Rolight Theatertechniek BV, MA Lighting's distributor in the Netherlands, installed about 600 channels of dimMA in the building. The main hall was furnished with six cabinets, equipped with 248 channels 3kVA, 50 channels 5,7kVA and 11 channels 11kVA. Despite the fact that one Network Dimmer Processor (NDP) can control up to two cabinets of dimmers, every cabinet was equipped with its own NDP. This gives maximum redundancy due to the fact that in every two cabinets, two NDPs work together as master and slave. If one of them should fail, the other one would take over the work instantly.
The Krijn Boon Studio is in fact a rehearsal studio. This studio is sometimes used as third hall for the Schouwburg. Therefore, it is equipped with 72 channels of 3kVA dimMA. Since there is no dimming room in this studio the dimmers had to be placed underneath the tribune and consequently had to be absolutely silent.
Next to these halls, Rolight installed 48 channels of dimMA compact in the public area. The dimmers can be controlled via Ethernet and all feedback is sent back to grandMA on PC. These racks are for general purpose, but mainly used as decentralised dimmers on the lighting bridges of the main hall.
(Jim Evans)
