LED Lighting for
Worship
Temple B’nai Abraham,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
ColorBlast, full-color LED lighting
fixtures from Philips Color Kinetics,
beautifully illuminate the canopy and
eternal light above the bema in the
Esther Greenberg Chapel.
Bring worship to light
Community worship takes many forms. Church services and
productions can be traditional or contemporary, formal or
conversational, conservative or theatrical.
Regardless of your approach to worship, you need a lighting
style that supports your worship style. Effective lighting
focuses attention, creates appropriate mood and atmosphere,
communicates meaning, and engages the audience.
Due to continuing advances in light output, light quality, and
energy efficiency, LED lighting fixtures can now brilliantly
and cost-effectively support virtually all worship lighting
applications.
Industry-leading LED lighting solutions from Philips Color
Kinetics are ideal for most church production and architectural
lighting designs, both indoors and outdoors.
Photography: John Brandon Miller
From uniform white-light LED cove lights, wash lights, and
floodlights to multi-channel stage lights offering full-color
illumination and extraordinary color-changing effects, Philips
Color Kinetics LED lighting solutions deliver intense, highquality light while maximizing energy savings and ease of use.
Old North Church, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
eW Cove Powercore white-light LED fixtures cast a warm glow in Boston’s Old North Church, accentuating the historic arches and moldings. The dimmable, lowprofile fixtures consume one-sixth the energy and offer a projected useful life of up to 25 times longer than the previous click-strip incandescent light sources.
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Boston’s Old North Church replaced its
existing click-strip incandescent lighting
with 130 eW Cove Powercore units,
installed along interior niches of the church’s
upper gallery. the eW® Cove Powercore
fixtures cast a warm glow along the church’s
niches, while accentuating the historic arches
and moldings.
Not only do the LED fixtures consume one-sixth
the energy of the previous incandescent system
(40 watts per eight-foot run, versus 240 watts),
they offer a projected source lifetime of 50,000
hours — up to 25 times longer than the previous
light sources. Installing eW Cove Powercore LED
fixtures in place of the incandescent sources has
cut energy consumption in Old North Church by
nearly 85%.
The fixtures’ low profile and simple line-power
installation, courtesy of patented Powercore ®
technology, enable them to fit in narrow alcoves
and niches where traditional light sources that
require ballasts, additional power supplies, and
other equipment can not. For further efficiency
and ease of use, the church can smoothly dim the
eW Cove Powercore fixtures with commercially
available ELV-type dimmers.
Intense,
energy-efficient
LED white light
Lighting designers have sometimes avoided specifying LED lighting
solutions because of concerns about light output and light quality,
especially in white-light applications. Today, Philips Color Kinetics offers
white-light LED fixtures that meet or exceed the light output and color
uniformity of comparable incandescent and fluorescent fixtures.
eW Cove MX Powercore, the most
powerful offering in the new line of
linear white-light LED lighting fixtures
from Philips Color Kinetics, produces
warm, neutral, or cool white light at up
to 632 lumens per foot.
With efficacy of up to 53.1 lm / W, long
useful life, and low- or no-maintenance
operation, eW Cove MX Powercore
offers lower first and total cost than
dimmable T5HO and 2-lamp T8 strip
lights in cove and accent lighting
applications.
eW Cove MX Powercore
eW Cove QLX Powercore
The affordable eW Cove QLX
Powercore produces up to 272 lumens
per foot, replacing comparable T8 and
T12 fluorescent sources with a threeyear payback, and comparable halogen
and xenon sources with a one-year
payback.
Selected fixtures are energy star
qualified, improving your energy star for
Congregations performance score even
more effectively than CFLs with similar
light output.
White-light LED lighting fixtures for
interior illumination can now achieve
unprecedented levels of color quality
and color uniformity. The line of
new linear white-light LED fixtures
from Philips Color Kinetics exceeds
the recognized (ANSI) standards for
color quality to guarantee uniformity
of hue and color temperature. These
fixtures offer consistent, reliable
color temperature, and they are in
widespread use in television studios
where white-balancing for still and video
photography is crucial.
Philips Color Kinetics offers white-light LED
lighting fixtures which meet or exceed the light
output and color uniformity of comparable
incandescent and fluorescent fixtures.
eW Cove EC Powercore
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Dynamic. Creative. Theatrical.
