-ft by 50-ft screen. Bandit’s Aaron Swetland designed and operated the lighting program, filling the arena with effects from Clay Paky Sharpys, Martin MAC 2K Washes, Vari-Lite 3K spots, GRN washes, GRN LED pars and Martin Atomic Strobes.

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California Science Center

Kinetic Lighting Creates Display for Endeavour’s Arrival

GLENDALE, CA – Large crowds gathered throughout Los Angeles over the weekend, hoping to catch a glimpse of the space shuttle Endeavour as it rolled slowly through the streets to its final home. Meanwhile, the crew from Kinetic Lighting spent Friday and Saturday at the California Science Center setting up dramatic lighting apropos of the orbiter and the huge moment in Los Angeles history.

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