[SML] Safety tip.

[Dale Farmer]

On 4/24/2015 12:20 PM, Lou Poppler via Stagecraft wrote:
> 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.
>
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Yes, yes it would.

--Dale