DMXpro
Active Member
Hello all,
I am currently working on a community theater lighting project, and I ran into a little problem with the dimmers we have. They are a "pole mount" style (with clamps), they each are rated for 1.2kW and have two edison (grounded) plugs coming out of the bottom. However, the space backstage where we are going to put the dimmers only has a NEMA 14-50 receptacle (a stove plug, I guess), which probably outputs 240 volts AC. I was thinking of making a sort of distro box where the stove plug would go into the wall, and then break out into two separate 120VAC outlets. The reason I need to use this outlet is because it's rated for 50 amps, and there aren't any other outlets nearby. How would I go about wiring this distro box? If the plug has two hot, one ground and one neutral, do I wire one hot, ground and neutral to one edison outlet and the other h/g/n to the other? Will this send 120 VAC to each outlet, or will they be 240V a piece? :neutral:
I am currently working on a community theater lighting project, and I ran into a little problem with the dimmers we have. They are a "pole mount" style (with clamps), they each are rated for 1.2kW and have two edison (grounded) plugs coming out of the bottom. However, the space backstage where we are going to put the dimmers only has a NEMA 14-50 receptacle (a stove plug, I guess), which probably outputs 240 volts AC. I was thinking of making a sort of distro box where the stove plug would go into the wall, and then break out into two separate 120VAC outlets. The reason I need to use this outlet is because it's rated for 50 amps, and there aren't any other outlets nearby. How would I go about wiring this distro box? If the plug has two hot, one ground and one neutral, do I wire one hot, ground and neutral to one edison outlet and the other h/g/n to the other? Will this send 120 VAC to each outlet, or will they be 240V a piece? :neutral: