Robe at PLASA London 2013

	Robe Robin Cyclone

Robe lighting is showcasing nine new products on stand L80 in Hall 5 at the PLASA London show at ExCeL London, October 6 - 9, 2013.

Products will include all those launched at Prolight+Sound, Frankfurt in April -- The Pointe, MiniMe, CycFx 8, Cyclone, and MMX Blade -- highlighting some brand new concepts and all embracing Robe's "smaller-lighter-brighter" and more eco-friendly philosophies.

Newly launched at the PLASA show will be the Parfect, a tough PAR-can styled plastic housing featuring Robe's LEDBeam 100 lightsource.

The Robe Parfect, is an LED source ACL beam at an affordable price that is made in Europe. This unit is a static version of the successful LedBeam 100 and retains all the key features of this, including both CMY and RGBW color control, tungsten emulation, zone effects, selectable and variable color temperatures, and a powerful 7-degree beam.

The compact, lightweight moulded-composite unit comes complete with a combined hanging bracket / floor stand. Wireless DMX, clip-on diffusion filters, and detachable barn-doors, are available as extras.

In five months, the company says The Pointe has become Robe's fastest selling fixture ever -- with over 10,000 orders placed to date. The Pointe is a small, bright, and fast multi-purpose moving light unit, with an intense and sharp parallel beam and a host of features making it a truly unique and versatile lightsource. These include a 5- to 20-degree zoom with full focus control, variable frost, two separate prism effects, a rotating and a static gobo wheel, and built-in color wheel.

The lightsource is the Osram Sirius HRI 280W discharge lamp, with a compact arc gap.

The Pointe offers additional creative features like linear and circular rotating prisms, rotating and static gobo wheels ... all of which, the company says, set it apart from anything else available on the market.

A custom developed homogenizer works with the rotating gobos to spread the light evenly and achieve optimum projection quality. A variable frost effect instantly transforms the output into that of an efficient wash light. The Pointe weighs just 15.2Kgs.

Ideal for bar, club, restaurant, and retail lighting, the Robin MiniMe is an effects lighting luminaire with the addition of full video output. This small, fast-moving fixture is LED driven with a 20,000hour lifetime lightsource.

Colors, gobos, and beam shapes are all digitally generated by the on-board micro media server. Custom artwork, still photographs, and video can also be simply uploaded for projection, while live video can be streamed through the HDMI input.

The Robin MMX Blade is a bright 1200-series equivalent lightsource utilizing Robe's MMX optical technology, complete with a framing shutter system comprising four fast "blades" that can be individually positioned and angled plus or minus 45-degrees, with the whole Blade module capable of plus / minus 90-degree rotation.

This allows precise shaping and fine-spotting of specific areas on a stage, set, or performer, a crucial feature for all types of theatre and television productions. The Blade system can also produce aerial effects by being programmed into quick-movement chases and sequences.

An animation wheel enables the projection of dramatic fire, water, flame, and other theatrical / environmental effects. It also has further Robin technology features like hot-spot control, rotating gobos, CMY color mixing, variable CTO, iris, rotating prism, etc.

The Robin CycFX 8 is a one-meter linear strip that can be tilted 270-degree featuring an array of high powered RGBW LEDs for fabulously smooth color mixing, with a zoom option that opens the spread out from 8-degrees to 67-degrees.

The motorized tilt movement allows the creation of "wave" effects along a line of fixtures. Individual control of each LED makes the fixture map-able, and enables multiple CycFX 8s to be built into a variety of matrix designs. The unit is supplied with many inbuilt pixel effects and pre-programmed sequences.

Pre-selected color macros also help to make it an exceptionally quick and easy unit to set up and integrate into any lightshow. Integrated tungsten whites are set at 2,700K and 3,200K and the CycFX 8 comes complete with Robe's popular tungsten emulation, including theatrical grade dimming and red-shift effect. Wireless control is an optional accessory.

The Robin Cyclone is an effects moving head product with an integrated fan in the center surrounded by a ring of 24 RGBW multichip LEDs. There is a zoom of 8- to 63-degrees on the LEDs .. and a strong central airflow that can be combined with fog and haze to assist with creating the best quality atmospheric effects. The vari-speed fan can be independently DMX controlled, starting from a very low RPM and is a perfect complement to fog and hazers in any live environment -- from clubs to concerts -- needing strategic hazing, from a mere wisp of smoke to full-on immersive low cloud coverage.

Each LED is individually controlled and can be pixel mapped for the creation of eye-catching color, rainbow, strobe, etc. effects. The Cyclone is perfect for lighting and cooling performers from a footlights position where it can also produce dramatic "hair-blowing" and "smoke-through-the-fan" effects.

The unit benefits from many features from Robe's LEDWash series.

Robe has a new booth again this year. Robe is again a platinum sponsor of the PLASA London show, which brings additional benefits to guests including the Robe Fast Track Entrance and a chance to win one of 12 Apple iPad Mini tablets by completing your PLASA visitor registration through Robe.

The iPad Mini competition will take place on the first three days of the show. The winners' names will be selected from a lucky draw on the booth each day during happy hour, between 5 - 6pm.

Sister architectural LED brand Anolis will be on an adjacent stand, and all of Robe's International team will join the Robe UK crew to ensure the very personal, friendly, and multi-lingual service for which Robe is renowned.