ETC Rigging™ raises the bar at

ETC Rigging
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Raising the bar
...on setting the stage
The old way: Handling heavy
counterweights above the heads of people
The old way: Dangerous manual-rigging practices
The new way: The safety of ETC Prodigy automated rigging
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Why automated rigging?
Prodigy does the heavy lifting and climbing for you.
Prodigy’s motorized hoists bring stage battens down to workers at
ground level safely and efficiently without them having to climb tall
ladders, catwalks, scaffolding, or to ride lifts to heights overhead
where the risk for falling or for dropping objects is real.
Prodigy rigging raises and lowers your stage lights, scenery, and
curtains smoothly and precisely – performing on command –
making sure the show always goes on, safely.
Whether for a performance or maintenance, Prodigy motorized
hoists lower and raise your stage equipment at a touch of a button
and quickly and neatly retract it out of view so that it is never an
eyesore or an obstruction to sightlines.
Put Prodigy wherever you need rigging
Prodigy’s smarter hoist technology allows you to mount rigging
anywhere: front-of-house positions, low spaces, or areas with
restricted ceilings. Prodigy’s revolutionary Cable Management saves
precious ceiling space by allowing systems to retract to just 30
inches while neatly storing up to 48 circuits.
And Prodigy hoists impose no lateral forces on structures – going
where automated and conventional rigging could never go
before – into schools, gyms, churches, historic buildings, lobbies,
atriums, museums, restaurants, and beyond.
The old way: Climbing ladders high overhead to hang
stage lights and scenery
The new way: Prodigy automated rigging scales the
heights for you
ETC Rigging™ is UL Listed
More peace of mind: Prodigy Fixed and Variable-Speed hoists,
Cable Management systems, QuickTouch
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and Foundation
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controllers, and circuit-distribution systems have been tested and
authorized by Underwriters Laboratory to bear the UL listing.
The new way: Prodigy automated
rigging brings the lights to your work level
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Setting the stage for better rigging:
Prodigy’s innovative technologies
Prodigy Compression Tube – Rigging anywhere. The smart
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backbone of the Prodigy system absorbs and disperses lateral loads
on building steel. Simply lift and snap into Mounting Brackets for
labor-saving installation.
Prodigy Mounting Brackets – Smart ‘snap-in’ design for
significant savings in installation time and labor.
Prodigy Right Angle Cable Adjuster (RACA) – Saves space,
work, and time. Prodigy’s RACA replaces turnbuckles to save up
to 17 inches of batten travel and takes only seconds (not minutes)
to adjust.
Prodigy Cable Management System – Smarter and safer. Saves
valuable space above the ceiling by retracting compactly and
storing in only 30 inches of height.
Prodigy Powerhead – Lighter than other automated systems and
one third of the length. The Powerhead ships compactly with
pre-assembled slide-out loft blocks and pre-strung cables for easy,
time-saving installation.
Prodigy Progressive Hybrid Sloped Drum – Drum design
dramatically reduces the space needed for a motorized winch.
Smaller drum size also means a streamlined Powerhead – for the
most compact and manageable rigging system on the market.
Every hoist tested under full load before leaving
the factory
ETC wants the user-experience to be the best possible – from the
moment the system is turned on. Every Prodigy hoist is tested
under full load before it leaves the factory. All electrical and
electronic connections, lift-line integrity and terminations, limitswitch functions, operation switches, and other components are
tested by ETC factory technicians. Each hoist receives final
inspection by quality managers before the equipment is packaged
and shipped. These tests and inspections assure the installer and
the owner that they are in possession of equipment which is not
only safe and reliable but which will do the job from the first
moment of use.
