Mobile DJ advise. Why the power cut's out at a Venue?

0:01 To plug into where

Right folks, now in this video I'm going to talk about what to plug into where. In other words, let's imagine you turn up at a venue and there's one solitary plug or maybe there's two. Now hopefully I'll be able to explain the do's and the don'ts and as ever if you've got any information you want to put into this video make your own video, put it as a video response or bung some information down here. So without further ado-do-do-do's I'm going to pause the camera and we'll have a closer look.

1:03 What am I all about with main fuse?

OK, a very general video, hopefully giving you a bit of an idea on what to ask for when you get to your venue. Now let's look at these two. Two boxes there, three dots, two dots. We're just looking at basic plugs in the wall, three pin here for the UK, slightly maybe more European, United States of America etc. Not the same main fuse, just bear that in mind. Now this one here, exactly the same, but same main fuse. So what am I all about with main fuse? Well in most venues you should have what's known as a fuse box. Now if you imagine you've got power coming from outside into the building, it should be going into the main fuse box and then from here it's distributed around the building. Now in the main fuse box you've got bigger fuses. One could be say for lights, there could be half a dozen. In big buildings there could be

10, 20 just for lights for different floors. There could be 10 or 20 for let's say the sockets for the kitchen etc. This guy here could be huge or it could be tiny. It depends on the size of the building. So, not same. You could theoretically have let's say one plug going to one fuse. You could have another plug going to one fuse. But more than likely you've got something like this. You've got maybe two, four, six, you could have half a dozen plugs going to the same fuse. What you need to do is just bear in mind that because when you start putting your four-way adapters into the same guy here, you're going to be pulling a lot of power, yes from here, but the main point is you're going to be pulling a lot of power from the main fuse here.

2:31 You're pulling too much power out of this guy

Now this is where you can get unstuck. This is why occasionally when all of a sudden the power goes out, it's because you're pulling too much power from this guy here. Also quite often it's because sometimes you could have on your four-way another four-way here, another one here, here and here. You're pulling too much power out of this guy. So it's advisable you just make inquiries with the management to see if you can pull A lot of power from the likes of this or maybe not so much power from the likes of this. Now I'm not giving numbers because I'm not an electrician but hopefully this will give you a general idea. The more important factor here is to check on how much power you can pull from behind you. You set up your gear, behind you you could have one plug.

You could have two, you could have five or six. It doesn't matter. It depends on if those plugs are coming from one fuse or two or three from the main fuse box. I hope that's been a help and by the way, if you've got any more information or you'd like to help out with this particular video, by all means do video responses or just comment. Practice and enjoy.

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