The National Museum of Scotland re-opened last weekend after months of refurbishment. It was a great pleasure to have a small part in this huge project which is so important to Edinburgh and Scotland. This photo was taken on one of my early site visits and shows the grand main hall with a huge central [...]
Posts under ‘Lighting Consultancy’
Lighting up the west Cathedrals
Two recent projects completed both involved the major refurbishment of two of Scotland’s RC Cathedrals. Lighting Controls systems installed at St Andrew’s Cathedral Glasgow and St Columba’s in Oban held very different challenges in commissioning but both very rewarding projects to be involved with. The system in Oban involved DALI ballasts for all the high level lighting allowing [...]
Dimming Voltmaster – Intelligent transformers!
Working on a recent project I came across these interesting transformers. They allow connection of lov voltage lighting at greatly increased distance from the transformer while maintaining an optimum voltage. The system uses a sensing cable which provides a feedback loop (similar in concept to those used in analogue sound processing) to monitor the [...]