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Patt.20 (1915 - 1925)

Liquid Dimmers (1915 - 1945)
Glazed earthenware jars, complete with fixed & moving lead cones.

Patt.22 Front of House Spotting Arc (1916 - 1936)
Heavy-type, 30-50 Amps.

Patt.23/23A Stage Arc Spot (1919 - 1945)
15/20A carbon arc stage spot, slide focus

Patt.37 (1920 )
Flood

Patt.30 (1920 - 1968)
Medium-Angle Batten Flood 500 Watt

Iris Diaphragm (1920s and earlier?)

Sunray Compartment Batten (1922)

Patt.32 (1922 - 1948)
100 - 150W Baby Sunray Flod

Dead Front Board (1924)

Patt.34 (1924 - 1945)
1000W Panorama Flood

Electric Sign Letters (1925)

Flicker Wheel (1925)

Optical Effects Disc (1925)
For use with Patt.33 Optical Effects Lantern

Portable Electric Blowers (1925)
For wind effects, flag waving, silken flames etc.

Rainbow Wheel (1925)

Stage Lightning Lantern (1925)

Universal Stage Focussing Lantern (1925)
Arc or Incandescent

Patt.33 (1925 - 1945)
Optical Effect Lantern

Portable Teak Dimmer Board (1925 - 1957)
6 way or 12 way. Voltage Dimmers of any wattage from 100 to 1000.

Patt.42 (1925 - 1957)
Combined Spotting and Optical Effects Lantern

Patt.27 Float Spot (1925 - 1960)
Miniature PC spot, designed for use in float position downstage

Patt.21 Focus Stage Arc (1925 approx)

Patt.24 Half Watt Stage Flooding Lantern (1925 approx)
500/1000 Watts

Patt.25 Baby Spot Half Watt Lantern (1925 approx)

Patt.26 Baby Spot With Focussing Tray (1925 approx)

Patt.28 Cylindrical Type (1925 approx)

Patt.43 / Patt.43A / Patt.43B / Patt.43C (1925 approx - 1960)
1000W Focus Spot

Early Metallic Dimmers (1925?)
Type A or Type B

Early Resistance Dimmers (1925?)
Wall-type or portable

Incandescent Lamp Varnish (1925?)

Stage Floats and Battens (1925?)

Stage Plugs (1925?)

Patt.63 Stelmar Spotlight (1928)
1000W Projector Lamp model, first patented by Strand in 1928

Patt.36 (1928 - 1935)
1000W Acting Area Flood

Patt.38 (1928 - 1940)
500 Watt General Outdoor Flood

Patt.35 (1928 - 1963)
Arena Flood 1000 Watt

Patt.44 (1928 approx - 1952)
500W Baby Spot

Patt.45 (1928 approx - 1978)
250W Miniature Spot (later 500W)

Patt.46 / Patt.46A / Patt.46B (1928 approx - ?)
Flood

Magnetic Clutches with Manual Drive (1930)

Patt.48 (1930 - 1940)
Outdoor Square Flood, 1000W

Portable Interlocking Dimmer Board (1930 - 1957)
6 way or 12 way

Patt.51 (1930-1960)
1000W Optical Effects Projector

Open Type Footlights / Battens (1930s)

Pattern 52A (1930s)
Focus Flood 2000W

Pattern 52B (1930s)
2000W Spotlight

Pattern 74 (1930s)
Baby MIrror Spot 250W

Remote Colour-Change Spot (1930s)

Slate Type Slider Resistance Dimmers (1930s)

Patt.80 (1930s)
Baby Pageant 12V 100W

Grand Master Board (1931)

Leko Range (1933 - 1998)

Patt.50 / 50A / 50B (1935 - 1953)

Light Console (1935 - 1955)
Revolutionary lighting control, based on a Compton organ console, giving the operator a view of the stage for the first time.

