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Eaton’s Zero 88 series continues support for Leisuretec’s ‘Introduction to Lighting Basics’ course

Eaton’s Zero 88 series continues its support for professional lighting, audio and AV distributors’ Leisuretec’s ‘Introduction to Lighting Basics’ course, a one-day fly-through of some of the fundamentals of stage, event and venue lighting, devised and presented by their lighting specialist, Andy Friedli.

This is the third of four ‘Lighting Basics’ sessions being run by Leisuretec throughout 2018. Over 30 customers and interested parties attended over these latest 3 x 1-day courses, and Leisuretec has now trained over 170 people via this hands-on process.

Andy Friedli devised and developed the course - initially for Leisuretec staff - three years ago, having joined the Leighton Buzzard based company five years ago. The first courses proved so popular that Friedli and his colleagues at Leisuretec decided to open the training to their customers - specifically systems integrators and venue or event production staff and crew who may be involved in the peripheries of lighting.

As the concept gained traction, Friedli appealed to the leading lighting brands in Leisuretec’s portfolio and asked for their support, including Elation, who agreed to participate by providing a selection of consoles to illustrate the control side of lighting.

The current package of desks includes the new Zero 88 FLX S range. “Training and technical support that empowers end-users is right at the top of our agenda,” says Zero 88’s international sales manager Tyler Holpin, “We have supported Andy’s initiative right from the start, and it’s great to see it become such a success.”

The Eaton Zero 88 team took it one step further when their chief UK technical sales manager Mandy Bullock-Williams joined Andy Friedli as the second presenter. Bullock-Williams’ career as a lighting professional began 46 years ago, when she became fascinated by lighting whilst still at school, and at that time, ‘training’ was virtually non-existent. “That’s all changed now,” she observes, “But there is still a real need for concise, practically based courses like this which will give individuals already working in the industry more insight into a specific aspect.” 

Topics covered on the ‘Lighting Basics’ course include looking at the different types of available fixtures, what they do and how and when to use them - including profiles, fresnels, washes, PARs, LEDs, tungsten, arc sources and moving lights - for which Eaton provided several generic fixtures from Italian theatrical specialist LDR.

The control section introduces DMX and basic desk programming and operation and goes into how to achieve colour changing in LEDs or making a light move and how to work effectively with gobos. Grass roots wiring and electrical theory are also part of the daily syllabus.

Each course culminates in the two groups being asked to set up some lighting for a theoretical corporate event utilising between four and six of the luminaires - with which they are now familiar - and a wind-up stand.

The daily class is split into two in Leisuretec’s purpose-built TecZone area, allowing both sub-groups to work on an identical set of fixtures and get hands-on with these, and the numbers are limited to 12 maximum per session. Andy Friedli also ran a ‘Lighting Basics Juniors’ course for nine 13- and 14-year olds as a one-off day event which followed the exact same course as the adults.

Photo: Day 3 group with tutors Andy Friedli (far left) and Mandy Bullock-Williams (fourth from left). (Photo: Louise Stickland)

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