The new Platinum FLX from Elation Professional is a 3-in-1 hybrid fixture that acts as a spot, beam, or wash light. Its 470W Philips™ MSD Platinum 20R lamp emits up to 23,000 lumens, an output comparable to many 1,200W fixtures. Using the same patent-pending dual optical design as the Platinum SBX, beam mode and spot mode perform under their own independent optical systems, resulting in a narrower beam angle and brighter central point in beam mode and a uniform, clearer, and brighter spot field in spot mode. The beam angle range differs from 2.3° to 23° in beam mode to 3° to 32° in spot mode. Features include CMY color-mixing and variable CTO color correction, with an extra 10 dichroic colors including UV, CTO, and CTB, and a frost system that can produce a wash effect in spot or beam mode. A variety of graphics are available via two gobo wheels, one with eight rotating, interchangeable gobos and the other with six static-stamped indexing gobos. Additional effects include two prisms, a six-way linear prism, an eight-facet rotating/indexing prism, with animation wash frost effects and a mechanical shutter for high-speed strobe effects.
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