Dave Weatherhead, the co-founder and managing director of Kinesys, toured South Africa in March with Electrosonic SA, visiting Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. Weatherhead’s visit to Electrosonic SA was aimed at product promotion as well as demonstrating products to customers to help customers understand them more fully. The products currently on demonstration are the DiGi Hoist controller and the Load Sales range.
Electrosonic hosted an open house for customers to see the products in action, where they set up some hoist in their demo room to show how the product works in practicality. As an agency, Electrosonic offers Kinesys’ DiGi Hoist and Load measuring equipment, among others.
Electrosonic SA also helps promote the other aspects of Kinesys’ business, such as variable speed equipment.
The DiGi Hoist controller is a fixed speed chain hoist controller, which allows plugging in coders at the back of the system, enabling programming of specific moves for a show. The controller can be programmed with a number of trusses or video walls at different positions for different songs and can “remember’ where to stop during a song or performance.
The LoadCell range allows moving loads around at different angles, while checking equipment weights, making sure there’s no overloading the lifting equipment or roof that the equipment is hanging from. The LoadCell system can also plug into the Digi Hoist so it ties the two together. If an overload situation occurs by mistake, the loader system can detect this upon lifting and can automatically shut both systems down.
