The Best Ever LED Ballast Calculator is Here!
We’re excited to announce the launch of the Best Ever LED Ballast Calculator. It’s live right now on our website, and it’s built to help rigging companies and live event producers quote and estimate ballast needs faster during preliminary planning. The calculator is meant to support early budgeting, quoting, and scope planning. Results should be...
Weight by Measure: The Simplest Way to Calculate Your Rigging Ballast
If you’ve ever been on a job site two hours before doors, you know the vibe. The LED wall is up, the truss looks solid, and then the site manager or the structural engineer walks over with a clipboard. "How...
Pig Iron LLC Launches today
Pig Iron LLC Launches today We are proud to announce the launch of our new company dedicated to supplying the Live Event and Tradeshow industry with ballast for truss and LED proprietary ground support. We are dedicated to providing counterweight...
More Weight, Less Space: The Ultimate Replacement for Sandbags
This is what you’ve been waiting for… More Weight, Less Space. The Ultimate Replacement for Sandbags. Steel Plate: 40 lbs. per inch Never Leaks. Never Wears Out. Hangs effortlessly on any size truss or 1.5” schedule 40 pipe Can hang...
How to Calculate Your Counterweight: StopGuessing and Start Rigging Safely
The New Standard: ANSI E1.50-1-2025 Before we talk about weights, we need to talk about the rules. The ANSI E1.50-1-2025 standard (Requirements for the Structural Support of Temporary LED, Video and Display Systems) is the benchmark we should all be aiming for. This standard isn’t just a suggestion; it’s a roadmap for keeping people safe […]
Master Counterweight Calculations: Rig Smarter, Safer, and More Precisely
If you’ve been in the live events industry for more than a minute, you’ve heard it: “Just throw a couple more sandbags on the back of that truss, it’s not going anywhere.” It’s the kind of sentence that makes safety officers twitch and insurance companies reach for the “cancel” button. For years, calculating ballast for […]
From Guesswork to Precision: How to Calculate Counterweight for Safe Rigging
If you’ve been in the live events industry for more than a minute, you’ve heard it: “Just throw a couple more sandbags on the back of that truss, it’s not going anywhere.” It’s the kind of sentence that makes safety officers twitch and insurance companies reach for the “cancel” button. For years, calculating ballast for […]