The Nova Range
The new award winning Nova range which, while still in its prototype form, won 2 awards at NAB this year has now reached production and is ready to order.
The Nova is an LEP light. LEP is Light Emitting Plasma and is a far cry from LED. The light quality must be seen to be believed. Some people have called it - "A ray of sunshine"
The image to the right shows a Light Emitting Plasma envelope which is embedded in the RF "puck" which is used to focus the RF energy onto the gases in the envelope. This gets the gasses excited and they eventually turn to Plasma and generate a huge amount of light. That is a very brief overview of how a LEP fixture works.
Photon Beard have used this techonolgy to produce a new family of products that we have named...
273 Watts giving you similar output to 2000 Watts from a tungsten Fresnel
The PhotonSpot Nova range uses an established light source, Light Emitting Plasma (LEP) that is currently found in street lighting, aquarium and grow-lighting applications.
The source benefits from a high CRI of 94 meaning there is excellent distribution of the full spectrum of visible light whilst delivering an astonishing 14,000 lumens with a useful lifetime of around 20,000 hours. After this time you can replace the source to continue using your PhotonSpot Nova for many years.
LEP technology provides the following primary benefits:
Lowest Cost of Ownership
High Energy Efficiency
Reliability & Long Life
Daylight Output - 5600K
Near Full Spectrum (CRI94)
No Cooling Fans
Battery Power option
A preliminary data sheet is available here - PhotonSpot Nova 270 data sheet