I’m assuming the ground is isolated to prevent any noise...
@SteveB A 'Fox & Hound', or cheap 'n cheerful equivalent, with adapters to RJ45 (or whatever) will rapidly become your new best buddy.A $90 million new building, 3 performance spaces, many, many recording locations, a huge lobby, etc..... multiple A/V closets with Ethernet patchbays connecting every other patchbay.
Either the consultant neglected to specify it, or the install contractor just didn’t do it, but none of the patchbays have labels for the wiring. We’ve no idea where anything goes or comes from.
The contractor wants to get paid, 2 years now, the college is pushing us to get “trained” on the system, we keep refusing when A) We are certain there’s gear missing and B) The system is mostly unusable unless it’s labeled.
You don't want to see the remnants of a Neutrik XLR 7 contact cable female after an IBEW brother's spent two hours atop a scissor lift brutalizing it with an iron better suited to soldering eaves troughs. Poor sad little lump of mis-shapened plastic with a few discernible flakes of metal drowning within it.You don’t want to get me started on the quality of work I see from even large AV integrators with good national reputations.
Apparently, soldering is no longer a necessary skill to teach an AV technician. I always pull plates during lunch walks and find deficiencies in at least 3 out of 4.
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