Stage Lighting Glossary

This is a collection list of stage lighting glossary for whom is related to lighting business, you can treat it as a dictionary. I try to explain every term in a plain description and sort them alphabetically. I will update this page constantly if I find something new, and if you find any mistake or confusion, feel free to inform me, I will amend quickly.

Aperture - An opening hole on the lens for controlling depth of field and diaphragm size, the larger aperture is, the more lights pass through.

ARM Processor - ARM is short for Acorn RISC Machine, an ARM processor is based on ARM architecture.

Battery - Some of outdoor stage lighting instruments have builtin function of battery charging in case of blackout.

Clamp - An iron or aluminum hardware fixes lighting fixtures onto truss.

Control Booth - It is a control room for all lighting and sound devices.

Dimmer - Dimmer is an electronic device for dimming the brightness of lights.

DMX512 - It is a unidirectional standard protocol for stage lighting. DMX is short of digital multiplex. DMX512 network is consist of controller, slave devices and terminator in a daisy chain.

Female Connector - Also known as receptacle, hold the male connector pins.

Flight Case - Suppliers of lighting equipment will prepare for you their own flight case for assembling if you are a international buyer.

Floodlights - It is a type of lights, broad beam, used to lighten up large outdoor space such as playfield and square .

Fresnel - Augustin Jean Fresnel is a famous physicist who invented the Fresnel lens which was named after him.

Ghost Lights - Ghost light is exist because of theater's superstition, it's a single light bulb, maybe LED lamp, that lit at night in the center stage of theater.

Gobo - It is a patterned template which will shape the beams from light sources into particular lights and shadows, could be made by plastic, steel and glass.

Halogen Lamps - It's a type of incandescent lamps with adding a little halogen gases in the light bulbs, that will keep halogen lamp's tungsten filament more long-lived.

IP - International protection rate of waterproofness, dust-proof and human contact, for example, IP65 stands for high level of water and dust protected.

LED - Short for light emitting diode, LED lighting bulb is the best and cheap light source so far.

Light Fixture - A lighting product like LED bulb or lantern to provide indoor lights.

Lumen - Lumen is an optics derived unit, its symbol is lm, a measurement for total amount of visible lights from a light source.

Male Connector - Also known as plug, be hold by female connector.

PAR - Short for parabolic aluminized reflector, also called as PAR can.

PAR 64 - Indicates the diameter of par can is 200mm.

Profile - Profile light is a kind of moving head lights with patterns.

RGBW - Short for red, green, blue and white.

Slave Devices - In DMX network, it adopts master and slave model. So slave devices is opposite to master devices.

Spotlight - Also named as followspot, is a lighting instrument used for follow actors or singers on the stage, operated by a lighting employee.

Truss - A structure used for hanging lighting instruments and stage scene setting, made by iron, needed to be installed firmly to avoid collapse accidents.

Umbrella - Made by reflective umbrella propped up by a tripod, used for soften harsh lights. When use it, shoot lights to the interior side of umbrellas.

Wall Washer - An about 1 meter long lighting device to create an area of wash lights on the surface of walls and architectures.

Wireless - Some of stage lighting instruments can be controlled via wireless.

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Honglitronic announced its fiscal performance for the first quarter of 2016 jumped at least 110%.

Net profits nearly doubled from RMB 27.27 million (US $4.2 million) during the same period last year to reach at least RMB 57.25 million.

The company’s net profits improved due to better demands in the LED lighting market during first quarter this year, and steady business performance.

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The Multifunctional Light product features clearly demonstrates this approach of integrating lighting with thermostats, speaker and audio functions. The LED ceiling light developed with the help of Toshiba LED technology is an IR remote controlled LED that integrates six sensors, including lighting sensors, proximity sensors, IR remote control sensors, microphones, speakers.

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Plessey Unveils New LED Beam Control Module

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Longman share: Philips Lighting to Raise R&D Investment in China

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LED industry’s short product cycle is spurring innovation in the sector. Fast innovation is crucial for competing in the Chinese market, which is sensitive to new products especially those with more functions, said Olivia Qiu, Chief Innovation Officer of Philips Lighting.

Aiming to boost revenues and market share, Philips plans to release more than 1, 000 lighting products in China each year, with some designed to target the local market. The R&D will also be speeding up R&D of affordable residential LED products.

The country’s telecommunication infrastructure 4G network is also growing at a rapid pace to build a solid application foundation for consumers and manufacturers.

In response to these changes, Philips Lighting will be increasing collaboration with companies from different industries including Xiaomi, Alibaba Group to make more multifunctional products that integrate cross-industry technology, and diversifies the European company’s presence in China, said Qiu.

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