ELVARNIXO

Capella 400 Monolight

12.590,00 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

Monolights earn loyalty by repetition, and the Capella repeats beautifully — tenth-stop steps, serial-measured colour, recycle that keeps pace with a working set's tempo.

Strobe electronics are the quiet half of the craft: IGBT control that cuts flash duration to the ten-thousandth, capacitors rated for heat and years rather than spec-sheet mornings, and colour held within 150 K across the whole power range. Housings are aluminium, not painted plastic; every board is potted against vibration and every unit burn-tested before its serial number is granted.

Design & Craft

  • Recycle times measured at mains voltage, honest at burst frame twenty
  • Two years parts and labour; parts stocked for fifteen
  • Aluminium housing; every board potted against vibration
  • S-type accessory mount machined in steel
  • IGBT control with t0.1 flash durations stated per power step
  • User-replaceable flashtube in a machined ceramic mount

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 ≈ 1.9 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.