Elation Professional has something new in LED fixtures: the introduction of tri-color LEDs. Instead of each LED lamp being a single color, the new tri-color technology makes it possible for each lens to contain a combination of three 1WLEDs -- red, green, and blue. This three-color innovation allows for improved RGB color mixing, the elimination of multi-color shadows, and a much brighter, more even field, the company says.

The first of the company's product top use this technology is the DLED36 Tri-Brick. An RGB color-mixing brick, it features four heads, each containing three of the new tri-color LED lamps for a total of 12 tri-color lamps. With a 1W red, green, and blue LEDs per lamp, there are a total of 36 1W LEDs in this high-output, compact fixture.

"End-users were asking for LED fixtures with better color mixing, that didn't produce the three-color shadows you often saw on surfaces illuminated by LEDs," says Eric Loader, Elation's director of sales. "Elation's R&D team has responded to this demand by making a major breakthrough in LED technology, which allows us to actually combine a red, green and blue LED in the same lens. This innovation results in vastly improved color mixing, clarity and brightness.

Loader explains how the DLED36 Tri-Brick's tri-color LEDs mix colors more smoothly: "Previously, if a fixture had 12 LEDs (four each of red, green and blue) and you wanted to create a mixed color like magenta, only the red and blue LEDs would be turned on and all the green LEDs would need to be off. But with Elation's exclusive new tri-color technology, all 24 LEDs can run continuously, and you see the magenta color created in each lens. The result is a more 'blended' even-toned mixed color. Plus, the tri-color technology magically also creates a better range of white colors; thus we did not see the need to add an amber or white LED, which can give you a better white but limits your primary color output."