Product Description

Claypaky CL3043 Arolla Aqua M-LT Moving Head Fixture

Overview

Looking for a moving head that thrives in the rain, performs with precision, and lights up stages and arenas?
Meet Arolla Aqua M-LT, the new long-throw IP66 profile in the Arolla Aqua Family, that redefines outdoor performance. Compact yet powerful, weighing just 30.5 kg (67.2 lb), it’s driven by a custom 550W calibrated white LED engine (6500 K), delivering up to 28,000 lumens of pure, consistent brightness. Arolla Aqua M-LT delivers flagship-level performance in a compact, IP66 road-ready body, making it the perfect hybrid for touring, broadcast, fixed installations, and high-end outdoor venues where power, precision, and reliability are non-negotiable.

Features

• Brightness-to-Size Ratio: Weighing 30.5 kg (67.2 lbs) and standing just 690 mm (27 in) tall, Arolla Aqua M-LT delivers an exceptional output-to-weight ratio — meaning faster rigging, easier handling, and reduced transport costs. Its 550W calibrated white LED engine unleashes an impressive 28,000 lumens, making it the perfect choice for long-throw and arena-scale applications.
• Engineered for Arena-Scale Throw: Arolla Aqua M-LT combines a 3.8°–52° linear zoom with a 160mm (6.3 in) front lens and a refined beam hotspot, projecting with precision over long distances. Perfectly suited for medium and large-scale productions, it delivers stunning aerials and crisp projections that dominate any stage.
• Built to Endure Any Weather: Designed for the toughest outdoor conditions, it is IP66-rated, fully dust-tight, and water-jet resistant. Its SunSafe auto-head repositioning system automatically protects optics and internal components, ensuring maximum reliability show after show.
• Creative Effects Toolbox: CMY + linear CTO color system, 6-slot color wheel, dual gobo wheels, animation disc, 2 prisms, 16-blade iris, soft edge and flood frost filters, and ultra-fast 24-bit dimming. Every tool you need for limitless design possibilities, built into one compact powerhouse fixture.
• GoBright Beam Optimization: Maintain flawless brightness and color integrity with gobos or effects layered in. GoBright technology eliminates color shifts and brightness loss, reducing the need for manual correction and ensuring perfect visual consistency, both in live and on camera.
• Full Framing System: Shape, frame, and transform your beam with absolute precision. The 4 focal planes offer ±90° rotation for unmatched flexibility, while the Total Curtain blackout effect adds a dramatic, signature touch to your designs.
• Smart Positioning and Recovery: With Absolute Position tracking and an electronic brake system, Arolla Aqua M-LT stays perfectly on cue even after a power loss, ensuring uninterrupted performance when every second counts.
• Advanced Control & Connectivity: Stay connected and in control wherever you are. Arolla Aqua M-LT comes equipped with built-in Wireless DMX, an intuitive web-based interface, and full CloudIO compatibility, enabling streamlined remote setup, monitoring, and diagnostics, for effortless management both on-site and on the road.
• Endless Pan & Tilt: Experience unlimited, fluid motion with 360° continuous pan and tilt, delivering expressive looks, slow sweeps, and high-speed spins that add dynamic energy to any performance.

Specifications

Light Source Type

• Power: 550W
• CRI: 70+
• Color Temperature: 6500K ± 300K
• Lamp life expectancy: 20.000 hrs L70*
  *It may vary depending on various factors, as type of use and environment

Photometric Data

• Zoom range: 3.8° to 52°
• Lumen output: 28.000 Lumen Output (Integrating Sphere)
• Front lens diameter: 160mm
• High efficiency optical system

Control and Connections

• Personalities: 2 modes:
  • Basic: 44  control channels
  • Standard: 54 control channels
• Control Protocol:
  • DMX, Art-Net, RDM, sACN
  • CRMX (TiMo FX)
• DMX and RDM connectors: Locking 5 pin XLR IN/THRU
• Ethernet port: RJ45 IN/OUT
• Power connector: PowerCon True1 IN/OUT
• Built In Web Server
• CloudIO: fully compatible

Dynamic Effects

• Colors:
  • Linear CMY/CTO color mixing
  • Linear CTO filter 3000K – 6500K
  • 1 color wheel with 6 dichroic colors, tint channel
• Gobos:
  • 1 static gobo wheel with 9 fixed interchangeable gobos
  • 1 rotating gobo wheel with 7 interchangeable glass gobos
• Framing system:
  • 4 blades (± 35° inclination) with ± 60° rotation of the full system
  • “Total Curtain" effect allowing the full blackout with each single blade
  • Built-in macros
• Frost:
  • 2 frost filters: 1 heavy and one soft
• Rotating Effects:
  • 1 four-facet conical prism with rotation in both directions at variable speed
  • 1 four-facet linear prism with rotation in both directions at variable speed
  • 1 aluminium animation disc with continuous rotation in both directions at variable speed movement
• Iris:
  • 3% - 100% linear adjustment
  • Motorized with variable pulse and random effects
• Movement:
  • Tilt: endless
  • Pan: endless
  • Absolute position
  • Automatic repositioning
  • Tilt brake
  • Mechanical Pan/Tilt lock for safe transportation and maintenance
• Beam:
  • Motorized Zoom and Focus
• Dimmer/Shutter:
  • High resolution dimmer - 24 bit, 5 curves
  • Shutter and Strobe effect

Hardware and Software

• Long life self-charging battery
• Display Graphic LCD backlit b/w Display
• Firmware upload from another fixture
• Firmware Upgrade via Web Server
• Diagnostic
• DMX monitoring
• Remote access through RDM

Housing

• Magnesium and steel structure with plastic covers
• Two side handles for transportation
• IP66 protection rate

Working Position

• Working in any position
• Hanging system: with fast-lock omega clamps (1/4 turn) on the base
• Optional safety chain

Electrical

• Operating Voltage: 100-240V, 50/60 Hz
• Power Supply: Electronic auto range with active PFC
• Max Power consumption: Max 950W (9,9A) @ 100V - 950W (4,0A) @ 240V

Thermal Specification

• Max ambient temperature: 45°C (113°F)
• Min ambient temperature: -20°C (-4°F)

Safety Specs

• Minimum distance of illuminated objects: 4.5 meters
• Minimum distance from flammable materials: 0.2 meters (8”)
• Battery fuse: T6.3A 250V
• Main fuse: 10A 250V
• Thermally protected power supply (overheating and cooling failure)
• Forced ventilation with axial fans

Compliance

• CE Marking (in conformity to the following):
  
  • 2014/53/EU - Radio Equipment Directive (RED)
  • 2011/65/EU - Restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances (RoHS)
  • 2009/125/EC - EcoDesign requirements for Energy-related Products (ErP)
• UKCA conforms to UK regulations:
  • S.I. 2017 N.1206
  • S.I. 2012 N.3032
  • S.I. 2021 N.745
• cETLus LISTED:
  • UL 1573:2003
  • CSA C22.2 N.166:2015