Philips Color Kinetics offers a complete line of high-output, full-color LED wash lights, spotlights, and
floodlights for dynamic, digitally controllable theatrical and presentation lighting. These energy-efficient
LED lighting fixtures natively produce millions of colors of intense light for contemporary services
calling for strong color choices, variations in intensity, video, and automated lighting effects.
Philips Color Kinetics color-changing LED lighting fixtures
have been a mainstay of theatrical and stage lighting
systems for years. Theater and stage lighting professionals
depend on Philips Color Kinetics for industry-leading
light output, ease of installation, and precision of control.
Fixtures that feature patented Powercore technology
dramatically simplify installation and lower total system
cost by merging line voltage and control data and
delivering them to fixtures over a single standard cable.
ColorBlast® TRX and ColorBlaze® TRX, innovative
RGBAW LED stage lights new from Philips Color Kinetics,
incorporate channels of red, green, blue, amber, and white
LED sources to achieve superior color precision and a
dramatically expanded color palette. These fixtures add
intense yellows, high-quality whites, and a range of subtle
pastel colors to the millions of saturated colors achievable
with standard RGB lighting fixtures.
A range of form factors and output levels can support
places of worship of any size, from intimate community
churches to massive megachurches. Small-format
ColorBurst ® Compact Powercore architectural fixtures
can project color-changing beams of light of over 400
lumens for precise highlighting and spotlighting. At the
other end of the spectrum, ColorReachTM Powercore
architectural floodlights offer full-color light output of
over 5,000 lumens and light projection of over 500 feet —
powerful enough to paint soaring expanses with intensely
saturated color.
Philips Color Kinetics offers a full line of DMX- and
Ethernet-based controllers suitable for lighting systems of
any size, from small installations consisting of a few colorchanging lights to massive installations requiring individual
control of tens of thousands of LED nodes.
LED-based solutions for the full range of theatrical and presentation lighting
From left to right: Dynamic lighting and sound event at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Tokyo, Japan; portable lighting installation for The Orange County Performing Arts
Center Celebratory Gala, Costa Mesa, California, USA; stage lighting for Rigoletto, Boston Lyric Theater, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; full-color architectural
lighting at Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church, Englewood, Colorado, USA; immersive megachurch lighting at Lakewood Church, Houston, Texas, USA.
Photography: St. Mary’s Cathedral courtesy of Nacasa & Partners. The Orange County Performing Arts Center by Nadine Froger. Rigoletto © 2003 Richard Feldman. Lakewood Church courtesy of Studio Red Architects.
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ColorReach TR Powercore
ColorBlaze TRX
ColorBlast TRX
ColorBurst Powercore
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Visible from both land and sea, the twohundred-year-old steeple atop the First
Baptist Church serves as a landmark in the
Massachusetts coastal community of Beverly.
The church’s historic but aging steeple was
renovated in 2008. The restoration plan
included a new lighting design to fully illuminate
the steeple’s upper half while minimizing
maintenance and energy consumption.
Before the renovation, the steeple used eight 150-watt
incandescent floodlights to illuminate the top of the
spire from dusk until dawn.
Due to the fixtures’ hard-to-access location,
maintenance was problematic. The lamps could be
replaced only when a steeplejack was hired to paint
the steeple. The incandescent floodlights had a rated
lifetime of around 4,000 hours — a little over two
years at eight hours of use per day. But since the
church could afford a steeplejack only every seven or
eight years, the fixtures would always burn out long
before they could be replaced, leaving the steeple in
the dark for years.
Let there be light
Brilliantly and effectively illuminating the exterior of your place of worship can be as important as lighting its interior,
especially where the architecture is historic or iconic. Outdoor-rated LED flood and wash lights from Philips Color Kinetics
can dramatically highlight key architectural features, such as façades and steeples, with intense white or colored light.
Because they hardly ever need to be serviced
or replaced, exterior architectural LED
lighting fixtures from Philips Color Kinetics
allow the use of white lighting in spaces where
lamp maintenance may be impossible.
eW Blast Powercore, eW Burst Powercore,
eW Reach Powercore and other outdoor-rated
LED lighting fixtures can effectively illuminate
building features from positions accessible only
by means of scaffolding or special lifts.
Because LED lighting fixtures are inherently
directional, they deliver light only to areas
where light is needed, avoiding overillumination and light pollution.
