Monday, August 28, 2023
New Elation Proteus™, Fuze™ and KL™ to show at PLASA 2023
LightSoundJournal.com: Elation is excited to present an exceptional line-up of new lighting tools September 3-5 at the PLASA tradeshow at Olympia in West London. Discover how Elation continues to push the boundaries of possibility in the world of entertainment lighting. Visitors to Elation Stand D50 will be some of the first in the UK to see the latest cutting-edge luminaires in the company’s Proteus™, Fuze™ and KL™ lines, along with other innovative lighting solutions designed to elevate the live entertainment experience.
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This article details the new fixtures which Elation is showing off at this years PLASA
convention. The fixtures that interested my the most in this article were the Fuse Teatro, the KL Profile FX and the KL Spot IP. The Fuze Teatro represents an entry into the theatrical market which is silent. Normally I think of Elation as a brand making fixtures for the concert and event market where sound is not critical but this feature could be very helpful for environments which care about noise such as intimate theaters and music venues.
Something else interesting about these fixtures is their colormixing RGBMA led array. I did not know what M referred to in an array and I did some research to find out that it was Mint. While this array still does not compare to something like the source 4 LED series 3, it shows an advancement in Elation’s technology.
The final thing I found interesting was the comparison between the KL Profile FC and the KL Spot Ip. The biggest difference was that the Spot IP is IP65 rated and has automated gobos, zoom, animation, iris, and shutters. I have not seen very many fixtures with that many automated beam effects but not on a moving yoke. I have generally assumed that once you have the added complexity of all of the internal beam effects, the pan and yoke is not particularly complicated to add. Clearly Elation thinks that there is a place for this fixture. Finally, I noted that the more complicated fixture is the one that is IP rated, but my assumption is that an IP rating is possible due to not having to have external controls for shutter and zoom.
I worked with the Elation Proteus line this summer as I worked at an outdoor theatre that was maybe 3 feet from the ocean. I had previously never worked with IP rated fixtures which was certainly very interesting to me as well as a little bit of an adjustment. They for the most part worked well, I thought that the intensity of their beams from such a long distance was very impressive. However we did have to enact quite a few global resets for these movers over the length of the summer. That may have just been a result of the long run or the circumstances in the environment that we could not control but it still remained a possibility until strike. However despite these problems I would love to see the updates in this line of fixtures and the other fixtures that were created in proximity to these movers.
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