12 Volt Power Outlet Sockets

[Richard Bustens]

Stage lighting always use 15A round pin plugs coz they are not fused, can not have a fuse blowing in the middle of a show up on a lighting bar . they are all fused on the dimmer racks.

[David Schweizer]

Stage lighting always use 15A round pin plugs coz they are not fused, can not have a fuse blowing in the middle of a show up on a lighting bar . they are all fused on the dimmer racks.

 

Do you still install the sockets upside down to prevent cable trailing? I used to work in a Rep and the first job we had to do after the electricins left was turn all the socket round. We asked them to install them upside down but they wouldn't because of "regulations"

[DHutch]

Were in danger of going OffTopic, but...

 

Yes 15amp (unfused, round pin) sockets are in large use, espcially in older fixed lighting rig's, and as richard says, the fused are then in dimmer racks (or switch gear/boxs)

- And the sockets are often mounted at 45/90 degrees, or totaly upside down.

 

However in the lighting work i do at the local village hall (very big am-dram group) the equiment we hire is now all fitted with the blue 16amp round pins, with the dimmer boxes having 8-channel outlets, with 8-channel cables running up to the lighting rack, and then breck-out cables to give you the 8*16amp sockets to plug the lights into. With any moving-head lights having then a short lead with a IEC "ketle lead" type end on the end.

- This is certainly a LOT easyer to wire than having to run a 15amp lead to ever light from the dimmer unit!! And the time spend gaffa taping and untaping greatly reduced!

 

 

This is very diffrent from the semi-permenent wiring in our Union, all the lgihts are controled via DMX

- Each rack is fed with a single supply, in an armored cable, which then feeds a large dis-box, with 13amp tails to each light.

- And then a single DMX cable daisy-chain controls all the lights behavour.

- With pencil-spots, PARs, and UV lights etc having sperate switching boxs, again fed with power and DMX control as with the moving-head/mirror lights.

 

 

Daniel