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Approved Supplier to Young V&A

Approved Supplier to Young V&A

Storm is delighted to announce we are now an approved production supplier to the newly refurbished Young V&A Museum. Offering a bright and dramatic space with both modern and traditional features. The first museum in the world dedicated to children from birth to early teens. We are excited to be able to work in this stunning new venue.

Co-designed with children and young people. Young V&A is a free, national museum designed to showcase the power of creativity in children’s lives as they build new skills and develop the creative confidence needed to thrive in our fast-changing world.

The museum’s three permanent galleries – Imagine, Play and Design – will showcase around 2,000 objects from across the V&A’s vast collection of art, design and performance in surprising and inspiring ways.

Find out more about this venue here.

Ayrton Diablo Has Arrived

Ayrton Diablo Profile

The popular Ayrton Diablo-S LED Profile is now part of our expanding inventory. With a 300w LED Engine, delivering 19,000 lumens in output. This compact, silent profile moving light is ideal for all environments, including Theatre & Live Events. Featuring Full Framing shutters, rotating gobo wheel, CMY + CTO and Iris. This is a truly feature packed profile for its size. Weighing in at only 21.9kg it surpasses any other fixture in it’s class.

Ayrton has taken on the ambitious challenge of making Diablo the smallest, lightest and most efficient luminaire of its category. With a record output of 19,000 lumens and a total weight of 21.8kg. Diablo is a powerhouse of technology that will tempt the most demanding lighting designers.

To achieve its objective, Ayrton has miniaturised the framing system while maximizing the performance level. As in other profile luminaires of the product line. The framing section allows accurate positioning of its four shutter blades on a 100% surface area in all positions, so that the user can frame any object regardless of the luminaire’s position.

A new ultra-compact high-output 550 W power supply feeds eight additional motors in the framing system. The Ayrton Diablo uses a 13-element proprietary optical system delivering an 7.5:1 zoom ratio with a zoom range of 7° to 53°. The 119 mm frontal lens can produce an extremely uniform flat beam that can render images perfectly in all conditions and at any beam angle.

Diablo S, specially designed for stage applications, is equipped with a monochromatic LED light source that can generate extremely high output and metallic white light calibrated at 7000 K.

See the Full Specification on the dedicated product page here.

Ecologi x Storm

Storm announces new sustainability partnership with Ecologi
Ecologi x Storm

Storm is delighted to announce a new partnership with Ecologi. Our new partnership extends our commitment to deliver Climate Positive events & equipment rental within the Entertainment Industry. Alongside our commitment to investing in newer & greener technology, across our full range of equipment and services. From February 2023, we are bringing our sustainable events commitment to our clients. Offering the opportunity to reduce the carbon impact of event production and equipment rental.

We calculate the estimated carbon impact for your event or rental on our quotes. Then, you can opt-in to our #GoGreen Sustainability Programme. Helping to create new forests, restoring habitats and supporting global carbon reduction programs around the world through our platform. Thanks to our friends at Ecologi, from as little as £4.80 you can be part of our #GoGreen Sustainability Programme.

How Does It Work?

Make your event production carbon negative & climate positive. Our “Zero” option aims to deliver your event production climate positive. Want to go further? Just ask your project manager for your “Zero+” option. We know a small cost now, will make a big impact in the future. Let’s #GoGreen together.

You can keep track of how our global forest projects & carbon reduction programmes are coming along by checking out our dedicated #GoGreen page. Or by following our social media platforms, where we will be sharing milestones, along with other ways you can help us deliver more sustainable events this year.

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NB: Estimated carbon impact is just that. We factor in all elements we supply to your event. However we can’t factor in any unexpected changes during your event or rental. We aim to have added your commitment via our platform within 14 working days after your event or rental ends. If you’d like to know when your event or rental’s commitment has been added, please just ask your project manager.

Martin ELP Par In Stock

Martin ELP Par in Orange

We are delighted to announce our latest investment with Martin. Adding the new ELP Par to our growing inventory. The successor to the popular Rush Par 2, the ELP par adds increased output and full colour calibration. It proved to be the ideal fixture to expand our LED Par offering, alongside a number of other static LED fixtures.

The Martin ELP PAR static LED fixture sets a new standard in the static wash category. With unprecedented lumen output, high-intensity narrow zoom, full-gamut colour calibration and smart rigging and control features.

The ELP PAR makes installation faster and easier, thanks to a quick-focus system and bright angle of projection indicators. Other performance enhancements include a wide zoom range that allows both stage illumination and tight mid-air beam effects. An advanced colour-calibration system that delivers accurate color reproduction and precise colour temperature control. An extended color mode and a CTC channel that allows RGB colour mixing around your desired white point.

You can find full details on the dedicated product page as well as in our app.