The design team specified replacement light sources
that would closely match the color temperature of
the former incandescent sources, require little or no
maintenance, and last at least until the next painting of
the steeple.
Photography: Robert Sansone, Sansone Photography
Fourteen eW Blast Powercore fixtures replaced the
incandescent fixtures along the spire’s bottom ledge.
These low-maintenance fixtures consume 58% less
energy, and offer useful light for 50,000 hours of
operation or more — over 17 years at eight hours
of use per day. Overall, the new LED lighting system
yields a 70% total reduction in cost.
Additional LED lighting illuminates the formerly dark
lower sections of the steeple. Directly below the
spire, eight 4 ft eW Graze Powercore wall-washing
fixtures bathe the steeple’s eight wood shutters with
uniform white light. Further down, four eW Graze
Powercore fixtures illuminate the four large windows.
These fixtures consume an additional 720 watts only
— less energy than a typical microwave oven.
The newly renovated steeple is now illuminated from
dusk until 1 a.m. every day, with no extended outages.
Reliable, energy-efficient, and virtually maintenancefree LED lighting benefits both the church and the city
of Beverly, for which the steeple serves as a stunning
focal point by night as well as by day.
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Fixtures in a variety of form factors support
exterior wall washing, wall grazing, and
spotlighting applications. To richly and
uniformly illuminate the expansive surfaces
and vertical architectural features common
to many houses of worship, eW Reach
Powercore high-performance floodlights offer
light output of up to 11,392 lumens and light
projection of over 800 feet.
eW Reach Powercore
eW Graze Powercore
eW Blast Powercore
eW Burst Powercore
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In 2006, lighting designers were hired to create
a lighting scheme for the 20th anniversary gala
for the Orange County Performing Arts Center
and the opening of its world-class Segerstrom
Concert Hall. The designers selected touring
and rental LED lighting fixtures from Philips
Color Kinetics, including ColorBlaze, which
offer easy setup and configuration along with
versatile full-color light output.
Professional. Consistent. Portable.
The lighting scheme incorporated both direct-view
video elements and wall-washing effects. The directview lighting display, mounted in vertical arrays against
the venue’s back wall, included cascading waterfall
imagery and a spectacular sunset effect.
For economic, demographic, and evangelical reasons, portable and multisite churches are rapidly increasing in popularity. Portable churches meet
The design called for more than 45 ColorBlaze 72
fixtures along the walls of the tent in which the gala
was held. These fixtures
were used to project
bold, saturated colors
against the white interior
surfaces of the tent,
as well as digital video
content that suggested
flowing movements to
coincide with the directview display.
in spaces as diverse as theaters, hotel ballrooms, community centers,
and school gyms. Many of these meeting places offer insufficient lighting
systems, or no lighting system at all.
Professional-grade touring and rental
LED lighting solutions from Philips
Color Kinetics allow portable churches
to purchase, configure, and use their
own custom lighting systems in multiple
locations. Because Philips Color Kinetics
controllers are digital and portable, like
the lighting fixtures themselves, churches
can easily and flawlessly reproduce
lighting designs and effects, guaranteeing
congregants a consistent and engaging
experience regardless of location.
The entire project
required only 30
days from concept to
completion. Because
of the fixtures’ ease
of configuration and
installation, the lighting
setup itself was done
virtually overnight.
Fixtures are easily programmable
to illuminate seasonal events and
special productions, such as weddings,
Christmas pageants, and Purim
celebrations. Available theatrical
accessories, including top hats,
barndoors, and egg crate louvers, make
these rugged fixtures ideal for lighting
scenes designed for audience viewing.
Photography: Nadine Froge
The Reach TR and Blast TR family of
white and color-changing LED wash
lights and floodlights from Philips
Color Kinetics are designed specifically
to withstand taxing temporary and
rental use involving frequent setup and
teardown. These fixtures have been
perfected through years of successful
service in the entertainment industry.
ColorBlaze
ColorBlast TR
The Orange County Performing Arts Center Celebratory Gala
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Photography: Frank Dorosy
Broadcast your message,
extend your reach
With more multi-site churches, remote campuses, and virtual ministries
appearing every year, broadcast and video are becoming ever more popular as
a means for reaching congregants and extending worship. Lighting for broadcast
and video is very different from live site lighting, and has evolved its own
specialized techniques and systems. LED lighting solutions from Philips Color
Kinetics equal and in many cases exceed the performance of specialized lighting
fixtures for broadcast.
