Accessories are an important tool in a lighting designer’s palette as they allow them to configure and fine-tune lighting scenes with dedicated light distributions and colours. They also give designers the flexibility to optimize a design on site, customising beam spreads or colour temperatures to fit different special conditions within an installation. But until now, this was a tedious and costly process that involved heavy glass or metal accessories that could withstand the heat from halogen lamps and required expensive fixtures built for such purpose.
With the SORAA SNAP System, the company has radically transformed the user experience and economics of accessorizing lighting designs. Due to its bright, single LED light source made possible by Soraa’s GaN on GaN LED technology, and breakthrough prismatic optic, the Soraa lamp can accept a magnet in the center of the lens without any major effect on light output. This in turn enables a simple attachment mechanism that can accept a wide range of accessories. Also, the relatively low operating temperature of the Soraa lamp, compared to a halogen lamp, allows the use of new accessory materials such as advanced polymer films. Examples of accessories include: beam spreads of 25°, 36°, 60°; hex-louvres and snoots to reduce glare; grates to create linear light patterns; and filters for colour temperature shifting and colour tint effects. Soraa will also deliver a series of never-before-possible beam distributions such as the “Flat Top”, which delivers a perfectly square or rectangular beam with even illumination.
Soraa’s Snap System is the first LED lamp/accessory solution that is optimised to work as an integrated system. Now users can achieve multiple distributions with single lamp specification, apply beam shapes that were never before possible, and fine tune installations for unique conditions and requirements. The Snap System has several beam shaping attachments, including beam spreaders, linear lenses, and "flat-tops" that provide rectangular beam distribution patterns to perfectly illuminate furniture, art, and other rectangular objects.
