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SES boosts lighting inventory with purchase of Ayrton fixtures

Special Event Services (SES) has expanded its Ayrton lighting inventory with additional purchases of Domino LT, Bora S, and Khamsin fixtures and further committed to the product line with first-time investments in Perseo Beam, Diablo, and Zonda 9 FX lights.

Headquartered in Mocksville, North Carolina, SES offers audio, lighting, design, video, staging, and live event production to a wide array of clients. The company has closely watched the growth of LED technology and set a goal of getting its lighting inventory as close to 100 percent LED as possible. While SES offers LED fixtures from several different manufacturers it has kept an eye on Ayrton and its new LED offerings.

“We realized that our earlier model of purchasing fixtures involved buying from many different manufacturers based on requests we received from various lighting designs. Now we can find what we need for most designs from the complete Ayrton product line”, explains Lighting Designer Jeff Cranfill, one of the founding partners and Vice President of SES.

“During the COVID shutdown, Michael Brammer and I had time to closely analyze our inventory of LED and arc fixtures from various companies”, he adds. “We concluded that most of them could be substituted with a fixture from the Ayrton line. So, we decided to set a goal of making the majority of our inventory Ayrton fixtures when we got back to work.”

SES added 34 more Domino LTs to its previous inventory of twelve. Additionally, Sixteen Bora S fixtures joined the already 40+ Bora S fixtures. An addition of 101 Khamsins will replace older, large-format spots that have been touring. Cranfill also ordered 96 Perseo Beam units - “we will be adding Perseo Beams as a substitute for our beam effects and hybrid style fixture needs”, he says. SES also added 96 Diablo fixtures to their inventory. Rounding out SES’s new purchases are 48 Zonda 9 FX lights. SES also has installed Ayrton Levante fixtures in their SES Integration division.

“We estimate it will take until the start of 2024 to get all of our inventory updated to reach our current goal, but along the way, we’ll have the opportunity to introduce a lot of clients and artists to our new Ayrton offerings”, Cranfill concludes.

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