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ETC Prodigy Hoists for stage and architecture
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All Prodigy hoists
• Available with Working Load Limits of 650, 800, 1000,
1300, 1500, or 1900 pound capacities
• Up to eight lift lines
• Prodigy Electrics up to seven lift lines
• Maximum travel 50 feet
• Loft blocks can be located anywhere along Compression
Tube without regard to location of structural members
• Built-in load profiling and slack-line detection in every hoist
• Adds no lateral loads to the building
• Dual brakes for ultimate safety
• User-programmable preset position
• Operated by ETC QuickTouch and Foundation Controllers
• 208V or 480V motors available
• Custom colors available
• UL Listed
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Prodigy Fixed-Speed Hoists
• Working Load Limits of 650 to 1900 pounds
• Speed averages 30 feet per minute
• Up to eight lift lines
• Anywhere positioning of loft blocks/liftlines without regard
to structure
• Operated by ETC QuickTouch and Foundation Controllers
• 208V or 480V motors available
General Purpose
Stage Electrics
• Up to seven lift lines and one additional line operate Prodigy Cable Management
• Built-in Prodigy Cable Management System for up to 48 circuits, eight data lines, and multiple grounds
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Prodigy Houselight Hoists
• Fixed-speed hoist
• Up to eight lift lines that may be placed up to 15’-0” on center
• Factory-wired fixture mount and circuit-distribution trough up to 105’-0” long
• Built-in pantograph that can be wired with dimmed, switched, and emergency circuits in a single trough that supports both canopy
and stem-mounted architectural fixtures
Prodigy Variable-Speed General Purpose Hoists
• Working Load Limit of 1000 pounds (1200 pounds maximum motor capacity)
• Up to eight lift lines
• Loft blocks can be located anywhere along Compression Tube without regard to location of structural members
• User-adjustable operating speeds 0-180 feet per minute
• User-adjustable ramp-up and ramp-down speed control
• Dual brakes for ultimate safety
• Up to eight user-settable preset positions
• Operated by ETC Foundation Controller
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Model #
Speed
Working Load Limit
Batten Length
Voltage
20 Amp Circuits
(Standard Configuration)
Variable Speed
V1000S
Electric Battens
P650E
P650E/480
P1000E
P1000E/480
P1500E
P1500E/480
General Purpose
P800G
P800G/480
P1300G
P1300G/480
P1900G
P1900G/480
0-180 FPM
1000lbs
Up to 76’
480V 3ø
No circuits
30 FPM
30 FPM
30 FPM
30 FPM
30 FPM
30 FPM
650lbs
650lbs
1000lbs
1000lbs
1500lbs
1500lbs
Up to 76’
Up to 76’
Up to 76’
Up to 76’
Up to 76’
Up to 76’
208V 3ø
480V 3ø
208V 3ø
480V 3ø
208V 3ø
480V 3ø
Up to 48
Up to 48
Up to 48
Up to 48
Up to 48
Up to 48
30 FPM
30 FPM
30 FPM
30 FPM
30 FPM
30 FPM
800lbs
800lbs
1300lbs
1300lbs
1900lbs
1900lbs
Up to 76’
Up to 76’
Up to 76’
Up to 76’
Up to 76’
Up to 76’
208V 3ø
480V 3ø
208V 3ø
480V 3ø
208V 3ø
480V 3ø
No circuits
No circuits
No circuits
No circuits
No circuits
No circuits
Any ETC General Purpose hoist can be made into a Houselight Hoist.
ETC has adapter brackets to accommodate variations of structural steel. For detailed information, contact ETC Quotations Department or go to
www.etcconnect.com/brackets
Prodigy Tubeless Fixed- and Variable-Speed Hoists
• Designed for mounting the Powerhead in any position: vertically, diagonally, upright, or underhung
• Can be used for facilities with sufficient existing structure without a Compression Tube and able to accommodate alternate mounting
positions of the Powerhead, utilizing traditional or tubeless loft blocks
• Can be used for muled lift lines
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ETC Prodigy EXO Fixed and Variable-speed
General Purpose Hoists
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Motorized rigging that adapts to your space
• EXO Powerheads can be installed upright, underhung
or vertically
• EXO systems use traditional upright or underhung head
blocks and loft blocks
• Prodigy EXO Powerheads weigh from 450 to 660 pounds,
depending on model
• All Powerheads include load profiling and slack-line
detection as standard safety features
• Hoists can be operated via a fixed-speed Quicktouch , fixed
or variable-speed QuickTouch+ or Foundation controller
• Small size: Powerheads are only 17 7/8'' to 20 3/4'' high,
48 3/8 to 56 3/8 long and 16'' to 18'' wide, depending
on model
• Unique Prodigy Hybrid Drum: Powerhead manages up to
eight liftlines in a machine 1/3 the length of other hoists
• Total hoist-lifting capacity: EXO Hoists are rated by their
total hoist-lifting capacity, the amount of weight that can
be lifted by the motor. This is generally the sum of the
load-carrying device (e.g., batten) and the user-attachable
load (WLL)
• Fail-safe motor brake and Prodigy load brake: Two
independent braking systems ensure safe overhead lifting
• Higher duty cycles: Minimal braking pressure significantly
reduces brake-pad temperature and increases duty cycle of
the hoist
• Built-in limit switches and absolute encoders with visual
setting indicators for more efficient installation
• Multiple travel preset positions: Multiple positioning
options available, based on type of controller
• Built-in load profiling: standard equipment
• Built-in slackline detector: standard equipment
• Built to PLASA/ANSI E1.6-1 motorized-hoist standards
• May be installed utilizing RACAs or turnbuckles at the
pipe battens
• UL Listed
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Model #
Speed
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Total Lifting Capacity
Standard configuration (Standard travel 30 feet. Maximum travel 50 feet.)