Arc Resistances (1936)
Radial Switch type, standard type or parallel type

Cyclorama Groundrow (1936)

F250 Mercury Vapour Lamp (1936)
DC Mercury Vapour Lamp

Seecoloid (1936)

Tubular Resistance Dimmers (1936)
Type T1, T2, T4

Patt.73 (1936 - 1953)

Patt.56 (1936 - mid 1950s)

Chromoid Colour Filters (1936?)
High temperature colour filter, made from body-dyed polycarbonate.

Chromolux (v.1) (1936?)

Kaleidakon (1939)

Baby Flood (1945)
A single compartment of S type batten

Cyclorama Batten (1945)

Footlights (1945)
Open type

Lamp Troughing (1945)

Magazine Cornice Lighting (1945)

Plate Resistance Dimmers (1945)
Flickerless

Shop Window Floods (1945)

Stelmar Arc High Intensity Spot and Flood Projector (1945)

Sunset Resistance Dimmers (1945)
Type A, Type A1, Type B, Type D, Wall Mounting Type

Patt.47 (1945)
500-1000W Square Outdoor Flood

Patt.87 Low Voltage Lens Spot (1945)

Patt.102 (1945 - )
Soft Edge Spot (1 or 2kW)

Patt.237 (1945 - 1957)
Medium or wide angle flood - 60, 100 or 150 Watt

Patt.60 (1945 - 1981)
500W Flood
An evolved version of the Patt.30.

Automatic Dimmers (1945-1969)
Type PTU or CYU

Transformer Dimmers (1945? - ?)

Patt.137 (1946 - 1983)

Colour Filters - Cinemoid (1947)

Patt.83 (1948 - 1951)
1000W F.O.H. Mirror Spot (skeleton type)

StagesounD Effects Records (1949)

Remote Control – Electronic (Thyratron) (1949 - 1956)

Junior Slider Switchboard / Junior H A Slider Dimmerboard (1950)

Patt.41 (1952 - 1954)
100W Miniature Display Spotlight

Thyratron (1952 - 1966)

Valve Dimming

Chromolux (v2) (1953 - )
Provides a range of preset colours by mixing either the three primary or secondary colours.

Controls remote automatic dimmers via a low voltage control cable.

SR / System SR (1953 - )
All electric remote control (8, 18, 24, 36 or 54 dimmers)

Patt.53 (1953 - )
Prefocus Mirror Spotlight, 1000 Watt

Patt.58 (1953 - )

Patt.23 (1953 - 1983)
500W profile

Patt.93 (1954)
Long Range 1000W Spotlight

PR / System PR (1955)
Electro-mechanical remote control with two presets

C / System C (1956)
Similar to CD, but for more than 160 circuits.

CD / System CD (1956)
Electro-mechanical remote control (120 channel)

Portable Dimmerboard (PS.8 Type) (1957 - )
8 ways, either 500/1000 or 1000/2000 watt, variable load

Patt.123 (1957 - 1978)
500W Fresnel

Sound Console (1958)
From the Stagesound Audio Reproduction Equipment Range

Patt.152 (1959 - 1972)
High intensity scene projector.

KTV / System KTV (1959 April)
First dimmer system with fully automatic plotting of lighting & switchboard controls.

SD/WH (1959 April)
The first 220/240V SCR dimmer

Patt.243 (1960-1978)
2000W Fresnel

LC / System LC (1961)
All electric remote control with one preset (48, 72 or 96 dimmers)

Patt.12 (1961 - 1966)
ADB Picture Spot with shutters and fixing plate

CRD / System CRD (1963)
All-electric preset remote control (60,90,120,180,210 or 240 dimmers)

CRD Dimmer Rack (1963)

Junior 8 (1963)

8 channels and 4 dimmers

Patt.223 (1963)
1000W Fresnel

Patt.253 (1963)
1500/2000 Watt Profile

Luminaire Stencils (1963 - )
Stage and Studio Stencils

Patt.263 (1963 - 1976)
1kW Spotlight

Patt.264 (1963-1976)
Bifocal brother of Patt.263

Slider Dimmers (A.C. only) (1963?)

