Fairhaven Church Renews Its Visual Installation with Elation Led Panels

A large Led display, formed by 135 Elation Professional EPV6 panels, chair religious sessions at Fairhaven Church. For content management, which is centralized on an Elation Zeus Media Server, six Elation EPV VSC controllers and two EPV DVI distributors have been installed 4.

Fairhaven Church in Ohio (United States), that has a capacity to 1.500 present, has recently renewed its audiovisual infrastructure, with the installation of a video Led screen formed by 135 EPV6 panels Elation Professional, whose products it distributes Visuals.

The original idea was to replace the projectors that the church had with more modern and bright ones but, "in the end we opted for a Led screen installation since we believe that it is the one that will best ensure visual quality in services over the next few years", explains Mike Rall, head of the Video Department at Fairhaven Church.

Before installing the Led screen, This religious center had three projectors of great luminosity located at a few 30 meters away from projection screens. These teams were already about ten years old and the projection screens were beginning to warp. The changes of lamps in the projectors were carried out every 6 months and many times before even.

"The brightness and quality of the projections were deteriorating rapidly.. Another problem was the large temperature increase we suffered in the technical control room., where the projectors were located, every time there was a service, and that in summer it was quite uncomfortable, since the air conditioning system could not cope with the heat produced by these three equipment", Mike comments.

Led visual solution

The new visual infrastructure of the church of Fairhaven is based on a videowall composed of 135 Led panels EPV6 Elation Professional, that have a pixel density (pixel pitch) of 6 Mm.

These panels, for whose installation the company was responsible Scenic Solutions, They are divided into three independent screens, with dimensions of 3 meters high by 5 meters wide, and integrated by 45 Elation EPV6 panels each. "Fairhaven wanted a high-definition Led screen, that was easy to install and maintain. EPV6 panels provide all this. They are durable, with easy maintenance and great visual quality", clarifies McLaughlin of Scenic Solutions.

These screens can be positioned individually thanks to a motor system. When the three screens come together, The result is a screen of more than 17 meters wide.

Lighting system

The Ohio religious center has also been equipped with a new lighting system that includes 8 moving heads Elation Platinum Spot 15R Pro, with CMY color mixing and a consumption of 300 Watts, which provides a luminosity similar to a traditional moving head type Spot of 1.200 Watts. This equipment enhances with lighting effects the different visual contents that are shown with the Led screens.

The high resolution of the EPV6 panels makes the screen very sharp both from short distances and from the stage. They provide high contrast and feature Powercon IN/Out connectors and Ethercon IN/OUT connectors for fast interconnection between the different modules.

According to Mike, the strong point of this installation is the visual impact that a large Led screen provides to the entire enclosure. "It is of such size and luminosity that we have to be careful not to divert the attention of the attendees during the services.. The new visual technology has stopped limiting us creatively and even when we are not showing visual content generated by us, Only the quality of the broadcast of the realization of cameras or the sharpness of the texts that we show on the screens during the services offer attendees a great experience, from any of the 1.500 seats of the enclosure".

Signal distribution

The processing of the video signal is carried out thanks to 6 Elation EPV VSC controllers (2 for each of the 3 Led screens) that have been installed in a control room, located more than 80 meters of screens. Two Elation EPV DVI signal distributors 4 They are also used to duplicate the different signals..

The visual content displayed on the different screens is stored and played from an Elation Zeus Media Server, that includes an installation of the software Arkaos Media Master Pro.

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