Pleasant Valley Baptist Church (PVBC) is on the north side of the Kansas City metropolitan area, and has a weekly attendance of around 4,000 people. The Church has existed since the 1940s at various locations, but was purpose-built at its current location in 1997.
PVBC has three different styles of worship service happening every weekend in the same room - the main Worship Centre - meaning that flexibility and reliability of the lighting system is very important.
Kansas City-based worship lighting installations specialists, Stark Raving Solutions provided an LED house light 'shoot out' in collaboration with North American lighting distributor, A.C Lighting Inc., with a view to replacing PVBC's old 500w incandescent house can lights, which had been installed in 1997.
"When demoing and comparing house lights with DMX control from multiple manufacturers, the Chroma-Q Inspire fixtures totally hit the mark for price and functionality," says Stark Raving Solutions' Marcus Hammond, who was also technical director at PVBC from 2004 - 2014.
"Some of the more traditional services have only white house light, while the more progressive or contemporary services use single colours - or an entire spectrum of colors - across the whole room, to provide the congregation with an immersive worship experience.
"Having a smooth dimming curve down to 0% was a huge factor in PVBC choosing the Inspires," Marcus continues. "The goal was to have a product that felt like an incandescent fixture at low levels, but would not blink off at a level of 5% or 10%, like other solutions we've tried."
The Inspire fixtures also met the criteria for an energy-efficient solution that would provide reduced maintenance and running costs.
(Jim Evans)
