 The University of Phoenix Stadium (Glendale, AZ - host of the 2008 Super
Bowl) and Flouresco Lighting contacted Animated Lighting to ask how they could
successfully control two 190 foot high columns they were building. Each column
consists of Qty. 115 red eight foot long bars LED bars. These are called “audio
thermometers”. They wanted these thermometers to have a series of lighting
effects, one of which would simulate the change in crowd noise within the
stadium. See the following details and get a feel for how this project was
tackled and completed on time and within budget making for a very proud
customer.
 Beginning with the initial layout (as seen to the right) from Fluoresco,
Animated Lighting provided the control of the “Audio Thermometers”. The
pictures below show some of these bars bundled together for testing and the
magical hand simulating the slider controls of the final installation.
 
Animated Lighting’s Light Show In A Box (LSIAB)
system controlled DMX dimmer packs mounted in the raceway behind the
columns. Each of the DMX boards controlled up to 32 DMX channels.
This required the output of each DMX boards to be connected to no more than
eight of the four channel DMX dimmer packs being built for the system.
 Each
column of this gigantic stereo thermometer is controlled by moving a slider
up or down located in the stadium control room. There are also seven
buttons on a keypad that can run the columns through any of several
pre-programmed patterns to entertain the audience. The patterns can be
overridden by simply moving a slider, hitting a bump button, or pressing
another key on the keypad.
The final installation included the following
Animated Lighting products:
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Ten (10) EDMX-1 Animated
Lighting controllers (32 Channel DMX Controllers in enclosures)
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One Monster Brain animation
processor
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One serial keypad
controller in enclosure
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Two RS-485 data repeaters
to keep a clean signal over large distances.
But all the pictures in the
world can't show the real magic of this sign.
Watch the
video and then
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