On Monday, June 29, 2015, Lou Poppler via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> However, in practice, you find places like a certain shiny new city convention<br>
center where I once worked. The first time a crew of IA electricians<br>
did a trade show, we found that all the floor pockets had 4-pin<br>
connectors for the 208-wye-120 and for the 480-wye-277 services. <br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And I still occasionally work there, and it's still that way, lo these many years later. It makes hooking up some of the more computerized food service equipment a pretty dicey task (we do a lot of trade shows for the state fast-food-&-soft-serve concessionaires group). Some of that gear needs a true neutral, and not this bastardized five-wire-into-four crap.</div><div><br></div><div>(It's not so shiny there any more, either...)</div><br><br>-- <br>Dave Vick<br>Sent from my iEuphamism<br>