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Bryant To Unleash 'eyePower' MDU
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he all new Bryant Unlimited
multidrop serial or optional Ethernet
'eyePower' Mains Distribution
interface with PoE; 1-Wire sensors
Unit (MDU) heralds the future
for environmental monitoring
for rack power distribution
- all in 1RU.
management in broadcast, IT racks
Like all Bryant Unlimited mains
and server farms.
units, eyePower does not rely on
Bryant Unlimited have
PCB tracks for power distribution;
manufactured "Intelligent" Mains
all units are hand wired with
Distribution Units since the 1990s
crimped cables and soldered
and the eyePower MDU is the very
busbars. eyePower Outlets are 10A
latest design, based upon user
rated to the unit maximum of 20A.
demands for functionality. eyePower
Factory ﬁt is 3.15A fuses, which
offers the highest standard of
suits most loads and provides clear
monitoring and status reporting in
discrimination between supply and
mission-critical installations such
outlet fusing. Customers can uprate
as broadcast and IT, where loss of
fuses as required.
on-air time or data is a killer.
Supply voltage is detected after
Bryant Unlimited introduce the
each fuse and after each relay, using
super stable, highest resolution
a circuit which consumes 0.25W
Power Monitoring MDU for broadcast
total for over 30 measurements:
and IT racks with control and
many none-Bryant units consume
monitoring deliberately performed
this much power for each presence
by separate micro-controllers.
detect and do not check both
An intelligent
MDU offering
14 IEC outlets;
20A powerCON
single or dual
inlet
autochangeover from
main to back-up
power in event
of power failure;
comprehensive
control and
monitoring of
inlet and outlet
parameters over Bryant Unlimited 'eyePower' Mains Distribution Unit

'eyePower' can offer visual analysis of current draw
via an innovative graph display

fuse and relay.
C u r re n t m e a s u re m e n t i s
performed with high sensitivity
current transformers. With no direct
connection to the supply, there
are no issues when measuring
current throughout supply voltage
disturbances. Currents from
mA to 40A (Crest Factor 2) can
be monitored.
The PSU is high quality, a linear
supply which are more tolerant to
supply harmonics and voltage dips.
Features include:
20A powerCON inlets, either
single or dual auto-changeover;
14 x 10A IEC outlets, individually

controlled and monitored;
Advanced monitoring of mains
supply parameters.
Fully equipped, eyePower uses
22 separate 24-bit, oversampling
A-D converters together with a
number of 10-bit ADC to measure
diverse parameters.
These provide voltage and
current waveform display for visual
analysis of current draw. eyePower's
innovative graph can highlight
connected equipment's unusual
current draw waveform allowing
preventative maintenance to be
performed in scheduled downtime.

Kings Communication Rolls Out AJA Equipment
aiwan-based
Kings
Communication has provided
production and post services
for entertainment programmes,
concerts and corporate videos.
The multifaceted company also
specialises in OB, lending its
EFP crew and OB truck, which
houses several AJA solutions, to
live-event productions and sports
broadcasts across Asia.

Its most recent projects include
the HM 50th Anniversary Concert
and EVA Air's Full Membership
Announcement Ceremony, a
celebration of the airline's induction
into Star Alliance.
Kings Communication's General
Manager Chung-Chou Ku said: "We
looked at other competitive gear,
but quickly found AJA equipment
best ﬁt our speciﬁc needs, and it's
surpassed our
expectations,
providing
efficient
performance
and steadfast
reliability
throughout
m a n y
productions,
including our
recent work
for EVA Air."
E VA
Air
began
its
search for a
production
Some of the equipment deployed by Kings Communications c o m p a n y

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t o re c o rd a n d b ro a d c a s t
the
Full
Membership
Announcement ceremony live
last summer and enlisted Kings
Communication for the job.
Kings Communication deployed
an OB truck equipped with six
of AJA's Ki Pro Rack and Ki Pro
digital video recorders, an FS1 frame
synchroniser and a KUMO 1616 SDI
router, in addition to AJA GEN10
and HD10AMA Mini-Converters,
Ikegami cameras and Ikegami
and JVC monitors to capture and
broadcast the event live to a local
news station, as well as produce and
edit a ﬁnal recording to be posted
online after the show.
On-site Ku and his production
crew fed footage from each
camera's SDI outputs to the Ki Pro
Racks and Ki Pros to record Apple
ProRes 422 ﬁles. Also armed with
an AJA KUMO 1616 router and
KUMO Control Panel, Ku and his
team lined up two HD monitors
with the SDI router - connecting
all six Ki Pros and Ki Pro Racks -
to facilitate seamless control over

the production.
Once captured, the footage was
broadcast live to a local station, as
well as recorded and transferred
to an Apple Mac Pro for editing in
Apple Final Cut Pro after the event.
"KUMO simpliﬁed our workﬂow by
giving us a powerful control setup.
It's compact and allows us to easily
switch to any Ki Pro quickly with only
two monitors, so we didn't have to
buy extra monitors or waste time
changing our Ki Pros," said Ku.
"The Ki Pros allowed us to record
the entire event in a high-quality,
edit-ready format, which saved us
a ton of time and money. They made
everything easier, because we no
longer had to worry about encoding
our footage."
Inspired by the gear's performance
throughout the event, Ku concluded:
"It's clear that AJA not only creates
high-performance, cost-effective
solutions, but that they're familiar
with live-event production demands.
Their gear is easy to work with
and incredibly stable, but also
affordable."

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