The game-day experience for fans of the Philadelphia Flyers and 76ers has been enriched with the introduction of a new high-tech scoreboard and upgrade on arena lighting.
Delaware firm, Light Action Productions took a lead role in the Wells Fargo Centre project and opted for the world’s first 4K kinetic centre-hung entertainment system as well as a range of lighting products from Elation.
The renovation is a final step in an extensive $250million upgrade of the arena that began in 2017 and was completed in collaboration withComcast Spectacor, TAIT Kinetix and ANC Sports.
Feturing the ability to expand and compress into various formats during the course of a game, the scoreboard has more than 6,600 ft2of 4mm LED video and is complimented by two large crown trusses with multi-directional movement and lighting effects.
In addition to the NBA and NHL teams, the venue is also home to Philadelphia’s national lacrosse team, as well as college basketball team Villanova Wildcats and hosts concerts and other events such as motocross and monster truck rallies.
“A scoreboard and complementary lighting package was needed to service all these different groups,” saidLight Action’s Joshua Schulman.
“The Flyers and 76ers used to have their own individual lighting systems but with this new package there is now one system that works for all teams. The lighting system needed to be flexible but beyond that, with so much LED in the arena in the form of billboards and ribbons, brightness was key. The scoreboard itself is an enormous LED display so we needed fixtures that could fight through all that and still have power behind them.”
