Lightfactor at PLASA 04

LDRs Express Scrollers 12.

Photo: courtesy of Lightfactor.

Lighting Product News Published: 27 August 2004
Lightfactor is UK distributor for SGM, LDR, Xilver, VXCO, EKS, Apogee Sound, LightProcessor, Parsafe 2 and many other quality professional sound and lighting brands.

Several exciting new products from each of these manufacturers will be demonstrated on Lightfactor’s action-packed stand:

• SGM’s new Giotto Spot 400 CYM moving light, PALCO LED fixtures and X-LINE IDEA series of moving lights.
• From Xilver, Lightfactor highlights the new Sparkle XL and Rain Drop LED fixtures
• LDR launches its Express Scroller range
• Apogee Sound shows its complete AFI Installation Series range of speakers, plus amplifiers and their latest digital processors
• VXCO’s latest DMX Creator PC-based lighting control software is demonstrated

SGM at Lightfactor
New: SGM Giotto 400 CYM
SGM completes its Giotto series with the addition of the Giotto Spot 400 CYM
This is a brand new moving head projector for use in high-profile entertainment applications - concerts, theatres and television studios.

Giotto Spot 400 CMY offers the most advanced features in its class, including 400W hot re-strike MSR lamp, 11°-22° motorized zoom, advanced CMY colour generation system + 1 colour wheel with 6 colours and white, 2 rotating indexable gobo wheels and 1 animation wheel, linear iris, linear frost, linear CTO filter, 1 rotating prism, electronic ballast, absolute silent operation and cooling.

Giotto Spot 400 CMY is fitted with a 400W discharge lamp. The electronic ballast (90-245V / 50/60Hz) ensures bright flicker-free light. The motorized 9°- 27° zoom gives beam angles otherwise only obtainable with more expensive fixtures.

This completes the Giotto family. The range now includes a Spot, a Profile with framing shutters and a Wash with zoom

New: SGM X-LINE IDEA Series
SGM launches its X-LINE IDEA, a new series of moving lights, featuring 250 and 575 units in Spot & Wash variations. These are exceptionally competitively priced and aimed at entry level touring and club applications.

The IDEA Series currently features four reliable and stylish models, fitted with either 250W or 575W discharge lamps: IDEA Spot 250, IDEA Wash 250, IDEA Spot 575 and IDEA Wash 575.
New: SGM PALCO
This is an LED colour-changer for indoor and outdoor use (IP65 rated) utilising new technology, and featuring stylish design to help blend harmoniously into surrounding architecture. The fixture 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.
SGM Lighting Desks

A selected range of SGM’s ‘Studio’, ‘Regia’ and ‘Flight’ 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.

LDR at Lightfactor
Italian theatrical lighting manufacturer LDR launches several new products at the show

New: Express Scrollers
A full range of LDR-branded plates cables and filter strings available. There are two PDUs available to power the units - an 8 way, and a "Mini" PDU to power 1 or 2 units.

New: LDR Architectural Range
LDR’s expanding architectural range includes a new Rima 150W Discharge fitting with electronic ballast, available in both asymmetrical and symmetrical versions. Also a complete range of PC's has been added, including both a 70W and 150W in the Soffio range and a 250W Suono. The new units will also be available in black, white & silver as standard.

A Full Range of accessories for the Architectural fittings is being launched, including new mounting brackets, spigots, etc., to complement the use of LDR’s architectural fittings.

Xilver at Lightfactor
Lightfactor highlights the new Sparkle XL and Rain Drop LED fixtures.

The Sparkle is an RGB colour mixing system. The new Sparkle XL incorporates Xilver’s patented homogenous colour mixing system, which mixes the colours inside the unit, reducing colour fragmentation in the beam path. This gives an extremely even beam and colour field. Sparkle XL’s light output is equivalent to that of a PAR 56 sized fixture.

The unit is available with 3 lens options - 8, 22 & 40 degrees. It’s a self-contained unit with DMX & power straight in, and is ideal for museums, heritage, architectural and retail applications, as well as more traditional uses like conferences and corporate events.

‘Droplet’ LED moving light
Lightfactor showcases Xilver’s amazing Droplet, a small, bright moving light with a new-technology LED lightsource. Available in identical looking moving and static versions, Droplet is housed in a plastic casing that can be painted to stand out or blend in with the surroundings.
Droplet is an entirely new concept - an automated luminaire using the latest high power LED technology, packaged in the most compact design yet seen in entertainment, display or architectural lighting.

The fixture has full control of position, movement, effects and colour selection, and the high power LED's make it easy to create fluent and fast colour changes.

A homogenous coloured beam with an angle of 10 degrees is standard, with 8 or 40 degree lenses also supplied.

Droplet measures just 130 mm in diameter and 185 mm in height, and weighs a mere 1.5kgs.

New technologies together with design quality and integration make the Droplet (TM) a totally unique product, which can be used for a wide range of applications and will open a new dimension in lighting.

Apogee at Lightfactor
Apogee manufactures an extensive range of high quality pro audio equipment for which Lightfactor is a UK distributor.

Featured on Lightfactor’s PLASA stand will be Apogee’s AFI series of installation speakers, highly affordable and featuring high power output, distinctive, modern appearance, versatile rigging and the characteristic warm Hi-Fi sound that makes Apogee products unique.

Lightfactor also shows the latest Apogee amplifiers and digital processing products.

VXCO at Lightfactor
New from VXCO is the latest release of their DMX Creator PC-based lighting controller.
Products being demonstrated include DMXCreator512Basic, the world's first direct USB to DMX512 cable, complete with all necessary electronics built into the XLR plug.
The DMXCreator512MK2 is a DMX512 interface with an 8,000 Scene onboard memory, and Stand-Alone mode. The Stand Alone mode is ideal for clubs, exhibitions, displays and architectural lighting applications. Shows can be downloaded directly from the PC-software into the interface’s flash memory, which can save up to 40 sequences including a total of 8,000 scenes.
The DMXCreator1024 provides 1024 output channels, 512 input channels and is suitable for applications needing more powerful and complex control.

LightProcessor at Lightfactor
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 04 also sees new models in the LightProcessor Dimension range of installation dimmers.

New: The Light Processor Dimension 1210 is a wall mounted dimmer and is the latest addition to the Light Processor installation dimmers. Keenly priced, it’s available as DMX or DMX with onboard memory.

New: LightProcessor Dimension 12 Channel Rack mounted dimmer: This is a fully featured touring dimmer at a great price.

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