As the game races across the playing surface,spectators follow the action while broadcast directors switch camera angles and view points for the home viewing audience. Providing effective lighting for such dynamic,fast paced action need not be as challenging as the game itself. That’s why Sterner has created a simple yet exacting arena lighting system that surpasses all arena design considerations.

The arena lighting system exceeds:

• Television broadcast requirements for mulitple camera locations
• Illumination criteria of broadcast networks and professional sports organizations
• ALL uniformity ratios including maximum/minimum (measures the difference between the highest and lowest light levels - illuminance - on the playing surface)

• Minimizes glare for players
• Minimizes glare for spectators
• Provides highest levels of illumination on the court with gradual decrease into seating areas
• Provides balanced illumination on athletes and reduces shadows on playing surface
• Provides a system design where illumination does not impede the quality of the picture projected from the video scoreboard

• Supplies an "instant dark system" of the luminaire during pre, mid- and post-game events

IT'S EASY TO MEET ARENA DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS WHEN SPECIFYING AND INSTALLING THE PARA II ARENA LIGHTING SYSTEM.

The Para II luminaire was designed specifically for interior sports lighting applications, utilizing a beam pattern engineered for efficiency, glare control and uniformity. In fact, the product derives its name, Para II, from a unique combination of two separate parabolas.This is an illumination system so unique and so advanced in its control of light that it was patented. The beam pattern provides a narrow vertical beam to minimize unwanted spill light on the scoreboard while providing a wide horizontal beam so the entire playing surface can be evenly illuminated from catwalk systems located on either side of the playing surface. This unique beam pattern eliminates the need for placing supplemental lighting in the "glare zones" on the ends of the catwalks.