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Russ Owens, South Pacific Coast RVP As the newly elected regional vice-president for the South Pacific Coast Region, I am simultaneously overwhelmed, apprehensive and encouraged. The region was recently expanded to include three new Sections and the term of office was also extended to three years. Having been the Region’s secretary for the past three years, while serving on our REGIONAL VOICES local Section’s Board of Managers, I am aware of some of the work that is required to keep an organization like the IESNA moving. It is not a continuum that moves on its own without the need of volunteers at every level. From the president of the Society to the most bashful member of a Section that volunteers to make name tags for a Section meeting, we are all a part of the same team. I began my own membership a number of years ago during a career change, at a time when I saw the value and immediate need for networking with those in the industry that might be of benefit to starting a consulting business from scratch. I began to attend the local Board meetings, was recruited to help with education and took on a succession of positions leading to president of the Section. My involvement was always voluntary and certainly changed from self-serving interests, to seeing the larger need to provide programs and other venues for the education of those who wanted and needed to learn more about lighting. I have seen many of my predecessors burn out and virtually not be heard from again. New people are the lifeblood of any volunteer organization and the few that do step forward to help, often get rewarded with more duties than they bargained for. Some can’t wait to get their term of office over with and get away. I would like to offer some suggestions to help retain the seasoned people as advisors (they have a wealth of knowledge of the history of the Sections and usually are more patient in their approach to meeting goals) and get the “next generation” of lighting professionals involved at the local level. • Let’s take advantage of the numerous awards that the Society has established and begin to reward those who have served the Sections and Regions with years of loyal service (you know, the ones that seem to serve on the Board forever, always helping in small ways, those that always are at the meetings helping to make a difference, etc). Present them with an award at a Section meeting. Recognize longevity and service at the variety of levels we have awards for. Section officers — look in those Section Guides for the various awards and give credit where credit is due. People that serve don’t usually do it for the reward, but it is a huge stroke when your colleagues notice it and act upon it. • Let’s promote Society membership to people we work with — either in our offices or our clients — as an Agree or disagree, we are moving forward and need both fresh ideas as well as seasoned ones. organization that has provided them with something they might not even think about, but utilize every day. Our Society produces (through volunteer committees and alliances with other organizations) Design Guidelines, Technical Memorandums, Recommended Practices and other tools we use and quote every day in conducting business (i.e. How many roadways or sports facilities are designed to IES Standards?) During times when budgets decline, disposable income vanishes and memberships lose priority; however, they utilize the tools we have produced and they should be encouraged to consider supporting the organization that gives them those tools. • Let’s get the next generation, the “Young Guns” (gender inclusive) involved in education and serving in the local sections. Some have had lighting education in college, and some have not, but they can all benefit from the IESNA Education materials. Education classes are a great place to recruit the next leadership for the section. The energy and ideas that the younger industry members possess should be harnessed to bring the local sections, as well as the Society at large, along into the future. Let us not cling to paradigms that worked 10 years ago; we are in an age where technology is changing faster than the seasons, and we need to be able to embrace the wealth of new ideas the young people can bring. • With the awareness that corporate budgets have been cut, as past sources for funding of local mailings and publishing, local sections are now turning to the wonders of the electronic age, email and faxing. I am a proponent of these tools and they appear to be a great way to get Section Newsletters or meeting notices in from of a lot of people quickly, repeatedly and with a minimal investment of time and money. We should begin and or continue the use of these tools to contact our respective database of members and interested parties about meetings, etc. One drawback to only using the electronic method of communication is the potential of a lack of connectivity with the membership. It can become easy to hit the send button and miss the fact that we still are an organization of people and that human contact is what keeps us sane (some of us less than others). I think it is a good idea to initiate phone contact from time to time with the membership, so that the IES identity/connection is not relegated totally to the infamous line “you’ve got mail.” Agree or disagree, we are moving forward and need both fresh ideas as well as seasoned ones. 14 LD+A/May 2001 www.iesna.org
Willard L. Warren, PE, LC, FIESNA Asophisticated new lighting control system that uses digital, rather than analog, signals to control the light output of a ESSAY BY INVITATION which particular lamps and ballasts are in need of replacement. The DALI system can be programmed to turn units on or off, or dimmed from 1-100 percent light output, by means of a simple low voltage control wire that loops through the building to every fixture. Further, when DALI is used in conjunction with a building management system, every lamp and ballast can be addressed to determine if the lamp or ballast is in working order. This status report can be gathered, either on-site, or at the central office of a maintenance contractor, to determine how many replacement lamps and ballasts are required, what kind It can feed back information on which particular lamps and ballasts are in need of replacement. Figure 1 — User interface Figure 2 — DALI software digital electronic ballast was recently introduced into this country The new digital electronic ballast and its control will replace the analog electronic ballast as the international standard in a few years because of its incredible versatility. The acronym for the new control protocol is “DALI,” which stands for “Digital Addressable Lighting Interface.” The beauty of DALI is that it allows the user to address every individual digital ballast, and program its lamp’s light output. And, because DALI is a two-way system, it can feed back information on they are, and where they are located. This saves time and money when servicing multiple sites in the same geographical area, like department stores, chain stores and supermarkets. The DALI system also allows digital ballasts to be controlled wherever they are in the ceiling, so if changes are made in the arrangement of departments on a floor, the lighting luminaires do not have to be re-wired, just re-addressed. Because the DALI system controls every individual ballast, it allows the user to assign every fixture to any one of 16 different groupings of luminaires in the space, and create multiple operating modes or scenes. Lighting levels can also be adjusted to respond to conditions like energy cutbacks, daylight harvesting, occupancy status, or the system can be used to turn any part of a large office into a conference area, with the ability to dim any fixtures needed to facilitate audio/visual presentations. The DALI system can be accessed either by a PC or a Palm OS device. Figure 1, the user-friendly PC screen, shows how easy it is to set the output of the ballast and assign it to one of 16 fixture groups. In the third step of the DALI program, the user selects the fade time and fade rate of each ballast. Figure 2 shows the control plan of three groups of luminaires, how they will be dimmed, and at what time. The user simply draws the fade and time curve with a PC mouse, and each group of ballasts creates the desired scene, as programmed. The PCs or Palm controllers can be located at several locations on the floor and changed at any time. Many American and European manufacturers have already signed on to provide hardware for this new 16 LD+A/May 2001 www.iesna.org
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