We'll be using:

1x matrix xp 1500

1x matrix xp 2400

1x matrix xp 5000

1x ultradrive

I checked out blue aran, I havent got £200 to spend on a distro at the moment. 

My only option at the moment is the ebay link above, I just want to know if I use it just for one night, could it blow or short circuit my amps etc? 

Cheers

 

1.5mm H07RNF 3G1.5 is good for more than the 13A fuse.

I would want to split that load over two extension leads, to be on the safe side. Please also be aware that the maximum you can pull out of a double socket on the wall, is not 26A (2 x13A), but 20A. Much as the ring will probably be fused at 32A, all (plastic) DSSO are rated at 20A max, generally tested for 8 hours at 19.5A, and shouldn't exceed some temperature around 80c after 8 hours, IIRC.

 All my big old C Audio's had 2.5mm cable and were fitted with 13A plugs and never failed a PAT test but I'll give three guesses as to who tests my gear.

  You quite rightly say though that you have to use the right plug (I've had no cord grip issues using duraplugs) and technically it shouldn't be done.

Yeah, TBH, I would be unlikely to fail it too! As long as the cord retention and lid of plug sits correctly, and all strands of copper are in the brass terminals correctly, meh.

If you were to make such an "abhorrent breach of regs", then ferules could well be your friend. Before I knew about BS7909 and its insistence on H07, I made up some 32A SPN+E 3G6 using type SY (the "screened" mains cable) as my supplier didn't have any H07, and did me a silly price on 25m of 3G6 type SY. However CEE plugs have slightly larger earth terminals than L/N, so with a bit of heat shrink and a ferule or three, was able to make off the "armour" with the green yellow core, and shoe horn it all in. Extra bit of CSA on an earth conductor is no bad thing, as it aids disconnect times a fraction. Even if it is steel rather than copper!

In a BS1363 13A plug, some argument that all the air space is taken up with copper, so less ability to radiate heat, but 2.5 will be cooler for same current draw. Again, meh.

It is to do with the specification of what a 13A plug is designed to do. BS4343 (IEC60whatever it is) also says max CSA into terminals of CEE/Commando plugs too. Think it is in BS7671 too? Shouldn't put 6mm in a 16A cee for example, even if your voltage drop calculations indicate you should, you need to use 32A CEE connectors.

Like I said, a technical fail, but I like the use of oversized copper. The clever will use the "correct size", and so save themselves money, but I would rather do it once, properly.

Goes back to the 32A SPN+E CEE using 3G4mm or 3G6mm "debate". If your supplier says its HO7 RNF 3G4 can do 32A, in a formal specification sheet, and your voltage drop and other calcs for total length Vs CSA Vs disconnect time, say you can, then you can. But in a hire environment, where every job is different, and end user may not be "skilled", 6mm is a much more safe bet. 6mm will be correct 99.9% of the time it is deployed, where as 4mm can only be used in certain deployments. In a hire bin, you don't to have to stock both!

no extension leads over 30m, longs ones have to have a built in RCD, all hire equipment should be PA Tested after every hire???????

I real terms, I thought "temporary Wiring" addendum (BullShit 7909) cover "cee-form" CSA as 2.5/6/16/35mm only, the 16th/17th as a bit a caravan parks which  covers BS4343 outlets and has said the same for years.

The truth is no document can ever cover anything we do, I needed a 70m 32A feeder a while back, enter 10mm 5 core, but I could have hired the whole run as 20m 5g6 cable and most people wouldn't have a clue that it was an issue...

I am making up a hybrid Multicore, 100m 8 balanced lines and 6 bits of CAT6, I need a mains run, 4mm isn't going to cut it for a 16A feed, I could try putting IECs on the mains run (10A) but I am not feeling the 4mm will fit into an IEC, so I am making a "dodgy" leads with 16A and a 10A max load sticker on it, this break quite a lot regs, but as it is for use in a controlled system ( a Lighting desk, sound desk, PC and a couple of laptops will pull like 5 amps max) i see no issue, the cable will never be outside the voltage drop for the circuit so who cares, I understand this, I have the skills to say this is a safe design and in safe in scenario, but some tit might put a 3.5KW turbo oven at FOH and cause a problem, not a lot I can do there, but some tit and climb into teh roof with said 3.5KW oven and un-plug a Source 4 and pluf it into a 20A dimmer channel and burn up 60m or 18G1.5 soca cable, not a lot you can do (I wouldn't mess with anyone how can carry a turbo oven up a truss ladder) my point is if you really want to be safe the regs need to state "no un-qualified person should play with anything lumpier than a 13A plug."

Edit to add : Massively off topic, but i think the OP has already had a fairly comprehensive answer before it started veering off wildly....

This. I know of many 'qualified' electricians who have absolutely no clue whatsoever about much past a domestic install, yet they hold the CSCS Gold card so 'should' be the ones to call, using that as a benchmark?

Told myself this year i'd get my ass back to skool, so first thing i booked was a 17th ed amendment 3 refresher (#NewYearNewMe etc), i know there's a Skillset Certificate in Temporary Electrical Systems (SCiTES), but does anyone actually give a shit about it? Does it mean anything? Or is it 2-300 quid wasted until C&G decide to do something?

 

Too true.

Back in my previous life many moons ago as a sparks, I did the electrical work for my local.

Landlord played golf, so did the local plumber, so they became pally. He went and did his Part P wossname as all that jazz kicked in, just as i was coming out of it all, so he took over the work. Ended up doing a full test on the pub, landlord paid the money, all was happy. 'Til the pub nearly burned down, issue with the supply cable under the car park. Not directly an issue with the installation, but all the loop readings were sky high, barely any of them passing. 

Now, if he knew what the pretty numbers were that he was writing in his new certificate book, he would have known that strange things were afoot - however, he was a plumber - so all he knew was that water flowed downhill, and payday was Friday. Could have been avoided. 

Luckily, UKPN took responsibility and all the work got done on insurance. I told landlord to hide those certs like they were never written as it'd land his mate in serious shit.