Big rental companies today are facing a problem: they must purchase many different models each of which must respond to a specific need. For example, some customers will ask for a full-battery model because they need total silence and zero carbon emission; some others will need the power of a generator-driven model; in recent years, thanks to the increasingly elevated environmental consciousness across the planet, many customers are looking for a hybrid solution or even lighting towers 100% driven via solar panels. Rental companies, if they wanted to follow this trend, would have to invest a lot of money and time in the purchase and management of heterogeneous and very different Lighting Tower fleets and therefore, however, a great part of the stock could remain on the ground, with lower rotation, creating serious difficulties in the planning of purchases and a longer return of investment.

Today Generac Mobile^®, the company that invented the first hybrid lighting tower already 10 years ago, introduces the “PRO”: not simply an innovative Tower Light model, but a whole new technology, designed to revolutionize and respond to all these problems by giving to rental companies “ONE” model that brings together all possible requirements of the new World Green Deal: diesel, solar, battery, and hybrid, all in one.

PRO IS ALL IN ONE, ONE FOR ALL.

Generac Mobile^® lighting towers today equipped with PRO technology have a particular “all-in-one” power system allowing the operator to choose the preferred working cycle among:

• Diesel Powered: power supply 100% from integrated diesel generator;
• Battery Powered: power supply 100% from integrated/rechargeable battery pack;
• Hybrid System: a power supply alternating battery working cycles with diesel recharging cycles, in automatic;
• Plug-In: plug the PRO into an external power source and it’s ready to work while charging batteries.

The operator has just to choose the desired working cycle with a simple switch on the control panel and it’s done: the digital controller will adapt the machine to the selected option. The great flexibility of Generac Mobile^® PRO does not stop at these innovative working cycles, but also integrate important innovations for charging the battery pack from external sources such as:

• Solar Panel Kit: a portable and stackable stand-alone kit for a green recharging of PRO units;
• Battery Pack: external battery pack, easy to use. Up to 40 hours without carbon/noise emissions;
• External power sources: connect the PRO to any electrical source (Generator, Main…) to use and recharge the lighting tower at the same time.

Solar Panel Kit and Battery Pack are both manufactured by Generac Mobile^® and are available as options, sold upon request with the PRO lighting towers.

Darkness Sensor and Digital Timer are both installed by default in every PRO Lighting Tower, and last but not least, PRO lighting towers have a dimmer to adjust the LED light power from 25% to 100%, allowing the operator to adjust the illumination and, consequently, the total running time of the machine.

The PRO technology is today already available on two models: V20 PRO and CUBE PRO. Generac Mobile^® has in fact decided to introduce the PRO Technology in the market by enhancing V20 and CUBE⁺, the most successful top-to-the-range models among the European rental companies.

V20 PRO: the perfect general-purpose unit, the V20 follows its natural evolutionary path with the PRO version. Thanks to the possibility of alternative power supplies and adjustable light power, the performances of this model are further improved so that it can be used in any application field, from simple construction sites to urban areas where the use of machines that do not produce polluting gases or noise emissions is mandatory. The new V20 PRO has a dedicated new trailer that allows our customers and all rental companies to optimize transportation costs, since this new trailer has a redesigned retractable drawbar.

CUBE PRO: one of the most stable, safe, and widely suitable Generac Mobile^® lighting towers for rental in the world of events, concerts, and public demonstrations. Today this model has the possibility to be used in an even more ecological way and, in combination with the external Battery Pack, will be able to guarantee uninterrupted lighting for tens of hours in absolute quietness and with zero carbon emissions. Another not negligible point of strength is that the size of the new CUBE PRO remains completely identical to that of the traditional CUBE⁺ and guarantees in this way the possibility to transport on a lorry as many as 20 CUBE PRO units, ready to use. Simply the best in the industry.

The great attention paid to maximising the number of units transported per truck is not just a logistical saving of money, but in Generac Mobile^®‘s circular vision it is above all a great saving of an ecological nature with an important impact in terms of reducing the CO₂ emitted by means of transport and logistics.

While V20 PRO and CUBE PRO are already commercially available (starting from June 2021), Generac Mobile^® is planning to turn to PRO other models in its range by the end of 2021, starting with the Hydro Power Box that is a must for rental companies specialized in events.

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CUBE PRO is truly the Total Solution, the only one to offer altogether: the future, with 100% battery-powered supply; the present, with the latest generation Generac Mobile^® hybrid power supply; the tradition, with low consumption diesel engines. From now on, there will no longer be any need to choose a specific model for a specific use; no more infinite partitioning of your rental fleet in dozens of models (all pretty much the same, but none of them ever really right for end user requirement). From today there is ONE solution, ONE lighting tower for all uses: CUBE PRO, the Total Solution.

