The latest addition to ADJ’s popular Focus Series of LED-powered professional moving head luminaires is the Focus Wash 400. This dedicated wash fixture combines a potent color mixing LED light engine with a Fresnel lens and motorized zoom mechanism to create a versatile soft-edged beam with an even field and high CRI. The perfect wash companion to the existing Focus Series spot and beam fixtures, the new Focus Wash 400 is ideal for illuminating all kinds of stages and performance spaces, both for live and broadcast audiences.
At the heart of the Focus Wash 400 is a powerful 400-Watt six-in-one LED light source, which combines red, green, blue, amber, cyan and lime LED chips to offer unrivalled color mixing for stage-based applications. This LED engine configuration allows for a CRI in excess of 90, as well as excellent white light output across a range of color temperatures. The light source also offers a high CRI R9 rating of 87.3, meaning that it is capable of effectively illuminating saturated red subjects, which has been traditionally problematic for LEDs. In addition, the LED engine boasts an impressive 50,000-hour average life expectancy, effectively removing the need for lamp replacements.
Independent color mixing control over the LED source’s six primary colors permits the creation of a huge range of both vibrant saturates and subtle pastel shades, allowing lighting designers to achieve the exact looks they require. To aid quick programming, the fixture also offers Virtual Color Wheel control, to provide easy access to 60 pre-programmed color macros in addition to five preset white color temperature macros (2700K, 3200K, 4000K, 5600K and 6500K). Exacting control over white light color temperature is also provided through linear color temperature control from 2700K – 6500K, as well as separate red to green shift control. The fixture also features a virtual CMY mode, which uses the six LED chips to emulate CMY color mixing. This means that the fixture can be patched and controlled as a CMY fixture, utilizing the CMY color pallete selection tools found within many hardware and software DMX control systems.
The Focus Wash 400 is fitted with a 6-inch Fresnel lens, which creates a soft-edged wash output with a very even field and no color shadows. This is paired with a motorized zoom function with a variable beam angle of 10 to 41-degrees. It features 16-bit fine control over the zoom motor, allowing for extremely smooth zoom effects as well as precise control over the beam angle. The wide zoom range makes this a very versatile fixture, that can be used both to wash a large area of a stage and to spotlight performers or small scenic elements.