EXO P900G &
30 FPM
900lbs
EXO P900G/480
EXO P1400G &
30 FPM
1400lbs
EXO P1400G/480
EXO P2000G &
30 FPM
2000lbs
EXO P2000G/480
Variable Speed
Exo V1200S
0-180 FPM
1200lbs
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Batten Length
Voltage
Up to 76’
208V. 3ø & 480V. 3ø
Up to 76’
208V. 3ø & 480V. 3ø
Up to 76’
208V. 3ø & 480V. 3ø
Up to 76’
480V. 3ø
Prodigy EXO Hoist standard configurations
EXO wall-mount configuration
EXO underhung configuration
EXO grid-mount configuration
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ETC Rigging Cable Management
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Prodigy Cable Management
Fully integrates feeder cables and hoist operation by a unique
system using flat cable and a custom distribution trough.
• Each flat cable contains six pair of line-voltage wires for
dimmed or non-dimmed circuits, one data wire and
one ground
• Up to eight flat cables per line-set for a total of 48 circuits
per hoist
• All wiring from the top terminal box through the system
completed at the factory
• Distro can include as many 120V outlets as desired;
208V outlets optional
• Eight universes of data available
• Integral to Prodigy Electrics hoists
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Stage Pantograph
• For line-sets with more vertical travel than Compression
Tube length
• Up to 16 circuits per pantograph
• Multiple Pantographs possible per line-set
• Used with Prodigy G-series hoists
• Integrates with ETC traditional distribution
Houselight Distro with Houselight Pantograph
• Houselight distro is a unique trough that can support
50 pounds between lift lines without a pipe batten
• Up to eight lift lines spaced 4 to 15 feet on center
• Distro can be as much as 105 feet in length
• Shipped pre-wired with knockouts removed for on-site
installation of canopy or pendant fixtures attached directly
to the trough
• May be fabricated with dimmed, non-dimmed, and emergency
circuit wiring in the Pantograph and the distro trough to meet
UL and NEC requirements
• All systems include a ground wire and may include a data wire
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ETC Rigging control system families
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ETC Rigging controls
Rigging confidence with the touch of a button. No other rigging control systems at this level offer such extensive operational and
safety-feedback features.
• Simple and intuitive operation
• Load readout, learning, and load profiling are standard on
all hoists
• Slack-line detection standard on all hoists
• Two absolute encoders on every hoist (no re-homing required)
• Self-test and safety check at each turn-on
• Annual inspection-alert message
• Hoist-usage statistics and log files
• Automatic inspection report generated as pdf
• Optional multiple E-stop locations
• Optional handheld remote control
• Hold-to-run controls
• Hard-wired E-stop and dead-man circuits
• Simple wiring topology requires no auxiliary contactor cabinets – one control cable between hoist(s) and control stations
• Completely quiet — no fans, no spinning hard drives
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QuickTouch control family
QuickTouch rigging controllers are easy and straightforward to
use, simplifying show set-up and lamp replacement. With a touch
of a button, lighting battens can be moved to lamp-change
position and back again to their precise focus position.
• Versions to control 1, 4, 8, 12, or 24 fixed-speed motors
• One user trim per motor
• Graphical LCD display for position, load, and status messages
• Illuminated and dimmable control buttons
• Surface and flush-mount backboxes
• Optional locking door and rack-mount kit
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QuickTouch+ control family
Like QuickTouch, QuickTouch+ controllers are simple to use.
Additional features on QuickTouch+ systems allow you to run
straightforward shows without the cost overhead and complexity
of a full-blown programmable control system.
• Versions to control 4, 8, 12, 24 fixed or variable-speed motors
• Three user trims and two user limits per motor
• Speed-control slider
• Ability to set a target trim and speed for each motor before
a move
• Ability to run simple shows
• Graphical LCD display for position, load, and status messages
• Illuminated and dimmable control buttons
• Surface and flush-mount backboxes
• Optional locking door and rack-mount kit
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Foundation controller
The powerful Foundation controller allows the user to easily
create and run pre-programmed shows at a touch of a button.
For multipurpose stages, presets can be used to create and
restore specific stage configurations for constantly recurring
events, like movie nights, speeches, or band rehearsals. Stage
technicians used to working with other controllers (such as
lighting consoles) will also find Foundation’s user-interface
familiar and accessible.
