Re: apologies to the group, and an electrical question

On 2008-06-17 dave.vick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 said:
   >> I have all sorts of electrical interconnection adaptations
   >> available whenever the rig rolls, just curious.
   >My home theatre in Michigan, USA has, among other disconnect points,
   >a company switch panel capable of supplying 120/208/3› at 800A max.
   >The panel is internally subdivided into an assortment of breakered
   >100A, 200A, and 400A 5-wire (w/isolated ground) circuits, all of
   >which are tied into by way of Camlock recepticles on the sides of
   >the panel box (and no, I can hear folks rumbling from here: it
   >isn't possible to pull more than 800A out of that panel by tying
   >into all the circuits at once; the panel feed itself is fused at
   >800A in the vault)...
Have seen such a setup when doing live sound many years ago.
Much preferrable even for the house electrician, which we
used to make sure they had on site when we were ready to tie
in our own distro.
nOT that we were incapable of doing it, we just didn't want
the liability and responsibility.

My rig maximum draw is 50a whichever kind of power, 208 v or
240 is used.  THis includes my climate control and all audio
gear.

   >You would need to have a qualified electrician on the house crew
   >make the connections into any of our company switch panels, whether
   >you're going into Camlocks or tying bare tails into one of the
   >lugged services; it's house policy.
And the safest, but I'm hearing rumors these days that some
houses are just saying "wire it yourself" which I"d prefer
not to.

   >FWIW, a lot of the venues in the US and Canada that I have toured
   >through are going to some sort of Camlock tie-in mode and getting
   >away from bare tails & lug boxes, but I've never heard of a venue
   >that allows an incoming electrician to tie in his or her own power.
   >(well, not since I worked for a bar band twenty-mumble years ago,
   >anyway)
YEp, used to see that sometimes in bars with systems with
their own distro, and never cared for it then.





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