LIGHTING
Karen Maxwell looks at how
Temporary
LIGHTING SOLUTIONS
Games in Tignes and why LED lighting encourages night time sports in Africa
Musco lights up the Winter X Games Europe
F
ive Musco team members were on site in Tignes, France, providing broadcast-quality lighting for the
SuperPipe events at the first ever Winter X Games to take place in Europe in March this year (above). A European extension of the annual
ESPN-run event, which had tradition- ally been held in Aspen, Colorado, this three-day event saw thousands of free- style fans come to cheer their champions along the slope-style course. Armed with a strong track record in
providing broadcast-quality lighting rigs to sports events and TV productions,
LED lighting in South Africa
P
hilips is enabling African com- munities with little or no access to electricity to enjoy playing or
watching sport long into the night with a dedicated solar-powered LED flood- lighting solution. Energy-efficient LEDs, lasting up to
50,000 hours, require no maintenance and provide great quality light. They are instant-start and can withstand tough environments. They also run directly off low voltage batteries – making them ideal for solar lighting solutions. The mini floodlighting system features
eight LED floodlights on four portable poles. The power comes from batteries, powered from monocrystalline 80Wp so- lar panels per light mast, which have an expected lifetime of more than 20 years. The system uses the Philips Fortimo
LED module, which is energy efficient and uses a patented remote phosphor
technology, which maintains the quality of light. The total power consumption per floodlight is 25W (1,800 lumens RA>70). The silver coated high reflec- tance optics result in an 85 per cent light fitting efficiency. Four hours of sunlight will provide
eight hours of light per battery cell and illuminate areas up to 40x20m with 12,200 lumens, which means an average 15 lux of bright white light on a five-a- side football pitch measuring 30m x 15m. The batteries will automatically stop
once they have reached a 50 per cent discharge, which protects the battery and extends its life for up to five years. Masts can be set up in less than two
minutes by a couple of people and the connections to the batteries and the solar recharging unit are plug and play. The solar panel recharging unit can be safely stored away from the pitch.
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Musco Lighting team members worked within strict time constraints and col- laborated with event co-ordinators and other vendors to have the lights on where and when needed. The company provided 96 Musco
Sports Lighting fixtures on 14 35ft (10.6m) truss towers and also mounted to the control tower at the bottom to il- luminate the SuperPipe at the games. The Musco Light™ is a powerful mo-
bile lighting tool. The system provides 15 remote-controlled 6K HMI lights mount- ed on a 150ft (45m) hydraulic boom to give 120 million candela of light on
wheels. Completely self-contained and self-sufficient, the light’s range can flood up to 40,000sq ft (3,700sq m) with 25 footcandles up to half a mile away. Re- mote control changes the fixtures from spot to flood with a flick of a switch and fixtures can be turned on and off, focused or panned and tilted from over 1,000ft (304m) away. “There were days when the tempera-
ture was a pleasant 1 degree Celsius and others when it was -18 degrees Celsius with high winds. But the mountain scen- ery was breathtaking ,” says Musco sales director Jerome Fynaard.
lighting rigs created an adrenalin- filled ambience at the Winter X
The LED system is easy to use and offers hours of floodlighting for night activity
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