Robe RoboSpot Now In Stock

Robe RoboSpot Basestation

We are pleased to announce another of our recent investments, the Robe RoboSpot. The addition of the RoboSpot system to our inventory was an easy choice. It perfectly complements our already wide range of Robe fixtures, including; BMFL Blade, MegaPointe, Spiider & 150 LEDBeam‘s. The system makes it easy to create followspot positions wherever they are needed within a lighting rig. However there is no longer a need to put operators into the rafters, they can operate with their feet firmly on the ground. We are excited to get our new systems out onto projects this Autumn / Winter.

If you are interested in hiring a RoboSpot System, please get in touch with our team via Email, App or submit a myQuote request.

Introducing the revolutionary RoboSpot follow spot system. A device that allows follow spot operators to remotely control up to 12 fixtures simultaneously without the safety concerns and impracticality of placing personnel at the top venues such as stadiums, indoor arenas, concert halls, theatres, TV and film sets. Stunning visual displays are now possible with as many as 12 perfectly synchronised fixtures following a performer across the stage.

For Full Product Information or to start a myQuote hire request. Please visit the main product page.

Storm Invests in Astera Titan Tubes

Astera Titan Tube

Ahead of PLASA 2022, we are pleased to annouce one of our latest investments in new equipment with Astera. We now have both a number of Astera Titan Tube kits and AsteraBox CRMX Transmitters. Our Titan Tube kit’s come complete with all accessories as standard. In addition, we also stock the “wing plates” to allow for more creative rigging options or for single point mounting. Astera Titan cable kits are also available for hire, in 5m, 10m & 15m lengths.

Titan is the ultimate LED tube for filmmakers, TV studios and any creative person. It emits powerful, tunable white with ultra-high colour rendering. As well as RGBA+M colour mixing which can be applied to individual pixels or the whole tube. The tube offers unlimited range of usage; indoor or outdoor. AC-powered or on battery, on the go with the AsteraApp, with wired or wireless DMX.

The Astera system is a smart control system of your Film Lighting Tube. Infrared remote, wireless DMX and app work together to enable big setups with ease. Additionally, being monitored and adjusted in a fast and convenient way.

For more detailed information browse our product pages online or in our app.

Storm Makes Further Investment with TMB

ProPlex Simple GBS 10

We are pleased to announce another significant investment with TMB. Our latest investment sees the expansion of our stock of ProPlex Data Distribution hardware. We are excited to be the first company globally to take delivery of TMB’s new ProPlex Simple GBS 10. A managed switch offering both Fibre & EtherCON input / output’s with support for trunk’s, offering reliable backup connectivity.

The Simple GBS 10 switches provide easy configuration for multiple VLAN’s and support for entertainment specific protocols. Including, MA-Net, sACN, ArtNet, HogNet, RDMNet, Dante, HippoNet & many more. With twin Quad Fibre ports alongside the standard eight EtherCON ports. The Simple GBS is the perfect managed switch for any system.

ProPlex Simple GBS 10
ProPlex Simple GBS 10

“ProPlex provides a fully flexible and reliable solution for our growing networking requirements.” says Storm’s Rental Manager, James. “Since the return of live events in full this year. Shows are getting larger and thus requiring more complex solutions to deliver the show. Being able to roll a complete system in and out of a venue quickly is an important factor to being able to do this. This latest investment allows us to broaden our networking capabilities to stay at the forefront of technical systems.”

Storm’s Director, Dave adds, “The ProPlex software and devices continue to be intuitive and very easy to use. As well as being both powerful and reliable, which is exactly what we are looking for. The Simple GBS 10 combined with our IQ 1616‘s, IQ One‘s and ProPlex Opto-Splitters makes data routing extremely easy when dealing with all different types of rental applications. We’re looking forward to getting this kit out on the road on our upcoming projects. Thanks again to the support from TMB.”

TMB is exclusive distributor worldwide for ProPlex Data Distribution.

Significant Investment in Indu Electric

Indu Electric Distro 21 (Powerlock Isolator)

We are delighted to annouce our continued investment with the well established Indu Electric. As our Power Distribution partner of choice we are pleased to develop this relationship further. Taking delivery of even more of our already popular “Indu 72 Way’s” (our Distro 19) as well as a further investment in Powerlock Isolators (our Distro 21).

As part of this latest round of investment in Indu Electric. We are also pleased to announce that all our Indu 72 Way & Isolator Distro’s will support full network monitoring. Offering the ability to remotely monitor your show racks from anywhere on the system network. We can’t wait to get these out on the road over the next few months.

Indu Electric has been our long-term mains distribution partner since the early 2000’s. Our continued investment with Indu over the last 20+ years underpins our commitment to provide our clients with the latest, safest and most reliable equipment to power their events across the UK and Europe.

Find out more about the new distro specifications via our online catalogue or from our app!