Infinity Bridge

Project:Interactive Handrail lighting
Location: Stockton-upon-Tees,UK
Date Completed: August 2008
Client: AC/DC Lighting
Lighting Architect/Designer:Spiers & Major, Edinburgh.

Lee Engineering supplied custom built and designed control circuit boards for the hand rail stantions of the Infinity Bridge in Stockton-upon-Tees. The design brief was that each stantion required a stand alone fitting that could sense movement and trigger embedded LED fittings (supplied by AC/DC Lighting) to change from blue to white. The idea behind this design (from Spiers and Major) was that a trail of white light would follow pedestrians across the bridge. The fitiinhs had to be completely stand alone, with only 240V power being supplied to each stantion and they also had to be fully sealed against the weather. Lee Engineering designed and sourced the modules from Radix in Lancaster and fitted the finished modules into the stantions. There were a total of 270 modules that were fitted to the bridge. Each module comprised a radar detector and a programeable LED driver.

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