A few pics from work

[RF Lighting]

I was presented with this lot to sort out. The wiring was pulled in by others.

It's looking a bit better now

 

[roasty]

That's some lovely work!

 

[securespark]

One heck of an IP breach...

Nice work, Rob.

 

[gregers]

so what did you do after 10am tea break??

 

[GarethW]

You are a skilled individual

 

[RF Lighting]

so what did you do after 10am tea break??

 

[securespark]

What's the system / building / location?

 

[RF Lighting]

It's the control room for a studio theatre in Southport

The silver boxes on the wall are zero 88 chilli pro lighting dimmers. The large ones supply 24no. 10A circuits each, and the small ones supply 12no. 10A circuits.

Control of the dimmers is via DMX, and there will also be an ETC paradigm system installed to control the house lights, working lights etc.

There is also a traditional theatre in the building which is currently having the cables installed. It should be ready for 2nd fixing in a couple of months.

 

[gregers]

so what did you do after 10am tea break??

touchy,
took you till 11 then did it???

im a chippy m8,i aint got a scooby on how long it would take.
i know 1 thing it looks better now then when you started.

i do think youve got 1 of the blue wires in the wrong place,

 

[mattylad]

And those earth wires at the bottom of the last pic look a tad short/taught.

So how long did it take to do

 

[Lectrician]

Whats it all feeding? What the cab with the din rail terminals in for?

 

[RF Lighting]

It's taken 9 days on and off so far to sort out all the mains and cat 5.

The large panel is a patch bay. There are both dimmed and non dimmed supplies into the bottom bank of terminals, and outputs to the sockets on the lighting bars on the top row of terminals. This allows any socket on the lighting bar to be easilly connected to any dimmer circuit, or hard power circuit.

 

[ljarrald]

some pretty nice distro room porn right there!

 

[Sherbertlion]

Very nice! Have you spent as much time admiring it yet as you have installing it!
What cable markers do you use?

 

[SimonH2]

The large panel is a patch bay. There are both dimmed and non dimmed supplies into the bottom bank of terminals, and outputs to the sockets on the lighting bars on the top row of terminals. This allows any socket on the lighting bar to be easilly connected to any dimmer circuit, or hard power circuit.

Very nice. And very nicely wired. As ljarrald says, wiring porn ! Had to look twice as it looked rather like a load of neutrals and earths with no lives.

At 6th form, we had (IIRC) 24 sockets on the lighting bars and 12 ways on the dimmers (Furse, circa 1980). Our patch bar was a piece of trunking below the dimmers with loads of flexes hanging down with 15A plugs on them.

The things is, it really doesn't take much extra effort to do a job neatly as to bodge it - so I can't understand why so many people do such flipping awful work. And it's usually fecking hard to try and tidy up afterwards - if it's possible at all (enough cable left), it usually means undoing it and doing it how it should have been done the first time.