MagicDot-R, a new creative Ayrton luminaire

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Seven new products will appear at PL+S 2015 on the Ayrton stand, most of them used in a light show presentation designed by the famous French lighting designer Laurent Chapot! Ayrton really shifts into high gear! Attention: do not look for them at their usual place in Hall 9. They will be in Hall 11 at Prolight + Sound.
This is the video posted on Facebook that caught our attention, this giant ring of dancing colored beams.

AYRTON – A61 Project #PUSHTHEENVELOPE from Ayrton on Vimeo

Ayrton MagicDot-R

We called Yvan Peard, Ayrton’s designer, to find out more, and he filled us in: “These are 36 independent fixtures distributed around this ring. It’s a rig designed by Laurent Chapot to highlight the new fixture. It’s called MagicDot-R and it’s the smallest projector in the series, but it can emit a beam with an intensity at the center of 180,000 candelas!
And, like all the fixtures with names ending in -R, it features continuous pan-tilt rotation”.

Very small and compact, MagicDot-R employs a source that combines a new 60 W multichip RGBW LED and a new 94 mm collimating lens.

Nonetheless, this lens weighs 200 g and it took two years of development to achieve its dispersion of 4.5° and the maximum intensity at the center… it’s one for the record books!

The cooling system is also a technological marvel: a new circuit on copper, integrated with a heat pipe and a one-piece, cast aluminum heat sink immersed in a bath to improve thermal conduction.

Its round motorized head is super fast. Regardless of its position, its dimensions do not exceed the diameter of the cylindrical base of the fixture, thereby allowing very close spacing between two fixtures: 1 cm is enough. This is useful for creating designs that involve a group or line of fixtures.br />Its very compact size (not to mention its very low weight: 5.3 kg) also allows it to slip into small scenes to emphasize instruments or scenographic elements.