What would you call this style fixture?

[len]

I have usually referred to this style of fixture as a batten

http://www.agiprodj.com/elation-cue...b-cob-led-strip-light-with-pixel-control.html.

What would you call it if not that?

 

[techieman33]

I would call it a strip light.

 

[SteveB]

Striplight

 

[ElGusto]

Strip light. I have also seen them referred to as border lights.

 

[gafftaper]

I call it a strip but know others call it a border. A Batten is the pipe it hangs on.

 

[derekleffew]

A Batten is the pipe it hangs on.

Unless it hangs from a truss or is floor mounted! Gee gaff, don't be so gosh-dang pedantic. PixelRange was one of the first major manufacturers and called their long units LED battens. Technically, batten is probably more correct than striplight or borderlight.

 

[BillConnerFASTC]

I guess no one calls them xrays any longer........

 

[rbalewski]

I've always called them border strips. I do remember hearing them called x-rays a couple times, though.

 

[gafftapegreenia]

I'd call them battens or strips. To me they aren't borders or x-Rays unless they're hung in a continuous line from one side of the stage to the other.

 

[JD]

I guess no one calls them xrays any longer........

Would consider xrays to be more a position as compared to a fixture, (front stage, facing at an upwards angle toward stage) as they got the name due to the inverted shadows they cast on performer's faces. Still, almost every "xray" I have seen was a strip/border type fixture along the front of the stage. (Except for Cheep Trick / Rick Nielsen, who preferred 2k fresnels.)

 

[gafftapegreenia]

Would consider xrays to be more a position as compared to a fixture, (front stage, facing at an upwards angle toward stage) as they got the name due to the inverted shadows they cast on performer's faces. Still, almost every "xray" I have seen was a strip/border type fixture along the front of the stage. (Except for Cheep Trick / Rick Nielsen, who preferred 2k fresnels.)

So, footlights?

 

[ElGusto]

It's funny that there's this much debate. The example fixture is sold as a "strip light".

 

[JD]

So, footlights?

Yep. Footlights.
But again, more of a position than a unique fixture. When I think of a fixture name, things like Scoop, Beam Projector, ERS, Fresnell, and Strip light come to mind. When I think of fixtures in a specific position, Border, Cyc, Xray/Foot light come to mind.
So, you may use a strip light as a boarder light, Cyc light, Foot light, etc. You could use scoops on a Cyc, or fresnels, but the purpose would be a Cyc light.

 

[RickR]

I'll add my pet peeve; words with multiple meanings. We have many in the industry. Let's all try to be clear in our terms.

 

[gafftaper]

I'll add my pet peeve; words with multiple meanings. We have many in the industry. Let's all try to be clear in our terms.

I think we may have found another example of regional slang use. Sort of like the old Gaff/Gaffa/Gaffer debate.

 

[sk8rsdad]

I'll add my pet peeve; words with multiple meanings. We have many in the industry. Let's all try to be clear in our terms.

What do you mean by that

 

[RickR]

What do you mean by that

Mostly that I agree with @JD

Naming hardware by position or application is counter productive.

 

[BillConnerFASTC]

The foot light thing isn't sitting well with me. Google "xrays in stage lighting" and they all suggest xrays are simply border lights, high wattage and usually used in a complete row across the stage. And lots of manufacturers made "border lights". Altman seems to have or recently had an " xray" which it described as a border light. I'm more inclined to think the high brightness and usually at a down light angle led to them being called xrays. Sorry to disagree but this remains open.

Lots of regionalism and lots of terms with multiple meanings on stage. My pet peeve - cyc - which by historical reference and definitions in many places is curved. I will never accept that a straight drop on a straight batten can be properly termed a cyc. Its a drop or sky drop if its straight. This debate may end when I hit my best if used by date but that's my story and I'm sticking to it, by gum.

PS - I think the wiki for cyclorama is totally off base, fwiw.

 

[WooferHound]

Ground Row

 

[Les]

I would think of it as a striplight because that's what it is - a linear lighting instrument but I could see it being termed as a batten as well. I always thought the name "batten" in terms of LED strip fixtures came about because it was skinny; similar to "panel", "brick", "block", etc.

But my reflex name for it is "strip" because that's what I'm accustomed to calling long light fixtures (minus 'cyc' lights...) What a tangled web this is.