Grand Final for Ampco Flashlight at the 2018 Eurovision Song ContestIsrael taking the prize was the apotheosis of the grand final of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, where Ampco Flashlight played a major role as supplier of all lighting, rigging, video, and motion systems. Preparations started as early as October 2017. The dedicated team of commercial, technical, and logistics specialists, working closely together with local Portuguese partner Pixel Light, laid a solid base for a flawless production in the Altice Arena. Build up started early April and ended with a 60-hour speed load out. Over 2,500 fixtures, almost 4Km of truss and a huge amount of, cabling, dimmers, distros, and a state-of-the-art data network was used in this massive TV production attracting over 350 million viewers worldwide. Marc van der Wel, project director said: "It was very exciting being part of the team, and seeing how our specialists put so much effort, experience, and knowledge into this project. I am extremely proud of the way we handled this, and I am grateful for the opportunity and the great cooperation with RTP, head of production Ola Melzig, Tobias Aberg, and their team." Lighting fixtures included:
26 active dmx controlled camera light
112 Claypaky Scenius Profile
197 Claypaky Scenius Unico
45 Claypaky Axcor 900
86 Claypaky Hepikos
169 Claypaky Sharpy Wash
143 Claypaky Mythos 2
20 Claypaky Mythos 1 (performance)
50 ADB Klemantis
64 Ayrton Mistral (back wall)
112 Ayrton Ghibli (audience)
60 Ayrton Nando Beam S6
35 Ayrton Magic Panel FX (big backwall)
96 Ayrton Mini Panel FX (in front stage)
30 Ayrton Magic Dot SX (at front stage)
68 Philips Vari-Lite VL 4000 Wash-Beam
32 Philips Show Line SL 720 ZT
180 GLP X4 L (around arena, audience)
262 GLP JDC-1
64 GLP KN-V Arc (8 full circles)
8 GLP X4 Bar 20
20 SGM P2
89 SGM P5
21 SGM P10
36 Portman P1
12 Portman P3
1 Nova Flower 2k
17 Robe Robospot base station (operating 22 followspot positions)
19 Robe Robospot Motion Cam
22 Robe BMFL Blade
4 Robe BMFL Wash-Beam
60 various work lights
231 various spare fixtures
1 Robe Dominator 1200 XT Rigging included:
1,858 Interal spotladder parts
3,908 2-meter trussing (including lots of circle parts)
5,885 electric chainhoists
3,000 shackles
1,200 steels
1,950 softsteels
177 BroadWeigh wireless load cell Controlled by:
3 grandMA2 sessions, running with
10 grandMA2 full size consoles, five active, five back-up in network
4 grandMA2 light, 2 video, 2 tech ops
39 grandMA2 NPU
3 grandMA2 VPU MKII
2 Green Hippo Boreal+ Media Server
16 ELC GBX-8 port nodes ...And controlling:
63,723 DMX parameters for moving lights
82,114 DMX parameters for pixel mapping and backwall of 351x Ayrton Magic Panel FX
3,314 DMX parameters for hippotizers
158 universes for moving lights
88 universes for the backwall of 351x Ayrton Magic Panel FX
80 universes RGB pixels in set Distributed through:
14 HP Enterprice switches
10 GBE redundant fibernetwork with over 2,000m of Neutrik optical-con dual core fiber
38,740 meter data cabling Powered and protected by:
3,172 mains power circuit breakers
49,284 meter power cabling Video gear included:
7 Panasonic RZ31K 31k laser projector (mapping projection for various performances)
2 Barco HDX W20 Flex 20k projector (performance Belgium)
6 Panasonic PT-DZ21K1 21k projector (broadcast to audience)
32 ROE CB3 3,75 mm carbon LED panels (performance Malta)
256 ROE S18 900 mm LED Strip units (performances Sweden, Australia)
3,628 meter LED Strip Studio striplight single pixel RGB (light boxes in set, in spheres and ribs) Motion Control system:
46 CyberMotion CyberHoist 2 (moving 15 lighting elements)
2 MotionCue3D CyberMotion control systems Logistics:
3,688,000,000 liters of truckspace
886,290 kilograms of cargo
172,365 km truck travelling 
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