Power Gems gets a new logo for 25th anniversary

January 19, 2018

Power Gems has big plans for 2018 – and a new look to mark 25 years of designing and manufacturing electronic power supplies.

Our foundations were laid back in 1991, and the logo has evolved over the years. This is how we started out:

Then we introduced the button logo (see below, left). The latest change combines the ‘Power behind the source’ strapline into wording around the rim of a 3D metallicised button, with the familiar orange flash ‘Power Gems’ firmly at the centre.

Although Power Gems was founded in 1991, the first two years were spend in product development, and it wasn’t until 1993 that we entered the market with an offering of portable HMI ballasts for film and TV. The first ballast was a 4k, the EB425P – we’ve kept the name but the technology has moved on and we have been able to offer smaller, lighter and more reliable ballasts.

Spotting the opportunity to adapt the product to meet the requirements of new sectors has led to expansion into events, solar simulation and high speed photography. Not a year has gone by without a new addition to the Power Gems family or a refresh of the core 20 product lines. Last year, 2017, was typical, with:

• the introduction of a new feature, the Crystal Locking mode;
• the launch of a wireless DMX ballast;
• the addition of the EB180PD ballast which operates on both AC mains and battery power.
• Also, we unveiled the EB57P a ballast to power 200W, 400W and 575W lighting fixtures by four different manufacturers: ARRI, Dedo, Kobold and K5600 Lighting.

In between developing the next generation of high speed ballasts, we opened a new service centre in Shanghai – we’ve come a long way from two small rooms in the University of Salford’s technology park.

Today we are the only independent company dedicated to one key element of the lighting system – the power supply.
Many of our competitors are diversified companies, involved in more than one sector and therefore use abstract logos. We focus on ballasts to the exclusion of everything else, so keep an eye out for the logo as a mark of quality and authenticity.