djmatthill Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Am I ok to wire two par 56`s to a 3 core 0.5mm power cable. Will it handle the two ?? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjriley Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I wouldn't recommend it and I personally wouldn't run 1 par 56 off a 0.5mm cable I would use at least a 1.0mm cable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niclights Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 As you should know from your previous thread, P56's can be either 300 or 500W. Take the formula, work out the load, see if the cable is specified to handle it (with some to spare) and fuse accordingly. That said, personally I would always use 1.5mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olie Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 Strictly it also depends on the length of the cable. As Nick says, I would go with 1.5mm as this will take 10Amps 40 metres. My table says you could use 1.0mm but I personally would go with 1.5mm. You definatly could not use 0.5mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ynot Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 Am I ok to wire two par 56`s to a 3 core 0.5mm power cable.I too would err on the side of caution, but would also ask a question to clarify... When you say 'wire two par cans' what EXACTLY do you mean?Use an extension cable of 0.5mm cable with a doubler/grelco to split to the two lanterns?Or literally hard-wire two lanterns together in that cable??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmatthill Posted December 31, 2007 Author Share Posted December 31, 2007 Am I ok to wire two par 56`s to a 3 core 0.5mm power cable.I too would err on the side of caution, but would also ask a question to clarify... When you say 'wire two par cans' what EXACTLY do you mean?Use an extension cable of 0.5mm cable with a doubler/grelco to split to the two lanterns?Or literally hard-wire two lanterns together in that cable??? I want to power two par 56`s joined together with a 6amp connector block to the above mentioned cable. But having looked at the other repsonses I see that it is not the best idea. Only wanted to use that cable as we have reels of it knocking about. It was only for one night for a preiod of a few hours but , I m not going to chance it! :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 Using connector blocks like this isn't exactly good practice - fit proper plugs and then use a proper 'twofor' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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