How is this different from your other haze machine?

Fineness and evenness. The Equinox Stage Haze at £20 a day will make your beams show, and for most school halls that is all that is needed. The Unique puts out a finer haze that spreads on its own and hangs for hours, so a big room fills evenly and stays even without topping up. If your lighting design leans on the beams — dance side light, moving heads, anything with a beam effect — the difference is visible.

Will it set off the fire alarm?

Very likely, unless the detectors are isolated. Speak to whoever manages the building well before the day. This is the single most common thing that catches people out, and it is not something a venue can usually arrange at short notice.

Can we run it from the lighting desk?

Yes. It takes DMX, so output sits on a fader with the rest of the rig and you can pull it back for a scene that does not want haze. Tell us and we will patch it with the rig when we set up.

How long before the show do we turn it on?

The machine itself is ready in about a minute — it is the room that takes time. How long depends on the size of the space and how much air moves through it, but plan on having it running well before the doors open rather than during the first number. Tell us the room and we will give you a time to work to.

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Look Solutions Unique 2.1 hazer hire

Haze is what makes a beam of light visible, and the Unique is the machine that does it best. It hangs a fine, dry haze evenly across a room and keeps it there for hours on very little fluid — which is why it is the hazer designers specify by name rather than by category. New to the fleet, and hired with fluid and its flightcase.

A hazer earns its place by disappearing. Done well, nobody in the audience sees haze at all; they see the light doing something it could not do in clear air — a beam crossing the stage, a shaft through a doorway, depth behind a dancer. The Unique 2.1 is the machine that gets closest to that, and it is worth the difference on a show where the lighting is the point.

What sets it apart is the size of the particle. The haze it makes is fine enough to stay suspended and spread out on its own, so a room fills evenly and stays that way rather than drifting in visible clouds and needing topping up between numbers. It uses very little fluid doing it: two litres in the tank is good for up to fifty hours of output, so one fill covers a run rather than a night.

It wants switching on before the audience comes in, not during the show. Give it time to fill the room and it holds; try to build haze in a scene change and you will see it arrive, which is the one thing haze is supposed not to do. We will tell you how long to leave it for your room.

Control runs from the lighting desk on DMX, so output sits on a fader alongside everything else and the level can come down for a scene that does not want it. The machine takes a TRUE1 mains inlet and we send the lead to suit an ordinary 13A socket.

One warning worth having early, and it is the same for any haze: it will find the smoke detectors. Talk to whoever manages the building well before the day — most venues can isolate the relevant heads, but it has to be arranged in advance and cannot be sorted on the afternoon.

If all you need is for your beams to show, the Equinox Stage Haze at £20 a day does that for less. Take the Unique when the haze itself has to be invisible, when the room is large, or when a designer has asked for it.

What you get

The machine in its flightcase, with the mains lead for a normal 13A socket

Fluid for the event — tell us how many performances and we will send enough

DMX control so output can be run from the lighting desk

A technician to set it up, place it and time the pre-heat, if you would rather not

Good for

Dance shows, where the side light has to be visible in the air

Concerts and band nights with moving lights or beam effects

Musicals and plays that want depth behind the actors rather than a flat wash

Large halls where a cheaper hazer struggles to fill the room evenly

Any show where a lighting designer has specified a Unique

What you need to know

Haze or smoke: Haze hangs evenly and makes light beams visible all evening. Smoke billows and clears, and is for moments. They do different jobs, and plenty of shows hire both.
Why this one: Very fine, very even output that holds for hours on little fluid. It is the machine to take when the lighting is doing the work.
Smoke detectors: It will find them. Arrange isolation with the venue in advance — this cannot be sorted on the afternoon.
When to switch it on: Before the audience comes in. Haze wants time to fill the room; built during a show, you see it arrive.
Fluid: Supplied. Say how many performances and we will send enough.
Power: A TRUE1 inlet on the machine, and we send the lead for an ordinary 13A socket.

Rates are per day and exclude VAT. A longer hire costs less per day — tell us your dates and we will price the period exactly. Ask us about delivery and hiring with a technician.

Alternatives

Equinox Stage Haze 1500 — the cheaper hazer at £20 a day — enough to make beams show in a school hall.

Antari ZR1500 smoke machine — for entrances and transitions rather than atmosphere — smoke billows and clears.

Full technical specification (17)

Type	Haze generator, water-based Unique fluid, no compressor
Power	1500 W
Voltage	230 V / 50 Hz (Look Solutions also build 120 V / 60 Hz and 90 V / 50 Hz — ours is the 230 V machine)
Warm up time	Approx. 60 seconds
Tank capacity	2 litres
Run time	Up to 50 hours of continuous output from a full 2-litre tank
Fluid	Look Solutions Unique fluid only — the machine's own manufacturer plate says so, and other fluids are not an option
Fan	Integrated, more than 6,000 litres per minute
Haze density	Adjustable in 99 steps, pump and fan set separately
Control	DMX 512, or 0–10 V analogue
Control connectors	5-pin XLR in and through for DMX, 3-pin XLR for the analogue input
Mains inlet	powerCON TRUE1 — we supply the 13A lead
Temperature control	Microprocessor controlled
Overheating protection	Thermostat on the heater block, temperature switch on the pump
Dimensions	470 x 250 x 250 mm (L x W x H)
Weight	14 kg including the fluid canister
Case	Hired in its own flightcase

Common questions

Fineness and evenness. The Equinox Stage Haze at £20 a day will make your beams show, and for most school halls that is all that is needed. The Unique puts out a finer haze that spreads on its own and hangs for hours, so a big room fills evenly and stays even without topping up. If your lighting design leans on the beams — dance side light, moving heads, anything with a beam effect — the difference is visible.
Very likely, unless the detectors are isolated. Speak to whoever manages the building well before the day. This is the single most common thing that catches people out, and it is not something a venue can usually arrange at short notice.
Yes. It takes DMX, so output sits on a fader with the rest of the rig and you can pull it back for a scene that does not want haze. Tell us and we will patch it with the rig when we set up.
The machine itself is ready in about a minute — it is the room that takes time. How long depends on the size of the space and how much air moves through it, but plan on having it running well before the doors open rather than during the first number. Tell us the room and we will give you a time to work to.