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Originally Posted by STEVETERRY
Guys--
God love you, but you must have a lot of time on your hands.
Where I come from in NYC, taping pin connectors would be frowned upon, due to the time involved.
I may be an old fart, but I knot them.
Pin splitting is good--for electrical contact, not for mating retention.
Just my 2 cents.
ST
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Yes, we all seemingly are stuck indoors, with nothing to do right now, except post on CB. I also subscribe to a few Bicycle forums. Talk about cabin fever ! and it's only December !.
I do not tape the connections, even vertical connections, in the
FOH, nor overhead
raceway's nor the multi drops in overhead positions, only on the deck where the cables might get pulled on and only then to avoid nuisance dis-connects.
I haven't seen anyone actually knot the cables as Steve T. describes in years. Why ?, can't say for sure, but when I converted the road
house to 2P&G in '04, most of the folks we hired were now Local 1 and seemingly started the practice of taping deck connections. Note that this is a road house method, not something being done for shows running long term. I have no idea what the Broadway folks do. I also think that 12/3 SOOW is maybe a bit stiffer then in the old days and many folks don't want to place the same level of strain on the connectors strain relief - even though it's a better design on typical 2P&G connectors you see these days. Connectors have pins that "float" a bit and don't have as many issues with losing connection as did older 2P&G's of say 20 years ago.
I actually suspect that the practice of not knotting the connections is all old-wives-tales kind of attitude, similar to the whole Should I Pre-Heat issue.
Is taping connections time consuming ?, yes, but it's faster then using tie-line.
Steve Bailey
Brooklyn College