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Quantity | 4 (Minimum Order 4) |
Condition | Normal Wear & Tear |
Location | North America |
Previous Use | Rentals |
Warranty | 7 Day |
Properly maintained by Certified VL techs.
Each unit comes with a working lamp & (2) VL Hanging Brackets. A dual case is included free of charge when you purchase 2 units.
A "technical creative soul" has kept Vari-Lite at the forefront of the automated lighting industry since 1981. The company is founded on the belief that creative engineering can join with creative lighting to bring a new dimension to any...
LightParts is a full service repair facility that specializes in moving lights and lighting consoles. They do repairs on High End Systems, Vari-Lite, Clay Paky, Martin Professional, Flying Pig Systems and Jands to name a few. They do repair on moving lights such as the VL3000 Spot, Mac 2000 Profile, Alpha Beam 300 and more....
The VL3000 Spot is an industry standard moving head light and is one of the most sought after intelligent moving head lights by event production companies around the world.
The VARI*LITE VL3000 Spot luminaire sets new standards for imagery, beam control, color and brightness in spot luminaires.
The VARI*LITE VL3000 Spot luminaire features a 6:1 zoom optics, CYM color mixing, variable CTO color temperature correction, a six-position color wheel, three gobo/effects wheels, a beam size iris and separate Dimmer and ultra-fast strobe mechanisms. A standard pallet of Gobos, effects and colors is provided with the unit. Custom Gobos, effects and color are available.
An upper enclosure houses the control electronics as well as the arc power supply for the 1200 watt short arc lamp. The arc power supply is power factor corrected for efficient Power Distribution.
The VL3000 Spot luminaire can be controlled from a wide variety of DMX512 consoles.
The luminaire is the same size as the VL3000 Wash luminaire, providing a consistent hang configuration and appearance no matter which luminaire type is required.
A "technical creative soul" has kept Vari-Lite at the forefront of the automated lighting industry since 1981. The company is founded on the belief that creative engineering can join with creative lighting to bring a new dimension to any performance or presentation. That notion first took root when Rusty Brutsché and Jack Maxson founded Showco in 1970. Innovation made Showco the premier sound and lighting equipment rental firm for the concert touring industry. A decade following Showco's initial success, company officials found themselves working on another technical leap, this time within the field of automated lighting. Until the 1980s, stage lighting systems for concerts and theater productions were bulky with numerous fixtures (a typical rock concert usually required up to 3,000 separate lights). Each light had to be manually focused and colored using celluloid gel material placed in front of each lighting fixture. To achieve color changes, the lighting fixtures had to be turned on and off or dimmed using electronic dimmers controlled by a computer lighting console. Throughout the late '70s, engineers worked to develop a color changer for a lighting fixture. Finally, they arrived at a solution: forget the "add-on" schemes, and concentrate on using internal dichroic coated glass filters and metal halide bulbs. The dichroic filters could be used to change colors almost instantaneously and create saturated colors not capable from the gel filters. That might have been the extent of their advancement if for a barbecue lunch in the fall of 1980. At that gathering, the idea of adding two extra motors to the fixture to actually make the light move was conceived. This "eureka" moment facilitated an all-out building effort for a fully automated lighting system that resulted in a prototype in December 1980. Shortly thereafter, the engineering team flew to London to show the prototype automated light (named "VL Zero") to longtime Showco client, Genesis. The British band had long been at the forefront of cutting-edge performance art technology, and was in rehearsal for an upcoming tour. At an English countryside studio, the new luminaire made its debut on the side of a 500-year-old barn. The prototype light had been programmed to enact two simple cues. The first reaction from the presentation came from band member Mike Rutherford: "I expected the color change, but by jove, I didn't know it was going to move." It was enough to convince Genesis to immediately invest in developing this new technology. Genesis wowed the audience with the first VARI*LITE® Series 100? system consisting of 50 VL1? luminaires and a computerized control console on the opening night of their "Abacab" tour on September 25, 1981 in a bullring in Barcelona, Spain. That rural demonstration was the "Genesis" of a new company - Vari-Lite, coined from a suggestion by Genesis manager Tony Smith. The new system was developed, complete with a programmable console that enabled lighting designers to create lighting effects that electrified the lighting industry and began a revolution that continues to this day. The dichroic color changing system allowed for up to 60 preselected colors to be changed in less than a tenth of a second and the computer control of the color change, dimming and movement of the light beams created stunning visual effects. The original VARI*LITE system was patented in 1983, and Vari-Lite has received numerous other U.S. and international patents on automated lighting technology as it has continued to innovate and develop the technology. Inspired by the magic of moving light and changing color, Vari-Lite set about creating complete lighting systems that add subtle nuance or brilliant spectacle to any event. The company offers designers the ultimate tool for creating lighting moments to remember. Since the beginning, Vari-Lite has led the world in automated lighting technology; developing pioneering products with an unrivaled reputation. Today, lighting professionals in theatre, television, concerts, motion pictures, corporate shows and advertising, look to Vari-Lite for inspiration and support for their productions.
