USA - Club Nero, the hot nightspot at Caesar's, Lake Tahoe, keeps its patrons buzzing 365 nights a year. Techno and House music, Go-Go dancers and a laser light show have made this Lake Tahoe's premier nightclub. When Adam Camp of Neu Visions Design was looking for some LED accent lighting, he visited LDI 2002 in Las Vegas, looking for a cost-effective, simple lamp replacement with colour LED sources that didn't need a separate controller, power supply or transformer. The only lamp he saw with all the requirements he was looking for was the new CHIP series lamp, launched at LDI by OptiLED.

Neu Visions Design has now installed OptiLED CHIP lamps in down-lighting bars, to up-light glass tables and edge-light acrylic. "A great attribute is variable voltage," said Camp, "but probably the best feature of this simple unit is the variable lens configuration, which allows me to change the beam properties to so many different angles. This really expands the applications this CHIP unit can be used for."

Caesar's is a retro-fit and thanks to the variable voltage characteristics of the CHIP lamps and the selection of standard fittings, Camp was able to use the existing 120V wiring and sockets, thus eliminating a lot of the labour and parts costs usually associated with retro-fits. Maintenance of the lamps is low too, thanks to the CHIP lamps 100,000 hour lamp life.

(Lee Baldock)


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