20th Anniversary!

Creative Lighting is celebrating its first 20 years in 2009. Continuous research and development since 1992 has resulted in the competitive Control Freak range of control products. Our firm comprises electronics engineers under the direction of a multi-award winning lighting designer.

Energy Management

Creative's Control Freak range encompasses just about everything you need to minimise energy consumption from lighting, whether it's occupancy sensing, LED control and dimming, dimming of fluorescent and compact fluorescents, HID control or even fan control we make solutions for them all. Our products are installed in many green star projects from railway platforms and tunnels to commercial tenancies, retail, restaurants, signs, clubs and homes. We also supply OEMs with our control solutions including Clipsal, Sylvania and many more. We also provide tips on energy saving designs.(Read more)

Fun

Not all energy saving needs to be boring. At Creative Lighting we also make RGB and RGBW controllers for LEDs and fluorescents, and offer the simplest programming of colour imaginable with our patented PAINT system which does not use or need computers!

New Product! - SLAMMO XC-1 Constant Current LED Dimmer

The XC-1 is a world first, featuring incredibly smooth full-range dimming (with >15bit resolution and operating at 400Hz) and accepts DALI, DMX512, DSI and RDM protocols. The SLAMMO XC-1 is now in production, with stocks due late Q4 2009. Click to download brochure (345kb pdf file).

Products we design and make

There are only two international standards for lighting control that are open protocol digital control standards. Commercial lighting control and building automation uses the DALI protocol. The entertainment industry uses DMX512. Creative Lighting's team of engineers design a range of lighting control solutions that are both DALI and DMX512 compliant. The range of products made by Creative Lighting include LED dimmers and sequencers, lighting controllers, HID luminaire controllers with lamp status reporting, contactor drivers, line power supplies, serial communication interfaces, scene controllers, group controllers, commissioning tools, fan controllers, translators and automated display controllers. Creative Lighting is also a registered DMX512 RDM manufacturer.(Read more)

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Recent Projects

Winter Olympics (Vancouver Canada)(Read more)

Creative Lighting have shipped 6 DIDIO 7037 DMX to DALI translators to Lightopia, together with 125 Osram Qti-DALI ballasts and Osram FQ High output lamps. We can't tell you details about how the Olympics are using these products until after the opening event. However we can say that suppliers to the Olympic Games aren't allowed to use images of the olympic rings, regardless of whether its a photo of the actual rings in the main stadium, say. And any details we post after the opening will be text only.

Queensland Performing Arts Centre (Brisbane, Australia)(Read more)

The Queensland Performing Arts Centre has just been awarded a Lighting Excellence Award from the Queensland chapter of the I.E.S. for designers Maunsell/Bassett Consulting. The project is controlled by over 100 SLAMMO v2.5 LED dimmers.

Chinatown Mall (Brisbane, Australia)(Read more)

42 x SLAMMO v2.5 3-channel LED dimmers are presently being installed in Chinatown Brisbane. More than a dozen of the SLAMMOs are supplied in IP66 enclosures which are suitable for loads of up to 200W per SLAMMO. The power supplies are remote-mounted, DIN-rail type Meanwell 240-24VDC.

Advanced PC-controllable and standalone lighting controllers (Armenia)(Read more)

In conjunction with Epygi Labs in the United States, 60 DIDIO's are being installed in a project in Armenia. The project features both managed and unmanaged modes for the DIDIOs, allowing a central PC to monitor and take control of the lighting at any time, otherwise the DIDIOs accept triggers from pushbuttons and sensors and act on in-built timers. A copy of the functionality statement for this project can be downloaded here.

William McCormack Place (Cairns, Australia)(Read more)

86 x LIDA-F (8-channel relay output or 4-channel fan output) controllers were supplied to Clipsal for the green star rated William McCormack Place project in Cairns, Queensland. DIDIO 7001 controllers and an ADDICT-sys kit make up the rest of the shipment. The new LIDA-F suits multi-speed DALI control of fans such as Hunter Pacific's Sycamore fan.

Bethania Railway Station (Brisbane, Australia)(Read more)

Bethania Railway Station continues the conversion of Queensland Rail platforms to energy saving lighing, using DIDIO for DALI control, including automatic 100hr burn-in and occupancy sensing.

Current Research and Development

Implementation of Remote Device Management (RDM)

An extension of the DMX512 protocol, devices that implement RDM allow for controllers to remotely them using existing DMX512 connections. Various Creative Lighting products are being upgraded to handle this new RDM protocol: (Read more)

• ADDICT - Basic configuration of RDM devices has been implemented into the latest version of the ADDICT (v1.08).
• SLAMMO XC-1 - Using RDM, any options that required changing dipswitchs on the PCB can now be selected remotely, as well as additional advanced options.

SLAMMO LED Dimmers

Our successful SLAMMO LED dimmers could not escape our research and development program: (Read more)

• SLAMMO v3 LED dimmers for constant voltage LEDs are being upgraded to include improved persistant settings management and full-range, high-resolution, 400Hz, flicker-free dimming. Release is due Q1 2010.
• SLAMMO XC-3 will be a DIN mountable LED dimmer with 3 channels of PWM for constant current LEDs. Supports output voltages up to 36VDC, and a range of current ratings will be available (350mA, 500mA, 600mA and 700mA). Like the XC-1, it will be controllable by DALI, DSI or DMX512 and will be RDM compliant.

ADDICT

ADDICT-sys v1.08 has just been released. New features include: (Read more)

• Advanced scene functions for copying and swapping scenes.
• Support for Remote Device Management, including all required parameters, as well as many standard and manufacturer parameters.

LIDA-D - DIN mount DALI controller fans and contactors

The LIDA-F PCB will soon be offered as a DALI controller for switching 1-4 channels of mains voltage (240mA max loads), contactors or 1-2 fans. The LIDA-D will be supplied in the same convenient DIN mount package as the DIDIO.

Agencies and Manufacturing

As well as being a manufacturer for our own control systems, equipment and tools, Creative Lighting is also an agent for many major brands of lighting and effects including: