ADJ is calling the new 18P Hex its most potent LED-powered Par fixture to date, a professional-grade unit designed for use in fixed installations as well as for one-off events and touring productions. Utilizing eighteen 12-Watt Hex LEDs, the 18P Hex is designed to produce vibrant and far-reaching color washes, with robust construction designed for professional production projects.
Each of the unit’s 18 LEDs incorporates red, green, blue, amber, white, and UV elements. Designed to generate rich primary colors, it can also provide warm amber or cool white washes. The fixture can be used for dedicated UV wash effects or to generate UV-infused colors such as electric purple and hot pink.
Designed to produce a vast palette of colors by mixing various intensities of the six LED elements, the unit is pre-programmed with 63 color macros. It also offers a choice of five different dimmer curves, each optimized for a different type of application: standard, stage, TV, architectural, and theatre.
With a 25-degree beam angle, the 18P Hex is equally suited to up-lighting as it is to providing stage illumination. It comes standard with a removable gel frame that can be used to add in a diffusion filter to soften the light beam or a color gel to achieve a very specific hue.
Designed to be a professional lighting tool, the 18P Hex has a heavy-duty metal construction. It is fitted with a scissor yoke, which can be used as a hanging bracket or as a variable-angle floor stand. The fixture features ADJ’s patent-pending, power and DMX socket positioning. The input sockets are located on one side of the fixture, while the output sockets are on the other, for neat cable runs. The fixture is fitted with rubber feet on its back panel to sit directly on the floor for vertical up-lighting.
A four-digit LED screen on the rear of the unit, together with four selection push-buttons, can be used to manually select any desired color by individually choosing a dimmer setting for each of the six LED color elements. Alternatively, the same interface can also be used to select one of the unit’s pre-programmed color macros or internal chase programs. For a synchronized lighting system, additional fixtures can be connected using XLR cables and set to ‘Slave’ mode, which will can mimic the color or pattern chosen on the initial (Master) fixture.
For wireless selection of the unit’s color macros and internal color chasing patterns, the 18P Hex is compatible with ADJ’s Dotz Par remote (sold separately). This can be used to control the unit from a distance of up to 82 feet (25 meters) and is also capable of setting a defined chase speed and blacking out the fixture.
The 18P Hex offers four DMX channel modes. The basic six-channel option provides independent dimming control for each of the LED base colors. The seven-channel mode adds in master diming, while the eight-channel option further adds variable speed strobing control. The full 12-channel option adds color macro selection, remote access to the unit’s pre-programmed chase patterns, and also selection of the unit’s five different dimming curves.
A professional-grade fixture, the 18P Hex features locking PowerCon sockets to prevent loose connections and accidental power disconnection. The inclusion of both input and output sockets for mains power means multiple units can be connected to the same power supply, reducing the number of cables needed, especially when lighting is required all around a room. Up to four fixtures can be connected from a single supply at 110V, while this number increases to eight at 230V. Measuring 11.96” x 6.88” x 13” / 304 x 174 x 330mm (LxWxH), the 18P Hex is compact to carry, store, and transport, weighing 12.9 lbs / 5.9 kg.
“Combining the advanced color mixing potential of six-in-one hex LEDs with the shear brightness of eighteen 12-watt light-sources in a single par unit makes for an extremely versatile professional lighting fixture,” says ADJ USA’s National Sales Manager, Alfred Gonzales. “Add to this robust metal construction, locking PowerCon mains input and output sockets, 63 color macros, and a 25-degree beam angle, and the 18P Hex is ideal for a wide variety of applications where a large amount of light output and a wide color palette are required. The 18P Hex rounds out ADJ’s Hex Series Pars quite nicely as the largest and most powerful fixture in the series.”
