LED Daylight Spot Lights

Below is a description of what is included in the LED Daylight Spot lighting kit available to book via the SISO website.

Notes: These work in a similar way to the Redheads and Dedos we have, but there are some differences, they are mostly best for location work.

More energy efficient. As the lamps produce much less heat they don't draw much power.
The lamps are daylight only rather than bicolour. This means they are more powerful which is a benefit when working in a daylight situation. They can be converted to Tungsten with the addition of a heat proof orange filter (1CTO).
The 300d model can be powered by 2 V-lock batteries in locations without 13amp supply.

There are 7 of these kits available:

6 x Aputure 120d
1 x Aputure 300d

Listing on SISO

Be aware that the additional Fresnel lens is listed as separate piece of kit on SISO

These lamps have a single LED unit that produces the light, unlike the panels that use many smaller LEDs spread over a larger area. The LED comes protected with a plastic cover for storage which attaches with a Bowens mount fitting.

We can control the spread of this light in three ways.

The reflector

This silvered aluminium fitting, cuts the widest spread of the light and bounces it back to the middle of the beam. This is the simplest way of controlling the light, which remains a hard light, but with some softening due to the light coming from the edges of the reflector.

Barn doors

These spring mounted black panels cut the light beam so you can control its spread, and ‘shape’ the light.

To get the most defined edge with the barn doors, you use the black reflector, rather than the silver one.

They have a spring mounted clip which lets you mount them onto either the silver reflector, the included black reflector and the Fresnel lens (more later)

To fix a colored gel to the lamp, you can clip directly onto barn doors with clips, or cut and fit a much smaller piece into the nifty internal gel holder, which is held in place by magnets.

The Fresnel lens

This separate lens lets you spot and flood the lamp, like the fittings used in TV studio A.

It has the same Bowens fitting like the reflectors. And once on the lamp, rotates in and out adjusting the beam angle, letting you concentrate the light into one spot. The barn doors will fit on the fresnel as well. Please be careful not to drop this device as it's made of glass and plastic.

Using Batteries

The larger LED lamps at BSU have a fitting on the back called a V-lock (because of its shape) which will take large IDX batteries. These can run a lamp on full power for up to an hour on the LEDGO panel lights, and ******* on the Aputure 300d ???

The 300d has a separate transformer which has space for 2 V lock batteries, which if powerful enough, can power the lamp.

The SIDUS LINK App

The Aputure 300d and six Amaran 100ds we have can be remotely controlled with the free SIDUS LINK app from the Play store or App store.

Once you have set up your lamps, and connected them via Bluetooth, you can control their intensity and even create flashing effects without having to touch them.

With more sophisticated lamps you can change their colour temperature too.

Here is an Introduction:

How to create and save a new scene:

The rest of the tutorials can be found on the Sidus YouTube Channel

Written by FR

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