ADJ Lighting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the powerful and versatile new Hydro Hybrid automated luminaire. The latest addition to ADJs popular Hydro Series, this IP65-rated moving head can serve interchangeably as a beam, spot or wash.

Packed with output-shaping tools including CMY color mixing, an animation wheel, and dual-plane prisms it delivers huge creative potential to lighting designers and offers exceptional ROI for rental/production companies.

As with the other fixtures in ADJs Hydro Series, the Hydro Hybrid is built to last. It features a diecast steel construction, robust external casing, high quality internal components, and an IP65-rated design to allow for reliable deployment both indoors and for temporary outdoor applications in all weather conditions. The luminaire harnesses the power of a 420-Watt Osram SIRIUS HRI discharge lamp (6500K), which has a life span of up to 2,500 hours. Its light is focused through premium optics to deliver an output of up to 14,416 lumens, which can be manipulated to generate an intense narrow beam, a sharp and even spot, or a luscious soft-edged wash.

Motorized zoom allows for a variable beam angle of 1.6 - 17.7 (Beam Mode) or 3.1 - 39.2 (Spot Mode) and an additional variable heavy frost filter facilitates the softening of the beam for wash output. CMY color mixing means that any desired hue can be selected, while an additional 12-position color wheel allows for quick selection of popular options as well as UV and three CTO filters (2700K, 3200K and 4000K). The fixture incorporates two GOBO wheels. The first features 9 rotatable and interchangeable glass or metal GOBOs, supplied with a collection of complex patterns that are ideal for projecting texture. The second features 14 static metal stamped patterns, including 4 beam reducers, which are simpler and designed for creating beam effects or combining with the prisms to generate more complex patterns. The fixture incorporates two rotating prisms 8-facet circular and 6-facet linear which are positioned on independent planes and can therefore be applied simultaneously. In addition, an animation wheel is also included, which can be used to generate moving projections and combines with the various colors, GOBOs and prisms to create a wide variety of different effects.

The fixture itself has a sleek design that integrates a pair of convenient carry handles. It also features mechanical pan and tilt locks, which can be used to prevent unwanted movement during transit. As well as standard wired DMX connection via 5-pin cables, the unit is also compatible with ADJs new Aria X2 wireless management suite. This not only allows reliable wireless DMX control via a stable mesh network, but also remote fixture configuration via Bluetooth and OTA (Over The Air) wireless firmware updates.

The Hydro Hybrid is a significant new addition to the Hydro Series, designed both with LDs and rental/production owners in mind, comments ADJ USAs Director of Sales, Alfred Gonzales. It offers vibrant output, precise optics, and an expansive feature set that will satiate even the most creative of designers. The fact that it can function interchangeably as a beam, spot or wash, and boasts an extremely tough, road ready, IP65-rated enclosure, means it also has the potential to deliver a fantastic ROI.