"When we were first investigating the properties of commercially available LED wash fixtures," says Wybron director of technologies John Sondericker III, "it became obvious that the current offerings were poor in both the color rendering and the amount of light these fixtures produced. We surveyed some of the new and emerging LED technologies for what would be a generation ahead of the current offerings."
Wybron says that such new technologies have made possible the Wybron Cygnus 200W Wash, an LED luminaire . Cygnus is the first fixture on the market to incorporate red, green, blue and white elements housed in a single LED package. This technological adaptation allows colour mixing to occur in the lenses, rather that outside the fixture itself, and also eliminates distracting rainbow shadows produced by most LED fixtures. The addition of a white element to the red, green and blue also means that Cygnus produces dazzling, never-before-seen pastels, each mixed within the lens itself.
"We've finally achieved output levels and colour rendering quality than allow LED fixtures to become something more than a novel wall wash," says Sondericker.
Cygnus employs advanced dimming algorithms, which eliminate the stepped dimming common with other LED fixtures. In addition, each Cygnus offers flexible operating modes, such as 8- or 16-bit control, numerous strobe controls and colour chases. Intelligent colour mixing, using RGBW total power scaling, achieves the highest possible output without overloading elements.
Cygnus' housing is custom-cast and extruded from lightweight aluminium with a durable powder-coat finish. A single-arm yoke allows for versatile mounting, whether in a line or array, affixed to a pipe or floor. In addition, its 60,000-hour lifespan and advanced heat management combine with efficiency to make for a truly "green" fixture whose greenness works with, rather than against, its quality of light.
Control is through standard five-pin XLR for data, and five-pin XLR connector output for daisy-chaining units. Cygnus is fully RDM-compatible. Each unit has an integrated 100-240VAC 50-60Hz universal power supply, making it possible to have standalone fixtures.
(Jim Evans)
