Source Four - Third Party Offerings

Third Party Offerings

Although the Source Four is designed to accept the same accessories as other lighting instruments, many third party manufacturers have designed products specifically for the Source Four. City Theatrical manufactures a line of products that retrofit a Source Four into a tungsten source followspot. Ocean Thin Films, a manufacturer of scientific optics and instruments, including the color wheels for the Vari-Lite color fixtures, manufactures the SeaChanger Color Engine that utilizes gradient dichroic disks to control color. The unit is mounted in between the lamp assembly and optics and is controlled via DMX512.

Great American Market (GAM) offers a special effects unit, the SX4 that is mounted inside a Source Four in a similar manner to the Seachanger Color Engine. and offers a large selection of drop-in accessories that range from gobo-changers to overlapping looping gobos. Several manufacturers of HMI sources, such as Kobold, provide lighting fixtures that provide "daylight balanced" light through the Source 4 without the use of gels. This is accomplished by replacing the lamp assembly on the back of the Source 4 with an HMI lamp head.