Clean Up Your Cables: Make a DIY Power Splitter!
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Learn two different ways to simplify the AC Power in your lighting rig with a plug-and-play product, or by building your own custom AC Splitter or Power Harness.
DISCLAIMER: I am not an electrician and can not guarantee the safety or performance of the product you may construct. This instructional video is for entertainment and information only.
I got some of the gear you see in the video here:
-Wire Loom Tee Connectors
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-Piggyback Cable
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-Mini Moving Heads
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-Spider Beam
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-Mini Beam Moving Heads
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Absolutely perfect! I was searching for some ideas to make some quality and good looking cords for powered speakers (only 2 speakers per connection). Cut the wiring in half! Thank you the Amazon find was the missing piece I needed! Ingenious!!
Thanks so much for the kind words and glad you found this helpful. I've made several of these now and they have helped me cut way down on the set up time for my lighting rig as well as making it look a lot neater! Appreciate you watching...
THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN NEEDING!! THANK YOU!!!!
Excellent! Glad it could help and thanks for watching.
This is a fantastic idea, wish I'd have seen this before lol. Thanks Steve
Glad it was helpful. I've made a couple of them and they really help with organizing and setup time. Thanks for watching!
Tour videos really helped me understand lighting thank you 👍🏻
Thank you for watching them!
@@LearnLizard and give the man his like!
Soldered connections on high-draw AC lines is a no-go for me. If those cables ever overheat that solder joint could fail. You need to find a way to crimp or weld those connections.
That's really good advice- appreciate it. As my lights are smaller and low draw everything has been working well with my splitters. In fact I've made several more and use them regularly, but crimping is a great suggestion.
@@LearnLizard I hear you. Under normal operating conditions, as long as the current draw of the fixtures is within the amapcity of the cables you should be fine.
This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you
Thank You!
You are welcome and thanks for watching!
My advice:
-Leave the cables longer as you never know.
-Crimp the wires together with something like wire end ferrules or small splices.
-Lose the tape and silicon, rough up a bit of the outer sheath of the cable and fill those T-splices with a suitable epoxy.
That gets you in "factory style" territory.
Very good advice- appreciate the comment and thanks for watching...
Thank you! I've been struggling with AC cable mass for 2 years! My rig looks pretty ugly :P
Appreciate you watching! I hope it helps clean up your rig. (Its been SO much faster and easier to hook up my lights since I've made mine!)
It would be great if you would do a tour of the little "stage" you have set up as well as your lighting rig. It looks super interesting and I'd love to see it all. :) Keep up the great work on the channel.
Thanks for the great suggestion- that would be a fun video to make! Appreciate you watching and the kind words.
This video is so TERRIBLY underrated!!!
Well thank you! (I still use my splitters everytime I set up my rig)
Appreciate you watching
I swear this guy looks like Bishop from ALIENS !
Isn't that the guy that got the guts ripped out of him?!!!
(I also got a comment that said I looked like Bill Clinton)
Hey can you do a video on making an outdoor lightshow (at night) for example how to make the smoke not disapear afte 10 seconds
When you are outside it can be really hard to get the smoke to hang in the air for any length of time. I've been doing some experimenting with both my hazer and my fog machine trying to get some good effects- thanks for the idea of making a video about it...
brilliant... keep em coming !!!
Thank you so much!
@@LearnLizard Thanks so much for posting there videos. Due to the stay at home... I have been able to retool my bands entire setup. I purchased the lixada moving heads you recommended, learned how to program DMX (Via DMXIS and Abelton) based on your tutorials. Thanks... as soon as I can safely play a show the band is gonna be on fire!
Thank you! 🙏🏾 this is awesome 👏🏾 👏🏾👏🏾 I almost bought one of those cables with multiple outlets but this is way better
I'm really glad to hear that! Appreciate you watching and good luck setting up your AC.
Always watching your tutorials, always helpful thank you.
Very much appreciate you watching and your kind words. I've got several more videos in the pipeline :)
Such a simple but brilliant idea, I love it, thanks!
Thanks so much. Its really been a helpful way for me to clean up my rig and speed up my setup. Appreciate you watching!
2:34 Ampacity, not amperage. ;)
Now that was an amazing idea
Thank you! (I made more of these and use them all the time) They really help me to set up quicker and more organized.
Omg! That is so much easier! Thanks!
Its definitely made my rig a lot easier to set up and take down (and I'm making a few more of them) Appreciate you watching!
Oh my gosh, Steve how do you come up with these things. It’s pure Genius!!
I REALLY appreciate you saying that!! (its sometimes hard to come up with new ideas) I've got a few more in the pipeline that I hope are interesting and useful for people.
Awesome idea!
Thanks! I really don't like messy power cords and these have really helped me to clean things up. Appreciate you watching!
That’s a no for me…
Yes- this is definitely not a project for everyone. (but appreciate you watching)
i need help,,, how use Controller 240 Disco,,, DMX Adress, select speed, use joystick..... how put adress 12 moving head
Hi- The Disco240 Controller is set up to control fixtures with up to 16 channels. To make it work properly with your movers, you would set the DMX starting address of the first one to 1, the second one to 17, the third to 33, and so on (adding 16 to each until you have all 12 starting addresses set.) Then you can pick each fixture (or scanner as the Disco240 calls them) on the controller and adjust the parameters. I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
@@LearnLizard ok thanks you,,, finally this controller is shit,, i go buy Sunny 512,, i can use 16 channels x 3 bank
I absolutely love your informative videos. Thank you for sharing :-)
Thanks very much for the kind words- I appreciate you watching!