Prewiring Truss System

[DJ James Lake]

Do you have any photos ? I use Ultimax trusslite.

I will try and get some at the weekend. I think Jeff has some photos of his and mine is similar.

Basically its 2x 2m lengths of 2" square plastic trunking (from B&Q) with IEC & DMX sockets fitted every 12 inches. They link in the middle with Powercon connectors and DMX patch leads.

These then fit inside the tri-truss with a powercon connector and power lead for mains and a dmx socket and lead for the dmx.

Lights are hung and very short iec leads and dmx patch leads are used to connect the lights.

[deltic]

They still need powering surely?

but you don't need to switch the fittings on and off remotely

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

but you don't need to switch the fittings on and off remotely

Granted, but the show director only has one cable going to the truss/bar so it's as good a solution as any.

[Excalibur]

Granted, but the show director only has one cable going to the truss/bar so it's as good a solution as any.

As a happy director user, I'd agree totally.

[pwes]

Here's how I did mine a couple of year ago, and apart from repairing a couple of plugs that got caught it transit, all still working well !

each 2m length of Astralite has 5 dangling sets of an IEC + a male and a female XLR, so 10 in total for the 4m I normally use, plus 3 single IEC dotted around for any extra power needs (mirror ball). Each side gets one thick power cable (currently on Bulgin wired parallel to ALL live pins) which will be replaced by a c-form when I get around to it on e day ;-) then there's 1 DMX lead goes up on the right and job done !

As you will see from the back, neat enough for our needs and functional, but from the front you can barely see any cables, so keeps it much nicer for the guests.

Hope this help and gives you some inspiration to do your own...

[DJMaxG]

Looks good - nice and neat