| Daire:
The body is 27' long; 8' wide. It's a dual expanding truck body -- 22.5' of the 27' box expands outward about 3' on each side. There is an interior (work space) dimension of approximately 22.5' X 14'. You have 4' X 8' in front of you which house the video wall. Below the video wall is where two AC isolation transformers, UPSs, AC / DC switches and such, meters and interface live.
Jules:
The truck chassis itself has four legs or pods that support the entire truck. The dual expanding sections ride on huge square tubes within tubes. Support of these expanded sections are totally supported by the square tube within tube system.
Craig:
I bought this vehicle used. It's in excellent shape. How I found the vehicle (and what happen after that) is a whole story on it's own my man. A kind of miracle of sorts. Maybe I'll get a chance to tell you about it someday.
A little history about the truck... It was purchased in the USA to keep all the DOT stuff in order. Then, it was shipped to Germany for the expandable body design and fabrication. Once it was built and tested it was sent back to the States and put into use as a demonstration / classroom for a large pneumatic manufacture specializing in industrial automation. It traveled all over the USA.
We completely demo'd the interior when Aura Sonic took possession of the rig. We savaged most of the metalwork and equipment and put it aside. Some of material was reused in the new design, the remaining components were sold, stored or trashed. A huge Onan generator is one of the stored devices. I plan to use it someday... I'm thinking about building a tiny trailer for it or plopping it on a small support truck or something to that effect.
The entire truck and it's power set up was based on my original modular design. I started my preliminary drawings before we took possession of the vehicle. I spend many months (err years) working on this baby. I'm still working on the build out. The problem is -- I'm in no rush...
That concept has changed as of late. I'm pushing to finish this beauty ASAP. The main patchbay for the analog music and broadcast positions has 38 rows with 52 points per row. That's nearly 2000 patch points. We have 30 rows already done and tested. The guest audio patch bay on the other side of the CRM is about 30% done. Power is about 40% done. The digital audio section of the truck that lives in the video and guest audio patch bay area is still in the design stage.
The facility was designed to handle multiple sessions or systems at one time. It can be set up for a variety of different production ventures too...
I promised myself I get it done this year. Let's see what happens... |