ADJ Zipper Gives Your Party More Zip

ADJ announces its new Zipper, a four-in-one barrel mirror scanner that combines four separate barrels and four different-colored 8W LEDs. The product lets users generate beam effects that fill the room and cover the dance-floor.

The Zipper has been designed for covering large areas in small venues, such as dance-floors, seating areas and bars, thanks to its four heads and swivel-mirror movement (which has been enhanced by stepper motors with micro-stepping, the company says). Its red, green, blue, and white LEDs bounce off four mirror barrels that swivel back and forth to generate multiple beams that shoot at all angles, from the center outwards, for a distinctive, all-encompassing effect. This can be especially useful to DJs who run larger mobile rigs and want a far-reaching but compact effect to use as a centerpiece, the company says.

The product includes 16 built-in shows. During these shows, the different barrels turn on and off, creating a series of multi-color chase effects. Random slow-to-fast strobe effects can also be added to the mix, for a club-style atmosphere. These in-built modes also lend themselves to the Display Inversion mode, which sees the individual barrels mirror each other's movements to generate a synchronized lightshow.

Users can change the intensity of both the color beams and pulse effects using the 0% -100% dimming, which offers precise control, allowing the Zipper to adapt to any situation or event, the company says.

"The Zipper really is the most exhilarating barrel-mirror scanner around," says Alfred Gonzales, national sales manager for ADJ USA. "With its versatile four-in-one effects, innovative movement and unrivaled portability, mobile DJs and entertainers, small nightclub, bar or lounge managers, and the operators of bowling complexes and entertainment centers can all benefit from adding the Zipper to their arsenal of fixtures. Using the incredible scatter-beam effects, users can leave audiences mesmerized as the Zipper brings new levels of pure lighting excitement to their events."

With the Zipper, users have a choice between three operational modes -- DMX-controlled, Sound Active, and Internal Show -- which can be selected on the unit's four-button digital display. The DMX-Controlled mode offers three channel options (1, 3, and 11), offering users in-depth control.

Users can also opt for the separately-sold UC IR wireless remote, which offers control over Stand-by, Strobing, Sound Active on/off and the selection of Show Modes; designed for DJs and stage performers that want to operate the Zipper from on stage or behind the booth. The remote also enables lighting designers to control the fixture from afar, so they can manipulate the effects as others perform.

The product weighs in at 13lb (4.9kg) and measuring 19" x 10" x 5" (482mm x 254mm x 127mm). The use of multiple Zippers is enabled by the inclusion of 3-pin XLR in/out sockets -- for use in Master/Slave configuration or for DMX control -- and the ability to daisy-chain power via the IEC in/out sockets on the rear of the fixture. Up to ten Zippers can be power-linked at 120V or 18 at 230V.

Check out the product demo video for the Zipper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXVFdDHjzmA