Artistic Licence managing director Simon Hobday, says, "We laid our stand out to illustrate some of the key technology prevalent in today's lighting control market and reflected this concept in our new Technical Focus brochure.
"Technologies covered included DALI & DMX, RDM & Art-Net, Colour-Tramp and Interfacing solutions. DALI is a relatively new protocol and there are a lot of technical complications surrounding it as people get to grips with how it works. Our Technical Focus brochure gives more information about DALI and how to avoid common pitfalls when using it, and our customers say the brochure has already proved a useful tool.
"The show proved to us that there is a growing interest in DALI and confirmed that our decision to develop Rail-DALI-DMX and Rail-DMX-DALI was the correct move to make," continues Hobday.
Rail-DALI-DMX and Rail-DMX-DALI have superseded the all-in-one DMX/DALI converter, having many more features and providing customers with a more sophisticated solution than before. The two new products present the next generation in DMX/DALI conversion and were released as part of Artistic Licence's on-going policy to increase and strengthen its range of DALI products. The two new products follow hot on the heels of the release of Power-Drive-DALI.
Power-Drive-DALI Power-Drive-DALI is a single channel, constant current, mains powered, driver for high power LEDs. Implemented as a DALI ballast, Power-Drive-DALI fully conforms to the DALI protocol and can respond to groups, scenes and 0-100% fading.
Its output can drive one channel of either four 700mA, six 500mA, or 12 350mA LEDs in series. The control current (350, 500 or 700mA) is selected by an internal switch. Power-Drive-DALI is housed in a small, free-standing case and is perfect for driving single colour LED fixtures in architectural applications.
Further evidence of how Artistic Licence is picking up the pace in the architectural lighting control sector was the appearance, for the first time at ARC, of two new products, Two-Play and Sign-Control.
Sign-Control is a DIN-Rail mounted DMX512 playback system, controlled by 14 buttons, a Real Time Clock, RS232 or two external triggers. Features include threew pages of eight memories along with one page of six sequences. Each memory or sequence contains all 512 channels. Aimed at simple to sophisticated room control applications, and suitable for control of any LED application, Sign-Control is already making inroads into the digital display industry.
Two-Play is a Two-Universe DMX & Art-Net recorder and playback controller with remote triggering options and configuration features. Many hours of show playback can be recorded onto the internal memory card from DMX512 input or Art-Net, and up to four shows simultaneously transmitted to two universes.
Finally, Artistic Licence took the opportunity to promote its Colour-Tramp Training courses on the stand. The first of this year's training sessions took place at the Artistic Licence head office in Harrow on 9 February where it was well attended and very successful. Further training sessions on Colour-Tramp and other Artistic Licence products and technology are scheduled for the future.
(Jim Evans)
