[SML] Safety tip.

[Lou Poppler]

On 4/23/15, Dale Farmer via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> Hypothetically speaking, if you have an electrically powered device
> rigged over your stage from an outside artsy builder.  Make sure that
> the safety ground in the plug is actually connected to the metallic
> frame of the device, and the current carrying conductors are protected
> from damage.   Because, well, when the current shorts out to the
> structure, and the only path back to ground is via the wire rope holding
> it up.  The wire rope acts as a fusible link, and it's WLL goes to zero
> with a pop, followed moments later by a crash.

This would also be a good argument for powering such artsy devices
from a GFCI circuit.