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80 • May 2011 •

Lighting&Sound

America

TECHNICAL FOCUS: PRODUCT IN DEPTH

Although perhaps not quite as well

known in the USA as in Europe and

the rest of the world, Robe in recent

years, has become one of the major

players in automated lighting, with

many new products appearing every

year. The company is not shy about

diving into new technology; perhaps

inevitably, some products have per-

formed better than others. It is no sur-

prise, therefore, that, with the inex-

orable move of our industry toward

solid-state lighting and LED-powered

products, Robe has also jumped into

that sector with both feet.

I don’t envy lighting manufacturers at

the moment. LED sources are on such

a steep curve, with products becoming

obsolete at such a breathtaking rate

that an automated lighting manufactur-

er has to reevaluate every product at

least once or twice a year—with that

reevaluation perhaps requiring a signifi-

cant redesign to take advantage of the

latest and greatest improvements. We

are suddenly on the commodity-prod-

uct, new-model-every-year, train,

whether we like it or not.

The product we are talking about

this month is a case in point. The

Robe ROBIN 600 LED Wash enters an

incredibly busy sector of the market,

namely LED wash lights with beam

angle control. There is a lot of compe-

tition in this sector, which has quickly

become one of the most successful

areas for automated LED luminaires. I

suspect that sales of automated zoom

LED wash lights have already out-

stripped those of conventional auto-

mated wash units. How does the

Robin 600 LED Wash stack up to that

competition? Will it survive in the mar-

ketplace? As always in these reviews,

I’ve taken as comprehensive series of

measurements as I can from a single

unit supplied to me by Robe for test-

ing, and will present the results to help

you decide if the Robin 600 LED Wash

(Figure 1) is the unit for you.

Light source

Let’s start at the light source and work

our way through the system. The

Robin 600 LED Wash uses 37 Cree

XLamp MC-E LED packages. Each

package is fitted with four dies, one

each in red, green, blue, and white,

and has a total power loading of

around 10W (Figure 2). Each LED is fit-

ted with an integral wide-angle optic,

producing a native beam angle of

around 120°. The 37 packages are

mounted on three concentric circuit

boards, which are, in turn, attached to

a large die-cast aluminum heat sink to

dissipate that 370W of heat. Figure 3

shows the arrangement, with one cen-

tral circular board fitted with seven

packages, surrounded by two ring-

shaped boards with 12 and 18 pack-

ages respectively. Each ring (or zone,

as Robe calls them) can be controlled

separately, but we’ll get to that later.

The LED heat sink, which also cools

the LED driver board, has a single large

temperature-controlled fan mounted on

its rear to keep everything within the

temperature band that LEDs require.

Robe ROBIN 600 LED Wash

y: Mike Wood

igure 1: Fixture as tested

Figure 2: LED detail

Figure 3: LED array

Figure 4: LED drivers

Figure 5: TIR lens array

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Summary of Contents

Page 1 - Robe ROBIN 600 LED Wash

80 • May 2011 •Lighting&SoundAmericaTECHNICAL FOCUS: PRODUCT IN DEPTHAlthough perhaps not quite as wellknown in the USA as in Europe andthe rest o

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Figure 4 shows the back of the unit;once you have removed the protectivecover, with the large central fan sur-rounded by the driver circuitry. In oper

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82 • May 2011 •Lighting&SoundAmericaTECHNICAL FOCUS: PRODUCT IN DEPTHfor each emitter (Figure 10), followed by a final protectivetransparent plast

Page 4 - Color system

www.lightingandsoundamerica.com • May 2011 • 83DimmingFigure 12 shows the dimming curvefrom the Robin 600 LED Wash. As youcan see, it’s extremely clos

Page 5 - Construction

84 • May 2011 •Lighting&SoundAmericaTECHNICAL FOCUS: PRODUCT IN DEPTHcolor and strobing. This allowseffects such as those shown inFigure 16, in wh

Page 6 - Conclusions

lot of screws to remove — but stillvery straightforward.ConclusionsThere you have it, the Robe Robin 600LED Wash. It’s an interesting productthat join

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