an ancient fusebox

[Russ]

"Richard Freeman" <deletethisrichard@atps.net> wrote in message
news:40a2b113$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au...

If you ever run in to that light again I would argue that you have a duty
to
cut the plugs off there is after all such a thing as a 20 Amp plug. If you
are not likely to run into the light again you should contact the owner
and
suggest he gets it repaired by a competant Tech (not the one who wired it
in
the first place)

I doubt I'll ever use that light again - I think it was set up that way so
that it could be run pretty much anywhere. When we used it, we had a 50kVA
generator and a couple of 3-phase breakout boards. The guy who looked after
the light seemed to know what he was doing when he plugged it into the
board - he was careful to use sockets on the same phase, although he seemed
to understandit more as a matter of following some colour coding scheme,
and I don't think he understood the dangers of the multiple-plug setup. A
few times one of the 2k tungsten lights they supplied triggered the earth
leakage on the generator when it was bumped. I don't think the gear was
maintained too well....

Russ.