PixelRange Take Intelligence To PLASA’s Shoot Out

The company will also showcase its new SmartRange of Intelligent LED fixtures at the STLD-hosted LED Shoot Out which is a central and unique feature of this year’s PLASA Show (11th-14th September 2011 – Earls Court, London)

The Society of Television Lighting Designers (STLD) has arranged a 240 square metre space where LED lighting fixtures can be directly compared across three different areas.

The first lighting shootout area features a specially built 8 metre-wide cyclorama, the second a practical hands-on 'mini TV studio', and the third section is a lecture and presentation theatre where LED fixtures from different categories are compared side-by-side with their traditional Tungsten or Discharge equivalent.

PixelRange will demonstrate three newly released lighting fixtures: QPar, PixelSmart and SmartLine 6.

QPar Follows hard in the footsteps of the ubiquitous PixelRange PixelPar – the lighting designer’s favourite. A fully-programmable, plug and play, high powered colour-mixing LED wash fixture, QPar takes the integrity of PixelPar to a new level of power and performance.

QPar features 12 high-intensity, QUAD colour, RGBW CREE LED's ensuring exceptional colour as well as colour-washing capabilities with a completely homogenised light source. Accessing a vast colour spectrum, QPar creates pretty pastels or deep saturated hues. QPar features a 10° beam angle as standard via a toughened glass front lens though further light-shaping diffusing lenses are available to provide variation. A choice of dimming curves includes tungsten, television and fine.

PixelSmart was the first product from PixelRange that pioneered a new wave in intelligent lighting. Not only is PixelSmart a veritable workhorse fixture able to light at 15-degrees, as a wash or a par can, it’s also a dark horse, offering eye candy in abundance.

The unit comprises 13 CREE XPG warm white LED's alongside 12 CREE MCE Quad LED's RGBW to give the advantage not only of a vast spectrum colour palette – with a huge choice of both vivid saturates and subtle pastel colours – but uniquely, a choice of whites: Brilliantly cool (XPE) white or golden warm (XPG) white.

PixelSmart’s LED configuration gives a total of 61 channels and each one is individually addressable. So each colour of each LED can be controlled in any combination at a given time. PixelSmart also features 40 internal chase effects programmable in 2 channels.

The newest addition to the range and measuring a slender 6ft by 50mm, the SmartLine 6 LED wash fixture assures instantaneous colour mixing across its length, via the 36 individually addressable, CREE MCE high intensity QUAD LEDs. SmartLine, which can be stacked either horizontally or vertically with no change to the pitch of the LEDs, is fitted with a 20 degree beam angle as standard, though other light-shaping diffusing lenses are available to vary the output beam.