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PNTA: Your Guide to the Future
IGBT Dimmers—The Cool & Quiet Choice!
Imagine being able to plug your lighting fixtures directly into dimmers that are quiet and don't generate the heat of SCR dimmers. You’re imagining IGBT dimming—Insulated Gate Bi-Polar Transistors—a revolution in dimming technology.
Intelligent Raceway™ dimmers by Genlyte ET bring the future into your theatre, club, auditorium or sanctuary with drastically-reduced installation costs. Mounted wherever you mount lighting fixtures, they are smaller and lighter than SCR dimmers. Better yet, they do not produce any mechanical buzz or hum.
Distributed Dimming
- Easy to design, expand and install
- Drastically reduces installation and equipment costs
- Locate silent dimmer strips next to the light fixtures
- Much less wiring
- Reduced voltage drops
- No dimmer panel required
Power and Silence
- State-of-the-art dimming technology
- Quiet dimmers and load
- Low neutral harmonics
- Protection against short-circuits
- High-density racks
- Control of various load types including magnetic/electronic transformers and electronic fluorescent dimming ballasts
Intelligence and Control
- Stations, keypads, wireless PCs and consoles for simple or complex applications
- Broad range of matching, attractive controls for fully-integrated projects
- Industry standard wiring practices
- Windows®-based open control protocols
Raceway Installed:
An Intelligent Decision for Cornish College
When Cornish College of the Arts began converting Seattle’s historic Sons of Norway Hall into a theatre, plans called for installation of a complete air conditioning system just to cool the old-style, heat-producing SCR rack dimming system they planned to use. Dave Tosti-Lane, chair of Cornish’s Performance Production Department, started looking for a different solution.
The college had already been through the ordeal of retrofitting a concert hall to the tune of thousands of dollars just to relocate a noisy dimmer rack. They didn’t want to go through that again. Mac Perkins of PNTA recommended the Intelligent Raceway™ system from Entertainment Technology, a Genlyte Thomas company. The beauty of an IGBT system, as Dave discovered, was that it would not only circumvent the noise problem, but it would also reduce the heat loads.
“The savings of not having to do a full-blown air conditioning system practically paid for the dimmers,” Dave said. “And we also save by not having the associated costs of load wiring the dimmers out to the circuits and all of the additional wiring and time it costs to run cables from the dimmer rack to the lighting instruments.”
While the cost savings may have been the leading benefit, close behind was the Intelligent Raceway’s system of focus buttons. This feature enabled the first crew, Dave and two undergraduates, to finish hanging the first show in the new theatre in record time. The trio hung, circuited and rough-focused 130 fixtures in two five-hour lighting calls.
“I was blown away with how much easier the hang and focus sessions were with the distributed dimmers and the focus buttons,” Dave said. “And as a sound designer, I’m really appreciative of the lack of fans and chokes.”
For a more detailed description of the Cornish project by David Tosti-Lane, read it in Lighting Dimensions by doing a search on the words “restoration hardware.”
Find out today how the Intelligent Raceway™ can save you money and give you a quieter performance space.
Call us for IGBT Dimmers at (206) 622-7850 or
(800) 622-7850.
