The celebrated line of Pharos Lighting Playback Controllers recently added a new member to its family. The latest lighting control solution from Pharos – the LPC X – was just presented with a 2008 Excellence Award for Control Lighting Product of the year from Live Design magazine, nominated and selected by an independent panel of designers and programmers from both sides of the Atlantic.
One of the Live Design judges commented that the LPC X is “a great scalable solution for pretty much any architectural setup involving LEDs, moving lights, dimmers, architectural fixtures, or any video/media server setups. It’s easy to program, easy to set up, and basically, is designed to operate itself with little maintenance required.”
Pharos LPC X
The LPC X boasts unprecedented power and is available in multiple DMX-universe capacities from the LPC 20 to an LPC 200, all from a single 2U 19″ rack-mount solid-state unit. It supports DMX-over- Ethernet standards such as Pathway, Art-NetII, ETCNet2 and Streaming ACN as well as DVI and Firewire DV outputs for integrating with arrays of fixtures that require video-based control.
Pharos Product Manager Liz Cecil was thrilled about the award: “The LPC 1, LPC 2 and the Pharos AVC received prestigious awards following their launches, and we are delighted that the LPC X is already getting similar industry recognition with the Live Design judging panel acknowledging its many benefits.”
The LPC X includes a digital video input for live real-time video mapping to fixtures, and offers an array of on-board triggering options with RS232, Ethernet and DMX-in ports as well as time, calendar and astronomical events. Triggering schedules and timeline programming are accomplished with the popular and intuitive Pharos Designer software. The LPC X built-in web interface can be accessed remotely providing powerful monitoring and control tools.
The LPC X is already gaining popularity around the globe with a number of early high profile installations. The London headquarters for Steelcase, the global office furniture maker, has twelve Color Kinetics iColor Tiles in their showroom controlled by an LPC 20 outputting CK’s KiNet protocol directly to CK Ethernet-enabled power supplies.
Heathrow Airport’s new Terminal 5 features a five-metre long digital sculpture covered with 5,000 black and silver, individually-addressed flip-dots evocative of old-fashioned departure boards creating stunning digital patterns played back through an LPC 20.
The studio lighting at Al Arabiya Television in Dubai includes over 7,000 RGB LEDs that receive data from an LPC 60 over an Art-NetII network, and another LPC 60 is installed at the atrium of the Blue Fin building in London controlling 9,500 CK iColor Flex fixtures on a KiNet network.
