CHAMELEON & ENTTEC MAKE LIGHT WORK AT WORLD YOUTH DAY
Faced with the challenge of distributing DMX signals across 70 towers surrounding Randwick racecourse, Chameleon turned to Enttec's ODE with great results.
The Event
World Youth Day, held recently in Sydney (July 15-20), is the largest youth event in the world,
and with 110,000 international pilgrims from over 170 nations, the largest event ever hosted in Australia.
The Final Mass celebrated by the Pope, and overnight vigil leading up to it, were held at Randwick Racecourse, requiring a massive amount of site lighting, supplied by Chameleon Touring Systems.
The Design
The site is enormous, capable of holding up to 400,000 people, so the challenge of providing enough light to keep everyone safe during the overnight vigil
was a big one, to say the least. Organisers turned to Chameleon Touring Systems to meet the challenge of lighting up all the World Youth Day sites.
The Challenge
One of the big challenges was always going to be the distances involved. With hundreds of par cans,
Light Balloons and intelligent fixtures deployed around the site on 70 scaff towers,
the data distribution required some planning. World Youth Day were installing a fibre-optic network around the site with HP managed switches for the production departments to utilise.
Chameleon decided the best course of action was to distribute Art-Net from their Wholehog II console in the Venue Control Room to the various locations around the site.
All they needed was a cost-effective, simple yet reliable, DMX over Ethernet converter to allow this to happen.
The Feedback
Josh Moffat, Chameleon's Site Lighting Account Manager, remembered seeing the Enttec ODE (Open DMX Ethernet),
a single-universe DMX over Ethernet node, during the Entech tradeshow earlier in the year, and realised this would be the perfect device for this application.
Josh Moffatt said: The NMU application made configuring the ODEs straightforward and easy,
and given the size of the network we were putting together, that was really important. In the end, the gig went well and we were really happy with how it all came together ".
By Kristian Gardiner - Balanced Technology
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