How much/what electrical danger performing on a covered stage during rain?

I agree Paul. My other post addresses what you bring up. Sorry I didn't see your post come in while I was typing mine. Interestingly the British Marshall amps and others to my knowledge had no grounding caps. Even back then the mains cords seemed to be grounded. I spent some time in Sweden in the late 60's and met a hospital engineer who absolutely could not believe how comparatively flimsy the US two prong plug was. He thought they should be outlawed!

David

I felt that way the whole time I lived in Germany, and for several years after I returned to the US. A minimal US 3-prong isn't all that wonderful, either.

There has been some consciousness-raising among the designers of US standards plugs since then, but AFAIK it isn't manditory.

Speaking of foil and paper caps. In the late 50s I had the fun time of spending hours cleaning thousands of little bits of gooey wax paper and foil out of the inside of a point to point wired Gibson tube guitar amp. This was the main filter in the power supply and it faild with quite a bang. Good old days? Not always :-)

David

That was probably not a paper cap, but an electrolytic, with considerable voltage across it. When they blew, the remains looked like a chicken had been plucked and the feathers left behind!

They still blow, but most are now in aluminum cans, not a cardboard tube like the older ones.

Scott, I still pull green wire with EMT.

"VWWall"

** Nonsense.

Electro caps were then and still are now all fitted into aluminium cans, then sealed at the top with a rubber gasket to prevent loss of the volatile electrolyte. The can was connected to the negative terminal of the capacitor and a wire lead welded to the closed end.

1950s and early 1960 examples were typically covered in cardboard tubes - usually reddish brown in colour.

Later examples were fitted into plastic sleeves - could be nearly any colour.

...... Phil

Doesn't even need to be that bad! Take a .47 uF cap, and even the impedance at 60 Hz is low enough to allow a good fault current.

You'll see fault currents on some cheap PC power supplies with pi filters on the inputs... the pi filter leakage is high enough to pop the GFI. So what do power supply manufacturers do when people complain about this? They leave off the filtration entirely and spew trash on the power line.

But that is a rant for another day.

--scott

God bless you!

--scott

I got one word for you: NEMA Twist-Locks. Available from 15A on up. They make the Europlug look cheap and flimsy!

--scott

I have in my hands a red, yellow, and blue one. The can is much thinner than the recent electrolytics which use the can as a mount. Hence they created much more mess when they blew. The cardboard tube contributed to the mess.

The accepted sig for ng's is: (2 dashes, space, line return)

You're a goddamned idiot, and you couldn't debate if your life depended on it, twit.

I wouldn't work "a show you have". Your shows are shit. I have, however made wireless mic systems that pass voice, video and data over VARIOUS bands.

Some are used by LEOs. Some are used on carrier decks.

Do you even know what a diversity receiver is?

You're an idiot. The devices I mentioned are using a proprietary packet model, and it utilizes QAM 256.

You're an idiot.

Thanks for proving the above assertion.

Fuck off, you ten years behind the curve retard.

"Chairman Of The Most Asinine Fuckwits "

** The police and onboard Navy vessels ??

Hardly the same category as stage performers.

** This criminal MORON does not even know what a performer's " radio mic" system is. ** Shame none of it is suitable for nor allowed to be used by performers. ** ROTFLMAO !!

No performance quality radio mics there at all !!

....... Phil

The ruggedized devices I spoke of have BETTER audio, video and data figures than commercial crap does.

You're a goddamned retard.

Bullshit, asswipe. Every one of them are in legal public bands, IDIOT!

They can accept ANY mic, including professional audio.

Grow the f*ck up, AlliTard.

"Chairman Of The Lying Autistic MORONS "

** IRRELEVANT BULLSHIT !!

...... Phil

"Chairman Of The Lying Autistic MORONS "

"Phil Allison"

** LOL

Dead donkeys have higher IQs than this sub human POS.

........ Phil

"Chairman Of The Lying Autistic MORONS "

"Phil Allison"

** Ridiculous lie.

....... Phil