USA - Robe’s award-winning iBolt – a bright moving light fixture billed as ‘the first real replacement for conventional high powered xenon searchlights’ – has been approved by authorities for use in the USA and is now available for the North American market.
iBolt utilises a potent laser light source, and is action-packed with Robe innovation as the result of six new patented solutions protecting this technology and ensuring safe operation. The luminaire can produce ‘jaw-dropping, glamorous, high-impact beams and effects for any spectacular, event and occasion – both indoors and outdoors’.
iBolts play a major role in Robe’s Fifth Dimension live expo performance concept and presentation staged at LDI 2024.
The iBolt’s LSW-5 white laser phosphor light source produces potent beams of light for optimum performance and reach. These are combined with the latest Searchlight and Skyflower technologies, plus low power consumption, weight, and a compact size.
iBolt has the same feature set as Robe’s popular MegaPointe, and can be a beam, spot, wash and an effects luminaire for stage and outdoor use.
Front lens precision optics create high-definition beams that are adjustable via a 0.4° - 8.5° zoom; SpektraBeam is an effects engine for producing transformative lighting experiences; and there is a CMY + colour wheel with DataSwatch library that unlocks a near unlimited array of colours.
The complete iBolt effects package includes gobo wheels, patented MLP stackable multi-level prisms, and continuous pan rotation.
iBolts have been in action on some high-profile events this summer, including the European leg of AC/DC’s Power Up tour with lighting created by Terry Cook – lighting designer and partner in Woodroffe Bassett Design – operated on the road by lighting director Charlie ‘Cosmo’ Wilson. Other shows and events brightened by iBolts this summer include celebrating the 2024 South African Presidential Elections, Hungarian National Day and the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
