Robe Lighting Showcases its Latest Moving Light and LED Technologies at LDI2012

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Robe recently introduced several new LED products to the American market that they will share at booth 723 of the LDI2012 exhibition on October 19 - 21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The new products include the Robe Robin DLS Profile, the Robin DLX, the Robin DLF, plus the new Robin MMX WashBeam. Also featured will be Robe's LEDWash and Actor range fixtures and 2012's best-selling LEDBeam 100.

All the new fixtures are based on the smaller, brighter, lighter, and more environmentally sustainable design concept at the core of Robe's product development strategy.

The booth integrates the latest innovations from sister-brand and architectural LED specialist, Anolis, the company says. People can visit the booth to register their interest in products and sign up for demonstrations before going through the back to experience the "Light Lab" area. A lightshow centerpiece created by Peter Moore from Lightspeed Productions will run throughout the day to display the new products. Guests can also meet the national and international sales and technical teams, see the new technologies close up, and have questions answered in detail. A happy hour runs each day for the final hour of the show to capitalize on its status as a networking and social melting pot for industry professionals of all disciplines from multiple sectors.

The latest DL range product from Robe uses the high power RGBW LED module and features an ultra-smooth, fast framing shutter system. Each of the four shutter blades can be individually controlled, positioned, and angled, and the whole module can be rotated. The light engine is fully optimized and completely homogenized, producing no shadows and only completely smooth, high-quality coverage, the company says.

The RGBW LED module creates dynamic colors from the rich saturates to delicate pastels, plus pure whites at preselected color temperatures of 2,700K, 3,200K, 4,200K, 5,600K, and 8,000K. Tungsten emulation means the fixture can be integrated into lighting schemes also using traditional luminaires.

To complement the already comprehensive Robin range is Robe's DLF fresnel wash fixture. This is aimed at concerts, theatre, TV, and all professional markets needing versatile fresnel style lighting. Its unique zoom starts at 5.5 degrees and goes out to 60 degrees with no distortion, and a diffusion filter extends the zoom range further to 75 degrees. It has a fully-controllable four-blade beam shaping module that emulates a barn door. This is rotatable and indexable to plus or minus 90 degrees, and the shaped beam has a soft edge. Due to the very fast blade movement, it can also simulate aerial effects.

The Robin DLX Spot is the world's first RGBW LED Spot moving head, the company says. Smooth color mixing is achieved by using the RGBW LED system; and there is also a virtual color wheel and a series of pre-programmed 'real' whites at 2,700K, 3,200K, 5,600K, and 8,000K degrees. The fixture has moving head spot/profile features such as rotating gobos, iris, 10 - 45 degree zoom, three-facet rotating prism, variable frost, as well as dimming and strobing of the LED light source. It is very quiet in operation, and perfect for theatres and TV studios as well as all other live and installed applications.

Utilizing technologies developed for the Robin MMX Spot, the new MMX WashBeam offers multiple features in one fixture. The Philips Platinum 35 light source combined with the MMX optical system provides an output exceeding most traditional 1,200W products. The internal automated barn door assembly offers individual control of each blade to control the light edge, and the complete assembly rotates through 180 degrees.

Using a different lens, the WashBeam can be switched from a soft edged wash light -- extendable out to 60 degrees -- to a tight collimated 2.5 degree beam effects machine. A six-way rotating gobo wheel is specifically designed for creating powerful mid-air effects and looks. Both options retain the key performance features of the MMX family -- full CMY color mixing, saturated color wheel, variable CTO and remote hot spot control, and motorized zoom and focus.