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TECHNOLOGY / CASE STUDIES SAILING AHEAD
Belfast’s busiest pedestrian zone was recently given a facelift under the Streets Ahead project – an initiative by the local authority to introduce new seating, signage, landscaping, and public art to the city centre. The city’s maritime heritage provided the inspiration for the project’s signature pieces: eight soaring copper ship mast sculptures, each named after a famous Belfast-built ship.
These mast names and accompanying sidewalk plaques are illuminated by Traxon LEDs with control from sister brand e:cue. Traxon’s durable, flexible Dot XL-3 RGB system was chosen for its ultra-bright output and customisable pixel pitch. The weather-resistant fixtures supply vivid illumination as well as colour-changing and multi-media capabilities, allowing the pattern of illumination along the row of masts to fluctuate with the seasons and holidays. Although the mast sculptures span several blocks, e:cue’s Butler XT and Butler control engines seamlessly manage
Traxon e:cue gives a vibrant colour to ship-inspired sculptures in Belfast’s new-look city centre.
the 16 DMX-512 universes of integrated Dot XL-3 RGB fixtures. The entire installation is controlled wirelessly via a DMX-laptop connection.
www.traxontechnologies.com
The names of ships built in Belfast are stamped into the giant mast sculputures, each illuminated by Traxon LED.
SOHO MUCH BETTER Multiload helps set the scene at one recently restored London church.
The newly refurbished interior of St Patrick’s Church in Soho, London.
A Grade II listed status and the sumptuous ornate interior presented many challenges during the £3.5M restoration of St Patrick’s Church in Soho, London. St Patrick’s Church demanded lighting that could be installed discreetly while illuminating the building to its best potential. In addition, the lighting designers on the project, Jin Yee Lim’s Liminaires, decided that LED lighting was not yet ready for this type of application. IRC low voltage halogen and cold cathode lighting was specified and a solution was required that could drive and control these for now, while being future proof against future developments in lamp technology. Liminaires specified a complete Multiload Technology solution stating that its products were “the only ones up to the task”. Many of the lamps needed to be hidden from view and are installed in inaccessible places or at high level, some as high at 10m. Cable runs in excess of 30 metres between the lamps and the transformers were needed and VoltMaster Intelligent
Transformers made this possible as well as greatly extending the lamp life and ensuring stabilised voltage to the Halogen loads at all times. Analogue Dimmers were used to integrate the cold cathode drivers to the 0- 10V control system, all of which is managed from a MoodMaker Scene Setting System. MoodMaker was specified on the basis of its simplicity and reliability. The ease with which Jin Yee could configure lighting scenes and communicate this to others was particularly appealing.
Extended lamp life and the remote placement of drives have minimised maintenance and the cost of ownership. MoodMaker meanwhile completely obviates the need for configuration and maintenance visits by costly programming engineers, a regular requirement of the alternative digital systems, and is simple enough to be used by the church staff.
Noise too has been minimised thanks to removal of all dimming electronics from the sensitive nave environment.
www.multiload.co.uk
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