Elation KL Panel lights up European PDC darts competition

The German company Audio Werft event technology you have selected the KL Soft Lights Panel Elation Professional for lighting European darts tournaments.

The sport of darts has enjoyed growing popularity in recent years, with fans filling large capacity stadiums for competitions and many more tuning in from home.

Audio Shipyard is the technical services provider for the events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) European Tour, which are broadcast in Germany via the live streaming service DAZN.

For the current tour, the Audio Werft team uses soft lights KL Panel and the largest and most powerful KL Panel XL, both from the manufacturer Elation, to illuminate the action on stage, for both the live audience and the television cameras.

In competitions they use six KL Panel XL luminaires in the front structure, about eight feet in front of the stage, and another four in a truss located just above its lower edge.

Other KL Panel XL units are located to the left and right of the stage., while four of the standard models are installed in the truss rear, and two others have been left as spare parts for any incident on the tour.

“There are several aspects that we must take into account when it comes to lighting,” explains Arne Lorenz, Event Technology Manager at Audio Werft -. On the one hand, It is about providing good light for cameras and television broadcasting. On the other, in a precision sport like darts, “Lighting also plays an important role in the well-being of the players.”.

Lorenz emphasizes that they are responsible for creating lighting that does justice to an official world-class sport. “That's why we pay attention to glare, with uniform lighting and that the target has no shadows, variable color temperature and energy efficiency. In all these areas we are very well supported with KL Panel and KL Panel XL, and its quality-price ratio is also very good”.

with his RGBWLC LED matrix, The KL Panel luminaire covers the entire color spectrum and also allows continuous selection of color temperature in a range of 2.000 a 10.000 Kelvin. Produce 24.000 lumens and has a CRI 95, to deliver high-quality, true-to-nature color reproduction.

In the case of the KL Panel XL model, it offers the same features as the previous one., but with a power of 44.000 lumens y control multizona for dynamic effects.