Tough as a Battleship – 21st Century Lighting for a WWII Museum

About this Course

The IES offers Educational Webinars throughout the year, purposefully spanning a broad range of topics and speaker expertise. 

Description:  Challenges and solutions involved with installing a DMX512 controlled RGBW lighting system to illuminate a WWII Battleship, now a museum and North Carolina’s most popular tourist attraction. The client wanted to illuminate the battleship with color-changing lighting. 

Challenges included:1. Finding luminaire mounting locations to avoid contact with visitors and to minimize the obvious problem of 21st century LED luminaires on a ship built in 1940.

2. How to run and layout DMX512 data runs.
3. How to physically get cables from “here to there;” the entire ship is solid steel.