When the property is sold we are called back to personalise the lighting system for the new owners. We generally go in a couple of weeks after the new owners have moved in as this gives a chance to get used to the space and how they are going to use it. The programming visit lasts a day with a consultation followed by a full re-program and a full demonstration.

We recently completed just one of these visits for some new owners in an East lothian property and were asked to return to assist with the setup and commissioning of the multi room AV system in addition to the work on the lighting control system.

Remote Control

We wish them all the best in their new home.

The award of the Certificate is also recognised by SLL (The Society of Light and Lighting) as partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the SLL Lighting Diploma.

The course included a large practical design exercise which involved a complete lighting design for the interior of a multiuse building environment.

Neil’s submission was recognised with a high grade due to it’s quality and comprehensive completion of the design task.

The Kelvin Lorne

The work completed involved extensive focusing and positioning of lighting and creation of a variety of daytime and night-time scenes to be used by the staff.

Bar Lighting

The restaurant area uses a number of track lighting circuits with a mix of aluminium reflectors and MR16 sources. The positioning and focusing of these fittings makes this space come to life with all the other interior features.

Restaurant Lighting

The new function suite is due to be commissioned shortly with a three partition lighting system capability.

The control is using an AMX presentation switcher with wireless control by a Pronto 9600 and a RFX9600 extender.

Working Along with Electrical Contractors PEI Delta  and Manufacturers Mode lighting

These units have a Tiger control system along with a timer module recalling scenes to ensure the lighting remains as designed throughout the units operation.

New restaurant in Glasgow

Lighting Control have been working hard to complete the lightiong control systems at the latest Sapporo Teppanyaki restaurant in Glasgow.

The systems control all sorts of lighting types including fluorescent,  incandescent, LED and many types of control.

Control systems from Mode lighting allowed the control of all units from a single unit in the form of the workhorse Tiger lighting system.

LED colour change was dealt with by the dedicated Colourstyle DMX controller.

Sapporo Teppanyaki Glasgow

The infra red control while very advanced can be imitated by an infra red blaster as part of your lighting or building control system. In this way the control of the windows can be grouped into system macros  or timed rules as part of the overall control schema.

The control over roof lights in this way allow groups of roof lights to be controlled together.

Contact us to discuss your integration needs.

Velux

The Mulberries

Lighting control’s Engineers have completed commissioning work on the second phase of this prime Edinburgh development.

The Lighting system includes some simple automation of cupboard lights using simple magnetic contact closures.

In General the lighting is controlled using impulse control via mode evolution plates. Whole house control is also available to the user from two main function plates.

Loch Maree

Our work in Scotland often takes us to the far corners of our beautiful country and last week was no exception.

Dan Aberdeen our senior engineer travelled up to the north west of Scotland near gairloch to complete the programming of a unique luxury redidential project at Slattadale on the banks of Loch Maree.

The Lighting design for the project was carried out by Gavin Fraser  of  Foto-ma and utilized a wide variety of types of luminaires in the complex lighting scheme.

The system control used the mode evolution system throughout.

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Foto MA

Evolution controls

Microphonics

As those of you who know me will be aware I am a big fan of Automation. The use of sensors in control systems is the clever and progressive way forward.

Putting light switches when they are not the best solution is a waste of money, time and energy. However specifiers and installers are still scared of occupancy sensors.

They are scared of the call-out when Mr Client has been plunged into darkness while reading his paper in “The Library”.

This has been a real problem and often the only way to counter the problem is to up the time delay off to a sufficient level that we are confident that a traditional good quality PIR occupancy will re-trigger the time delay off.

This of course is not an ideal solution as we end up having lights and fans on burning energy for longer than we should have.

Some companies looked at gate sensors systems by which a control system could monitor a person entering and leaving a space and combine these with a PIR to get a more accurate result. These systems have a number of limitations including the problems cause by multiple users and high cost due to the requirement for multiple sensors.

Sensor Switch have produced a dual technology sensor which combines a PIR detector with a high gain microphone and some clever audio processing to achieve a good result.

Motion is first detected by  the PIR and the the microphone is switched on to listen for continued occupancy.

The system filters out repetitive noises such as plumbing and HVAC sounds to allow the sensor just to trigger from sudden noise changes such as created by a user.

I will be very interested to find out how well the unit deals with background music!