One Church Home in Fairview, Tennessee, demonstrates the impact an investment in AVL technology can have on a ministry. When they moved to a new home, the church built an enviable arsenal–a d&b audio system, including Yi8 and Yi12 line arrays; KSL subs, 44S fills, and 40D and 10D amplifiers; and a DiGiCo SD10 digital mixing console. QSC handles the distributed audio with Q-SYS control. Lighting is managed through a GrandMA 3 Compact lighting console and Elation Fuze pendant house lights. The video setup features Blackmagic Design URSA Broadcast G2 cameras with Fujinon XA20 lenses, URSA studio viewfinder G2, ATEM 2ME Switcher, ATEM CCU, and a squareV Vi 2.9 LED wall.
To ensure that this investment was protected with reliable power control and management, One Church Home partnered with AV integration company Integrated Production Solutions (IPS), which specified LynTec’s power control solutions.
With the lineup of cutting-edge AVL equipment, power sequencing and management were paramount. The church needed to sequence on and off and control a large amount of power for these systems from multiple locations within the church — the control room, front of house, and electrical room.
The team understood that a power control and distribution system purpose-built for AVL can protect from power surges and prevent systems from being left on, which can generate damaging heat, as well as mitigate start-up inrush currents from electronics, including video walls. A pro system can also reduce the wear and tear that happens when users use their breaker panel to turn systems off — a practice that organizations aren’t aware can have costly consequences. Likewise, just one circuit turned on out of sequence could spell downtime and expensive repairs for a system.
With these considerations in mind, IPS has standardized on Lyntec. For the One Church Home system, the company installed a flagship 65-breaker LynTec RPC and two XRS-20 for remote power sequencing. The RPC is designed to speed installation and decrease operating costs with simple wiring that eliminates a separate relay panel. Available with 30 to 84 controllable breakers per panel, the comprehensive power control solution provides additional circuit-switching control capabilities in the same enclosure and grants flexible lighting control across multiple zones and control protocols, including HTTP, Telnet, sACN, DMX, RS-232, or contact closure control systems.
With LynTec’s web-enabled control and monitoring, every circuit of the church’s system can have its own delay setting. With one button, the crew can power on every piece of equipment in the necessary order with the correct delay settings.
The web-enabled control and current monitoring within LynTec GUI provides power and energy data on branch circuits and mains, giving the operator an accurate and intelligent view of capacity, energy use, and reliability. RPC panels are compatible with popular control systems, including QSC. The RPC also features brown-out protection, automatically shutting down selected circuits during over- and under-voltage situations and powering up as programmed when voltage stability is restored.