Moving lights, or intelligent lighting as they are sometimes called, are basically a type of stage lighting that is able to move due to its integrated mechanical elements, which go beyond the moving parts that are found in more traditional, non-moving lighting. Automated lighting such as moving lights is highly valued by stage lighting technicians as through them, it is possible to create highly complex special effects that simply cannot be made using standard, non-moveable lights. It should be noted however, that when it comes to intelligent lighting, the real intelligence lies with the programmer of the show, rather than the lighting equipment or any operator. Moving head lights, also called moving head luminaires, are highly versatile lighting instruments capable of performing multiple lighting functions at once. They have largely superseded the use of multiple non-moving lights to create special effects, which required many lights and a large amount of skill on behalf of the operators. Moving lights are hooked up to a lighting control console and send data to it in one of three ways ?? through an Ethernet control (a relatively new technology), analogue control (now almost obsolete), or DMX, (which is now the industry standard). So long as they have been properly programmed, the optics of wiggly lights can be altered in many ways, allowing for the ??personality? of the lights to be adapted almost instantaneously, depending on the requirements of the operator. Typically, moving lights will be pre-programmed before a production and controlled using simple commands, although some more experience operators may prefer to control them ??live?, if they have the experience to do so.
VL3000 Spot - Comes with a single case. 60 day warranty.
VL3000 Spot - VL3000 Spot in good condition. Minimum purchase of (2) units. Priced per unit.
VL3000 Spot - Corporate used VL3000 Spot in great condition. Minimum purchase of (2) units. Priced per unit.
VL3000 Spot - From installation. Cleaned and tested.
VL3000 Spot - VL3000 Spot in great condition. Minimum purchase of (2) units. Priced per unit.
VL3000 Spot - Fixtures are well maintained and in excellent condition.
VL3000 Spot - In very good condition. Fully serviced by qualified technician.
VL3000 Spot - VL3000 Spot in good condition. Minimum purchase of (2) units priced per unit.
VL3000 Spot Package - Very Clean, Corporate used Package of (8) VL3000 Spot.
VL3000 Spot - VL3000 Spot in good condition. Minimum purchase of (2) units. Priced per unit.
VL3000 Spot - Comes with a dual Amp town cases with the purchase of 2 fixtures.
VL3000 Spot - VL3000 Spot in good condition, previously used on rentals. Minimum purchase of (2) units includes ca...
VL3000 Spot - Units are in good condition.
VL3000 Spot - VL3000 Spot in good condition. Minimum purchase of (2) units. Priced per unit.
VL3000 Spot - In great condition. From ex-rentals and only used on a few shows.
VL3000 Spot - VL3000 Spot with flight case in good condition. Previously used on various rentals.
VL3000 Spot - Corporate used VL3000 Spot in great condition. Minimum purchase of (2) units includes dual case. Pri...
VL3000 Spot - VL3000 Spot in good condition.
VL3000 Spot - Upgraded to new style ballast. From 2005.
VL3000 Spot - VL3000 Spot in good condition. Minimum purchase of (2) units. Priced per unit.
VL3000 Spot Package - Package of (18) VL3000 Spot with dual flight cases in good condition.
VL3000 Spot - Has less than 3500 hours. Well maintained.