CUBE PRO can operate in “full electric” mode for more than 7 hours in a row thanks to the built-in battery pack. With this type of power supply, CUBE PRO is 100% eco-sustainable: it does not emit CO₂ and is completely silent, thus eliminating not only air pollution, but also noise pollution. Once discharged, the batteries can be recharged by connecting the lighting tower to the power grid, to a generating est or by using the backup generator inside the lighting tower itself. The “full electric” power mode is recommended for applications where total silence is required, for example during a concert, or where a total absence of exhaust gases is required.

CUBE PRO can be set to Hybrid mode: it uses the power of the engine to keep on the lamps and simultaneously charge the battery pack. When batteries are charged, the system automatically turns off the engine and allows the battery pack to control the lamps directly: this combination reduces fuel consumption by 50% up to 0.4l/h. When the batteries are flat, the system makes the engine repeating the cycle again in autonomy. There will never be any service interruption, for this reason our Hybrid system is suitable for applications where a very long autonomy is required: in fact, thanks to the large fuel reservoir, CUBE PRO once set in Hybrid mode is able to carry out dozens of charge and discharge cycles of the battery pack without the need for refueling, guaranteeing more than 400 hours of uninterrupted lighting.

As a third option, CUBE PRO can be powered exclusively by the integrated diesel engine: Kubota Z482. This two-cylinder engine is the quietest in its category and has low fuel consumption, so you can have the lowest possible carbon footprint with the guarantee of reliability of the famous Kubota brand.

The three types of power supplies can also be combined with a darkness sensor and one or more programmable timers directly from the Generac Mobile^® digital control panel. These options ensure that CUBE PRO is automatically switched on and off depending on ambient light conditions or at set times, without any manual intervention. In addition to saving time and staff to manage the lighting tower, this also guarantees a considerable extension of the lighting tower’s autonomy, as it will remain on only when necessary.

CUBE PRO, so it’s all this, in a single Lighting Tower, the only case in the whole industry. Just to give an example: a Rental Company may have customers who need a completely silent lighting tower, or a model with a very long autonomy or maybe a 100% battery driven model; others may need a lighting tower that can provide 360-degree illumination aka all-round light, or a model equipped with traditional frontal headlights (180-degree concentrated beam) but and sometimes, with anti-glare lenses, perhaps for aeronautical use. Only in these few words of example, it is possible to understand how, before CUBE PRO, we would have needed at least 6 different models to satisfy all the requirements. Until yesterday, but from today only ONE machine, one answer is enough: Generac Mobile^® new CUBE PRO.

Thanks to CUBE PRO, the Rental Company can respond to the most different needs of its customers simply with a single model of lighting tower, without having to stock many models with different characteristics. Maximise your investment without in any way risking being unprepared for specific requests, even the most particular. CUBE PRO is equipped with Generac Mobile HYPER^® LED technology, that will ensure our users ease orientation of lighting heads, from front to all-round configuration, in minutes.

The HYPER^® technology, available exclusively on the Generac Mobile^® lighting towers, consists of special arms that can be articulated in three points on the two axes, on which the four LED projectors are installed. Thanks to these joints, it is possible to point each individual spotlight in the desired direction, so that it can be formed from the classic 180° angle up to a 360° illumination, as well as all the infinite middle ways. In addition, the floodlights can be directed not only horizontally but also vertically, so that the area above the lighting tower can be fully illuminated, for example when inspecting the ceiling of a tunnel, or the area below it. Depending on how they are positioned, HYPER^® LED projectors can illuminate up to 4500m2. HYPER^® Technology is also available in anti-glare configuration, with specific panels to be installed in a few seconds on the projectors themselves, so as to attenuate the light in environments where for safety reasons strong direct lighting is prohibited, such as in airports or during night road works. In this way, the operator does not have to hire an additional lighting tower equipped with the old-fashioned “baloon” anti-glare system.

If what upon, for some reason is still not enough, we have further enhanced the offer and made the new CUBE PRO simply the TOTAL SOLUTION for Rental Companies: a dedicated Connectivity Pack, thanks to the partnership between Trackunit^® and Generac Mobile^®. Connectivity pack is the possibility to manage a huge amount of information coming from the new CUBE PRO, directly from your office or smartphone: geolocation, remote analysis of electrical and mechanical engine faults, maintenance intervals, remote alarm of unauthorised equipment movements, error codes and many others. In addition to this, the new CUBE PRO has been designed following the most actual Generac Mobile^® sustainability path, keen to a respectful use of natural resources, careful management of consumption and polluting materials during manufacturing, and a very high degree of recyclability of the manufactured goods. Careful initial design, which already considers the maximum optimisation of the transported units per container or truck, because optimised transportability reduces both fuel consumptions and polluting emissions. CUBE PRO is also designed to be easily moved: the forklift pockets are on all four sides and the lifting-hook is on the upper side: this solution ensures that the CUBE PRO can be easily repositioned even in tight spaces.

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