Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr - Now With a Hint of Lime!

Fission · Mar 11, 2014

Hi,

Long-time lurker, first-time poster. (I'll make a thread in the new member forum shortly.)

I've been looking into the Source Four LED fixture, and my rep just sent me information on a next-generation Source Four LED fixture that is now on ETC's website.

ETC | Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr

No word on the MSRP, or pricing relative to the current S4 LED.

Brightness and colour
We put a twist of lime in the luminaire and mixed it all up. ETC's x7 Color System changes the way you see LED lighting. Instead of limiting you to just three LED colors, the x7 Color System combines a balanced recipe of up to seven colors to create evocative color mixes. The Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr array takes the idea even further, with the addition of a lime-green LED emitter. Lime green increases the luminaire's lumen output in open white and lighter tints to make them brighter and livelier, better matching the color of a conventional Source Four fixture. The lime also enriches color-rendering by better marrying the red and blue ends of the color spectrum, for truer-to-life light that fills in the gaps that ordinary LEDs leave behind.

We also added more red to the x7 Color System in the Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr array. Working in unison with the lime-green emitter, the extra red means the luminaire can produce ambers, straws and pinks up to three hundred percent as bright as those from the original Source Four LED. The deeper, richer color from the Source Four LED Series 2 will evoke the strongest audience reaction to your sunset, moonlight and dramatic scenes.

Shows just how much LEDs are evolving. Hard to know when to pull the trigger on a purchase decision.

I'm reminded of derekleffew's comment in this thread:

derekleffew said:
My take on LED fixtures for the stage: treat them as disposable. Tomorrow is always going to bring a brighter cheaper faster better product. So buy the cheapest one that will barely meet your needs now. If/when it breaks, replace it with something better.
OR,
Buy the Selador/ColorKinetics/ChromaQ/VLX, be completely satisfied now, and less satisfied over the next ten years when you can't afford to buy the better stuff that's come to market.

sk8rsdad · Mar 11, 2014

They also announced the Source Four Mini LED. Methinks it's trade show time.

Edit: It's a single white LED source for the Source Four Mini and *NOT* a miniature version of the Source Four LED.

soundlight · Mar 12, 2014

Lots of manufacturers are announcing stuff; it's Prolight+Sound time over in Germany. One of Europe's big industry trade shows. Strand's got a new console, Vari-Lite & High End have new fixtures.

jmabray · Mar 12, 2014

And all of the new stuff will be at USITT in Fort Worth too.

And from the marketing email :

The Source Four LED Series 2 is being introduced at $2,395 and will begin shipping on April 1st. We will continue selling the original Source Four LED™ at its current price of $1,995

derekleffew · Mar 12, 2014

Fission said:
We put a twist of lime in the luminaire and mixed it all up. ETC's x7 Color System changes the way you see LED lighting. ... The Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr array takes the idea even further, with the addition of a lime-green LED emitter. ...

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So did they add lime, or substitute lime for another color? If the former, shouldn't it now be called x8 color system (now with 256^8= ~1.8E+19 possible colors!)?

jmabray · Mar 12, 2014

derekleffew said:
So did they add lime, or substitute lime for another color? If the former, shouldn't it now be called x8 color system (now with 256^8= ~1.8E+19 possible colors!)?

The lime green emitters take the place of the white emitters in the array - as I understand it. I'll know a lot more after I see one in person at USITT in a couple of weeks.

dkolenda · Mar 12, 2014

Yes, the Lime takes the place of the white. Previously, the S4 Studio HD fixture used a Mint Green LED, which is probably the same color. It adds quite a bit of output to the brightness.

starksk · Mar 12, 2014

dkolenda said:
Yes, the Lime takes the place of the white. Previously, the S4 Studio HD fixture used a Mint Green LED, which is probably the same color. It adds quite a bit of output to the brightness.

Actually, the Mint and Lime emitters are different colors. The Lime is between Amber and Green and is more saturated than Mint.

Lime replaces White in the mix and I can tell you first hand that it is awesome to see the difference. I am glad I can finally talk about this product.

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Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr - Now With a Hint of Lime!

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