By Mike Woods
Robe is one of the few manufacturers producing automated profiles using additive colour mixing. The main reason being that it’s harder to get the output power in white light that you can get with a subtractive white LED plus dichroic filters solution. However, what you lose in white output with additive mixing over subtractive, you gain in colour control and colour intensity. Personally, as you’ll know if you read this column regularly, I’m a great believer in additive mixing and think that it will, eventually, come out on top for any applications where colour is important. Maybe not yet, but it will! Robe has shown us four and seven colour additive LED fixtures before, and our subject today, the Robe Robin T1, clearly comes from the same family. However, it has a different and somewhat reduced feature set, making clear that it’s aimed at a slightly different market.
As always, I’ve tried to test and measure everything I can, from power input to light output, and report the raw data to help you make your own mind up. The results presented here are based on testing a single Robin T1 Profile unit supplied to me by Robe, with the fixture operating on a nominal 120V 60Hz supply. The unit is self-adjusting for supply voltage and will run on any voltage from 100-240V, 50/60Hz.
Read the full review at: Light and Sound International
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