Broadcast lighting professionals sometimes
studios of Saigon Entertainment Television in
hesitate to use LED lighting for broadcast and
California (above).
video due to problems with on-camera flicker
and insufficient intensity. Unlike fixtures from
other manufacturers, LED lighting fixtures
from Philips Color Kinetics are flicker-free at
most camera frame rates, and can be digitally
adjusted for virtually any broadcast situation.
iW Blast TR
Philips Color Kinetics LED lighting solutions
are successfully installed and used in dozens
of broadcast applications today, including the
Canadian Broadcast Corporation newsroom
iW Reach TR
Powercore
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Photography: Brad Dickson, Société Radio-Canada / Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
With ongoing advances in LED source quality,
our LED lighting fixtures now rival the light
output of conventional lighting fixtures.
Our white-light LED lighting fixtures exceed
industry-standard tolerances for CCT and Duv
(hue), guaranteeing uniformity of light output
across fixtures, across manufacturing runs, and
over time, and avoiding inconsistencies that can
be especially obtrusive on video.
(facing page), the set of the popular UK
Intelligent white-light LED fixtures, such as
entertainment show The X Factor, and the
iW® Blast TR and iW Reach TR Powercore,
offer tunable color temperatures ranging
from warm through neutral to cool, affording
unprecedented flexibility in white-balancing,
color-correcting, and daylight harvesting from
a single system while eliminating the need for
dichroic filters and other special equipment.
and 16-bit control deliver smooth fades and
A variety of form factors and light distribution
profiles can produce both large washes of
light at low throw distances (as preferred by
television studios) and intense long-throw
illumination for spacious houses of worship
that must successfully function as live venues.
some traditional moving lights. They consume
Expanded RGBAW color ranges on some
fixtures, exceptional color mixing and precision,
Intelligent
white light
Intelligent whitelight LED lighting
fixtures from Philips
Color Kinetics
provide controllable
white light in color
temperatures ranging
from warm through
neutral to cool,
allowing you to vary
the atmosphere
and white point of a
space with the push
of a button. Unlike
conventional light
sources, LED lighting
fixtures do not colorshift when dimmed.
color transitions that look great on video.
Our LED lighting solutions offer additional
advantages over conventional broadcast lights.
They have no moving parts, so they create no
mechanical noise on color transitions, as with
significantly less energy than non-LED sources,
offer usable light for tens of thousands of
hours with negligible color-shifting over time,
and produce cool beams of light that minimize
the need for air conditioning — especially
important in regions with high outdoor
temperatures for a significant part of the year.
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A complete portfolio
of LED lighting solutions
Philips Color Kinetics offers industry-leading, high-performance LED lighting solutions for the full range
ColorReachTM TR
Powercore
iW® Reach TR
Powercore
The road-ready version
of our flagship, highperformance floodlight.
The first LED fixture
powerful enough to
replace multiple flood and
wash fixtures for brilliant
large-scale and longthrow applications.
The intelligent white
version of our road-ready
LED floodlight. Produces
tunable washes of intense
white light with output
of up to 10,950 lumens
and light projection of up
to 815 ft.
ColorBlaze® TRX
ColorBlaze®
eW® Reach
Powercore
eW® Graze
Powercore
Versatile, feature-packed
linear RGBAW LED
stage lighting fixture
with industry-leading
light output, superior
color precision, and a
dramatically expanded
color palette.
Rugged touring and rental
fixture with an extruded
aluminum housing, onboard power supplies,
push-button addressing
capabilities, and locking
mounting brackets for
mounting to pipes or
surfaces.
White light / solid-color
exterior architectural LED
floodlight for large-scale
installations. Available in
eight color temperatures
from 2700 K to 6500 K,
Royal Blue, Blue, Green,
Amber, and Red.
Powerful, energy-efficient
linear surface-grazing
and wall-washing LED
fixture producing highquality light in eight color
temperatures from 2700
K to 6500 K, Royal Blue,
Blue, and Green.
ColorBlast® TRX
ColorBlast® TR
iW® Blast TR
Fully-featured theatrical
RGBAW LED wash /
flood / spotlight, offering
a significantly enhanced
color range and light
output of over 1,500
lumens.
