Een vuurtoren als icoon van Ocean Cay op de Bahama's

What we did

Technical engineering
Assembly work
Installation assistance
Testing & Commissioning

Client

The Department

Photo credits

About the Project

THE PROCESS

Dazzling lightshows

The lighthouse is visible from the beaches and from the hotels, restaurants and bars and is therefore an important place on the island. That is why it also serves as a landmark and icon of the island. The lighthouse displays complex lightshows that amaze the tourist. One of the lightshows is about the flora and fauna of the island, and the other is about life in the surrounding ocean. The impressive shows were conceived and developed by our client, The Department. In the evening, the lighthouse lights up so everyone can enjoy the beautiful shows.

A custom design

The lighthouse had already been built with perforations in it. In order to be able to attach our LED modules perfectly to the perforated steel, we had a piece of steel come to the Netherlands to design a 3D prototype. When we were sure that the LED modules would certainly fit, we started the production. We always cover all risks in advance and check every small detail before shipping, but because of the distance to the Bahamas, we checked it one more time to really be 1000% sure.

OneEightyOne on the Bahama's

With 6 staff members, we flew to Ocean Cay and stayed a week to manually click all 14,000 modules into the perforations. Despite we delivered everything plug & play, we were still working on this installation for more than 575 hours. Because the lighthouse is very big and high, we installed everything while hanging in harnesses. For the lighthouse we used a pixel pitch of 140mm horizontally and vertically. The LED modules are powered by sources that were divided across the floors. All controllers were installed in the bottom layer of the lighthouse. In total we used 36 DiGidot C4 Live controllers.

'The combination of engineering and creativity came together to create something truly magnificent!'

The Department

From: The Department Vimeo

Products

All products

DiGidot C4 Live

Meanwell PSU 12V 22A 264W IP67 - HLG-320H-12

Productcode: 8342500

The team

'The most unique project I ever worked on. The final result was awesome: with bare feet in the sand and a drink in our hands we could admire the light shows when we were done!'

Robin

Account manager