New in the Fleet: Elation SŌL I BLINDER

A lighting designer speccing accent positions for a stage plot runs into a shape problem before a color one. A riser edge wants a low blinder tucked out of sightlines. A back truss wants a wall of light. A runway wants a single pendant overhead. Each of those has historically meant a different fixture, pulled from a different shelf, with its own spares and its own line on the quote.

Carrying that many separate accent fixtures gets expensive in ways that don’t show up on a purchase order. Every SKU added to the fleet is another control profile a tech has to learn, and it thins out how many of any single fixture are actually in the shop when a show needs a dozen at once.

The Elation SŌL I BLINDER was built around not making that trade.

Interconnect and M10 Connect turn one fixture into several

Elation built the SŌL I to link rather than stay single. Interconnect hardware joins fixtures edge to edge into a two-cell or four-cell block. M10 Connect hardware adds a threaded mounting point for building larger frames, linear arrays, or pendants. Array Mode addresses a linked group under one line instead of one per fixture, so a four-cell block runs off a single address the same way one fixture would. We bought both pieces of hardware alongside the fixtures, so the array builds aren’t limited to what ships standard in the box.

The power spec is what keeps a bigger build from turning into a cabling problem. A single fixture draws up to 285 watts, but the power thru rating supports three units chained off one 115-volt circuit before a second drop is needed, six units on 240-volt power. A four-cell wall that would normally mean four separate power runs instead needs one.

Lens choice travels with it too. The compound lens narrows the beam to 46 degrees for a tighter blinder look. Pull it and the field opens to 52 degrees for a broader wash, same fixture, same interconnect, different job depending on which lens is mounted that day.

Mounting hardware

Every SŌL I ships standard with a floor stand and yoke, a fixture interconnect adapter, a safety cable, and a locking power cable, enough to run it as a single fixture straight out of the case.

Our order added seven more accessories on top of that: Interconnect (SOL1IC) and M10 Connect (SOL1M10C) hardware for the array builds, a Heavy Duty Yoke (SOL1Y) and Rear Mount Bracket (SOL1RMB) for floor and truss positions, a Blinder Frame Kit (SOL1BFK) for racking two units side by side, a Barndoor (SOLBD) for spill control, and a Bowens Adapter (SOLBA), the one accessory built for photography rather than trussing: it opens the front of the fixture to softbox and diffusion mounts instead of rigging hardware.

The specs that matter

• Light source: 250 W RGBLAW LED engine (red, green, blue, lime, amber, white), 30,000 hour average life
• Output: 9,128 lumens, integrating sphere measurement
• Modes: High Output Blinder Mode for maximum punch, or Constant Output Mode for an even level over long runtimes
• Color temperature: Variable 1800K to 8500K, 16-bit, with dim-to-warm and red shift emulation
• Beam: 46 degrees with the compound lens, 52 degrees with no lens (field angle 85 and 95 degrees)
• Control: DMX and RDM, ten distinct channel modes from 1ch to 21ch, Array Mode addressing, Aria x2 wireless management
• Power: 285 W max draw, AC 100 to 240V, power thru rated for three units on 115V or six on 240V
• Size and weight: 7.28 x 4.48 x 4.48 in, 5.5 lb fixture only, 9.25 lb with the included yoke and floor stand
• Rating: IP65, convection cooled, -15°C to 45°C (5°F to 113°F), 972 BTU/hr at full draw

We carry 100 units, available now, shipped six to a road case.

Why it’s in the fleet

The SŌL I runs convection cooled, with no fan, and we’ve confirmed it firsthand: it’s genuinely quiet running near a stage or an open mic, not just quiet on paper. That matters for general session work, where the room has to stay quiet for whoever is speaking.

We don’t take on a new accent fixture to grow a shelf count. We take it on when it changes what we can say yes to on a call. A client asking for a four-cell blinder wall and a client asking for a single pendant over a stage used to be two different fixture families. With 100 SŌL I Blinders now in the fleet, both requests pull from the same shelf.

Building a plot around accent light and want to talk through what a chain of these looks like before it’s locked? Give us a call.