[BC] Analog Patchbay Selection

[Mike McCarthy]

Until your router fails.  Then you will wish you had one....

I usually will wrap about 1/2 the router with a patch bay. The important 
things like feeds to the transmitters, etc. go onto the patch bay.  I 
usually leave a couple slots un-used so that I can gator clip to the 
66/110/Krone bocks anything which might need to get to the TX or other 
critical output.  I also bring the normals out so that if the jack gets 
noisy, I can simply bridge the jack and do what's needed without 
interrupting the signal.

My preferred vendors have been ADC and Switchcraft bantam series PB's with 
either harnesses to 66 blocks or the newer ADC series punch down blocks. I 
try to avoid the all in one PB's as the rack wiring gets to be too intense 
on arrays of more than two jack fields.

MM

At 06:46 PM 4/25/2007 -0400, Dale H. Cook wrote
>At 05:15 PM 4/25/2007, Noah Lorang wrote:
>
>>I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on selecting an analog patchbay.
>
>My thoughts are that I haven't used one for about 15 years. I've used 
>audio and video crosspoint routers exclusively since then, and I don't 
>expect I'll ever use a patch bay again.
>
>Dale H. Cook, Chief Engineer, Centennial Broadcasting, Roanoke/Lynchburg, 
>VA - WZZI / WZZU / WLNI / WLEQ
>http://members.cox.net/dalehcook/starcity.shtml