Larry Serna and Serg Beana from Bertie’s Music in El Paso, TX contacted us recently for assistance flying these speakers at a church. There are two QSC AP5122 with the stock QSC yokes. Polar Focus supplied roof attachment and our Stem product, allowing a super clean look through this drop ceiling. The Stem has a internal cable raceway, allowing the signal cables to be run inside the rigging. Stems work well with both line arrays and yoke-mounted single loudspeakers, and can be manufactured up to 16′ in length.
Serg emailed us after the installation: “Attached you will find a few pics of the completed project. Everything went smoothly. Our customer was very pleased (as were we) with the final outcome.”
Polar Focus provided custom roof attachments for these QSC speaker clusters from steel beams at HGST – Hitachi Global Services Technologies Group in San Jose, CA. The cluster consists of 3 QSC Audio Products KLA 12’s in front; behind is a time aligned KLA 181 subwoofer. Great looking installation by the team at AVI-SPL.
Photos courtesy of Jefferson Galatro, Sr. from AVI-SPL’s Pleasanton, CA office.
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Never take down a line array for aiming adjustments again!
Polar FocusZbeam Hawk allows for adjustment of pan and tilt under full load of conventional line arrays which have a center spine. The center spine pattern is
common on Bose, D&B, EAW, JBL, Meyer, QSC, etc. line array frames.
Polar Focus Zbeam Hawk – for super precise pan and tilt adjustment of line arrays.
Features of the Polar Focus Zbeam Hawk:
1) Service eye to lift cluster into place. 2) Dead hang eyes for permanent suspension. 3) Location of pan axle, allows for 360° rotation under full load. Includes a friction bearing so that the cluster will not ‘free spin’. The friction bearing works in a similar manner to your car’s sun visor. Push it, it turns. Let it go, it stays. 4) Fixed slot, accepts 3/8” to 3/4” shackle. 5) Slot on adjustable carriage, accepts 3/8” – 3/4” shackles. Adjust position to fit line array of the day. 6) Adjustable position center carriage. Allows for tilt adjustment under full load, as accurate as 1/10 of a degree.
The Hawk has 360° pan control, with a friction bearing. The friction bearing works like your car sun visor; when you push, it turns, when you let go, it stays. The Hawk accepts shackles from 3/8 to 3/4 inches. The lower half of the Hawk allows for infinite adjustment of tilt under full load. Adjustments of 5, 2, 1, or even 1/10th of a degree are possible under full load.
The Zbeam Hawk also functions as a line array extension bar. The front of the Hawk supports the back of the line array, and the back of the Hawk supports the lower pullback point for line arrays with extreme downangles. The Hawk can effectively add 16 inches of depth to a standard line array frame while retaining pan and tilt control under full load. You`ll never have to take down a line array to re-aim it again.
With a WLL of 1100 lbs and a design factor of 10:1, the Hawk is useful with most installed line arrays today. A larger version with a 3,000 lb WLL is also available. Another model, the Rocker Hawk, is liftable with two motors for portable applications.
See our Zbeam Hawk Quicksheet, or consult with a Polar Focus product specialist for further assistance. Pro audio rigging design, roof attachment, supplemental structure, sales, support and PE stamped drawings in any US State provided by Polar Focus.
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