High-output rental /
entertainment LED
floodlight. Easy to install
and control, this rugged
fixture produces millions
of saturated colors
without gels or filters.
Features standard 4-pin
XLR connector, protective
sleeve, and pivoting lens
bezel.
Based on the rugged
design of the ColorBlast
TR, iW Blast TR can
produce tunable, highquality white light with
a temperature range of
2700 K to 6500 K.
of theatrical, presentation, and portable lighting applications, as well as for architectural applications both
indoors and outdoors.
The set of LED lighting fixtures and digital controllers summarized on the facing page, which includes all of
the products mentioned in this guide, is only a sampling of our complete line of fixed and intelligent color
and white-light LED lighting solutions.
For an overview of all Philips Color Kinetics LED lighting fixtures, controllers, and power / data supplies,
see the latest Philips Color Kinetics Product Portfolio. For stunning photographs and case studies that
showcase our LED lighting solutions
ColorBlast®
Powercore
eW® Blast
Powercore
High-performance indoor
/ outdoor LED wash light
/ floodlight with output
of up to 1,418 lumens.
Achieve rich, saturated
color and color-changing
effects simple line-voltage
installation.
Energy-efficient indoor /
outdoor LED wash light
/ floodlight providing
high-intensity solid white
or colored light. Ideal for
general site illumination,
architectural highlighting,
and retail and signage
illumination.
in signature installations around the
world, see the latest volume of our
Illumination Gallery.
You can always visit us online at
www.philipscolorkinetics.com for
complete product information,
including photometrics, installation
instructions and other product
documentation, and sales and ordering
information.
eW® Cove MX
Powercore
eW® Cove QLX
Powercore
eW® Cove EC
Powercore
ColorBurst®
Powercore
eW® Burst
Powercore
Maximum output linear
LED fixture for cove,
general, and accent
lighting. Wide beam
angle and a range of
fixed colors and color
temperatures for accent
lighting, indirect general
illumination, and wall and
ceiling cove applications.
Low-profile cove light
affordably delivering
high-quality white or
colored light in four color
temperatures and four
solid colors Replaces
non-LED cove lights for
wall and ceiling effects,
wall washing, and indirect
lighting from a single cove.
Dimmable, linear LED
alternative to traditional
solid white or colored
cove lighting. The costeffective choice for a wide
range of interior retail,
exhibit, hospitality, and
architectural settings.
High-output, exteriorrated, full-color LED
spotlight. Architectural
and Landscape versions
deliver up to 647
lumens to support
a range of dynamic
uplighting, floodlighting,
and decorative lighting
applications.
Solid white-light version
of ColorBurst Powercore,
delivering high-quality light
in 2700 K, 4000 K, Red,
Green, Blue, or Amber.
Video System
ManagerTM Pro
Light System
ManagerTM
Integrated hardware /
software solution that
streams video playback
and visual effects output
to Philips intelligent LED
lighting systems. Can
process output for up
to 250,000 individually
controllable LED nodes.
Versatile show authoring
and control for largescale lighting installations.
Supports up to 15,000
individually controllable
LED nodes depending on
system configuration.
Scalable, precise control
As digital light sources, LED lighting fixtures can be precisely controlled
wall-mounted controllers with pre-programmed light shows and
by dimmers, push-button devices, and advanced software-based
dynamic effects can control small installations of a few to a few dozen
control systems. Philips Color Kinetics offers a full range of lighting
intelligent white or full-color lighting fixtures with no light show
control systems specifically designed to integrate seamlessly with our
LED lighting fixtures.
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authoring or programming required. Advanced Ethernet-based control
solutions can control massive lighting installations and large-scale video
Fixed white and solid-color LED lighting fixtures can be dimmed with
displays requiring tens of thousands of individually controllable full-
many commercially available electronic low-voltage dimmers. Simple
color LED nodes.
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iPlayer® 3
ColorDialTM Pro
Compact DMX control
solution with powerful
light show authoring,
storage, and playback
capabilities with on-board
controls for superior ease
of use. Supports two
complete DMX universes.
Ethernet-based, standalone lighting controller
and interface for colorchanging LED lighting
fixtures from Philips
Color Kinetics. Features
enhanced LCD screen for
configuring effects and
simple dial-and-button
controls.
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