Does anyone have the IEC connetions on their lights with a socket box on the top of their stand?

Where is the best place to purchase such items?

Regards .

I think you are talking about a product known as a Standmate, which takes a multicore cable to a box with four IEC outlets to the top of the stand, and clips to the bar?

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I use one, but it'll be "up for grabs" once I've sold all my current overhead lighting.

The type I use has a powered relay pack on the top bar, with just 1 x 13amp power lead and a 9pin lead running up to it - those are the only two leads that snake their way up to the top bar. The relay pack has 9 IEC sockets on it; one of which is permanently "On" (good for a UV tube, Moving message sign, backing light, name light etc...), the other 8 IEC's are controlled by the 8 switches down on the control panel.

Heres where it gets fun...The 19inch rack panel has 8 switches which are laid out in two "banks" of 4 (lets call them Bank A, and Bank B. The 8 switches each have 3 positions, On...Off...and Timer.

Each Bank (of 4) has a rotary timer control (~30seconds to 15 minutes) - during this period, any switches in that bank that are set to Timer, will be ON. At the end of the set period, the switches set to "Timer" in the other bank switch on for their alloted time. The unit alternates between the two banks throughout.

You can of course, set the bank timers up "lop sided" eg: 1 minute on Bank A, 6 minutes on bank B...and any switch set to ON, or OFF (rather than timer) stays ON or OFF regardless of what the bank timers are doing.

hi steve
dont know if this is what you want jamie uses a switch pack which has 8 outlets on he keeps that one buy his cd decks for swithching on lights the other one he got
is a chauvet ch865 that fits on top of his stand it has 1 x 13 amp plug (kettle lead) going into it and 8 x iec sockets coming out it is a sound to light unit working 8 pin spots
we got this one secound hand off a friend who i believe got it from terralic last september and he paid approx £60
if that is what you want and you would like any more details pm me and i,ll try to tell you more.
andy

with all these standmates ending in a bulgin socket....... what do you plug them in to ????

are there none that are ready made to just split power (other than the transcension one)

That the one Chris, nice site that have you had dealings with them before? I seen some nice lights on there.

This is what I mean,


Note on the end is a bulgin connection. Can I put a standard plug on it?

I`ll get two of these and run the cable down my goal posts on my giraffe stand. I`ll put IEC connectors on all 8 lights on my bar and plug them in. Then run my DMX cables to my controller. Does this sound right?

I use 2 Stand Mates for my show in the purpose for which they were intended, However for back up and test purposes I did modify 2 others to become a standard 4 way IEC extension block by removing the muticore cable and replacing it with black standard 3 core type with a 13 Amp plug on the end .

This is fairly easy to do, since the (E) and (N) wiring between the IEC's is already daisychained for you, all you need to do is to connect the (N) and (E) chain to the feed (N) and (E) wires, and to connect the (L) feed to the first IEC and then daisychain the other three IEC lives from it using suitably rated brown wire.

I use an NJD Euro 8S 8 channel lighting switch (0 voltage) for most of my lighting.

None of them are DMX do this works fine, and all output sockets are IEC - professional industry standard so have a hard time 'accidentally' being unplugged.

Its in my rackmount flightcase and works wonders.

The kind your after is common, and a quick look on Froogle or other DJ sites should point you in the right direction

Hiya Steve

If your lighting is all DMX then this is another option :



IEC Strip - click me

cheers
Richard

I was enquiring specificly about the one Gary was talking about with the timer etc..

Using a switch box & standmate at the moment

I was looking recently at a Transcension Show Director...

Is this a good system, or is there another that does the same job better/cheaper?

Anyone with any information re the Transcension Show Director?

Is there anything the same by anyone else?

Or is anyone selling a Show Director?

Anyone?

We use two of the Transcension Show Directors and they are excellent, if a little difficult to fit to a T Bar

They come with a 19" 1U control unit and then the power unit. A RS232 cable between the units controls the on/off switching. A trip is also built into the power unit for added safety.

Very handy bit of kit. We bought our last one from Discoworld for about £89.