LASALLE College Of The Arts, SIA Theatre

In lieu of a safer workplace, Lasalle SIA Theatre has replaced part of their motorised fly system to ETC Prodigy Flypipe system.

Since a few years ago, Lasalle has started to experience problems in their motorised flybars system which were made up of multiple chain hoists supporting a long connecting truss. Some common problems that many venues faced on such similar system will be the levelling issues, absence of a proper travel limits and overload detection. As a result, truss started to sag over time, chain hoists wearing out at different phases and giving erratic problems which the venue operators have to spent valuable manpower and cost just to trouble-shoot.

ETC Prodigy Flypipe system were selected due to the high safety standards and sleek looking pipe design. It uses a fail-safe motor brake and safestop secondary load arrest to ensure safe overhead operations. In addition, the inbuilt 4 nos. limits switches, overcurrent protection, over-load and under-load protection are what the current fly system do not offers.

A total of 4 sets Prodigy Flypipe system were replaced. 2 sets at the stage left & right meant for German curtains and the other 2 sets at the back of the stage behind the cyclorama. All 4 sets Prodigy Flypipe are controlled by the ETC QuickTouch Controller.