Chauvet Unveils Led Beam Effects
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Tuesday, 06 March 2007 07:46 |
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While others mainly look to LED technology
just for color washing, CHAUVET engineers have kept busy developing spectacular
projection and mid-air effects as well. The result is the VUETM, a groundbreaking line of highly portable,
DMX-controllable LED-fitted beam effects.
CHAUVET designers conceived a special Fresnel style
lens that condenses the light from each LED in the array and then projects it
in the form of individual light beams and spots, similarly to a standard
moonflower but with more control. Hence you get LED-induced, color-saturated,
room filling beams cutting sharply through the fog in ways never seen before. The units are extremely lightweight and feature wide beam
angles so set up is a snap and you need to carry even fewer lights to fill your
venue. All are DMX-controllable or will operate in stand-alone mode. The low
power consumption of these fixtures makes it a snap to run multiple units on a
single circuit. And as with all LEDs, overheating is not a concern. You don't have to break a sweat to run your
lights all night. Nor do you need to think about changing bulbs anytime soon:
the average life of these LEDs is 100,000 hours.
The VueTM I is the smallest and lightest in the series, weighing less than 4
lbs. The VueTM I is fitted with 84 red, green and blue LEDs, each creating their
own beam. It is a go-anywhere light, sure to become a mainstay on any portable
lighting rig You can also link it with the VueTM II, a bigger version, featuring
more LEDs and a larger frontal lens, which in itself creates a unique,
eye-catching effect. The VUETM II is fitted with 183 LEDs (60 red, 36 green, and
66 blue and has linkable power. The VueTM III has 7 individually controllable
clusters of 67 LEDs, for a total of 469 LEDs, each projecting an individual
beam (280 red, 63 green, 126 blue). As
with the VueTM II, you can daisy chain power and cut back on the number of
outlets and power strips used.
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