bobgaggle
Well-Known Member
I'm not a lighting guy, but because my company doesn't have a full time ME it has fallen to me to wire up a marquee for a faux proscenium I'm building. We want to keep the piece to use in the future, and as such it is being built in segments. The idea is to have a 3 circuit chase effect. My plan is to have all the wiring concealed within the thickness of the piece, and to have leads (pigtails, whatever yall call them) with Edison connectors exposed so when the segments are screwed together all I have to do is plug the 3 male ends of one segment into the females of the adjoining segment, and daisy chain all the segments in the same way. I know this idea will work but ive been pondering a simpler alternative and wanted some feedback.
instead of 3 connectors dangling free on both left and right sides of each segment, I was wondering if there was a 4 prong connector I could use. 3 hots (one from each circuit) would connect to three prongs, and the return from each circuit could be connected to the fourth prong. This would make life a little more organized and easier during the install and build. It seems like this idea would work, but I don't know if such a connector for power transmission even exists (I know not to use an XLR or something weird like that), or if it would be safe to do something like this.
Also this is a store bought string of light sockets wired in parallel and doesn't have a ground.
If I haven't given enough detail for any of you guys to answer this question let me know.
thanks for the help
instead of 3 connectors dangling free on both left and right sides of each segment, I was wondering if there was a 4 prong connector I could use. 3 hots (one from each circuit) would connect to three prongs, and the return from each circuit could be connected to the fourth prong. This would make life a little more organized and easier during the install and build. It seems like this idea would work, but I don't know if such a connector for power transmission even exists (I know not to use an XLR or something weird like that), or if it would be safe to do something like this.
Also this is a store bought string of light sockets wired in parallel and doesn't have a ground.
If I haven't given enough detail for any of you guys to answer this question let me know.
thanks for the help