Hi all,
This might be a daft question but then I'm an expert at daft questions.
It occurred to me that our band needs a lot of power outlets. This isn't an issue in our rehearsal rooms as they sensibly have numerous power sockets and each on has a 4 way strip.
I imagine that places that have bands on are also similarly well set up.
However, our main venues are going to be village halls, rugby clubs, etc. Basically any private venue that someone would hire for birthday party, etc.
I imagine we'd find ourselves stuck up one end of the room and maybe only have access to two power outlets from the wall.
The thought of running 4 ways strips into more 4 way strips so that we have enough sockets scares me stiff! At best, I can see it overloading and no noise from the band. At worse, I can see if blowing and taking the electrics at the venue with it!
So, what do you guys do? Or do you all just chance it. Living on the edge so as to speak
Cheers
Mike
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Don't use reeled cabled rolled up they need to be unwound otherwise they can act as a giant resistor \ inductor when you draw a large current through em
Powerful PA amps , high wattage lights are better straight into their own wall socket
You can calculate what current your gonna draw by looking at the total watts a device uses and applying ohms law to 240 volts. By this I mean the rating written on the back as a 40 watt valve amp uses a lot more than 40 watts due to inefficiency of design for example.
With today's class D Pa amps and Led lighting the situation is better than it used to be
When I started giging on a bigger scale we couldn't run everything off one mains ring we used to use the cooker ring in a lot of venues
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Guitarists whould only ever plug into one mains source, so dont plug your amp into one wall socket and your pedal supply into another, recipe for hum!!.
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Was that at idle, or gig volume? There can be quite a difference with modern PA amps in particular, and some bass amps. Valve guitar amps less so, since they're inefficient at idle. Under 1KW seems a bit light for that lot, although if you play fairly quietly then probably not.
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Was that at idle, or gig volume? There can be quite a difference with modern PA amps in particular, and some bass amps. Valve guitar amps less so, since they're inefficient at idle. Under 1KW seems a bit light for that lot, although if you play fairly quietly then probably not.[/quote]
D'oh, I didn't think about that! I'll have to redo the test! It's going to be a bit hard looking at it on the wall behind the drummer while playing!
Lighting is a whole other issue and old incandescent lamps take no prisoners as far as current draw is concerned.
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