High-speed, radio-controlled winches

Testing high speed radio-controlled winches developed by our team in 1994. These handheld controllers (amongst the first of their kind in the industry) are used in gravity-defying theatrical scenes, in which acrobatic performers need to be able to control the speed of their abseiling ascent and descent along vertical surfaces. In this production, the performers themselves, not stage technicians, are in control of their own motorised winches to produce a more spontaneous and realistic effect. The small joystick solution developed by Stage Technologies is discreet enough to be hidden in the hand and enables a performer to dictate his or her pace at pre-programmed speeds to a maximum of 14 feet per second.

For more see:
http://www.stagetech.com/ka
http://www.stagetech.com/news/wireless-technology-in-theatres

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• winch
• high speed
• performer flying
• KA
• wireless
• radio controlled
• joystick
• handheld

[WeaselGreasel]

Do you know if there are common off-the-shelf products similar to your winches?

[StagetechGroup]

@WeaselGreasel No there aren't but we would do what we could to ship quickly if required.

[Sharpround]

i wonder what would happen in the controller failed.

[flagely34]

KA practice center?