A surgical projector swap at L'Auberge Casino's Edge Bar — Panasonic head with a laser-integrated dowser, letting the stage's existing laser effects and projected video share the same stage and the same cue.
Edge Bar's stage already had a working laser rig dialed in for live music — a system the venue counted on. The video upgrade had to slot in around it. The challenge: a stray laser hit on a projector imager will permanently dot the panel. One bad sweep, and the new projector is a service call.
The fix is a laser-integrated dowser — a mechanical shutter that closes the projector's optical path the moment the laser system fires within its line of sight, then reopens between cues. Pink Palace scoped the dowser, sourced it, and wired the interlock during install. The lasers stay on the show, the projector stays alive, the operator runs both freely.
The whole job ran around the venue's calendar. Lift up, head out, head in, alignment, dowser interlock wired and tested, lift down — the room reading the same to a guest the entire time. The laser system kept its rigging. The audio kept its console. The lighting kept its rig.
By the time the doors opened that night, only the picture was different. The Panasonic head delivers clean projection on the back wall during sets, the dowser keeps the imager safe through the laser cues, and the band's existing show plays the way the band's existing show plays. New video, working alongside everything that was already in place.
Sometimes the right upgrade is the smallest one — just enough hardware to let two systems share the same stage. Pink Palace scoped this one around Edge Bar's calendar, in and out with the room reading the same to a guest.