Road Test: Strong Technobeam, page 40 - PLSN.com
Road Test: Strong Technobeam, page 40 - PLSN.com
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PROJECTION LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS<br />
Once a gym, the building is now the place to go for social dancing, musical and dance performances and weekly devotionals.<br />
BYU-Idaho’s LD handles the lighting design and implementation, but students set up the events.<br />
“We wanted some<br />
standardization to<br />
the system so the<br />
students would<br />
understand where<br />
things plug in on a<br />
regular basis without<br />
having to reconfigure<br />
the system<br />
constantly.”<br />
—Brent Pritchett<br />
Switching To Touring Nodes<br />
Inst<br />
Part of the upgrade included removing permanently<br />
mounted nodes and turning them<br />
into touring nodes. “We made it so we had two<br />
ports available,” he explains. “We put in an Ethercon<br />
XLR connection so we could access both of<br />
the pairs of wires that were going to the back of<br />
those nodes. One of them was just a spare, but<br />
since we were always needing to add universes in<br />
certain locations, we made it so we could do two<br />
portable nodes there. We basically left the nodes<br />
alone, but then we have access to all the Ethernet<br />
jacks that were put into the lighting system.”<br />
It took a bit of time for ETC to understand<br />
what he was after, Pritchett reports with a laugh.<br />
“Really, it was pretty simple,” he says. “Most of the<br />
terminations were already there, so it was just<br />
putting it into a new faceplate and building the<br />
touring nodes out of the permanently installed<br />
nodes. It just took a day or two to do that portion<br />
of the upgrade and that way we were able<br />
to, instead of pulling additional Ethernet jacks<br />
to everywhere in the room, we were able to utilize<br />
all of the wires that were already pulled.”<br />
This part of the upgrade has made the<br />
Hart Building one of the campus’ top spots.<br />
“It’s a great room,” Pritchett says. “For the<br />
most part it’s as flexible as the physical part<br />
will give us options. We do our best with it.”<br />
That doesn’t mean, though, that he’s not<br />
looking forward to the new auditorium. “This<br />
room has been great for the past 39 years,<br />
but it’s too small for our student body now,”<br />
he says. “We have 13,500 students on campus<br />
now and the president of the university really<br />
wanted a venue that all of the student body<br />
could use to meet together. Since we don’t do<br />
<strong>com</strong>petitive sports, an auditorium was a logical<br />
solution. We’re pretty excited.”<br />
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