Eaton announces FLX Lighting Console, the newest addition to its Zero 88 product line.
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Power management company Eaton announce the new FLX lighting console as part of its performance lighting controls product line Zero 88.
With the rapid adoption of LED lighting and colour mixing across the industry and the increasing expectations for a more sophisticated lighting experience, creating great lighting designs has never been under more time pressure. The FLX lighting console has been specifically designed to deploy a range of time saving features to meet this challenge.
Utilising an internal 7 inch capacitive touch screen, the console’s comprehensive feature set operates across 2048 channels and 240 playbacks. Programming time is reduced with a simple three-step programming method – what you want, how you want it, where you want it. This releases precious additional time for users to spend on the creative lighting design process.
Fast and easy to learn, FLX is compact, tough and portable and has been developed to be used in a wide range of dynamic lighting applications from touring & live events to TV and theatre, from exterior architectural projects to worship and educational use.
The FLX Lighting Console debuts alongside a range of complementary mobile apps and accessories, at ProLight+Sound exhibition, Frankfurt, Germany 15-18 April 2015.
Eaton’s electrical business is a global leader with expertise in power distribution and circuit protection; backup power protection; control and automation; lighting and security; structural solutions and wiring devices; solutions for harsh and hazardous environments; and engineering services. Eaton is positioned through its global solutions to answer today’s most critical electrical power management challenges.
Eaton is a power management company with 2013 sales of $22.0 billion. Eaton provides energy-efficient solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power more efficiently, safely and sustainably. Eaton has approximately 102,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 175 countries.
Facts about FLX
- FLX creates more time to be imaginative, inventive and efficient
- Its clean, straightforward, intuitive User Interface offers tools like Patch Wizard and Auto Palettes to consolidate all the prep work, leaving LDs, programmers and operators free to work faster and more harmoniously.
- The Simple yet sophisticated philosophy of FLX enables operators of all backgrounds and experience levels to instantly feel comfortable due to familiar industry standard syntax and intuitive fader-per-channel intensity control.
- Straightforward three-step programming – What, How and Where – you want it… streamlines time and the operational process.
- True Colours – Even when working with fixtures that colour mix using different methods, the software does all the clever calculations so all the fixtures respond correctly and accordingly.
- The internal 7” touch screen is used to select and adjust colours in a multitude of time saving ways including additive, subtractive and HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value/Brightness).
- Tools like ‘Mood Boards by LEE Filters’ and cool, multi-touch image capture technology can free up yet more time to create a great show. In often pressured situations – seconds and minutes count!
- FLX offers 2,048 freely assignable control channels with no fixture patch limitations and is supported by 4 rotary encoders, 24 dedicated playback faders (with 10 pages) and 4 UDK’s (User Definable Keys).
- Quality hardware requires clever software … FLX uses “Fe-RAM” (Ferroelectric Random Access Memory) to store every button press in real-time and ensure that every second of the work is saved without any battery backup.
- Additional USB wings – each with 24 more playback faders – can be added via USBs positioned all around the desk – for complete convenience and full flexibility.
- A scratch resistant dual skin constructed metal body encloses the fan-free electronics and ensures that the FLX Lighting Console and Wings can perform in the most demanding environments.
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