Lighting for Worship

I had the opportunity to see the RSC LightLock by Total Structures live and in person a couple of weeks ago, and I have to say, this thing could be a game-changer. If you haven’t seen anything about it, it’s an attachment that you put onto the base of a moving head fixture between the light and the truss or lighting pipe. By use of some type of space-age technology (or maybe gnomes, I like gnomes) when the moving light swings around and does its wiggly thing, the Lightlock counteracts the motion to keep the light from moving unnecessarily. There are couple of killer YouTube videos on it, including one hosted by Sir Captain Picard, which is cool and of itself, but the one below is perhaps the best example of how the unit cuts down on sway. And now, having seen it in real life, I can vouch for the video below not being doctored, the Lightlock is this good in real life!

Now how does this come into play in a church setting, you might ask? Well, moving lights are often hung on trusses. And trusses are often hung by chain. And chain swings when outside forces act upon it, and that makes your truss swing, and makes all your lights go wooga-wooga in a somber moment in the service, because you’ve blacked out all your fixtures, but you’re moving them into place for the next song. With the LightLock that doesn’t happen. Very, very cool. And moderately priced as well, with a list price that I can’t remember right off hand, but it was significantly less than the cost of the moving lights, so that’s okay, then.

So now for the other great news – this marks the re-re-relaunch of Lightingforworship.com! I now promise to make time to do at least one new product review each week. So manufacturers, please send me your press releases! Coming soon, I’ll talk about more LED products, the ETC Element console, the Altman Spectra-Cyc and whatever else strikes my fancy. If there’s something you particularly want to see, let me know!