BOS Lighting

Pixel

Buy pixel lighting: pixel bars, pixel strings and neon profiles, controllable pixel by pixel over DMX. For sets, stage edges and effect lighting.

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What makes pixel lighting different

With ordinary lighting you control a whole fixture. With pixel lighting you control every point separately. That lets you run effects along the length: a wave, a countdown, a fade from warm to cool, or a line moving to the beat.

Counting channels

Every RGB pixel costs three DMX channels. A string of fifty pixels is therefore 150 channels, and a DMX universe holds 512. Work that out in advance: three of those strings nearly fill a universe, and then you need a second line or a node.

Power is where it goes wrong

Pixel products run on 24 V DC and draw more than people expect — 36 W per metre on our neon profile. An under-specified supply makes the end of the run visibly dimmer or shifts its colour. That looks like a fault, but it is simply voltage drop.

Addressing without a laptop

Every pixel needs to know where it sits in the chain. Our addressing tool does that on location, with the unit in your hand, instead of setting up a computer first.