• Rigging control system for up to 48 fixed- or variablespeed motors
• Seven user trims, two system trims and two user limits
per motor
• 15” LCD multi-touch screen
• Four operating modes:
- Manual
- Preset position set
- Cue building
- Playback
• Manual and target moves
• Joystick for manual operation and speed override
• Up to 999 rigging cues
• Time- or speed-based cues with individual wait times and
speeds per motor
• Multiple screen-readout views
• Concurrent multi-cue operation
• Up to 48 hoists per cue (may be limited per project
specifications)
• Show-file storage on internal drive or external USB stick
• Multilevel user access
• Automatic backlight adjustment based on ambient
light conditions
• Optional handheld remote enable/go button
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ETC Rigging fits your venue
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Elementary school/middle school stages
High school auditoriums
• Safety-first rigging at a touch of a button
• Scales to available performance space
• Scales to fit tight school budgets
• Raise and lower stage gear at the touch of a button
• Student operators stay safe
• Versatile rigging within school budgets
Universities and college auditoriums
Houses of worship
• Professional-quality rigging at the touch of a button
• Enhanced safety for students and staff
• Affordable solutions for tight academic budgets
• Compact rigging for retrofits or new builds
• Volunteer or pro staff access one-touch control
• Motorized hoist solutions for cost-conscious budgets
The right choice – ETC Rigging
As experts for 38 years in the stage world, with thousands of lighting installations worldwide, we have closely scrutinized the state of the
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art of rigging. That is why we developed Prodigy – a better way to do rigging. With our groundbreaking Prodigy line of electric hoists,
we don’t just hang your lights, scenery, curtains, and scrims, we do it in a safer, smarter and more affordable way than any system before.
We have looked at every aspect of hoist design and engineered innovative technologies that take rigging where it should
be, well into the 21st century, beyond unsafe systems of the past and beyond time-consuming, costly installation. We have rethought the
smallest details (how a cable wraps) to bigger issues (greener packaging and shipping) to the largest concerns (enhanced safety for all
involved). And as with all ETC products, we provide our industry-acclaimed 24/7 customer and technical support – always just a phone
call away.
For ETC dealer contact information and further details on Prodigy and other ETC solutions, go to www.etcconnect.com
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Bella Vista Arts Academy, Clovis, NM
Broadway Theater, New York, NY
Burlington County Library, Westampton, NJ
Jonesboro, GA
Phoenixville, PA
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Carver Theatre, Birmingham, AL
Daniel Middle School, Marietta, GA
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East Detroit High School, Detroit, MI
Corporation Auditorium, Verona, WI
International University, Miami, FL
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Edgewood College, Madison, WI
The Fenn School, Concord, MA
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Historic Asolo Theatre, Sarasota, FL
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New Orleans, LA
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Mont Jolie, Quebec, Canada
PS 165, New York, NY
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Lee High School, Jacksonville, FL
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Polyvalente Le Mistral,
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Redmond High School,
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The Blind and Visually Impaired, Austin, TX
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Wellness, Ashville, NC
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Union City Performing Arts Center, Union City, NJ
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Waterville Opera House,
Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH
University, Pullman, WA
Texas School For
University of North Carolina Center For Health and
States Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT
Waterville, ME
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Thomaston Upson Arts Council,
Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada
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San Diego State
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Troy University Multi-Sports Complex, Troy, AL
Alumni Arena, Buffalo, NY
Robert E.
Sudbury Secondary School, Sudbury, Ontario,
Telus Science Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Thomaston, GA
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Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre, Grand Lake,
University Aztec Center, San Diego, CA
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New York University
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San Francisco Hilton Continental, San Francisco, CA
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Joy Theater,
Rhode Island College Roberts Auditorium, Providence, RI
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Metcalfe County Middle
Natick High School, Natick, MA
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Kroc Center, Atlanta, GA
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Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
Redmond, OR
Goodyear World
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Laguna Woods Clubhouse Three,
Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
School, Edmonton, KY
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Church of All Nations, Holyland Experience,
Kaskaskia College, Centralia, IL
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Hartselle High School, Hartselle, AL
Kutztown University Schaeffer Hall, Kutztown, PA
Laguna Woods, CA
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Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD
Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Des Moines, IA
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Hampden Academy, Hampden, ME
Orlando, FL
Colonial Theatre,
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Furman University McAlister Auditorium, Greenville, SC
Headquarters, Akron, OH
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Clayton County Performing Arts Center,
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Colorado State Lory Center, Fort Collins, CO
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Photo courtesy: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the State Art Museum of Florida
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Wytheville Community College, Wytheville, VA
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