PARIS – French news channel i>TELE, a subdivision of Canal+ Group, has installed 24 cold white Aledin LED profiles from Robert Juliat. They are used daily for the network's live news broadcasts and weather reports. i>TELE studios has changed all its lighting from incandescent sources to LED or fluorescent – the first TV studio worldwide to use no tungsten fixtures. The RJ Aledin profile helped complete this energy saving lighting rig.
"There was too much maintenance, too much energy consumption, too much heat being produced at i>TELE studios, all of which was just not compatible with our new lighting infrastructure," noted technical director Laurent d'Auria.
i>TELE acted on the advice of Canal+, who were already investigating low energy solutions. Aledin puts the benefits of an LED light source within a familiar profile package.
"We chose Aledin because we are used to working with the RJ profile spots which we are completely satisfied with. We know these very well, so it is now very easy for us to focus Aledin and use the different settings. The beam is really flat and the programming is very simple," d'Auria said.
"Aledin's low power consumption (105W) now enables us to use 10 LED fixtures for the same amount of energy as 1 tungsten lantern. In addition, the heat in the studio has dropped considerably, resulting in an important fall in our AC power consumption," d'Auria added.
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