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I was just going to stick a grelcoi in-line with amp feed to balance the single phase load. This is in olympic park over august bank holiday. I have budget, so could pitch it out.. I am still waiting for advice on battery vs generator to run amp and ls9. tbh I would be happy to provide crew and nothing else,as I have two other shows that sunday

 

What you want is a Honda eu10i or eu20i. I've had no issues with any equipment. Machine mart have a similar one at about 20% of the cost which I also own, I've also not had any issues with that apart from it takes a while to start and sounds like it has a tin full of marbled strapped to it.

 

thats great to know,, to clarify, digital audio desks?

 

As an alternative option, I recently did this using Sennheiser LSP500 Pro to do a wedding ceremony on top of a hill. Being battery based, this avoids the noise of the generator. You can run a pair of handhelds and a USB key for background music.

 

At the last minute the client wanted to mic up a chior, so I ended up running an LS9 off a pair of 8Ah lead acid batteries (one should in theory last 3 hours, so I went with two in parallel) using an inverter. Worked absolutely fine.

 

I would be relly interested I your experiece in battrires and contacts

 

From personal experience (on the gig), avoid Speedy Hire generators.

 

Can I add Power Electrics to the list?

 

A few years ago they came close to ruining a festival. (Sets arrived 2hrs late, driver got an artic completely bogged down for no good reason which wasted many more hours, one set threw a fuel line)

 

Similar to Pete's experiences with HSS, they seemed aghast that we were unwilling to pay for the diesel that had spilled (thankfully into a bund) and threatened court action rather than address the problem.

 

Then last year a new sales rep phoned us up, obliviously working his way down the customer list and wondering if we'd be interested in using them again. I gave him an earful, and to his credit he managed to wrangle us a free hire to get their foot back in the door. However by the time they added the transport cost, they were still more expensive than the local firm we use now.

 

PE are a national firm, and it might just be our local branch who are crap, but proceed with caution nonetheless.

 

It seems that most generator rental firms struggle with the demands of smaller events, especially one-day shows. The idea that the sets have to be delivered and collected outwith business hours comes as a huge shock to them. And trying to explain that you need sets with voltage regulators is difficult.

 

The organisers of one event that we worked on were trying to get HSS to supply generators. They could only deliver during business hours, which for an event on the Saturday of a bank holiday weekend meant that they would have to be removed and stored somewhere secure for the rest of the weekend. Given how attractive generators are for thefts, it's a bit of a risk. The event was in a public park so there was no way they could be left in place. And the icing on the cake was the fuel policy. They were only prepared to provide 20 gallon drums, as soon as a drum was opened it had to be paid for in its entirety, and they wouldn't transport the generators with any fuel in them.

 

The first and only time we used Speedy Hire for an event the generators turned up 90 mins late, two out of the three were caked with cement and had clearly come straight off a building site, and they were all only half full despite the contract saying they were brimmed.

 

 

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thanks, do you think it will be good for digital equipment,, or are their any event specialists who may understand our needs? this is for A bank holday weekend, but we have storage, I would be interested in anybodies experience of batteries?

 

From personal experience (on the gig), avoid Speedy Hire generators.

 

Can I add Power Electrics to the list?

 

A few years ago they came close to ruining a festival. (Sets arrived 2hrs late, driver got an artic completely bogged down for no good reason which wasted many more hours, one set threw a fuel line)

 

Similar to Pete's experiences with HSS, they seemed aghast that we were unwilling to pay for the diesel that had spilled (thankfully into a bund) and threatened court action rather than address the problem.

 

Then last year a new sales rep phoned us up, obliviously working his way down the customer list and wondering if we'd be interested in using them again. I gave him an earful, and to his credit he managed to wrangle us a free hire to get their foot back in the door. However by the time they added the transport cost, they were still more expensive than the local firm we use now.

 

PE are a national firm, and it might just be our local branch who are crap, but proceed with caution nonetheless.

 

It seems that most generator rental firms struggle with the demands of smaller events, especially one-day shows. The idea that the sets have to be delivered and collected outwith business hours comes as a huge shock to them. And trying to explain that you need sets with voltage regulators is difficult.

 

The organisers of one event that we worked on were trying to get HSS to supply generators. They could only deliver during business hours, which for an event on the Saturday of a bank holiday weekend meant that they would have to be removed and stored somewhere secure for the rest of the weekend. Given how attractive generators are for thefts, it's a bit of a risk. The event was in a public park so there was no way they could be left in place. And the icing on the cake was the fuel policy. They were only prepared to provide 20 gallon drums, as soon as a drum was opened it had to be paid for in its entirety, and they wouldn't transport the generators with any fuel in them.

 

The first and only time we used Speedy Hire for an event the generators turned up 90 mins late, two out of the three were caked with cement and had clearly come straight off a building site, and they were all only half full despite the contract saying they were brimmed.

 

 

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this is really useful,l thankyou

 

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