Hi all,
I've just done a large fireworks gig for a Casino that does fireworks 4 times a year. In the past, they just had a stage area with a band and a DJ, but this year we provided delay speaker locations all around the grounds. The fireworks display is set to music.
The powers that be at the casino do not want any signal run via wireless, so all remote speaker location need to be hardwired. This time we ran about 2,000' of mic cable to all the various delay locations (where we placed small amp racks, associated electronics, and speakers)
The casino bigwigs were so impressed with how well it sounded all around the grounds that they have offered to allow us to run cable in conduit to the various locations (instead of flying cable from trees and buildings like we did this time). They will provide their electric contractor for labor and the conduit. We need to supply the wire and connectors. Then next gig, we can just place the speaker clusters and amps around the place and plug in, and not have to spend a day with a crew of 4 and a 40' cherry picker lift running wire from tree to tree and from building to building (in 110 deg heat no less!)
I want to run a 2 circuit multipair cable to each outdoor location (many are on building roofs) so I have a primary circuit and a backup circuit. My problem is with how to terminate the cable at each location. I know where to get wallplates with 2 XLRs on them, but I can't seem to find some kind of WEATHERIZED version of a wallplate for outdoor use. I would like to just place a box at each end of each conduit in the cable runs.
Does anybody know of a weather resistant box/plate for 2 XLRs? Ideally, It would have separate covers like a weatherized AC receptacle, bit a single cover would be OK. This area is in the desert, so there is little rain, but a lot of sun and some sand and dust from the seasonal high winds.
Anybody know of such a box/plate combo?
Craig