WHAT IS Z-RAY
What is Z-RAY?
In essence - no cables - for either power, or a physical connection to your lighting control - and with that the complete freedom to rig your lights free of constraints.
Well - that's starting-point of Z-RAY.
BEWARE THE INEXPENSIVE!
There's some economies that will prove very disappointing.
Some manufacturers of inexpensive DMX lighting imply that their product is multicolor.
But good multicolor costs.
So they use white LED's - and a rotating color wheel in front.
This hugely limits color changes, as rotating the wheel will takes seconds - not the instantaneous change that Z-RAY can produce.
Even worse, some aren't even using LED's - they're still locked into older halogen technology lamps, with consequent heavy power consumption, unwanted heat, and limited lamp life.
Finally a word on specifications.
When buying a product that we haven't previously had the opportunity to use, we can only really go by specification.
Unfortunately this has lead to huge and unrealistic inflation of product specifications.
What really matters is does this DMX light perform well in my application?
Here price is somewhat of guide, with the caveat that well-known names can load their prices on otherwise mediocre products.
The guidance that Think Radio can give is that we actually name the manufacturer and exact model of key parts such as the Cree X-Lamp XML LED, the Ledil lens, and the Nordic Semiconductor microcontroller.
We wouldn't be fitting top-quality parts like these, if they weren't delivering top-quality results in our product.
Many people have asked us about the SHARP Memory-LCD screens in our Z-RAY's.
Often they're mistaken for electronic paper, as used in Kindles or other tablet-readers.
The disadvantage of electronic paper is how slow the screen are.
Whilst the detail is fantastically sharp, the whole page must be re-drawn to change any part - and that typically takes more than 1 second.
That's no good for display that must react instantly to button presses - such as when changing the settings on a Z-RAY.
Hence our choice of the SHARP Memory-LCD's.
Electronic paper uses no electricity at all, apart from when the display is changed.
The SHARP Memory-LCD's use a tiny amount of power, but in return any pixel (or even the whole screen) can be changed in a fraction of a second.
The SHARP Memory-LCD's are what's called transflective, they're not backlighted, but beautifully visible in any light falling on the screen - from the tiniest keyring led light, up to bright sunlight.
We made this choice because of the very wide range of situations Z-RAY's get used in - from applications that require complete darkness at times, through to chaotic 'glare everywhere' whilst you're trying to set up your show.
If you want proof of the speed of this display, just watch the real-time bar-graph on the right of the display!