Sundrax: Professional Solutions for Theatrical Lighting

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🎭  Modern theatres demand exceptional quality, unwavering reliability, and versatile lighting equipment. To manage lighting systems, ensure synchronized data transmission, and maintain performance in dynamic stage conditions, one must use solutions tailored to the theatre's unique architecture. Sundrax offers a full suite of devices, each engineered for specific areas — from technical rooms to mobile stage decor. 🎚️💡

Close-up of a Sundrax RadioGate Arma wireless DMX transceiver with a durable metal enclosure and a single 2.4 GHz antenna visible.


Technical Rooms: Centralized Rack-Mounted Control 🖥️

The dimmed lighting and server rooms are home to the core control systems. Typically equipped with standard 19-inch rack cabinets, these rooms require efficient, rugged devices.

Sundrax provides Pro series:

  • ArtGate Pro – an ArtNet/sACN to DMX Ethernet converter
  • GigaJet Pro – a high-speed, multi-port converter with an integrated Ethernet switch and media converter
  • Splitter Pro – a professional DMX splitter with robust interference protection

✅ These devices are rack-optimized, easy to configure, and built for intensive, continuous use.

Close-up of a Sundrax LEDGate Board wireless LED DMX controller board – a green circuit board with multiple blue screw-terminal blocks and onboard components

Fly Tower: Built for Extreme Conditions 🌬️🔥

Above the stage, the fly tower is exposed to dust, vibrations, and temperature swings. Here, sealed enclosures, durability, and EM interference resistance are crucial.

Sundrax's Solid series includes:

  • ArtGate Solid and Splitter Solid – sealed, fanless units with no vents, protected against dust, moisture, and voltage fluctuations.

💪 These units are perfect for direct installation on trusses and battens, enduring the rigors of life above the stage.

Stage: Embedded Gear for Floor Boxes 🎭

Stages feature technical floor hatches, where compactness and functionality are key.

The Compact series includes:

  • ArtGate Compact – a DMX/Ethernet converter designed to fit standard power socket cutouts.

🔧 This solution allows for discreet, flush mounting in floor boxes or side panels — all while delivering full functionality of larger devices.

Scenery: Mini Boards for Built-In Lighting 🎨

Stage decorations are often custom-built and internally constrained. In such setups, board-only devices without enclosures are ideal.

The Board series includes:

  • ArtGate Board – a compact Ethernet-DMX converter
  • LedGate Board – a controller for LED lighting, supporting 16-bit dimming and anti-flicker algorithms.

🎨 These modules ensure smooth, high-precision lighting without compromising the visual quality of the performance.

Moving Sets & Transformable Stages: Wireless Solutions 🔄📡

Modern productions increasingly use mobile elements — rotating platforms, lifts, sliding props. To maintain a reliable signal, cables are often impractical.

Enter Radiogate — Sundrax’s wireless system for DMX and ArtNet transmission. It features:

  • 📶 Stable operation, even in crowded RF environments
  • Low latency
  • 🔋 Battery-powered autonomous mode
Close-up of a Sundrax RadioGate Plus Arma outdoor wireless DMX/Art-Net gateway device in a rugged gray metal housing with visible status LEDs and connector ports.

Wireless DMX + Ethernet

RadioGate devices are designed to transfer DMX or ArtNet/sACN data wirelessly in intellectual lighting control systems through Sundrax’s proprietary BeDMX technology. RadioGates work in 2.4 GHz ISM band with bidirectional communication and use Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH) which guarantees near 100% resistance to radio frequency interference by a hop rate of 1600 hops per second.

RadioGate Plus Arma (wireless DMX + Ethernet) 

Wireless DMX/RDM+Ethernet transceivers in waterproof IP65 case

RadioGate Arma 

Wireless DMX/RDM transceivers in waterproof IP65 case

RadioGate Plus Solid (wireless DMX + Ethernet) 

Wireless DMX+Ethernet transciever, 2 and 4 DMX ports

RadioGate Solid 

Wireless DMX/RDM transceivers in IP44 case

🌟 Perfect for rotating stages or fast-moving props, where cabling simply isn’t an option.

🎬 Conclusion

Theatre is a world of precision, creativity, and technical excellence. Every zone presents unique challenges — and Sundrax delivers specialized, battle-tested solutions to meet them all.

With a growing product range and a keen understanding of real-world stage requirements, Sundrax continues to raise the bar for theatrical lighting technology. 💡🎭

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