By Craig Rutherford
Battery-powered lights are fabulously useful things. Particularly in the realm of corporate and events lighting, it’s common for the lighting crew to run into situations where cabling is either difficult to run or is objectionable for aesthetic reasons. Battery-powered luminaires can easily be deployed shortly before the show and easy to strike at the end of the night, and adding splashes of light and colour to an otherwise drab space is our raison d’être. But battery-powered lights present a drawback — a glaring one, if you will: the battery itself. Key to their portability but attaching inherent restrictions, batteries add weight and have inescapable run time limitations. There are many strategies to help manage this, and few companies have been quite as successful at it than Astera, founded in the mid-2000s in Germany. Today, we’re looking at one of their latest offerings: a solidly-built pixel-mappable LED batten, with a plethora of features aimed solidly at the film, broadcast, and events industry.
Read the full review at PLSN
www.astera-led.com
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