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<blockquote data-quote="Marsellus Fariss" data-source="post: 2947" data-attributes="member: 1107">The venue I work for has an <a href="http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/STARINMANUALS/ETA/Manuals/Archive/PD66, PD620, PD620-6R.pdf" target="_blank">ETA power PD66</a> rack mount power distro for audio service. 140 amps on 6 breakers. 2 of the breakers are 30 amps and unused. They isn&#039;t any twist lock&#039;s or anything for them on the unit. External twist locks or additional distro panels have to be added via screw down terminals inside the unit and cable passed through the back at the rear of the chassis. We would like to utilize these two additional circuits to feed guest production such as small lighting packages and monitor rigs. We&#039;re not doing the work ourselves. We have sparkies.Question is what would you suggest as a inexpensive and useful way to handle this? The easiest we think would be to simply pass through a short length of&nbsp; 10-3 or 10-4 and ad Hubbell twist locks and let them dangle from the back of the unit when unused. A pair of quad boxes would be made with 20&#039;-30&#039; of cable with twist lock ends to interface the distro at the back of rack. This is the cheapest and simplest but I&#039;m wondering what else we could do that wouldn&#039;t be expensive? Plenty of companies make custom disto panels but their pretty pricey and we can&#039;t spend a lot. Anywhere I could find a simple disto panel with maybe a few pairs of edisons and a pair of twist locks receptacles for not a lot? I don&#039;t even see us needing breakers in it. Or does anybody sell pre-punched 19&quot; enclosures we could wire?What do you guys suggest?Thanks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marsellus Fariss, post: 2947, member: 1107"] The venue I work for has an [URL="http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/STARINMANUALS/ETA/Manuals/Archive/PD66, PD620, PD620-6R.pdf"]ETA power PD66[/URL] rack mount power distro for audio service. 140 amps on 6 breakers. 2 of the breakers are 30 amps and unused. They isn't any twist lock's or anything for them on the unit. External twist locks or additional distro panels have to be added via screw down terminals inside the unit and cable passed through the back at the rear of the chassis. We would like to utilize these two additional circuits to feed guest production such as small lighting packages and monitor rigs. We're not doing the work ourselves. We have sparkies. Question is what would you suggest as a inexpensive and useful way to handle this? The easiest we think would be to simply pass through a short length of 10-3 or 10-4 and ad Hubbell twist locks and let them dangle from the back of the unit when unused. A pair of quad boxes would be made with 20'-30' of cable with twist lock ends to interface the distro at the back of rack. This is the cheapest and simplest but I'm wondering what else we could do that wouldn't be expensive? Plenty of companies make custom disto panels but their pretty pricey and we can't spend a lot. Anywhere I could find a simple disto panel with maybe a few pairs of edisons and a pair of twist locks receptacles for not a lot? I don't even see us needing breakers in it. Or does anybody sell pre-punched 19" enclosures we could wire? What do you guys suggest? Thanks. [/QUOTE]

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