Merak 1600 Pack System
Tax included where applicable. Delivery, rigging and commissioning arranged by your concierge.
ELVARNIXO Strobes — daylight, on demand
The Merak is flash as infrastructure: asymmetric power across heads in tenth-stop precision, sub-second recycle on the fast bank, and the rental-fleet build that treats abuse as a spec.
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 to full in under a second on the fast bank
- Recycle times measured at mains voltage, honest at burst frame twenty
- Asymmetric distribution across heads in tenth-stop precision
- Temperature-governed fan with a printed noise figure
- Colour-stable freeze modes with honest trade-off tables
- IGBT control with t0.1 flash durations stated per power step
Specifications
| Energy | 1600 Ws |
| Heads | Up to 2, asymmetric |
| Recycle | 0.02–0.7 s fast bank |
| Freeze | t0.1 tables per step |
| Build | Rack handles, rain covers |
| Weight | ≈ 6.7 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
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.
Will it sync with my camera system?
Standard sync, HSS and TTL modules cover the major camera systems; the listing states which. Tell the concierge your bodies and we confirm before dispatch.
The ELVARNIXO Promise
Every ELVARNIXO fixture ships with its own photometric and colour report — CRI, TLCI and SSI measured on our Prague bench for that serial number, not copied from a brochure.