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Gary-Fitzpatrick

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Dangerous microphone sockets
« on: August 11, 2014, 06:59:20 AM »

Okay so I was doing a bit of outside PA work at a church over the weekend...took a wee nosey inside and was appalled when I seen that the original contractor (judging by the system probably 15+ years ago) used 240v 5amp round pin plugs and sockets instead of XLRs for the microphones!!



Talk about a recipe for disaster...any user would be in for a shocking experience if they plugged that mic into a live socket!!!
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Steve M Smith

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Re: Dangerous microphone sockets
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2014, 07:11:20 AM »

The socket isn't dangerous.  The microphone might be though if plugged into an actual 240v outlet!


Steve.
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Keith Broughton

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Re: Dangerous microphone sockets
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2014, 07:30:12 AM »

"It doesn't just go to 11...it goes to 240" (Nigel)
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Ivan Beaver

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Re: Dangerous microphone sockets
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2014, 07:51:53 AM »

I have seen a number of installs that used Hubble twist lock power connectors for mic inputs.

WHERE do people get these idea??????????????????
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Re: Dangerous microphone sockets
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2014, 09:33:46 AM »

I have seen a number of installs that used Hubble twist lock power connectors for mic inputs.

WHERE do people get these idea??????????????????

Perhaps because they don't sell locking XLRs at the local hardware store.

JR
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Re: Dangerous microphone sockets
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2014, 01:29:17 PM »

Perhaps because they don't sell locking XLRs at the local hardware store.

JR
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 These are found in many old venues, I believe before XLR's were invented!
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Re: Dangerous microphone sockets
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2014, 12:34:32 AM »

I have seen a number of installs that used Hubble twist lock power connectors for mic inputs.

WHERE do people get these idea??????????????????

I'm sure others did it as well, but one of the most PITA rigs I occasionally work with is a local friend's who used 20A twist-lock connectors on all his monitor cabling.    It wouldn't be all that bad except for its near impossible for the uninitiated to tell connectors apart between that and all his power cabling, much of which is on near visually identical 30A twist locks to power the monitor amp racks.  He does use some 20A twist lock for power too though...

Makes me truly appreciate speakon for all the speaker cabling.
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Re: Dangerous microphone sockets
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2014, 09:12:20 AM »

I was at a hotel in Chicago for an Amway convention and saw a Dukane amplifier that had a standard Edison 5-15 jack for the mic plug.
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Hal Bissinger/COMSYSTEC

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Re: Dangerous microphone sockets
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2014, 04:48:44 PM »

I was at a hotel in Chicago for an Amway convention and saw a Dukane amplifier that had a standard Edison 5-15 jack for the mic plug.

The amplifier had an AC receptacle for the mic channel input? It came from the factory like that??

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Corey Scogin

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Re: Dangerous microphone sockets
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2014, 01:13:23 AM »

Not a microphone socket but I've been meaning to post this here for some time.  I found it in an old church.
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