Art 2000i hard power?
Posted: 16 Nov 2009, 13:11
My venue (a church) has a 48 way art 2000i install with patch bay. From the patch bay the channels are distributed to our lighting bars via 8 Soca runs.
This works fine for our generic stock but occasionally we have folk visiting us with intelligent lighting that requires hard non-dimmed power and we are also considering acquiring some LED RGB fixtures which will also require hard power.
Without running long extensions cables to the lighting bars, how can I best achieve this with my setup? In other venues I've worked in (which have been much older installs with 15A patch panels) I could patch the 15A plug tails directly into my distro, totally missing out the dimmer rack. Obviously I can't do this with the art 2000i because the Wieland patch connectors are only 2 pole.
I've noticed that some of the touring art dimmers include the option to patch in power from directly after the breaker, but as far as I can see the 2000i doesn't support this?
Apologies if this is a really obvious question - I'm really more of a noise-boy and this is the first time I've been responsible for an Avo install.
Many thanks,
Andy Howlett.
This works fine for our generic stock but occasionally we have folk visiting us with intelligent lighting that requires hard non-dimmed power and we are also considering acquiring some LED RGB fixtures which will also require hard power.
Without running long extensions cables to the lighting bars, how can I best achieve this with my setup? In other venues I've worked in (which have been much older installs with 15A patch panels) I could patch the 15A plug tails directly into my distro, totally missing out the dimmer rack. Obviously I can't do this with the art 2000i because the Wieland patch connectors are only 2 pole.
I've noticed that some of the touring art dimmers include the option to patch in power from directly after the breaker, but as far as I can see the 2000i doesn't support this?
Apologies if this is a really obvious question - I'm really more of a noise-boy and this is the first time I've been responsible for an Avo install.
Many thanks,
Andy Howlett.