Er... after all the
safety speeches in the last posts ... maybe I shouldn't mention what happened today:
So I was up in the canopy, but *removed* clipped in, with another student who was *removed* trained to be up in the catwalks. Anyways, it's possible that I dropped my first item from the canopy...
We were striking a 6x12 that had a top hot on it. I'm not sure if it's the lack of sleep, or me rushing to get done, but I either forgot there was a top-hot there, or that 360Qs don't have any sort of clip on the color frame holder. Needless to say the top-hot made its way to
ground level at about 9.8m/s^2. I felt like an idiot. And there were people around (did I mention that my
theatre is also a hallway?
). Luckily all these people were on the balcony
level (but one is a jerk, so he coulda been in the aisle; and minutes before, he was stretching my
c-wrench lanyard several feet!). The top hot got bent out of shape a little
bit, there was no damage to the bench it hit, everything was fine, but I managed to blurt out a very loud expletive during the
top-hat's descent.
Anyways, I proceeded to straighten out the catwalks, as they were a total mess. I was moving one cable run to the side, when it snapped and crackled something crazy. I turned off the
power. Let it sit for a few minutes, and it was still hot to the touch. I uncircuited the
twofer in question, and took a look at the pins. I think I found my problem. The
ground and
neutral pins were pushed into the
connector a considerable amount, leaving the hot as the longest pin, the only one making solid contact. That spooked me. I'm not sure specifically what type of metal the catwalks are made out of, but I'm worried it conducts electricity!
So, essentially that was my day.