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5 Cables and Connectors - Coggle Diagram

- - - - A hanging position for lighting instruments; also known as beamport; the slot or opening in the auditorium ceiling closest to the proscenium arch. The second AP is second closest to the proscenium arch, and so on.
    - - Cloth tape, similar in appearance to duct tape. Used for taping stage cable receptacles together so they won’t separate, and similar temporary applications. Less sticky and easier to tear than duct tape.
  - - - An electrical Y that has female receptacles at the top of the Y and a male plug at the bottom leg of the Y; used to connect two instruments to the same circuit.
    - - A lighting fixture, frequently a scoop, PAR, or other wide-field-angle instrument, hung over the stage to facilitate work; generally not used to light a production.
- - - - A number of individual circuits—typically six—enclosed in a single heavy-duty cable.
    - - Running a cable directly from the dimmer to the instrument; also known as direct cabling.
    - - Spidering, also known as direct cabling, originally involved running a cable from each lighting instrument directly to the dimmer to which it was assigned. It got its name from the tangled web of cables created by circuiting a production in this manner.
  - - - Physically moving the scenery and show equipment into the production location.
    - - Physically moving the scenery and show equipment out of the production location.
    - - A 19-pin connector used with multicables. Typically wired with six hot pins, six neutral pins, and six grounded pins and one spare.
    - - Used to “break” the individual circuits inside the multicable into individual cables equipped with female receptacles. Typically used to feed the lighting fixtures at the on-stage end of the multicable.
    - - Used to consolidate the male-plugged individual circuits into a female Socapex connector that is connected to a multicable. Typically used to connect the individual dimmer outlets of portable dimmer packs to the multicable in those situations where the dimmer packs do not have a Socapex output.
  - - - A small connecting strip, containing four to eight circuits, that can be clamped to a pipe or boom.
    - - A connecting box, usually containing three to six circuits, the top of which is mounted flush with the stage floor.
    - - A connecting box similar to a floor pocket but mounted in the wall.
    - - An electrical gutter or wireway that carries a number of stage circuits; the circuits terminate on the connecting strip in female receptacles. Also known as a raceway.
  - - - An electrical circuit terminating on one end in a female receptacle in the vicinity of the stage. The other end is connected to a dimmer or patch panel. Synonymous with dimmer circuit when it terminates at a dimmer.
    - - An electrical circuit terminating on one end at a dimmer. The other end terminates at either a patch panel or onstage. Synonymous with stage circuit when it terminates onstage.