Hughesie
Well-Known Member
ok so i was speaking with one of the guys that works for the company that provides all the sound gear for the Australian Grand Prix and he told me a few things, here are the intresting ones
there are 8 air conditioned basicly 14ru racks inside a lockable case
there is one of them on site
and they have 3 phase power running to them, and if that fails each has a ups and battery, for audio connections they have an eight core fiberoptic cable running to each amp hut for full reduncy, this allows the operator to monitor data flow (where the audio is going) rack temp (general temp of hut) and also individual amp temp all carried by one cable. if this link goes down the system switches to a xlr feed it has within 2 seconds of a fiber drop.
this is a very expensive system but if it fails every minute it's off the company loses 10 grand on hire fees.
scary stuff but there you go something intresting that you didn't already know.
there are 8 air conditioned basicly 14ru racks inside a lockable case
there is one of them on site
and they have 3 phase power running to them, and if that fails each has a ups and battery, for audio connections they have an eight core fiberoptic cable running to each amp hut for full reduncy, this allows the operator to monitor data flow (where the audio is going) rack temp (general temp of hut) and also individual amp temp all carried by one cable. if this link goes down the system switches to a xlr feed it has within 2 seconds of a fiber drop.
this is a very expensive system but if it fails every minute it's off the company loses 10 grand on hire fees.
scary stuff but there you go something intresting that you didn't already know.