Interested in hearing your opinion on these. I've been a big advocate of them for a couple of years now. Will never go back to the rubber-jacketed variety if I can avoid it.
Question (to anyone): When would using a gray-jacketed (see "J" below)
Saw an origional deign for them and was skeptacle especially for touring purposes by way of say truck headed into the Northern States or Canada in doing the
tie in. It's plastic and might have problems with becoming britle should it get dropped. This plus perhaps also thermal issues if really cold and a high amperage load or a problem in getting really hot - really fast in perhaps shattering or at least being a
bit brittle.
Beyond I didn't like them for design reasons and my guys in now using them really don't like them. T/S type of thing to my guys in me looking to save money due to the failings of the rubber on ECT connectors I like and unless really pressed won't substitute for. Say if
Leviton isn't up to snuff for delivery in time as often happens when I really need a lot of them. Main reason I'm
play testing them now is I got really tired of at the last minute before the cable goes out on a show while busy, having to re-task my guys normally also working on other gear for that show or one of our special projects often last minute and behind schedule in loosing a guy or even make me if best available.. Someone has to replace the CamLoc's to some
feeder cable needed for a show is a frequent thing in the cable puller guys doing their job by way of inspecting the cable. Really is an amazing thing that the newest people to the company are doing their job so well, and a great thing that
SOP in inspection of what's going out is doing so well they note such things.. but really a pain in the rear when I'm busy otherwise.
Not much about expense - fairly cheap at
OEM cost the
Leviton brand, more about even if it only takes say 15 minutes to change a
plug, when prepping a show, often it's not just one but a bunch to replace normally as happens with multiple
tie-in's. Loosing a guy when busy to fix stuff failiing - no matter how old that's caused by dropping the plugs without any other excuse... I'm
play testing a hopeful this hard plastic
Bates perhaps better product - this even given my concerns. My guys understand why and will get over it in not liking these receptacles as much. Perhaps with time and if they work out they will even like them.
Primary concern so far is with the female side. If it works out and they begin to like them better we will swith to also the male side also in standardization. This in me just having finished making a five color two size = basically Pez dispensor magazine cart for
ETC type plugs. Stores about 20x plugs/connectors of each of the five main colors. Atop it origionally was a tray that stored the rest of the parts. Was too heavy and broke. Instead we made a new drawer elsewhere for such parts.
Hopefully if we
switch brands, the Pez dispensor will work better with the plastic plugs - the rubber ones get hung up in the works otherwise with the ECT in not working out so well for such a cart. My boy's also hate it even if liking the concept. Pez disensor for CamLoc plugs with all parts needed to assemble at the top of the cabinet... way cool concept. Just needs a
bit more development and if it works to the
Bates version.. it would be a crash cart again given the brass is already installed in not being a top heavy upper lid.
Havn't sent out much in at least the past six years for six
wire or found any vendors that is doing grey yet, but did ask over the year's in now asking again... who's making grey CamLoc's??? Not that going grey is necessary but it is really good concept and might solve problems with our cable puller's manager by way of... got these single
conductor feeder cable hanging about... can I get rid or them or
send them to "Ship" in making into a useful cable looms? Immeditely realized that these individual
conductor cables were part of the past six
wire double
ground system we used to have some of. Hasn't been used in years and all six
wire cable has been made five
wire since than, but still I saved the second
neutral as ready to go as normal. That second
neutral was what he was seeing I think.
Personaly I'm a fan of six
wire cable in concept. Given most shows are 208v on the other
hand... not needed. Save one or two of these cable sets just in case though.