Barco/High End Systems announced that it is now shipping the intellaspot XT-1, an innovative, full-featured hard-edged moving yoke light offering a new benchmark in a price/performance ratio. The intellaspot XT-1 features remarkable innovations in optics, lamp configuration, high lumen output, energy efficiency, zoom range and more for a highly economical price.
The intellaspot XT-1 features a powerful optical system, producing an extreme 20,000 lumens output from the 850w HID lamp, while also providing clear projections with a large zoom range of 11°- 55°. It features a fast mechanical iris, variable soft edge, and electronic strobing, in addition to smooth CMY colour mixing and variable CTO. A fixed colour wheel allows instant colour choices via easily exchangeable dichroic filters. Two rotating Lithopattern wheels, each with seven patterns plus open, provide a large number of output patterns and images. The output can be further enhanced with a rotating prism and an animation wheel.
Built on an entirely new platform, the intellaspot XT-1 is an exceptionally energy-efficient fixture that conforms to modern “greening” principles. A battery-controlled full colour LCD menu system enables fixture addressing without having to power up the unit. Low ambient noise, Remote Device Management (RDM), Art-Net, and wireless DMX capabilities make the intellaspot XT-1 the professional choice for a wide variety of applications.
Since June, the intellaspot XT-1 has been demonstrated around the world, receiving rave reviews from some of the industry’s most well-known lighting designers who have applauded the benefits of the product. Marty Postma, Lighting and Video Designer for Alice in Chains, commented: “The intellaspot XT-1 is amazing…the fixture is stunning! I would encourage everyone to take a serious look at it ASAP!
Jon Griffin, Lighting Designer at Saddleback Valley Community Church commented: “This thing is a cannon for 850w! CMY mixing is fast, colour wheel is frameless so the split colours are extremely clean. Electronic strobe is very fast. Very smooth zoom (5 to 1), focus and iris…very quiet and very maintenance friendly. All components are modular for easy removal, reflector replacement was a two-minute job! I’d love to have a dozen right now.”
Uri Rapaport, Lighting Designer at Rapatech Lighting Design in Utrecht, the Netherlands, commented: “This fixture is incredibly powerful…the best optical zoom system without any ‘diffusion’ light, beautiful CMY colour mixing and on top of that, very good stepless-CTO mixing gives the possibility to create any colour I want. The speed of the CMY colourflags is extraordinary, and because of the frameless colour wheel, the split colours are clean. Using these together with the 3D gobos provides a huge variety of results.”
Lighting and production designer, Rolf Wenzel of chaoscenter in Germany, commented: “The intellaspot XT-1 looks to me like a really strong moving spot in the 1200+ Watts class, with all the features I’d expect. The large zoom range, the fast colour mix, the fast dimmer and the different strobe possibilities would give me a new tool in the basic spot segment. The different gobo and animation arrangements complete the features we all would ask for. And I think it’s the right step into the future of our environment to develop a spotlight in this class with a power footprint of a much smaller moving light. Me like intellaspot XT-1!”
“The intellaspot XT-1 enables our customers in the mid-market to enjoy the power and functionality of our high end lighting products at a price they can afford. In an effort to extend our most popular product lines to a wider audience, we’ve combined the high lumen output of our brightest luminaires with the versatility of our industry-leading creative lighting fixtures to produce a powerful, yet cost-effective package,” commented Chris Colpaert, VP of Creative Lighting for Barco.
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