Crescent Lighting has recently supplied the EFO fibre optic lighting system to the Epping Forest District Museum to use as part of the total refurbishment of the ground floor archaeology displays. Eleven new cabinets were constructed and fitted with the LBQR Lightbar linear fibre optic system with high intensity fibre grouping. These were powered by the CREAD068 EFO projector.The Museum tells the story of the people who have lived and worked in this part of south Essex from the earliest inhabitants to the present.
Based in historic Waltham Abbey, in a building dating back to 1520, the Museum first opened in 1981and the collections have grown steadily ever since.
Artefacts are grouped by age, and include pre historic and Neolithic flint tools, pottery fragments, iron age tools & weapons, medieval coins and items excavated from a wealthy merchant's house, dating from about 1600.
Exhibitions Officer Andy Hall commented "This is the first time that the Epping Forest District Museum has used this type of lighting in our displays and we are very pleased with the end result"
Note on the EFO system
Crescent EFO is a revolutionary new lighting system offering all the benefits of Fibre Optic Lighting with the added advantage of energy efficiency. Technological innovations from Crescents parent company, Energy Focus Inc., in solid core optical fibre and light collecting systems in EFO give crisp, white light with an efficiency way beyond what has been possible with Fibre Optics up to now.
The CREAD projector– revolutionary optics
The patented Compound Parabolic Collector (CPC) is at the very heart of the new EFO system. The CPC collects the light generated by the 68W DC HQI lamp directly from the arc tube, and, at the same time directs the light beams to the ideal angle (35 degrees max) to efficiently launch the light into the fibre.
The CPC non-imaging system mixes the colour and gives a much more even distribution. This in turn obviates the need for any mixing or randomising of the optic fibres in the port to achieve an even light output across the various tails of the fibre harness.
