The Church is based in Forest Lake and offers services to the local community in its 100ft by 100ft auditorium, known as the Sanctuary.
Stefan Svärd from Minnesota-based Audio Video Electronics (AVE) oversaw the project in collaboration with Maranatha Pastor, Bob Headley and church administrator, David Morley. After impressing the Church by an onsite demonstration of the product's lighting capabilities, Stefan conveniently installed 24 of the Chroma-Q Inspire Mini fixtures into the exact holes which used to house the old incandescent lights in the Church's main hall, using the unit's optional recessed trim ceiling installation kit.
"AVE brought the Inspire Mini house lights to the table. We used lighting rendering software to calculate the placement, lenses needed and overall foot-candles the lights would have," explains Stefan. "The church team was immediately impressed with the Mini's incredible colours, but also the great white light that they offer - which matched nicely with the room's existing stage lighting - and the fact that they're convection cooled, so there's zero fan noise."
Maranatha decided to take advantage of a generous rebate programme being provided by AVE in conjunction with the church's power utility company, to take out the old house lights and replace them with the more energy-efficient Inspire Mini LED fixtures.
Church administrator, David Morley continues, "After installing the Inspire Minis, we went from 24,000 watts of house lighting power consumption down to 1,800 watts in our Sanctuary, and are anticipating up to $6,500 in savings per year, which is obviously fantastic."
Pastor Bob Headley adds, "Since we were going from incandescent to LED, the ability to change the colour was a big selling point, alongside the fact that we could control each light individually as opposed to groups of lights, which we previously had to do. The experience has been great - it's a huge progression from our previous lighting system and we're still exploring all of the ways to use colour to enhance the look of, and create seamless room lighting for, our services."
AVE purchased the Inspire Mini fixtures from Chroma-Q North American master distributor, A.C. Lighting Inc.
(Jim Evans)
