Capella 400 Monolight
Tax included where applicable. Delivery, rigging and commissioning arranged by your concierge.
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.