SteveB just spend a 1/4 million to just add a [autolink said:
bit[/autolink] of automation to his electics, with an already installed
system.
Yup.
The electrical alone, running a 100 amp, 3
phase service 100ft, ran just under $100,000.
That's correct.
That was - in my mind, a $30,000 job, but the installer has a locked in deal with the city......
So, the budget for the actual rigging install - 5
Clancy Power Assist, which required new arbors, plus major modifications to the existing T
track system for the new arbors, as well as all loft blocks plus new aircraft cables and hardware (8 per position times 5 positions), plus 2 - 3
line Clancy Line Shaft winches - all came to about $140,000, with a big reminder that "usually" a
Power Assist is cheaper then a
line shaft, but probably not in this case. Thus it's impossible to use this
system as a guideline for what another
system would cost.
FWIW, for our new/renovated building, with a
stage and
fly tower that is staying, being gutted and re-equipped with technology, the consultants opted NOT to go
winch, instead they are ripping out the existing T
track counterweight system of 50 linesets and installing a new T
track as well as approx. 30 new counter weight arbors.
Bottom
line on all this is there are a lot of options to Vortek, and a lot of different ways to do a new
system.
Counterweight is much more flexible, but far less safe. Winched systems are Soooooo much easier to work with, as long as they keep functioning !, but like any new technology, you learn how to keep it functioning
