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ADJ announces release of its Vizi BSW 300 moving head, saying, “This unique and innovative fixture offers hybrid output – functioning interchangeably as a beam, spot or wash effect – as well as an incredibly powerful 300W LED light-source and a host of professional features to help aid creative lighting design professional.”
The Vizi BSW 300 is the company's most powerful LED moving head fixture to date. It features a 300W white-light LED engine, with output sufficient for most large venues and event productions, according to the company release.
The Vizi BSW 300 is a hybrid fixture designed to switch between beam, spot, and wash output. As a beam effect, the unit offers tight shafts of light – variable between 1- and 9-degrees –for creating mid-air effects. As a spot, the fixture is designed for a beam angle of between 10- and 20-degrees. It's also designed to produce soft-edged washes at a beam angle variable between 12- and 23-degrees.
With pan and tilt ranges of 540-degrees and 270-degrees respectively, it is equally designed for big and fast beam movements as well as slow and smooth GOBO projection sweeps. It also features 16-bit fine positioning for projected GOBOs and beams.
Fitted with two separate GOBO wheels, the Vizi BSW 300 offers many options in creative potential for projecting patterns onto a surface or generating mid-air effects. The first wheel contains six static metal GOBO patterns along with three different-sized beam apertures, while the second wheel is loaded with seven indexed rotating GOBOs. This second wheel is supplied with a useful selection of patterns (six colored glass and one metal), but these are all replaceable allowing users to swap in their own custom patterns if, and when, they are required. Offering even more creative potential, each wheel is capable of continuous scrolling as well as a GOBO shake effect.
Motorized focus so projected patterns can be kept sharp over varying projection distances, with focus adjustments made remotely via DMX. Motorized zoom allows the beam angle to be altered remotely as required, while a Frost Filter allows the light output to be spread over an even wider area, if required, to create a very diffuse lighting effect.
The unit also features two separate rotating six-facet prisms, one circular and the other linear, which can be used to multiply the GOBO patterns for beam effects and complex textured projections. It is even possible to layer the two prisms offering even more creative potential. Two independent color wheels are also built-in to the fixture, each offering seven color slots in addition to open white. The first wheel features a selection of rich colors, while the second offers more subtle shades, including UV and two color temperature correction filters: CTO 5600K and CTO 3200K. The Vizi BSW 300 also includes 0-100% digital dimming, variable speed digital strobing (including pulse effects) and Auto X-Y repositioning.
A professional-caliber fixture, the Vizi BSW 300 is fitted with both 3-pin and 5-pin XLR input and output sockets, designed for maximum flexibility when the unit is connected into an existing DMX system. Users have a choice between two different DMX channel options (18 and 21) and a large backlit LCD screen on the front of the unit to simplify DMX addressing and mode selection. The unit is also equipped with professional locking powerCon mains input and output sockets, which can be used to link the power supply of multiple fixtures to reduce cable runs.
With dimensions of 14.75” x 12.75” x 21.5” / 376 x 325 x 545mm (LxWxH), the Vizi BSW 300 has a smaller footprint than most other moving heads in its class. It is also incredibly lightweight – for a fixture offering such a powerful output and expansive feature set – coming in at just 49 lbs. / 22 kg. It is fitted with two carry handles, one on each side, and is supplied with Omega Quicklock brackets for truss rigging. It is also fitted with large rubber feet, for standing directly on a stage or riser.
“Demonstrating our commitment to innovation, we're very proud of the new Vizi BSW 300 here at ADJ,” says ADJ USA's National Sales Manager, Alfred Gonzales. “Not only is it ADJ's brightest LED-powered moving head to date, it is the first hybrid fixture to feature an LED light-source. This means that the advantages of LED can now be utilized by lighting designers and installers working in venues, and on productions, too large for previous generations of LED-powered moving heads. It also means that fewer fixtures can be specified, as just one unit can interchangeably perform beam, spot or wash duties.”
