Lanta's managing director, Grant Lester explains why the Fireball PAR64 TRI was chosen by The Gadget Show: "Everyone knows that LED fixtures use a fraction of the power of incandescent bulbs, so choosing this technology was an obvious choice." He continues "Lanta was the perfect partner for the TV show since they needed a large number of reliable units at short notice. Tri-colour, DMX-controlled, Fireballs fitted the bill to a tee."
Nearly a kilometre of data and power cables networked the Lanta Fireballs into a single, computer-controlled grid. At full blast, the entire rig was capable of producing the lighting equivalent of about quarter of a million watts of incandescent illumination, says the company. Fast response times, virtually limitless colours and variable intensities let TV presenter Jason Bradbury play the perennial gaming favourite on the 100ft long gameboard as easily as he would on his iPhone. He watched the huge 10 by 20 playing area from 100ft up in the air, shouting directions to fellow team members Jon Bentley, Ortis Deley, Suzi Perry and Pollyanna Woodward on the ground to operate foot switches that rotated, moved and dropped the familiar Tetris shapes into place.
Guinness World Records confirmed that as the team completed more than five lines in one game, the world record attempt was successful - and they presented the team with their official certificate.
The Lanta Fireball PAR64 Tri features an array of 18 very high output tri-colour LEDs, each drawing only 3W of power. The attractive polished aluminium housing is both lightweight and tough, weighing in at just over two kilos. TV show technicians didn't need to use the included barn doors as maximum light spread was required to illuminate each cell of the Tetris board, but did use the twin yokes as they were perfect for the floor standing set-up.
(Claire Beeson)
