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A C Lighting at Royal Albert Hall

   The major part of the work was to upgrade the circle rail with new power and control wiring for their front of house circuits and this involved some intricate and careful work as the Royal Albert Hall is a Grade I listed building. All front panels from the existing trunking were removed and replaced with customised two metre long front panel sections. Each was painted in Royal Albert Hall colours, and contained 12 x 16 Amp sockets for 6 dimming channels along with two independent power circuits for moving lights and colour scrollers. Using Tourflex Datasafe 4 cable, a total of 12 DMX connectors, covering 2 DMX 512 universes were also installed around the circle rail for the control of additional DMX fixtures. The dimming channels on each panel were also paralleled up to Socapex multicore outlets, for use by touring acts visiting the venue.

   On stage, A.C. Lighting installed three 6-way stage boxes, and continued the new DMX wiring with a series of outlets at ground level. These then extended out to the front of house area of the venue where more ground level DMX connection points were also installed. Throughout the project A.C. Lighting were assisted on site by Scott Nielson, the assistant technical show manager at the Royal Albert Hall.

   Along with this cabling work, A.C. Lighting also supplied and installed five customised 16 Amp dimmer patch panels with a total coverage of 144 dimmer channels, and upgraded the existing Arri dimmer system with the addition of a further 24 2kW channels.

   At the nerve centre of the Royal Albert Hall's lighting control, A.C. installed a fully customised DMX distribution centre containing, amongst other parts, Artistic Licence rack-mounted Splitters and Merge units, also cabled with Tourflex Datasafe 4.

   All work undertaken by AC was completed ahead of schedule.

   Pictured above (right) are the Royal Albert Hall's Scott Nielson and Mark Jones with AC Lighting's Adam Beaumont (right). Pictured above (top-left) is a section of the new patch bays, and (bottom-left) the rack of DMX distribution equipment from AC Lighting.

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1st April 2000

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