If you are reading FRONT of HOUSE, there’s a pretty good chance that you — like me — take audio production pretty seriously. When no one cares about time alignment, we still delay the balcony fills to the main stacks. When no one cares about polar patterns, we’re moving the snare mic to reject the hi-hat. When people start to accept MP3s as an audio format, we yell and scream that such crappy sound is unacceptable.
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When Jesus went out preaching, I am pretty sure everyone could hear him. Whether he spoke to five people or 5,000, every word went directly into the ears of his followers. I guess we could call that a miracle. Anyway, fast-forward 2,000 years, and we find out that a lot of people just can’t hear what the preacher is preaching.
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Let’s face it. For most of us, the choice of a career in audio production rarely involves a traditional nine-to-five week. Travel, last-minute schedules, late (and/or extended) hours and weekend/holiday gigs are typically part of the audio lifestyle, and trying to juggle one’s personal life and career often becomes a delicate balancing act.
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From our earliest days, we are constantly warned about various dangers in our lives, and we can all remember advice like the “stop, look and listen” before crossing train tracks or avoiding taking candy from strangers. And each of these have obvious physical signs, such as being wary of people you don’t know or hearing the clanging bells, flashing/swinging semaphores and the unmistakable Doppler shift from the roar of an approaching freight train. All good reasons to think twice.
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On May 20, 2013, a massive and powerful tornado stuck the town of Moore, OK, a suburb located about halfway between Norman and Oklahoma City. The twister was given the maximum EF-5 strength rating by the National Weather Service. Tragically, the aftermath of its two-mile-wide swath of fury left hundreds of injuries, some two dozen deaths (including seven children killed when a school collapsed) and entire neighborhoods flattened, with more than an estimated billion dollars in damage to homes and businesses.
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In the July 2013 issue of FRONT of HOUSE, our second article on portable power distribution discussed grounding and bonding specifics of portable generators, including small generators that are “floating neutral” configured. This third article should not be viewed as independent of the other two, and readers are encouraged to read the articles in the June and July issues. In this third article we’ll focus on proposed changes to the 2013 National Electric Code that, if enacted, will have ramifications for generators 15 kW and below.
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