Ayrton has announced the launch of MagicDot Neo – the latest addition to its MagicDot family of fixtures and its IP65 Creative Series. Extremely compact, lightweight, ultrafast and powerful, MagicDot Neo is a meticulously crafted cylindrical luminaire with a unique design, featuring a 100mm lens seamlessly set within a perfect sphere.

The performance of MagicDot Neo is largely based on its extreme miniaturization and minimalist cylindrical shape. Measuring only 35cm, but with continuous double rotation on the pan and tilt axes, MagicDot Neo is capable of truly magnificent feats. Fixtures can be clustered with minimal spacing between units to open up configurations that were previously impossible. Individual control over each light source is maintained in every direction meaning unprecedented levels of integration are now possible, even allowing the creation of ultra-compact matrices or concentric circles in which the fixtures appear almost fused together.

Equipped with a brand-new 120W RGB-L multi-chip LED source paired with a high-efficiency 100mm optic, MagicDot Neo delivers a total output of 3,000 lumens for an overall power consumption of only 160 watts, and a 16,000 lux output at a distance of 5m.

MagicDot Neo switches instantly from Beam to Wash, offers a 10:1 zoom ratio, a wide beam angle from 3 ° to 30 ° and a uniform beam of light with no colour shadows, and rich saturated and pastel colours. Of course, its IP65 rating extends its versatility to stage lighting for indoor and outdoor use, even suitable for saline environments.

For the first time ever, MagicDot Neo features Ayrton’s sublime LiquidEffect featuring 60 RGB LEDs around the beam’s periphery. This, together with its powerful, intense beam, creates mesmerising multi-colour effects, organic lighting and astonishingly complex volumetric effects, enabling truly breathtaking stage presentations. The high output of this LED source is handled efficiently by Ayrton’s bespoke cooling solution based on phase-change heat pipe technology.

By drastically reducing the thickness of aluminium components, optimising the cooling system, simplifying lens mounts and integrating low-density optical parts, MagicDot Neo’s weight has been significantly reduced to just 6.6 kg making it lighter and faster than ever.