Well, have never given much thought to the fact that there is a lot of green
wire coming from the multi, but I think that JD basically nailed it. Every single connection on the
pigtail side (right side of the photo) is made with hot and
neutral swapped. We first discovered an issue masked behind a
unit not working properly. As it was a
conventional fixture the reversed wiring would not have really mattered, but whatever issue we were having,
led to putting out the GAMCheck and discovering that at least one of the
tails was Hot/
Neutral reversed.
So, in the air, my first thought is that someone rebuilt the
stage pin connector and wired it wrong, upon opening it up, it was correct. So, we take the
cover off the box only to find that all six circuits are that way. Needless to say, that became a high priority repair last Friday.
I showed the box to our TD who was impressed that no one had ever noticed that it was wrong since it was installed, 10 years ago. I am not sure if that is really true because the last two ME's before me were not the brightest lights in the rig. I have worked on most of the
drop boxes we have in the
theatre as they sometimes do have a
wire that works loose as we
sling them around for every show, and this is the only one that was wired like that. Go figure.