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Zero 88 Chilli Pro dimmers for Chassé Theater Breda

A technical upgrade at the Chassé Theater in Breda, The Netherlands, sees the installation of 12 x Zero 88 Chilli Pro 24x16A Bypass dimmers and five Zero 88 Chilli Pro 6x25A dimmers in Jupilerzaal, the venue’s main auditorium, where they will be controlling approximately 309 channels of lighting and LED fixtures including some moving lights as needed/specified by the production.

The venue is one of the Netherlands’ largest venues, with a total of three auditoriums and three cinema spaces, mostly a receiving house - anything from music and bands to drama and dance plus amateur and semi-pro performances as well as corporate and private events and conferences. The Chassé Theater also stages some of its own productions, and a typical (pre-pandemic) year would see around 350 live performances and 3500 plus film screenings across all the different spaces.

This was the combination of a general technical upgrade and the replacement of the previous dimmers which had been in service for 25 years. The new dimmers were supplied via Zero 88’s distributor, AED Group. “We could no longer source spare parts for the old dimmers, and as theatre lighting going forward is now primarily focussed on getting LED fixtures involved, we needed to purchase dimmers that are suitable for powering these as well as conventional fixed voltage luminaires”, explains Jordy ten Bloemendal, Chassé Theater’s technical manager.

The new dimmers running in ‘bypass’ fixed voltage mode are also a solution for productions using moving lights. Chassé Theater had already started working with the same Zero 88 Chilli Pro Bypass dimmers in 2017 which are installed in the middle-sized room Koninklijke Drukkerij EM de Jong Zaal, offering approximately 270 channels. These first Chilli Pros in the building were also a replacement for the old dimmers in place at the time.

(Photos: Michel Kievits/Jordy ten Bloemendal/Chassé Theater, Breda)

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