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LDI 2010 - Friday - Tech Breakfast!
Here's the rundown on new tech from the tech breakfast at LDI. No pics, b/c I was tied to the keyboard typing furiously... :-)
New Tech Breakfast
Birket
-14W LED strobe/wash. “Firecube.” Now without a controller—dipswitches on back.
Doug Fleenor Designs
LED Color Wheel Controller. Multi-color LED wall switch controller. Looks like a circular dimmer switch. Punch it once, controls level. Push it again, can control levels of different LED colors—RGB, RGBA, RGBW. 3, 4, and 5 channels of control.
Dimmer Pack – very density dimmer pack. 24 channels in 1RU. NEMA plug, b/c grounding in unit itself. Only residential two-prong plugs then. ¾” spacing. 100W/channel, 2400W per unit. Intended for non-incandescent loads.
City Theatrical
25th Anniversary next year.
Lightwright now fully bi-directional with Vectorworks.
New product is PDS-750 to give power and control to any Philips Color Kinetics units.
12 and 6 channel supply.
PRG
OHM Light. LED Spacelight for “Critical Lighting applications.” B’cast, TV, film, live events. Using Gekko kleer colour tech – 3200K. “great color rendering”
Designed to replace tungsten space lgithing. Wants highly accurate color temp and resembles form factor of space lighting. Dimming on board. DMX remote control. 2900-6500k color adjustable. CRI greater than 92 at 3200k. 80% less power and heat than conventionals, which means less cost in power and AC. Demo in room n113.
I luminate
First year at LDI. Wireless lighting up dancers and moving set pieces, as well as control and diagnostics. “EL Wire” project. Now moving into LED. 12 channels per device. Showing on dancers at booth, demo’ed on the back of a guy’s jacket—turn around and then LED strips on clothes, set to a Chicago song. Kinda cheesy, but GREAT photo bait. Stuck behind a keyboard. =(
Lex Products
Slim Dimmer Plus. Simple lighting product-just one dimmer. Compact, durable 1.8kW dimmer in rugged pack with DMX and manual control. Fader on front, 18” pigtail.
Custom Legend Printing -- Print your name or message on entire length of custom-made Ever-Grip cable. 50 characters, 1/8” bold type every 2 feet. Releasing a new ever grip molded motor cable, extra rugged to ensure mission critical cables don’t fail.
Apollo
Mini LED Zoom w/ partners at Spotlight. 100Watts, RGBW, DMX color temp, and of course, zoom lens. Great video from Blue Pony! I’ll see if I can’t get it.
New Tech Breakfast
Birket
-14W LED strobe/wash. “Firecube.” Now without a controller—dipswitches on back.
Doug Fleenor Designs
LED Color Wheel Controller. Multi-color LED wall switch controller. Looks like a circular dimmer switch. Punch it once, controls level. Push it again, can control levels of different LED colors—RGB, RGBA, RGBW. 3, 4, and 5 channels of control.
Dimmer Pack – very density dimmer pack. 24 channels in 1RU. NEMA plug, b/c grounding in unit itself. Only residential two-prong plugs then. ¾” spacing. 100W/channel, 2400W per unit. Intended for non-incandescent loads.
City Theatrical
25th Anniversary next year.
Lightwright now fully bi-directional with Vectorworks.
New product is PDS-750 to give power and control to any Philips Color Kinetics units.
12 and 6 channel supply.
PRG
OHM Light. LED Spacelight for “Critical Lighting applications.” B’cast, TV, film, live events. Using Gekko kleer colour tech – 3200K. “great color rendering”
Designed to replace tungsten space lgithing. Wants highly accurate color temp and resembles form factor of space lighting. Dimming on board. DMX remote control. 2900-6500k color adjustable. CRI greater than 92 at 3200k. 80% less power and heat than conventionals, which means less cost in power and AC. Demo in room n113.
