Images of Canberra - A lava lamp or Telstrayama?

Friska said :

They should make the lights glow RED *giggles*

I don’t get the giggle. It’s been red all this week.

Unless you’re making a yama influenced joke…

They should make the lights glow RED *giggles*

Looks awesome, should be more of it in Canberra.

Thanks for that info carmick.

Aparently Raine & Horne Commercial Canberra in conjunction with Telstra completed the Black Mountain Tower external lighting project. There is a brief summary of the project below.

In the past the external tower lighting was manually turned on at dusk by the on site security and manually turned off at midnight.
During 2008 it was decided to reduce the external lighting hours from dusk to 10pm really as a ‘token’ power saving initiative.
An investigation was conducted into alternative lighting methods during 2008 with an emphasis on power saving, reduced maintenance costs and the ability to control the lights by some other method.
Approaches were also continually made by various organisations regarding changing the colours of the lighting (world diabetes, breast cancer awareness etc.) so this was also taken into consideration.

The consultation process started in July 08 when Raine & Horne Commercial Canberra approached Affinity Electrical Technologies to better illuminate Black Mountain Tower with the possibility of using colour changing lighting.

Raine & Horne Commercial gave Affinity Electrical a very broad brief to illuminate Black Mountain Tower with the following scope:

· Significantly reduce the amount of power consumed to illuminate the Tower

· Reduce the maintenance on the light fittings, due to the difficult access issues

· The ability to change colours for special events, due to access issues it needs to be changed remotely and a lighting control program installed to manage lighting run times. Unlike other institutional buildings in Canberra that regularly change colours, Black Mountain Tower, by nature has access issues that the others buildings don’t have including height, positioning and exposure to elements.

The system chosen was manufactured by Show Technology in particular their ArchiLED products. Information regarding the installation is:

Statistics:

Previous power consumption

· 8 x 400watt fittings = 3200watts

· 8 x 1000 watt fittings = 8000watts

· 4 x 400watt light fittings = 1600watts (further saving – July 2009)

New power consumption

· 18 x 150watt light fittings = 2700watts

LED Lamp life = 50,000 hours

The lighting is still in the testing phase but when fully commissioned there will be further information posted on the Black Mountain Tower web site in the near future http://www.blackmountaintower.com.au

Has anyone got any ideas how the lighting should be used in the future???????

I hope they keep it going, the traditional white was getting a little boring, and the idea of having a large tower changing colour ever few minutes does seem kinda cool.

+2

Saw it last nite for the first time. Very cool!

kakosi said :

Thanks – I have it in a few more colours on my flickr pages. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kakosi/

Some really cool photos there, nice work!

Im a fan of the lighting but we nearly veered off the road heading towards civic a week or so ago because we were watching it change colour lol.

Deckard said :

CapitalK said :

who is Mal?

Malcolm Fraser I’m guessing.

Yeah – sorry, I should have taken a moment to think, or at least let Google think for me

I think the lights looks beautiful!!!