An electrician might say It can't possibly look this good and be good. Like, this isn't real life, it's electrical pornography!! Congrats, this is beautiful.
Pretty nice, ive been thinking about building one. Id agree with the other commenter that you should put a jumper between your ground bus and the metal front panel.
I'm just missing the ground for the panel itself (and also the back panel if there's a metal one). Don't know the exact regularities where you live, but here in Germany it have to be a seperated screw with a contact washer and the paint have to be scraped away around the contact area. Everything else looks pretty neat and wll done. I dig the piggyback of the DIN rails, clever idea! :)
@analogMensch If the case is deep enough and there is no way that the wires that come loose cam touch the back panel than there is no need to add the ground wire. I doesn't hurt to do it but it is also probability. Your German, I'm Dutch and we have share some directives when it comes to building distros. But sometimes they are a bit of a "one in a zillion" directives...
First thing I've seen in a while that's not an immidiate fire hazard. Great job! If I can see that correctly, in of the lower terminals there are two cables beeing twisted together and inserted into the screwed terminal. I don't know if code allows it. (Theoretically one wire could loose from the twist and have high resistance) Also, from the video they seem to stick out a bit to far. When unlucky, you could touch the exposed conductor with your finger. If I see that correctly, you opted to not include an GFCI. Even though it's not required (US) afaik, imo everything should be protected by one. (Yes, I'm german). When installing one into your box, just keep in mind to pick one that trips before the one the venue has. (e.g. 5mA vs. 10mA) Source: Not an electrician
Nice build but.... -You need to ground the panel. From what I saw in the video, you didn't do that. - I would have added some Edison sockets as I saw you use jumpers in your gig log. Or you could make longer jumpers so you don't have your short jumpers dangling in front of your distro. -I would have used original Neutrik connectors as they are now approved to be (dis)connected under load. I am Dutch and by no means a licensed electrician but I do have enough knowledge to build my own power distributors and get them approved according to Dutch regulations.
I've got a question about power requirements for venues. Most the places we play are outdoor bars, and they will basically provide you with a single outlet, no guarantee on stable voltage/current/clean power, etc. We have an upcoming bigger gig that is asking about power requirements and I'm not entirely sure what to say. 2 20A circuits? our setup is: - presonus 16r, 2 wireless transmitters, quad cortex, 2xPA, 2xSubs, 1 40w guitar amp + pedal board, laptop & a few smaller devices. do you have a gut feeling on what our requirements should be?
I run into this ALL the time. For what you have listed, if it's all modern self-powered stuff with class-d amplification you could quite literally run everything from 1 20amp circuit. I've ran 4x RCF HDL6, 1x dual 18 sub (9006), Mixrack, 4 LED wash, 4x large moving wash, 4x strobe panels, and 2x guitar amps all fed from a single Edison outlet in a bar. I don't even know if it was a 15 or 20amp breaker. However, if both your subs are dual 18, and you are really slamming your system, you may need 2x 20amp circuits. I would basically just run your PA and audio gear, (and power for any pedals going DI to avoid ground loops) on one circuit, and then lighting and other stage power on another. You could also put the subs on the 2nd circuit as well to further split things up. I carry 2x 100ft 12ga. Edison extension cables with me to bar shows so I can pull power from multiple spots around the place to make sure I have 2 different circuits. I've ran my full rig on 1 outlet many times and have never tripped a breaker. It's amazing how efficient the self-powered equipment is these days.
If you can advance the power, just ask for a minimum of 2x 20amp circuits that you can separate some things around on, bring some edison cables to make it happen, and you'll be very comfortable 👍 Some gigs will even have a large generator for you on-site with spider-boxes to distribute power.
An electrician might say It can't possibly look this good and be good. Like, this isn't real life, it's electrical pornography!! Congrats, this is beautiful.
@@mashzmash haha thank you so much!! 🙌
Pretty nice, ive been thinking about building one. Id agree with the other commenter that you should put a jumper between your ground bus and the metal front panel.
@@imjustabill247 I will be adding this! 👍😁
This is really cool! Excited to see how you use this in your future gigs. 🎶 ⚡️
I'm just missing the ground for the panel itself (and also the back panel if there's a metal one). Don't know the exact regularities where you live, but here in Germany it have to be a seperated screw with a contact washer and the paint have to be scraped away around the contact area.
Everything else looks pretty neat and wll done. I dig the piggyback of the DIN rails, clever idea! :)
@analogMensch If the case is deep enough and there is no way that the wires that come loose cam touch the back panel than there is no need to add the ground wire.
I doesn't hurt to do it but it is also probability.
Your German, I'm Dutch and we have share some directives when it comes to building distros. But sometimes they are a bit of a "one in a zillion" directives...
Thanks! I will be adding one 😁
It's like a rack pdu but for audio and lighting very cool
First thing I've seen in a while that's not an immidiate fire hazard. Great job!
If I can see that correctly, in of the lower terminals there are two cables beeing twisted together and inserted into the screwed terminal. I don't know if code allows it. (Theoretically one wire could loose from the twist and have high resistance)
Also, from the video they seem to stick out a bit to far. When unlucky, you could touch the exposed conductor with your finger.
If I see that correctly, you opted to not include an GFCI. Even though it's not required (US) afaik, imo everything should be protected by one. (Yes, I'm german).
When installing one into your box, just keep in mind to pick one that trips before the one the venue has. (e.g. 5mA vs. 10mA)
Source: Not an electrician
Very clean and neat, Great job. Love to build one of these myself
really clean wiring!
Nice job!
I see no problems with the build...
Is that front panel from metal? If so you should connect it to the earth wire (you might call that thing 'ground')
Absolutely tidy!
@@JoeRKsChannel thanks!
looks great
@@natmorris Thank you!
Nice build but....
-You need to ground the panel. From what I saw in the video, you didn't do that.
- I would have added some Edison sockets as I saw you use jumpers in your gig log.
Or you could make longer jumpers so you don't have your short jumpers dangling in front of your distro.
-I would have used original Neutrik connectors as they are now approved to be (dis)connected under load.
I am Dutch and by no means a licensed electrician but I do have enough knowledge to build my own power distributors and get them approved according to Dutch regulations.
@@Richard1977 thanks! I appreciate the input. I will be adding the chassis ground for sure 👍
@redshedrecords 👍🏻 No thanks and keep the videos coming!
But please make sure the chassis ground does conduct from panel to your input connector.
I've got a question about power requirements for venues. Most the places we play are outdoor bars, and they will basically provide you with a single outlet, no guarantee on stable voltage/current/clean power, etc. We have an upcoming bigger gig that is asking about power requirements and I'm not entirely sure what to say. 2 20A circuits?
our setup is:
- presonus 16r, 2 wireless transmitters, quad cortex, 2xPA, 2xSubs, 1 40w guitar amp + pedal board, laptop & a few smaller devices.
do you have a gut feeling on what our requirements should be?
oh and 2 chauvet light stands with 4 led lights each.
I run into this ALL the time. For what you have listed, if it's all modern self-powered stuff with class-d amplification you could quite literally run everything from 1 20amp circuit. I've ran 4x RCF HDL6, 1x dual 18 sub (9006), Mixrack, 4 LED wash, 4x large moving wash, 4x strobe panels, and 2x guitar amps all fed from a single Edison outlet in a bar. I don't even know if it was a 15 or 20amp breaker. However, if both your subs are dual 18, and you are really slamming your system, you may need 2x 20amp circuits. I would basically just run your PA and audio gear, (and power for any pedals going DI to avoid ground loops) on one circuit, and then lighting and other stage power on another. You could also put the subs on the 2nd circuit as well to further split things up. I carry 2x 100ft 12ga. Edison extension cables with me to bar shows so I can pull power from multiple spots around the place to make sure I have 2 different circuits. I've ran my full rig on 1 outlet many times and have never tripped a breaker. It's amazing how efficient the self-powered equipment is these days.
If you can advance the power, just ask for a minimum of 2x 20amp circuits that you can separate some things around on, bring some edison cables to make it happen, and you'll be very comfortable 👍 Some gigs will even have a large generator for you on-site with spider-boxes to distribute power.
@@redshedrecords super helpful thank you!
Would you ever build this for somebody
Perfect but no gfi