C-AE - System C-AE (1964)
AE stands for All-Electric.

JP Series (1965 - 1975)
20/40/60 channels

JTM (1965 - 1975)
Inexpensive variable-load dimmers housed in compact 20-channel or 10-channel racks.

IDM (1965 December)
First fully working lighting control system with Instant Dimmer Memory.

TM (1965?)

LP / System LP (Luminous Preset) (1966)
& Lightset

System WHZ (1966)

SP Series (1966 - 1979)
20,30,40 channel 2-preset in table / wall-mount desk.
40,60,80 channel 3-preset in seated desk.

Flame Flicker Effect (1967)
For Patt.123 or later Prelude or Quartet.

Minispot (1967)

Patt.100 (later) (1967 - )

Memo-Q (1968)

TEN/20 Lighting Control (1968)
10 dimmers into 20 control channels.

Portable Touring Equipment (1968?)

PTM (1968?)
Plug-in dimmer modules and associated racks

Mini T Control Desk (1970)

Mini T Dimmer Rack (1970)
6 way dimmer pack. 50 - 1000W per channel.

Patt.750 (1970)
1kW Beamlight

Mini 2 Control Desk (1971)
Compact control desk for 36, 30, 24, 18, 12 or 6 channels.

Mini 2 Dimmer Rack (1971)

Threeset (1971)
Three presets for 60, 80, 100 or 120 dimmers

DDM / System DDM (1971 - 1980)
Digital Dimmer Memory with 120 - 320 channels.

MSR or IDM/MSR (1971 to 1972)

Memocard (1971?)
Punched card memory system

Lightset (1973 - 1974)

MMS (1973 - 1980)
Modular Memory System with 80, 120, 240, 360, 480 channels.

Patt.793 (1973-1978)
2000W Profile Spot

Discodesk (1974?)

Mini-Fresnel (1974?)
12V 100W with integral (or external) transformer.

Mini-Profile (1974?)
12V 100W with integral (or external) transformer.

STM (1975)
Successor to the JTM

Compact (CMS) (1975 - 1978)
Self-contained memory control for up to 120 channels (originally 80 channels)

Lightboard (1975 - 1982)
1000 max channels

T Spot / T54 / T64 / T84 (1975 - 1984)

Discoplus (1976)
6 or 18 channel kinetic desk

Micro 8 / Micro8II (1976)

Multi-Q (1976)
Strand Century

Micro Q (1977)

Perma 12 (1977)
Wall-mounting 12 thyristor dimmer rack.

Portable High Power Dimmer Pack (1977)
Portable pack with 3 or 10 x 5kW maximum capacity Thyristor dimmers.

Parblazer (1977 - )
PAR 64

AMC Advanced Manual Control Desk (1977 - 1984)
20,30,40-120 max channels 3 presets, 9 groups
First console to perform a dipless crossfade

Iris Flood (1978)

1000W/1250W Cyc Flood

MCM (Modular Crate Mounted) (1978)
30 x 20A or 60 x 10A Thyristor Dimmers

Minipak (1978)
12 channel dimmer

Multi-Q/II (1978)

Riggers Remote (1978)

Patt.808 (1978)

Patt.813 (1978)

Patt.823 (1978)

Patt.828 (1978 - )

Patt.803 (1978 - 1981)
650W Fresnel Spot

Patt.833 (1978 - 1981)
Fresnel spot (replacement for Patt.45)

Light Palette (1978 - 1988)
Strand Century product

Octet (1978 September)
Sucessor to the Duet
"the high channel capacity memory lighting control with multiple sub-masters"

Duet / Duet 2 (1978-1984)
48, 60, 62, 120 max channels

CD80 Dimmer Banks and Modules (1980)

MiniPalette (1980)

Tempus (1980)
Portable dimmer packs

Tempus / Tempus 2G (1980)

