ADJ’s Encore Series: Professional LED-Powered Stage Lighting Fixtures
The ADJ Encore Series is a collection of lighting fixtures designed to illuminate theaters, churches, stages, and other performance spaces. The range features a carefully curated collection of luminaires covering a variety of fixture types, sizes, and power outputs that are suitable for every kind of venue from small clubs, bars, and coffee shops to large auditoriums, concert halls, and theaters.
“ADJ’s Encore Series has developed over recent years to become a comprehensive and versatile collection of stage lighting fixtures,” explains ADJ USA’s National Sales Manager, Alfred Gonzales. “It includes ellipsoidal, Fresnel, par, wash, and blinder models of various sizes that cover every base for lighting designers working on theatrical performances, concerts, conferences, worship services, and event productions. The fixtures are ideal for permanent integration into venues of all shapes and sizes, however they are also extremely robust and therefore equally suitable for temporary event production, touring, and rental applications. Extensive R&D time has been invested into each model in the range to ensure that they offer the feature sets that lighting professionals need, together with the good value and reliable build quality for which ADJ had become known.”
The flagship products of the series are the Encore Profile Pro WW and Encore Profile Pro Color ellipsoidals. These robust and reliable fixtures can be used with ADJ’s range of interchangeable lens tubes; however, they have an industry-standard design and can therefore also be used with any existing ellipsoidal lenses and accessories. Both models support B size metal or HT transparency GOBOs and feature a four-blade manual framing shutter system as well as manual focus adjustment. They offer smooth 0-100% digital dimming and variable speed strobing as well as adjustable LED refresh rates. The WW version features a potent 260W warm white LED light source with a color temperature of 3200K. It generates an even field of light, with no hot spot, and boasts a high CRI in excess of 97. When used with a 26° lens, it measures a total light output of 10,000 lumens, while the LED engine has an average lifespan of 50,000 hours. The Color model utilizes a 250W 6-in-1 RGBWAL LED engine, which generates a huge gamut of colors ranging from vibrant primaries to subtle hues. It can also be used to create color-corrected white light, with a macro function providing easy selection of a range of different color temperatures.
For smaller venues and productions where compact fixtures are required, the range also includes the Encore Profile 1000 WW and Encore Profile 1000 Color. These compact all-in-one ellipsoidal fixtures feature efficient COB LED engines paired with manual zoom (12 to 30-degrees), manual focus, framing shutters, an M size GOBO slot and full digital dimming and strobing control. The WW version utilizes a 120W warm-white COB LED with a color temperature of 3200K and CRI of 98. Meanwhile, the Color model features a powerful 120W RGBW 4-in-1 color mixing LED light source that allows almost any imaginable hue or shade to be created.
At the recent LDI 2022 trade show in Las Vegas, ADJ officially debuted the latest additions to the series, two new even more compact ellipsoidals called the Encore Profile Mini WW and Encore Profile Mini COLOR. These are extremely compact, yet surprising powerful, LED-powered spotlight fixtures, which can be used with a choice of either a 15° ~ 30° or 25° ~ 50° manual zoom lens (sold separately). Both models are supplied with a size ‘E’ GOBO holder and offer smooth digital dimming as well as variable speed digital strobing. The WW version features a 40-watt LED source with a color temperature of 3000K and an extremely high CRI of >98, while the COLOR version utilizes an LED engine comprised of 16 x 3.5W RGBWAL (red / green / blue / white / amber / lime) LEDs, which allows exceptionally versatile color mixing. These new fixtures are set to begin shipping in March 2023.
The Encore Series also incorporates a variety of LED-powered Fresnel fixtures. The Encore FR 20 DTW is an extremely compact unit with a 2-inch lens and 17W warm white (3000K) LED source that is triac dimmable (compatible with Lutron and Leviton wall dimmers) and also features an onboard dimming potentiometer. It is ideal for small venues where space is at a premium, such as coffee shops and live music bars, as well as shop window displays. The Encore FR50Z incorporates a 50W 3000K light engine positioned behind a 6-inch Fresnel lens and offers a 14 ~ 30-degree manual zoom range. This DMX-controlled fixture is ideal for small theatres, churches, conference venues and concert halls. For larger venues, the series offers the Encore FR150Z, which pairs a 130W 3000K light source with an 8-inch Fresnel lens and offers a 15 ~ 38-degree zoom range. Finally, for applications where a colored wash is required, the Encore FR Pro Color features a 7-inch lens and potent 400W 6-in-1 (red, green, blue, amber, lime and cyan) LED light source to deliver a full spectrum of color options. If color is not what you're looking for, we're also offering the Encore FR Pro WW, a warm white fresnel featuring a 7-inch lens and a potent 200W Warm White LED with more than 12,000lm (Exclusively available from ADJ Europe).
The range also incorporates a variety of par fixtures featuring lime-infused 4-in-1 color mixing LEDs. The inclusion of the lime LED primary color boosts both CRI and perceived brightness as well as filling in gaps in the color spectrum. A higher CRI means these fixtures will render colors more accurately when used to illuminate scenery, décor, or performers, which is particularly important to ensure natural skin tones and enhanced depth. Each LED is rated at 20W and in addition to a huge gamut of colors is capable of delivering white light with color temperature variable between 2700K and 7000K. The Encore LP5 IP, Encore LP7 IP, Encore LP12 IP and Encore LP18 IP models feature 5, 7, 12 and 18 LEDs, respectively, and all feature IP65-rated casings to allow for safe use both indoors and outside. Each fixture offers a native beam angle of 10-degrees, which can be expanded to 25-degrees using the supplied removable frost filter. In addition, a variety of other frost and light shaping filters are available as optional accessories as well as barn doors for the larger fixtures.
Other models are also available that utilize the same lime-infused color mixing LEDs arranged in other configurations. The Encore LP32 IP is a multifunctional IP65-rated fixture, designed to be used interchangeably as a wash, strobe or blinder, which features 32 LEDs arranged in a 4 x 8 matrix and divided into 8 independently controllable zones. It offers a concise beam angle of 11-degrees, which can be widened to 25-degrees using the included diffusion filter and magnetic filter frame, while adjustable barn doors are available as an optional extra. The complementary Encore LB15 IP is a linear IP65-rated wash fixture featuring 15 LEDs, which can each be controlled independently. Finally, the Encore Z7 LP is a par fixture which combines 7 LEDs with a motorized zoom function offering a variable beam angle of between 5 and 50-degrees.
Completing the Encore Series are the Encore Burst blinder fixtures. The Encore Burst 200 is a twin cell blinder featuring a pair of 110W warm white (2700K) CREE COB LEDs which feature an innovative ‘Tungsten Mode’ that reduces the color temperature at lower dimmer settings to emulate the warm glow of filament-based light sources. Meanwhile, the Encore Burst RGBW IP is a single high intensity wash / blinder / strobe fixture with a wide 50-degree beam angle and potent 150W RGBW color mixing COB LED light engine. Finally, the Encore Burst UV IP is a UV wash fixture that utilizes a 50W ultraviolet COB LED with a wavelength of 365nm to fill large areas with a powerful wash of ‘black light’ that will cause white and fluorescent materials to glow vibrantly from a considerable distance. Barn doors are available as an optional extra that can be used with either the Encore Burst RGBW IP and Encore Burst UV IP.
