How NOT to Hang Speakers At The Zoo. Or Anywhere.
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On the plus side: The installer passed the wires over the beam rather than securing them to a couple of small screw eyes threaded into the wood and loaded axially. Also, it looks like they shifted their attachment points on the handles to best line up with the C of G. We used to have a similarly talented installer in downtown Hamilton, Ontario. He once installed a brand new mixer in a community college's student lounge and avoided feedback by running a track of hot glue across the mixer's front panel about 3/4's of the way up the faders' travel to limit how far up the operators could push them. Clients pay for workmanship like this. Scary isn't it?
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard.
Amiers
Renting to Corporate One Fixture at a Time.
https://assets.peavey.com/literature/manuals/sp5_specs.pdf
56lbs, that is some pretty robust wire....
56lbs, that is some pretty robust wire....
I wonder what the WLL for it was. And I wonder how someone can casually hold it up with that kind of weight and think that some measly wire wrapped around the handels is going to support it. I personally have 2 Peavey PR15s and those are about 36 pounds, and I don't really like lifting them upto my head to put them on to some speaker stands, good thing I always have someone assisting in setting those up so I'm less likely to kill myself dropping them on myself.
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The wire supports the speakers because the installers didn't know it shouldn't.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard.
It was out in the Dells area, and yeah people were feeding them. It just seemed a little small for the number of birds they had. They also had small exhibits for the kangaroos.
Amiers
Renting to Corporate One Fixture at a Time.
If they were parakeets they are only 8$ a pop so generally you get at least 50 cause a few honestly just won't make it.
We started with 50 and since May we've lost a handful.
Not due to miscare of course but just because they get sick or fight or just don't take to the enclosure.
We started with 50 and since May we've lost a handful.
Not due to miscare of course but just because they get sick or fight or just don't take to the enclosure.
DuckJordan
Touring IATSE Member
1/4" is not a bad connector and is easily sourced now is it ideal no. But the problem here isn't the connectors it's the rigging.
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Blackfaer
Member
This is the Wile. E. Coyote method of rigging?
Well, he likes precariously hanging objects with less than suitable materials, which these people did. I saw some other speakers that were rented with giant stickers above the handels saying "DO NOT USE TO HANG, USE INCLUDED HARDWARE." There were plenty of scratch marks on the handle and almost all of the coating was gone from the edge above the handles.
I mentioned it, but they just blew me off. They're lawsuit if/when it falls on a meandering 6 year old. There was a fence between the speakers and the walking path, but any curious little kid would go over the short fence.
GreyWyvern
Well-Known Member
His point wasn't the connector being used, but the cable. It is an instrument cable instead of speaker cable. Not quite as bad as running DMX with mic cable.
Yep. A 1/4" connector isn't a headwound, however the 24-ga wire inside the instrument cable carrying a speaker-level signal is.
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