What is this adapter for?

[hobbsies]

Anyone seen one of these before? What's the purpose? To destroy sound boards it seems.

 

[DuckJordan]

to kill people. Destroy it.

in all honesty this was probably an ill conceived attempt at using stage pin to carry an audio signal.

 

[derekleffew]

Must use a 1/4" TRS in order to be balanced.

 

[lightz]

It serves the purpose of an execution device.

 

[JohnD]

I think it is a pro variation of this one:

 

[SteveB]

Sometimes phantom power needs a bit of oomph.

 

[theatricalmatt]

I bet the folks at Production Advantage don't *actually* stock that adapter.

It reminds me of another adapter that I saw, that was incredibly show-specific; it was an Edison to Speakon adapter. In the course of a show (I forget which production), one of the characters needed to plug a boom box into a wall outlet and turn it on. The sound designer and production manager opted to build the Edison-to-Speakon connector, so rather than plug it into wall power, it was actually plugging into an aux send from the audio console. Definitely one of those "make sure everyone knows, and destroy everything after the show" set ups.

But Speakon is actually rated for 120V; I don't think 1/4" plugs are.

 

[Chris15]

My guess is this idiotic device was intended to reuse an extension lead as speaker cable.

I concur with all other opinions to destroy it...

 

[gafftapegreenia]

I bet the folks at Production Advantage don't *actually* stock that adapter.

It reminds me of another adapter that I saw, that was incredibly show-specific; it was an Edison to Speakon adapter. In the course of a show (I forget which production), one of the characters needed to plug a boom box into a wall outlet and turn it on. The sound designer and production manager opted to build the Edison-to-Speakon connector, so rather than plug it into wall power, it was actually plugging into an aux send from the audio console. Definitely one of those "make sure everyone knows, and destroy everything after the show" set ups.

But Speakon is actually rated for 120V; I don't think 1/4" plugs are.

At least in THAT, the contacts aren't exposed to the touch.

 

[lightz]

Gardena - Speakon adapter cable.

 

[JonCarter]

Save the photo for a "Question of the day" on 01 APR.

 

[hobbsies]

I bet the folks at Production Advantage don't *actually* stock that adapter.

It reminds me of another adapter that I saw, that was incredibly show-specific; it was an Edison to Speakon adapter. In the course of a show (I forget which production), one of the characters needed to plug a boom box into a wall outlet and turn it on. The sound designer and production manager opted to build the Edison-to-Speakon connector, so rather than plug it into wall power, it was actually plugging into an aux send from the audio console. Definitely one of those "make sure everyone knows, and destroy everything after the show" set ups.

But Speakon is actually rated for 120V; I don't think 1/4" plugs are.

Don't a lot of LED fixtures use speakon Edison adapters to get power and daisy chain between fixtures?

 

[gafftapegreenia]

Don't a lot of LED fixtures use speakon Edison adapters to get power and daisy chain between fixtures?

They do use a Neutrik connector, but they use PowerCON, not SpeakON. The keying is different.

 

[techieman33]

Don't a lot of LED fixtures use speakon Edison adapters to get power and daisy chain between fixtures?

They use powercon, which is different from what you use with a speaker.

 

[xander]

It is probably used with some http://www.darklightsystem.com/ thing. They have a bit of experience with sketchy connector use.

 

[gafftapegreenia]

It is probably used with some http://www.darklightsystem.com/ thing. They have a bit of experience with sketchy connector use.

They use 1/8" TRS to carry DMX signal because a standard 5 pin XLR connector would effectively double instrument size. I don't see any product of theirs that carries mains voltage on a 1/4" TS.

 

[JD]

Is that a UL sticker on the cord?

 

[hobbsies]

Ha! Powercon, never knew that's what it was called.

 

[MikeJ]

It was probably a joke. Hope its not actually wired if it was, but this can't hold a candle to the RCA to Camlock adapter.

 

[MikeJ]

They use 1/8" TRS to carry DMX signal because a standard 5 pin XLR connector would effectively double instrument size. I don't see any product of theirs that carries mains voltage on a 1/4" TS.

Yes, and DMX spec allows for other connectors if physical limitations make 5-pin XLR impractical.