CORAL SPRINGS, FL — The new 70,000-square-foot, 2,000-capacity sanctuary for Church by the Glades sanctuary features a full proscenium stage, three audio and video editing suites, and truss with a new automated rigging system from J. R. Clancy, Inc.
“They own a very large stock of rock-and-roll-style truss, lighting equipment, audio equipment, and editing suites,” noted John Gitzy, general manager at InterAmerica Stage, Inc. (IAS). (Acoustic Dimension handled the acoustic design, and Stage Equipment and Lighting providing lighting provided lighting, audio and staging equipment.)
“The first time I met Ryan Floria, the church’s production manager, they were tearing down the smaller theatre’s stage from a themed service based on [Led Zeppelin’s] ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ The next week the service was themed around Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon,’” Gitzy added.
The rigging system includes five of J.R. Clancy’s PowerLift motorized hoists for the stage electrics, with top and bottom limits and load sensing and a redundant electric brake system for safety.
Gitzy credited the PowerLifts for ease of installation. “We put in four fixed-speed hoists for the electrics and a general purpose hoist for the house projection screen,” he said. “We just bolt-in the PowerLift, hook it up, and it goes. This was really a painless process.”
To set limits for each line and to run the PowerLifts, the church used J. R. Clancy’s SureTarget 10 controller. Each SureTarget 10 provides simple and safe control with color touch-screen display, up-down pushbutton control for setup, and a joystick for adjustments on the fly for up to 10 PowerLifts. SureTarget 10 also has the ability to “learn” the weight of a new load, and sense any change in the load that might signal a dangerous problem. If the load changes unexpectedly, SureTarget 10 stops the batten’s motion.
“The SureTarget 10 for this church has been modified to fit twelve channels,” said Gitzy. “I asked the folks at Clancy to do that, and they did it for me. So now we have the option of moving to twelve hoists from the original five.”
For more information, please visit www.jrclancy.com.
