Product News

The Viper S is the latest addition to Look Solutions’ line of fog machines, complementing the Viper NT and the Viper 2.6.  The Viper S has all the features of the Viper NT, but with 50 percent of the size and wattage and 60 percent of the weight.  DMX, analog and stand-alone controls are standard, along with a programmable digital timer.  It also includes a Profile Timer, which allows you to fog for a specified amount of time and then automatically stop. If the machine runs out of fluid a sensor that will shut down the pump. MSRP is $1,040.

The LPC is the first in a new series of consoles from Leprecon primarily intended for systems running conventional lighting. It has hands-on fader control for dimmers and LEDs, a keypad and touchscreen to suit individual programming styles. It outputs two DMX512 universes with over 200 channels of control. The LPC-48V will operate as a single-scene 48-channel or two-scene 24-channel preset console. There are 20 pages of 24 submasters. The Cue section is equipped with individual up, down, follow and wait times along with a graphical cue list for viewing and editing. Six programmable “Quick Looks” provide push button access to cues.

FocusTrack, the production lighting documentation system, has added compatibility with more consoles in the new version 2.00. FocusTrack has always been able to automatically process information from Strand 500-series consoles, and now its functionality is extended to include ETC’s Eos and Ion consoles and the MA Lighting grandMA console. It comes in one version that can be switched freely between use with Strand 500, Eos and grandMA consoles. Existing users can move to FocusTrack 2.00 at no additional cost. It also offers other new functions including the ability to spot the difference between the console patch and a Lightwright file.

Elation Professional’s new Design Beam 1200C is a 1200-watt automated luminaire with built-in wireless DMX. It has a Philips MSR1200 lamp with a color temperature of 7500K. With a beam angle of 6.7°, it produces 107,500 lux at 25 feet. Variable frost allows it to function as a spot or wash and the CMY color mixing system has variable CTO, 16-bit resolution and color fading. It has eight static replaceable dichroic colors including CTB and UV, two gobo wheels, one with six rotating/indexing gobos and another with seven static replaceable gobos. It measures 18.5 inches by 18.2 inches by 20.3 inches and weighs 78.5 pounds.

The new High End Systems Showbeam 2.5 automated wash luminaire uses a jointly-developed Philips MSR 2500-watt lamp. A new radial lenticular homogenizing lens system provides a signature look. Other features include a user-changeable fixed color wheel, variable CTO, CMY color mixing and an 11° fixed hard-edge profile with fast color change and electronic strobe. The profile has a zoom range from 11° to 33°. The Twin Beam™ effect produces two hard-edge beams with variable control over deviation and rotation speed and the LED tracking system encircles the lens, also giving it a distinctive look.

Proving that new ideas to enhance backstage communications don’t have to be high tech to be effective, J. R. Clancy is offering new writeable batten end caps, which can help rigging operators identify batten numbers from the deck or the grid.

The Headlite W LED, a 5200 kelvin white LED fixture in an 18-inch by 18-inch size, uses 24 strips, each with six high power Luxeon LEDs, for a total of 144 LEDs per fixture. With a combined output of over 25,000 lumens, the fixture is designed to be used as a “low-wattage blinder and special effects fixture,” according to John Huddleston, general manager of Upstaging Lighting Services. 

Lycian Stage Lighting’s 1233 Mini Arc, designed for schools and small theatres, operates on 110V. Optics include the use of a dichroic glass reflector, and the fixture has a fully closing nichrome iris, dowser, fine focus mechanism, gobo slot and is able to run with no-fan operation. The manual color boomerang has six color rings. The Mini Arc comes with castered base and line cord with connector.

Elation’s Design Wash LED Pro DMX-compatible LED moving head color wash, available for a “street price” of under $3,500, is powered by 108 3-Watt Rebel LEDs (52 red, 22 green, 22 blue and 12 white), which can be blended through additive RGB mixing using a DMX controller for a wide range of colors including pastels and white.

The Martin MAC 301 Wash™ is an LED moving head washlight with zoom. Designed for rental applications, television use and nighttime venues, it provides beam angle control from 13 degrees to 36 degrees, with RGB color mixing through the entire zoom range able to produce a variety of saturated colors and pastels. The fixture has 108 LEDs arrayed in a high-density design for better color blending. The lens system is designed for optimum beam definition. The MAC 301 also includes an electronic 7 color + white color wheel rotation effect with snap, blackout or dimmer fade at each color change. The fixture also offers 0 to 100 percent dimming, strobe effects and 430-degree pan and 300-degree tilt with three-phase stepper motors. Designed for noise-sensitive applications, the fixture also includes an automatic positioning correction system returns the fixture to its original position should it be accidentally knocked out of position. It is DMX-512 controllable and features a variety of stand-alone programming options.

The new Robin 3 Plasma Spot from Robe features a 266-watt LiFi plasma lamp with 18,000 lumens, a color rendering index of 94, a flat field (1:1) and a 10,000 hour lamp life. It has 20 percent to 100 percent dimming and a semi-hot re-strike capability of less than 1/20th of a second for full lamp brightness. It has an optical efficiency of 54 percent and outputs 10,000 lumens. Other features include: RDM, 10°-40° beam angle, electronic auto-ranging power supply, static and rotating gobos, CMY color mixing, color wheel and variable CTO, prism, iris, variable frost, remote focus and Ethernet port.

VXCO Lighting Systems has released version 6.0 of the DMXCreator PC lighting software. The PC-based lighting control system runs on Windows XP or Vista and outputs a DMX512 signal through the printer port (DMXCreator 512MK2) or USB port (DMXCreator 1024, DMXCreator Basic, or DMXCreator Advanced) with a serial- or USB-to-DMX512 interface. The new release allows the output of up to 2048 channels of DMX512, and it also includes new features such as live editing while sequences are playing in the background, LTP support and expanded Matrix functions for LED control. A free trial version can be downloaded from www.dmxcreator.com .