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Sure I've seen this before but can't find the topic again

 

Looking to buy/ make a speakon breakout box from a 4pole speakon to 2 2pole speakons.

 

I have seen and used these devices before but cant seem to find any to buy online. Am I calling this item the correct thing?

 

I know they're easy enough to make but I'm wondering how expensive a commercially available one would cost.

 

Bert

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Sure I've seen this before but can't find the topic again

 

Looking to buy/ make a speakon breakout box from a 4pole speakon to 2 2pole speakons.

 

I have seen and used these devices before but cant seem to find any to buy online. Am I calling this item the correct thing?

 

I know they're easy enough to make but I'm wondering how expensive a commercially available one would cost.

 

Bert

 

A little hint for you, most industry types call speakon NL[x] where [x] is the number of poles. So if you search NL4 to NL2 matrix or splitter you come up with some results, such as:

 

http://www.gearboxpro.com/products

 

It's quite an expensive solution but I'm sure there are others out there.

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The type of breakout I almost always encounter in the field comprises three NL4s, a couple of feet of cable and some barrel joiners. No point spending $100+ on a box when 10 mins of DIY will give you the same result far cheaper.
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Looks like I'll just be making myself one.

£17 quid for something I could make for around a fiver.

 

Canford sell the box on it's own for 3 quid Canford splitter box only so you could make exactly the same thing for under a tenner and five minutes work.

 

Actually when you consider buying a plastic box for a couple of quid and spending time drilling the holes for the connectors and their fixing screws, it's not worth the hassle to save a quid!

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Is it a BOX you need?

 

I have boxes with this sort of stuff on it, also NL8 to 4 NL4 etc but I generally find the useful ones are trailing leads. The useful part with that is that you don't have to have a cable on each end of the box. You could perhaps have the split end plug into the rack and have a single nl4 (all wired) via a barrel to wherever you want to go, this way you don't need cables on the in aswell which is fiddly and wasteful of cables on the job.

 

Rob

 

That said those boxes do look quite nice, I've bought simply plastic boxes (and a few metal ones) and drilled holes in them before now. I do however have more than 3 sockets on most.

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I use Penn Fabrication "MSB" bits (available from CPC) to make up little boxes. These are years old and are so strong you can chock a truck with them. Standard D size holes mean you can use virtually any connector type.

 

Pete.

 

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y24/petealcock/Splitters.jpg

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