PORTLAND, OR. – Luxium Lighting announces another successful church upgrade project using ZOBO color-adjustable lamps. In the fall of 2018 the facilities and tech team from Riverside Church, Minnesota searched for a way to do an LED upgrade of their overhead lights in the Worship Center at their Big Lake location.
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While at the WFX tradeshow two church members, Tom Haley, Operations and Tech Director and Josh Euerle, Facilities Director discovered Luxium Lighting and learned about various options for LED retrofits and screw-in lamps made by Luxium.
Because the existing hanging lights were spaced close together they did not need a big strong 150W COB LED fixture that would require extra work and cost to change. As the best solution, they chose the ZOBO PAR30 size lamp with a mix of RGBLW high-bright LEDS and 4 or 6 channel DMX control. With the highest efficacy available in mixed-color LEDs this lamp uses 20W of power and provides the equivalent of a 150W incandescent bulb. To deal with the problem of various throw distances, the ZOBO lamp can be easily focused with diffusers to get uniform coverage. Finally, with built-in wireless DMX control there is no need to run cables to each fixture.
The ZOBO seemed like a perfect fit for their situation and would be economical because existing hanging fixtures could be used as part of the retrofit. The new LED lamps cost about $10,000 all together and did not require any special skills or other equipment to install so this was many times less expensive than the alternative of a total replacement of their overhead light fixtures.
According to Tom, they typically have the ZOBO lights adjusted to a warm white setting at about 80% of full brightness. This is plenty of light for worship services and events. Sometimes they change the color of the lights to change the mood of the room for certain kinds of events. Because the lights have a lot of brightness they created a “worklight” preset on their control panel and can flood the whole room with plenty of light for cleaning and other work that happens periodically. The church has been very happy with the new ability to control all the lights in their worship center using a central control console and have had no trouble with the wireless DMX operation according to Tom Haley. “ Now we have the best light in that area we have ever had! ” says Facilities Director, Josh Euerle.
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