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NAB2010 – Zylight Introduces Active Diffusion LCD Panel

One of the neatest things that I saw at NAB last week had to be the Active Diffusion from Zylight.  You can dial in any amount of diffusion with the Active Diffusion to soften your low heat lights, such as an LED or Fluorescent light fixture. The Active Diffusion uses Liquid Crystals or LCD screen [...]

Lex Products Offers Custom Cable Labels

How many times has it happened to you, you can’t tell which cables are yours because cables just all look alike?  Lex Products now offers standard cable labels using new permanently self-laminating, weatherproof, durable vinyl labels which are wrapped around the cable. These rugged labels are then covered with the clear heat shrink that is [...]

Review: Concert Lighting, Third Edition

A while back, Focal Press announced one of their latest books, Concert Lighting, Third Edition: Techniques, Art & Business by James L. Moody. I was fortunate enough to receive a copy from the publisher to write a review of the book.  It has taken some time for me to read through the book.  Not because [...]

Review: Lex Products Slim Dimmer

Back in October, I mentioned that Lex Products announced and released a new portable dimmer, the 1.8kw Slim Dimmer. I recently had a chance to do a review of the Slim Dimmer. But before I get into the meat of the review, lets take a look at some of the details and specifications of the [...]

ETC Introduces SmartBar 2

Back during LDI 2009, ETC, (Electronic Theatre Controls) demonstrated their update to the SmartBar series of portable dimmers, the SmartBar 2.  I don’t know how I missed it at the show, but I did. No worries though, more from ETC on the SmartBar 2. The SmartBar 2 provides an integrated dimming and fixture-mounting solution for [...]

Chromlech JARAG PAR 30

At the end of 2009, I called on the lighting community to choose their pick for the most innovative lighting product introduced that year.  Something that I have personally never heard of was mentioned over at ControlBooth.com, the JARAG 30. ControlBooth user, Jereon mentioned a French Company, Chromlech and their Par30 fixture, the JARAG 30. [...]

TourTek Truss Management System

Back at LDI 2009, I got a chance to see some great new products, one of which is the Truss management System from TourTek.  If you have ever ran cables over truss, you know how much “fun” it can be.  Not only do you have to make sure that you fan outs are at the [...]

Dr. DMX Develops Green Dimmers

Leave it to the good doctor, Doctor DMX, aka Doug Fleenor Designs, (DFD) to develop a new and interesting product for LDI this year.  We all know that Doug Fleenor Design comes out with some pretty remarkable DMX products like the DMX/RDM Coffee Pot and  the DMX-a-Sketch at past LDI’s.  This year was no let [...]

Swisson to Announce New Sine Wave Dimmer

Swisson is preparing to announce a couple of new products at the LDI Show tomorrow. The first being the XSD-D Satellite Sine Wave Dimmer pictured right. The XSD is a pretty flexible device as is can be operated as a dimmer, switch or a fixed stabilized voltage source. The XSD is extremely quiet, currently used [...]

Ocean Optics Jaz Light Meter

While doing some research on the internet, we came across an interesting tool from Ocean Optics, the parent company for the SeaChanger color engine, called the Jaz Light Meter. What is neat about the Jaz that is that is a small light weight meter with a lot of features built in. Such as the ability [...]

ADB Lighting Introduces MIKAPACK Dimmers

ADB Lighting Technologies out of Zaventem Belgium just introduced a new entry level dimmer pack, the MIKAPACK Dimmer line up.  The MIKAPACK line of dimmers is designed for entry levelmarkets where flexibility and increased programming functionality is still required. MIKAPACK 15 is a 6 Channel compact portable dimmer built in a 19” rack only 2 [...]

LEX Products Releases Slim Dimmers

A couple of months ago we mentioned that Lex Products was developing a in-line dimmer called the Slim Dimmer.  From the looks of Lex Products latest Press Release, they have gotten the Slim Dimmer UL listed, set for mass production and release to the public. The Slim Dimmer is an 1800 Watt, 95 – 130VAC [...]