Product News

Chauvet’s Nexus 4×4 wash light has 16 20W RGB COB LEDs, giving users the option to deploy the fixture for pixel-mapping applications or just use them for their copious luminous output as wash fixtures. The combination of COB emitters and a new reflector design promises to drench lit surfaces in highly saturated hues. Operating modes include 3-channel (RGB), 5-channel (dimmer, RGB, strobe), and 9-channel (dimmer, RGB, shutter, color macro, auto, auto speed, dim mode), with 48 and 52 channel modes also available. Nexus 4×4 is controllable via Art-Net, Kling-Net and DMX protocols and features interlocking hardware for large arrays.

Chauvet Professional MVP Ta8 Curve is a modular video panel featuring tri-color SMD LEDs configured within a relatively tight 8.33mm pixel pitch. By taking advantage of the hardware incorporated into the panels, users can create flat, convex or concave LED screen surfaces with angles up to plus or minus (+/-)18 degrees without losing pixel pitch.

The Robe Robin DLS Profile is the latest product in the DL range of luminaires that uses the Robe RGBW LED module. The DLS adds a system of four fast, smooth, framing shutters within the optical path design of the DLX Spot format. There is individual control of each shutter blade position and angle, together with rotation of the complete framing module. The fixture offers a sharp precise or soft frame for the projected image;  the system produces a new series of effects through pre-programmed shutter blade shapes and movement sequences. Snappy blades of the framing module overlap each other on almost the same focal plane which allows the designer to create polygons or triangles, as well as other shapes, while staying in focus and always precisely returning to the pre-programmed position. As with all models in the Robe DL luminaire range, the multiple shadows normally associated with an LED source have been eliminated.

LAS VEGAS – Modeling plugins for use with Vectorworks Spotlight 2013 on Windows and Mac OSX operating systems are now available from ESP Vision. Included in this release is also compliance testing against the latest MAC OSX, Mountain Lion (10.8.x). ESP Vision supports the latest two releases of Vectorworks. Therefore, concurrent with this announcement, ESP Vision will no longer maintain support for Vectorworks 2011.

LOS ANGELES  –  Elation Professional’s Event Cylinder is a one-foot-diameter (304 mm) transparent tubular-shaped color-changing battery powered RGB LED fixture. Wireless control and an IP65 rating will allow the unit to be used in usual and unusual locations, from a beach party to corporate events. When fully charged, the Event Cylinder’s battery will last 12 hours.

CLARKSTON, MI  – High Resolution Systems has released UDC 4.0, the latest upgrade for its software-based Universal Device Controller.  The new release includes new features, including a Software Developer Kit. The SDK requires basic programming knowledge, which can be learned through High Resolution Systems’ software courses.

DALLAS – Philips Entertainment is now shipping the Showline SL BAR 640 and SL BAR 660, 4-ft and 6-ft RGBW linear wash luminaires capable of being used as a wash or as a direct-view linear bar. The fixtures also feature the Harmonize Color Calibration System, which assures the luminaires will match from fixture to fixture and pixel to pixel. The SL BAR 660 produces 20,000 lumens of output and the SL BAR 640 produces more than 13,000 lumens of output. Both feature a 60-degree beam angle, built-in effects and chases, an auto-orienting LCD menu, multiple dimming curves and color modes, among other features.