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LSC’s EKO Dimmers Dominate Australian Television
LSC Lighting Systems has been extremely busy in recent months supplying its impressive EKO installation dimmers to a number of Australian Television networks.
Brisbane’s premier television station BTQ7 has just completed a major refurbishment of their News studio, replacing their old equipment with EKO dimmers. Coemar De Sisti Australia (CDA) carried out the installation that involved four EKO’s with an extended patch system so that the number of dimming channels and outlets in the studio could be increased.
“We’ve been installing more and more EKO dimmers,” commented Peter Kemp, CDA’s managing director. “I have to say that the dimmers have been extremely good for us, in fact they’ve really become our standard for studio work, providing the all the right features at the right price.”
Peter also reports that he found the installation of the EKO dimmers particularly easy and that the facilities within the actual dimmers themselves impressive. “It means that the Studio staff can log lighting events and find out easily what’s going on within their system.” Installation is easy too with the mounting and termination frame arriving well before the actual dimmer, allowing time to complete wiring and testing while the area is still a construction zone. The day before commissioning the dimmers are then installed, preventing damage to the equipment.
The BTQ7 dimmers will be upgraded shortly with LSCNet, LSC’s proprietary networking protocol using TCP/IP, allowing the connection of remote control plates and monitoring software for the dimmers.
In conjunction with LSC, CDA also completed a refit of the ABC Darwin News studio. The project involved the removal of an old dimming system and the installation of 48 channels of LSC EKO dimmers with RCD projection on each output channel.
ABC was very important that they had full RCD protection on every dimmer channel in the event that if they did have a lighting problem they didn’t want to loose multiple dimmer channels, especially in the middle of a live broadcast. LSC produced a custom version of the EKO rack for the purpose with 16 amps capacity per channel and RCD protection. With the installation space very tight, the EKO was chosen as the only compact wall mount dimmer available that could meet all the client’s specifications.
With more television studio installations already underway, EKO is fast becoming an Australian Television Studio standard.
For more information visit http://www.lsclighting.com.au
23rd January 2007
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