IanTech
Active Member
We will be redoing our electrical on our stage, and one of the things we're constantly moving around is the 208V power soca cables. They tend to run from the distro up to the grid before being used. I know they make 19 pin Male Socapex panels, but I was wondering if anyone has seen, or if anyone has any objection to the idea of having a male socapex panel side stage, that 208V in electrical conduit up the wall and then out in the appropriate junction boxes distributed throughout the grid with a female socapex outlet?
This would drastically clean up the amount of socco run up the walls or behind legs. I feel like this would be useful for tours as well if they wanted to bring in their own soca dimmers and a generator so cable isn't needed to run up the wall. Are there any electrical code concerns? There are a lot of soca junction boxes with the female connector that run from dimmer racks and such, but what about those with portable distros used as a semi-permanent install until a tour or something needs reconfiguring?
This would drastically clean up the amount of socco run up the walls or behind legs. I feel like this would be useful for tours as well if they wanted to bring in their own soca dimmers and a generator so cable isn't needed to run up the wall. Are there any electrical code concerns? There are a lot of soca junction boxes with the female connector that run from dimmer racks and such, but what about those with portable distros used as a semi-permanent install until a tour or something needs reconfiguring?