The first new product launch was the much-anticipated Lancelot from Robert Juliat, a high-powered effect projector/followspot aimed at the largest productions and venues. "The biggest problem we then had with the Lancelot was stopping people pointing it into the milling crowd," explains White Light's Managing Director, Bryan Raven.
From LSC in Australia, the MaXim desk and E24 touring dimmer rack were on show. White Light's sales director Peter Threadgold and Gary Pritchard from LSC announced that White Light had been appointed as LSC's exclusive distributor for the UK and Ireland.
Look Solutions were demonstrated the CryoFog low smoke machine. LDDE promoted its Spectra T5 flicker-free colour-changing fluorescent unit in a two-square-metre frosted display, as well as showing their PLASA Innovation Award-nominated SpectraLED battens. ELC had three new products, the Node8, Switch8 and the showSTORE Xlan, the last also nominated for an Innovation Award. Wireless Solutions were showing their Transmitter S-1, controlling a light situated several hundred feet away on the stand of automation specialists Stage Technologies.
"This year's PLASA Show was particularly noteworthy for us because for the first time White Light's Sales team were able to offer products covering every facet of lighting and lighting effects," comments Peter Threadgold. "With the addition of LSC's dimmers and control to a portfolio that already includes lanterns from Robert Juliat, colour changers from Rainbow, colour changing fixtures from LDDE, smoke and haze effects from Look Solutions, DMX networking products from ELC and wireless control from Wireless Solutions."
White Light's own products on show included the Digital Festoon System, a re-think of conventional festoon lighting that allows each lamp along a length of festoon to be individually controlled without external dimmers or additional cabling, The DFS joins other well know White Light products: the VSFX and the Tubular Ripple.Also popular with visitors was the return of two old friends: a 2way-15amp adapter designed the old fashioned way; and the latest edition of White Light's Reference Guide.
(Jim Evans)
