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The Association of First Lady of California Pain Brotherhood premieres this year a new system of energy efficient lighting, resulting from a research project at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.
Teachers Francisco Javier Cano García Rodríguez and Ángel Molina along with engineer John Clement Martinez Aparicio has developed a project that has replaced the previous incandescent lamps of this emblematic throne, which closes the Holy Wednesday procession of energy saving lamps.
The result is a white tones lighting further enhanced the image contrast and mantle combined with warm lighting certain areas for gold and temple carvings.
Unlike the general trend, replacing incandescent lamps by low consumption, there has been a decrease in the level of illumination, but has increased the average value of light from the throne in 130 lux, having specific points where even doubled.
"This has been achieved due to the precise lighting study has been done to the throne, coming to create three-dimensional graphics that show the dark spots that had the throne with the previous lighting," says engineer John Clement, who last October completed his final year project entitled "Study, optimization and testing of wiring and power system for the Brotherhood thrones Cartagena Cartagena California."
It has also been quantified for the first time a parameter intrinsic to the thrones of Cartagena style which is the amount of light blocking layer of flower, showing the work developed at the Technical University that becomes greater than fifty percent.
The new facility has significantly reduced the power of the throne from the 18,000 watts to 5,000 watts old installation.
This lower power leads to find a smaller power than the 36 batteries that had so far.
The new system has reduced the number of batteries by 66% and has increased the autonomy of the system from 3.5 to 4.5 hours.
To calculate the UPCT autonomy has developed a battery discharge curve for the model used on the throne, which calculates the values of autonomy more accurately than methods used previously.
This improvement prevents the throne is no light on its way through the streets of Cartagena.
The project include the implementation of a safety voltage of 24 volts, which meets all current rules and because of its low value along with the protection elements installed on the throne protect against any eventuality portapasos power.
The new facility has also brought a significant change this year will notice their portapasos, which is to reduce the temperature inside the throne.
The previous installation of incandescent raised the temperature inside the throne to 45 º C due to heat losses from this type of lamps, energy saving lamps now used are more efficient and reducing these losses, not producing a significant elevation temperature below the throne.
The solution also meets the criteria adopted for environmental improvement and solves one of the most complicated electrical level is known as 'machete' when you turn all the lighting to the throne after leaving the church of Santa Maria.
Source: UPCT
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