There’s a new Cygnus in town. Wybron is updating the line with the Cygnus 100W Wash. If the production schedule holds true, they should be available late this year, but keep your fingers crossed. Here are the preliminary specs:
Just like its big brother the Cygnus 100W has RGBW LED’s with in-lens color mixing. That means no (or very little) tri-color shadow. The CRI can go as high as 92. Weighing in at 8lb, its a lightweight for the punch. The Cygnus 100W can be hung on 12in centers. It also features the same 5-pin DMX/RDM as the rest of the Wybron family. Input power is rated at 105W peak with an output of 2630 lumens. LED life is rated to 60,000 hours and the units do come with universal power supplies. The Cygnus line also features a front mounting accessory slot for the addition of beam shaping lenses.
All in all the Cygnus 100W looks to be an excellent sibling to the Cygnus 200W and rounds out the family nicely.
Every time I hear about the Wybron Mobile Showroom’s next tour dates, I get Tina Turner’s, Proud Mary song stuck in my head. Just the part, “Big wheel keep on turning, Proud Mary keep on burning, and we’re rolling…”. Crazy right?
Back to the Wybron news… Looks like Wybron’s Mobile Showroom will be rolling into the Pacific Northwest next week starting in San Clara, California and ending in Portland, Oregon. Here is a little more about the Wybron Mobile Showroom.
A custom-built, state-of-the-art enclosure which has become increasingly popular since its inception in October of 2009. The Mobile Showroom presents a survey of Wybron’s stable of products, including the new Cygnus LED Wash Light, in a environment more intimate than a trade show. It provides hands-on demonstration of Wybron offerings and an opportunity for tête-à-tête with lighting professionals, including their local dealers. Most importantly, however, the Mobile Showroom offers education on the general theory behind and mechanics of professional lighting to an audience who may be unfamiliar with either or both.
Here are the tour dates of the Wybron Mobile Showroom for next week:
Is the Mobile Showroom stopping near you? Want to check it out? Contact Dusty Hudgins from Wybron for more information at 719.548.9774. If you cannot make it to see the Mobile Showroom, you can always learn more about Wybron’s offerings by visiting their web site at www.wybron.com.
After it’s first showing at the WFX Show in Charlotte two weeks ago and then again on the Mobile Showroom, Wybron has officially announced the Cygnus 200w LED wash fixture. See our video demo of the Wybron Cygnus here along with some close up photos.
More from the Press Release:
As energy concerns rise, it’s no surprise that LEDs have commanded much of the lighting world’s attention. Unfortunately, many of the fixtures flooding the market provide less than stellar light. Technicians and lighting designers are still in pursuit of that holy grail of LEDs: one that can provide incandescent-quality light while still remaining simple, energy efficient and easy to maintain.
“When we were first investigating the properties of commercially available LED wash fixtures,” says Wybron Director of Technologies John Sondericker III, “it became obvious that the current offerings were poor in both the color rendering and the amount of light these fixtures produced. We surveyed some of the new and emerging LED technologies for what would be a generation ahead of the current offerings.”
Wybron is proud to announce that such new technologies have made possible the Wybron Cygnus 200W Wash, an LED luminaire that quite simply is a generation ahead—and one that is worthy of the Wybron brand and its long history of innovation.
Compact, lightweight and self-contained, Cygnus is the first and only fixture on the market to incorporate red, green, blue and white elements housed in a single LED package. This technological adaptation allows color mixing to occur in the lenses, rather that outside the fixture itself, and also eliminates distracting rainbow shadows produced by most LED fixtures. The addition of a white element to the red, green and blue also means that Cygnus produces dazzling, never-before-seen pastels, each mixed within the lens itself.
Alongside the integrated LED elements comes a better-quality white and terrific color-rendering, which, all said, may help elbow the LED fixture out of the world of rock shows and architectural installments and into the world of professional theatre. “We’ve finally achieved output levels and color rendering quality than allow LED fixtures to become something more than a novel wall wash,” says Sondericker.
Cygnus is also bright, astoundingly so for such a small and efficient fixture—up to five times as bright as comparable LED fixtures on the market. This, and its compact size, means more light in less space, and, ultimately, less money spent on better light. In terms of lumens per dollar, no competing fixture even comes close to Cygnus 200W.
The thought put into the design doesn’t stop with optics, however. Cygnus employs advanced dimming algorithms, which eliminate the stepped dimming common with other LED fixtures. In addition, each Cygnus offers flexible operating modes, such as 8- or 16-bit control, numerous strobe controls and color chases. Intelligent color mixing, using RGBW total power scaling, achieves the highest possible output without overloading elements. All of this translates to true, versatile and simple control, allowing you to do the most with Cygnus.
Attractively designed, Cygnus’ housing is custom-cast and extruded from lightweight aluminum with a durable powder-coat finish. A single-arm yoke allows for versatile mounting, whether in a line or array, affixed to a pipe or floor. In addition, its 60,000-hour lifespan and advanced heat management combine with efficiency to make for a truly “green” fixture whose greenness works with, rather than against, its quality of light.
Control is through standard 5-pin XLR for data, and 5-pin XLR connector output for daisy-chaining units. Cygnus is fully RDM-compatible. Each unit has an integrated 100-240VAC 50-60Hz universal power supply, making it possible to have standalone fixtures.
Accessories for Cygnus 200W will initially initially include beam shaping appliances and optional two-armed yokes. Wybron will be showing Cygnus at LDI beginning November 20 in addition to the Wybron Mobile Showroom.
For more information on the Cygnus, visit Wybron’s website at www.wybron.com or visit them in their booth at the LDI Show, 1181.
We received word from our Washington contact with more information on the Wybron Cygnus LED Wash fixture. Not only did we get more info, but some photos and a nice little video.
The Cygnus is expected to begin to ship late in December or first part of January 2010 with an expected retail price of $2,500 USD. As we mentioned earlier, the Cygnus uses 23 Cree LEDs at 5 watts apiece with an 8 degree lens. In the production model of the Cygnus, there will be an additional channel that will control the color temperature of the White LED while adding the necessary color LEDs on the fixture to mix any where from 3400k to 9000k.
We confirmed that the Cygnus does run off a standard 120v power supply and does not require the 4-pin power supply like most of Wybron’s other products.
More Photos of the Wybron Cygnus from within the Wybron Mobile Showroom
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And a short video featuring Dusty Hudgins from Wybron giving us a brief demo of the Cygnus.
Just as we were heading out to clebrate that it is the weekend on Friday, we recived a email that there is a new Wybron Video on their facebook page. The video is from the PRG booth at the WFX Show in Charlotte North Carolina this past week. The video is only 30 second long and features Martin Cohen and Alan Keen talking about the new Cygnus LED fixture. While testimonials are great, can we see more of the fixture?
We received more photos of the Wybron’s latest fixture, the Cygnus LED 200w Wash fixture. The fixture is being announced today at the WFX Show in Charlotte, NC today. We are expecting Wybron to update their website, www.wybron.com, after the announcement with more details and some more detailed photos of the fixture. But for now, we have a couple more photos of the Cygnus to hold you over.
If you are attending the WFX Show in Charlotte, we would love to hear what you think about the fixture and if possible, more photos would be GREATLY appreciated!
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We received a bit more information from our inside source at Wybron about their plans for tomorrows announcement at the WFX show in Charlotte, NC. Wybron is set to announce their first LED fixture in a new series of fixtures called the Cygnus.
The Cygnus uses 23 Cree homogeneous RGBW LEDs to produce over 4500 lumens of output with only 200 watts of power. The Cygnus has a CRI or Color Rendering of 92 and can produce smooth fading between colors while still being able to perform instant color bumps.
The LEDs have a lamp life of 60,000 hours which are cooled by an advanced heat management system which is super quite. The Cygnus weighs in at just under 15 lbs and runs off an auto sensing 100-240VAC power supply.
The Cygnus also has 5 pin DMX in and out as well as RDM control built in.
Look for more information about the Cygnus on Wybron’s website, www.wybron.com tomorrow after they announce it at the WFX Show.