I luminate
First year at LDI. Wireless lighting up dancers and moving set pieces, as well as control and diagnostics. “EL Wire” project. Now moving into LED. 12 channels per device. Showing on dancers at booth, demo’ed on the back of a guy’s jacket—turn around and then LED strips on clothes, set to a Chicago song. Kinda cheesy, but GREAT photo bait. Stuck behind a keyboard. =(
Lex Products
Slim Dimmer Plus. Simple lighting product-just one dimmer. Compact, durable 1.8kW dimmer in rugged pack with DMX and manual control. Fader on front, 18” pigtail.
Custom Legend Printing -- Print your name or message on entire length of custom-made Ever-Grip cable. 50 characters, 1/8” bold type every 2 feet. Releasing a new ever grip molded motor cable, extra rugged to ensure mission critical cables don’t fail.
Apollo
Mini LED Zoom w/ partners at Spotlight. 100Watts, RGBW, DMX color temp, and of course, zoom lens. Great video from Blue Pony! I’ll see if I can’t get it.
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This really seems to be the year that everyone is debuting LED fixtures designed to actually work as luminaires in theatre and practical applications. They’re not just for specials and washes anymore—or at least that’s what the manufacturers seem to be saying…
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The Black Tank
New company.
Brickblaster. 1200 lumens in 4 inches cubed. Gangable, can group togethers. . Showing a video. I’ll have to see about that, too. LCD display on back, powercon input. Independent tilt and focus if ganged, three different diffusing angles 20-60 degrees. Available in RGBW, field-changeable LED panels, so can change whenver you want.
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PRG
Bad Boy CMY. New fixture. Standard unit uses 4 individual color wheels. CMY – traditional CMY mixing system. 1400 W lampt, 48,000 lumens. 7 – 56 degree zoom. 7 position color wheel. 14 rotating gobos. Frost. 270 degree tilt, 540 degree pan. It’s also 176 pounds. =)
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Prism Projection
Last year they revealed the Reveal CW. This year is the Reveal Studio. Color sensor in each light which checks color. 5 year warranty that includes color output. Fresnel-inspired. Optimized for white – 3200. 250 W max, can run off DC. Firing up a unit Variable CCT.
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Robert Juliat
Aledin – LED profile. LED engine to their traditional ellipsoidal. 3500k, 5800k. Flat field of lighting. Gobo slots. Simple, traditional light. Very bright.
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PRG
V476 Lighting control console. Inspired by V676. Clear graphics. Mac Mini is its engine. Small footprint.
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Wireless Solutions
Thick accent, talking about new versions of their wireless W-DMX products. Range finding, frequency finding, etc. No PC software to change between modes. Standard dual-band. 64 universes of DMX.
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BCI
Pocket Console – dmx NETport. This time they promise it really works on the iPhone. 36 channels in 6 screens. Reset function so that it holds state if interrupted by a phone call. Even did a live demo to prove it really, really works.
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Midiator
Intro’ing ne product here. (Didn’t debut at PLASA.) Visual and Live show control product: Vision Pro. Can be controlled through other lighting consoles, and you can control other media consoles. They don’t do processing, they control other people’s processing. “Extreme connectivity.” “We control everything.” Full visual feedback.
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LightConverse
LightConverse 3D show platform. “Photo-realistic real-time 3D” pre-viz app. 25-60 frames/second. Hog 3 bi-directional capability. 3D mapping in this version, can map curve onto non-traidtional object/shape. Can accept video from any media server to set that up. This one went REALLY fast. I’ll try and get more info.
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CAST Software
Black Trax. Tracking software. Tracking real-time motion of objects in relationship to each other in 3 dimensional space – within ½” of resolution. Follow performes no matter what they do, without pre-cueing. Can interact with people and audiences a lot better. Vision based tracking system. Looks for infra-red LEDs. If LED’s covered, can track via inertia. Wow. Looks pretty cool, will look for more, later.
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German Lighting Products
Impression Spot 1 – “worlds first RGB light engine profile.” 700W output.
Meisterstuck – RGB+W LED light engine. 9-39 degree zoom. Fresnel-style.
Volks-Licht Z – small fixture, RGB. Now with zoom capability.
Also sell G-LEc products.
Solaris – strands with LED cubes – LED pixels, essentially. Can use in curtains, etc.
Phantom 15 – 15 mm pitch LED video panels.
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