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Saturday, January 31, 2009

CN Tower to supplier: So, did we get a warranty for those LEDs?


You don't have to have any imagination when you look up at night at the CN-Tower. Obviously, something is missing.

No
idea?

Keep

on

looking

down.

No,

even

farther

down.

Light's out.

Yep, if you're west of the tower, you'll see on the bottom half, a little to the left, a pretty big panel of LEDs has gone dark.

Back in June, 2007, the tower installed the new lights and treated everyone to a big light show. Of course, now we're pretty used to it. It's green and red during Christmas and the rest of the year, changes colour.

According to the CN Tower Website, it's using "Color Kinetics lighting system that merges patented Chromacore technology with microprocessor-controlled light emitting diodes (LEDs). The first major breakthrough in the lighting industry in over 100 years, Chromacore has enabled an entirely new kind of lighting – intelligent LED illumination -- recognized by designers and industry experts as a revolutionary invention, both technically and aesthetically."

Well, may want to check how we're gonna replace some of those LEDs.

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