ELVARNIXO

Aphelion 400 Monolight

35.500,00 Kč

Tax included where applicable. Delivery, rigging and commissioning arranged by your concierge.

Measured per serialPhotometric and colour report ships in the box.
Commissioned by our crewRigged, cabled, balanced — and taught.
Fifteen-year partsTwo years labour; loaners while yours is on our bench.

ELVARNIXO Strobes — daylight, on demand

The Aphelion is the studio's dependable sun: nine stops of IGBT-controlled power, colour that stays put from full to a whisper, and a modelling LED that tells the truth about what will fire.

We build flash the way rental houses wish everyone did: stable colour from full power to the ninth stop down, recycle times that hold at frame twenty of a burst, and user-replaceable flashtubes seated in machined mounts. Fans are temperature-governed and honest about their noise figure, and modelling LEDs track flash output so what you see is what fires.

Design & Craft

  • Recycle times measured at mains voltage, honest at burst frame twenty
  • Colour held within ±150 K across the full power range — curve shipped per serial
  • Modelling LED tracks flash output proportionally
  • User-replaceable flashtube in a machined ceramic mount
  • Nine-stop power range in tenth-stop steps
  • IGBT control with t0.1 flash durations stated per power step

Specifications

Energy 400 Ws
Recycle 0.05–0.9 s
Power range 9 stops, 1/10-stop steps
Colour stability ±150 K full range
Mount S-type, steel
Weight ≈ 2.2 kg
Warranty 2 years, parts stocked 15

Care

Let fans finish their cool-down before casing; store capacitors formed by powering the unit monthly between jobs. Flashtubes and modelling LEDs are user-replaceable — handle tubes by ceramic, never glass. Annual service includes capacitor health, colour check and firmware.

Questions, Answered

How consistent is the colour across power levels?
Within ±150 K across the full range on our bench, and the exact curve for your serial number ships in the box. Mixed fleets match because every unit is measured, not sampled.

What about flash duration for action and liquids?
t0.1 figures per power step are in the photometric report. Freeze modes trade colour stability for speed and say so honestly.

The ELVARNIXO Promise

One standard across the range: if it would not survive our own rental fleet, it does not ship with the ELVARNIXO mark.