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A rant about the weekend and a bunch of fried gear.
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<blockquote data-quote="Ivan Beaver" data-source="post: 130246" data-attributes="member: 30"><p>Re: A rant about the weekend and a bunch of fried gear.</p><p></p><p>I had the same sort of thing happen a couple of decades ago at a art festival on one of the stages.</p><p></p><p>The "certified electrician" put in a temp box. We metered 120V on both legs before plugging anything in.</p><p></p><p>But when when we started running "check music" we lost EVERYTHING! Smoke coming out of most of the gear.</p><p></p><p>When we opened the box (which we should not have to do since a "real electrician" had done the work) we found the neutral just sitting in the lug-and never tightened down.</p><p></p><p>As soon as current started to flow-it arched and isolated itself-which sent the voltage swinging all over the place.</p><p></p><p>Not counting all the failed gear (mixer-all processing etc), it cost me 10K in legal costs for an "incident" that happened on stage-but we won't go into that-------</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ivan Beaver, post: 130246, member: 30"] Re: A rant about the weekend and a bunch of fried gear. I had the same sort of thing happen a couple of decades ago at a art festival on one of the stages. The "certified electrician" put in a temp box. We metered 120V on both legs before plugging anything in. But when when we started running "check music" we lost EVERYTHING! Smoke coming out of most of the gear. When we opened the box (which we should not have to do since a "real electrician" had done the work) we found the neutral just sitting in the lug-and never tightened down. As soon as current started to flow-it arched and isolated itself-which sent the voltage swinging all over the place. Not counting all the failed gear (mixer-all processing etc), it cost me 10K in legal costs for an "incident" that happened on stage-but we won't go into that------- [/QUOTE]
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