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shagnasty 
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 Posted: 10 September 2012 at 10:53pm |
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As long as the supply is d-curve from source you will get away with murder, a d curve breaker makes a length of 6" nail look easy to trip!!!!
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lost eden
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Posted: 10 September 2012 at 11:09pm |
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I've tripped the 63A D-curve breaker on the distro in question before, without tripping any breakers further up the source, so that shouldn't be an issue - I'll check anyway. Turned out that 4x 1.8kW architectural wash lights (30A+ continuous) in addition to umpteen moving heads & 4x 1.5kW strobes was a bit much... This was the first time I realised that mains cables can actually get warm :)
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shagnasty
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Posted: 10 September 2012 at 11:13pm |
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Yep, d-curve is good for strobes, big PAR rigs but in a an actual prolonged overload, it still trips like it should and stops you burning the building down, hence they work great for PA!
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Posted: 13 September 2012 at 4:34pm |
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Success! Not a single tripped breaker all night, except when somebody put all of the blinder cells onto the same channel of the dimmers :/
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