The Life Safety System Simplified with the Philips Strand Lighting Emergency DMX Bypass Switch

	Philips Strand Lighting's Emergency DMX Bypass Switch

As an industry pioneer in dimming controls, Philips Strand Lighting introduces the Emergency DMX Bypass Switch. Controlling four individual universes of DMX, the user can now simplify their Life Safety System providing Emergency and Panic lighting control solutions for DMX-driven house lights and all DMX controlled lighting needed for emergency and egress lighting.

"For over 100 years, Philips Strand Lighting has been leading the way in dimming controls for entertainment venues around the world," said Julie Smith, general manager of the Americas. "Today, with so many facilities implementing entertainment lighting into their daily lives, the need for simple, powerful Life Safety Systems is imperative so that both the house and entertainment lighting can work in unison in an emergency situation."

As a PLASA Innovation Award-winner, each Emergency DMX Bypass acts as a DMX splitter handling one-in four-out, or two-in two-out routing scenarios. In either state, panic or emergency, the DMX Bypass Switch can be set to trigger "snap shot" loads or can be set to drive all loads on each DMX path to 100%. Each state can be triggered via normally-open, normally-closed dry contacts, or from a 12V DC signal. Once the state is returned to normal, the DMX Bypass will return loads to the DMX controller in either a one-minute timed, 10-minute timed, or intelligent timing sequence which returns to normal once the valid DMX inputs are sensed.