6,12,18,24,30,36 channels

Patt.814 (1980)

Galaxy (1980 - 1996)
96, 144, 190, 240... 768 channels

Satellite (1981)

Harmony (1981 - 1988)
1000W Range (GX9.5, T/19 lamp)

Prelude (1981 - 1998)
650W Range introduced in 1981

Minim (1981-1997)

300W Fresnel, PC, Profile display spotlights

Mizar (1982 - 1999)
250-500W Fresnel Spotlight

Permus (1982 - ?)
Developed from Tempus dimmers

Mantrix 2S / Mantrix Memory (1982 September)

Gemini (1983)
180 channels. Replaced the Duet in the range.

Coda (1983 - )
500W Cyc Flood

Nocturne Flood (1983 - )
500W / 1000W Flood

Tempus M24 (1983 - 1993)
First batch-manufactured memory control, 72-120 channels.

Act 2 (1983 - ?)
2 channel lighting control / dimmer

Cadenza (1983 - ?)
2000W Range

Celebrity Plus 2 (1984)

Galaxy 2 (1984)
768 channels - 3 individual systems (Arena, Studio & Premier)

Light Palette 2 (1984)

Mini Light Palette (1984)

Act 6 (1984 - 1994)
6 channel dimmer rack (6 x 10A dimmer)

Designers Remote / Designers Control (1984?)

Celebrity (1985 (tbc))
Electrocontrols desk acquired by Strand following the takeover of the company.

Cadenza Effects Projector (1985 - 1996)
2000W Effects Projector

Solo (1985 - 1997)
Followspot - 2000W (Halogen) or 1000W (CSI/CID)

Lightboard XP (1986)

Parscan / Parscan 2 (1986)
Automated Parcan

PIP (1986)
Plug-In Professional Dimmer Modules

Lightboard M (1986 - 1996)
96 channels with 24 or 48 submasters, or 144 channels with 24 submasters with channel faders.

DC90 Dimmer Racks and Modules (1987)

Galaxy 3 (1987)
999 channels

Light Palette 3 (1987)
800 channels

Litescan - Showchangers (1987)
400W HTI moving profile

Mini Light Palette 2 / MLP2 (1987)
200 channels. Smaller version of Light Palette 3

Taskmaster - Showchangers (1987)
Controller for Showscan moving lights

Impact (1987 - )
350 control channels with proportional patching to 960 dimmers

Action 24 / Action 48 (1987 - 1990)
24 or 48 channel, 99 memory lighting control system

Act 3 (1987 - 1994)
3 channel dimmer rack (3 x 20A dimmer)

Cantata (1987 - ?)
UK: 1200W Range
USA: 1000W Range

PALS (1987 - ?)
Precision Automated Lighting System

Microdimmer (1988)

Pro Palette (1988 July - 1990 September)
US Market - designed as a direct replacement for Light Palette V6E (black & white version)

Lightboard M Junior (1989)
As Lightboard M but without faders

Multidim (1989)

SMX (1989)
Strand Multiplex

Lightpalette 90 (1989 - 1996)
576 / 1536 channels

Gemini 2+ (1989 September - 1995)
340 channels, dual colour video displays, increased system memory.

CD80 1.2kW Pack (1989?)
24 channel compact dimmer

Finesse (1990)

MX (1990)
12,24,48 channels, 2 presets.

Premiere (1990)

Quartet (1990)
650W

24 channel demultiplexer (1990 - ?)
Control of 24 analogue dimmers.

EC90 (1990 - ?)
Modular digital dimmer with reporter

Andi (1990s)
German Modular Dimmer System

LX (1991)
12,18,24 channels, 2 preset.

CD80 Digital Pack (1992)

Colour Call Scrollers (1992)

Optique Range (1992)

Mini Light Palette 90 (1992 - 1996)
576 channels, 20 submasters, 8 timed or manual playbacks.

GSX (1993)
25, 50, 75, 100, 125 channels using Genius software

Software: Genius (1993)
Application Software for Genius desks (GSX, LBX)

Draco (1993 - )
20kW Tungsten Halogen

Galaxy Nova (1993 - 1996)
999 channels

LD90 (1993 - ?)
Digital Dimming

Alto (1994)

Fresnel, PC and profile spotlights 2000 & 2500W

Digital Environ / DE90 (1994)
Digital Environ Dimmer Cabinets

LBX (1994)
25, 50, 75, 100, 125 channels, memory and manual. Genius operating system.

System 6 (1994)
Compact wall-mounted dimmer cabinet: 6 x 15A or 6 x 20A dimmers

Toccata (1994)

Act 3+ (1994 - ?)

Act 6+ (1994 - ?)
6 channel dimmer rack (6 x 10A dimmer)

430 (1994 November)
Uses Genius Pro operating software. 30 submasters.

530 / 550 (1995)
Genius Pro operating software

Hyperbeam (1995 - ?)
Hyperbeam 1200 / Hyperbeam 1288 - Automated Spotlight

Videolux (1995 - ?)
Low Energy Fill

530i / 550i (1996)
Genius Pro operating software

SN100 Series Shownet Node (1996 - )

Brio (1996 - ?)
18/30 & 25/50 Zoom 'Coolbeam' Profile Spotlights 600W

Toccata Effects Projector (1996 - ?)

Pirouette (1996 - ?2002)
Automated Wash Light

520 / 520i (1997)
Portable desks with Genius operating system

Shownet (1997?)
Ethernet nodes for 500 series console with Networker software installed.

300 Series (1998)
Manual / Memory Desk (48/96, 125/250 channels) with Genius Pro software

310 / 510i (1998)
Show Controller / Backup unit

HMI Daylight Fresnel (1998 - )
Range of Daylight Fresnels for Film / TV use.

PAR (1998 - )
Quartzcolor range 200W - 6kW

Dig 6 (1998?)
6 channel digital dimmer

SL Profile (1999)
575W/600W, Axial Coolbeam Spotlight

Studio (1999 - )
Tungsten Fresnels

SLD Dimmers (2000)
Dimmer rack for 24 or 48 dual dimmer modules.

Architectural SL (2000 - )
Range using CDM lamps with 8000 hour lamp life

301 Backup Console (2002)

6kW Daylite PAR (2002)

Quartzcolor 6kW HMI Par (2002)

S72 Demultiplexer (2002)
DMX to Analogue Demultiplexer for up to 72 channels

100 Series Manual Control Desk (2002 - 2010)

200 Series (2002 - 2011)

EC21 (2005)
Installation dimmer rack

3 Pack (2006)
3 way dimmer pack

6 Pack (2006)
4U high, 19 inch digital dimmer pack.

Light Palette Range (2006)
Using PaletteOS written by Horizon Controls

Palette Range (2007)
Using PaletteOS Windows XP Embedded operating system, written by Horizon Controls.

ProPack (2008)
High density high power dimming in a 2U rack mount package

S21 IGBT Dimmer Box (2008)

Accent (2008 - )
DMX Preset control stations

Vision.Net (2008 - )
Networked control devices

Coda II (2008 - ?2014)
500W Cyc Flood

100 Plus Series Console (2010)
12 channel, 2 preset with hold function, effects, split crossfaders with time fade.

1210 (2011)
Twelve 10A dimmer or relay switched channels in a 4U high 19 inch rack module.

200 Plus Series (2011)

Sixer (2011)
6-way console with Grand Master.

250ML (2013)
250 channels and 30 moving lights & LEDs

Neo (2014)

RelayRack (2014)
12 channel 10 Amp Relay Panel

500ML (2015)
Moving light console

Neo Compact 10 (2019)

Cantata LED Fresnel (2020)
Three color temperature options for this high output LED Fresnel.
FC - Full Color
TCW - Tunable Cold White
TWW - Tunable Warm White