|
|
|
520 S. Claudina St;
Unit P |
||||||||
|
||||||||||
The Britney Spears 2001-02 World Tour; "The design and integration of the V3-B cylindrical WaterScrim™ system." In 2001 Our East Coast rep had introduced the idea of using our new WaterScrim™ V3 technology to Steve Cohen for the upcoming Britney Spears World tour. It was decided that a cylindrically shaped screen would be used for the climax of the 2001-2002 “Dream within a Dream” show. It definitely had its share of engineering challenges not just in making it work, but, it all had to be packaged into a touring system. It would be the first time anything like this had been done anywhere in the world. The system would consist of six 10’ long WaterScrim™ V3-B nozzles arranged in a hexagon and rigged to a custom open bottom Hexagonal truss.
The hex nozzle arrangement was fed by 1200’ of 2” SD hose and six high head submersible pumps. The pumps were contained in two remotely located 800 gallon mobile reservoir tanks along with filters, flow adjustment circuits and the tanks also acted as shipping cases for the 1200’ of 2” hose. The catchment for the falling water consisted of a shallow pan that collected the water and fed it back to the holding tanks where it was filtered and re-circulated back to the nozzles.
At the time the WaterScrim™ was in it’s 3rd design iteration (V3-A) which was what we referred to as the “Chrysler” version. We new that the rigors of touring would require a system that could be set up and struck quickly and was more compact in its traveling configuration. The performance of the nozzles was getting close to where we wanted it, but, we were finding that the on-off-on cues were in need of faster response times, so, we figured out what was causing the sluggish response and completely re-designed the nozzle to accommodate these improvements. The result was the V3-B which employed a separate input manifold and plenum fed by arched Injectors to reduce the residual drain down volume in the manifold which in turn increased response time. The nozzles would also employ a proprietary flange system that would greatly increase the strength of the linked nozzle structure and make process of linking the nozzles much faster and easier.
To make a long story short, the system worked like a charm and produced the climax that everyone was looking for. The V3-B System proved to be so versatile that it went on to do another tour in Japan in 2003 (Shangri-La II) and has done hundreds of shows since as a workhorse in our rental fleet.
|
||||||||||
|
INNOVATION ENGINEERING & DESIGN |
||||||||||
