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Blizzard Lighting is based in Waukesha, WI. I'm not sure where that is either, but it turns out it's about 30 minutes west of Milwaukee. Blizzard Lighting is a newer company to the industry, but not as new as you may think. They have been manufacturing lights since March of 2010. In fact, their first LED moving light was called "Flurry Wash," which certainly aligns with their theme of "cool" and "wintry" They've carved out their own place in the entertainment lighting industry, focusing on mid-sized production users, houses of worship, and regional touring, making products that work with prices that are affordable. Blizzard's slogan is "Cooler By Design," so in today's Road Test, we see how cool the design is on their newest moving light, the G-Mix 200.
* Warm Inside
The G-Mix 200 is a new LED moving head spot. Medium in size, but packed full of features including two gobo wheels (one static, one rotating), CMY color mixing, three color wheels, zoom, focus, iris, frost, and 3- and 8-facet prisms. Blizzard sums it up by calling it, "Mix'n Out Max'n Relaxin' All Cool." (To fully understand what all of that means, you may need to go to blizzardlighting.com and sign up for membership as an "Illuminati," a secret club of sorts.)
Replacing lamps is not necessary in this fixture, as the bright 200-watt Osram LED engine has a life expectancy of 20,000 hours. The engine is a white LED system that has a color temperature of 6500K and a CRI of 80. At 10 meters, the engine generates 11,200 lux (at narrow zoom) and 245 lux (at wide zoom).
To change colors, there are two options. First is a subtractive CMY color mixing as you would find in a typical discharge...