The set involved a lot of timber panelling which had thin perspex strips fitted into it. "I wanted the flexibility of having the RGB LEDs as I could not access these perspex strips once the set was placed together," said Koole. The perspex was lit and fitted with 600+ of CDA's Covelight 100mm RGB colour changing LED strips, running from DC-8 controllers.
Koole also used the CDA Trio 3W high powered luxeon 6° LED fixtures in yellow to high light some vertical equipment panels in the background of the Late Night News. In addition, he used CDA's Solar M100 RGB high-powered colour changers to highlight five equipment racks in the background of the Late Night News set. These fixture use 12 Luxeon 1W LEDs and provide "a staggering amount of pure coloured light" for highlighting the racks, says Koole.
All of the LED systems on set are controlled by DMX via the studio's usual lighting console, and CDA prepared custom-designed power supplies for all of the LED products. Channel 10 also purchased the popular DeSisti 4-bank fluorescents (now becoming an industry standard, used by Ch10 NSW, Ch7 Melb and Ch7 NSW) to light the 5pm News set as well as the Late Night News set. "The De Sisti fluorescents provide an unbelievable amount of light from a fluorescent source and are well liked by the commentators as they do not provide any reflected heat and are very cool to be in front of," says Koole.
(Lee Baldock)
