Strand Lighting picked up the Lighting Product of the Year Award for its C21 sine wave dimming module. The C21 brings the ability to install ninety-six 2.4kW sine wave dimmers in one single rack. Users can also mix sinewave and conventional dimmers within the same rack, while a new Quad dimmer module allows SCR-based systems to achieve a density of 192 dimmers in a single rack. The new dimming system is fully networkable, and features a 16/32-bit RISC main processor running embedded Linux, an integrated Ethernet port, and Web-based configuration and dimmer status-reporting system. The first all-sinewave installation is at the Nashville Symphony Hall, where 1,000 C21 modules have been installed.
