We woke up this morning at 3 am because we were getting hot and discovered that the  electricity was off — no air conditioning or ceiling fan!  We went back to sleep on top of the sheets only to wake up at 4:30am feeling cold (relatively speaking).  Thankfully, the electricity was back on!

This is the automation equipment for sending the audio to three transmitters. There are two more identical racks to the left for two additional transmitters. Text has been added to indicate the location of the ‘patch panel’ which can be used to electrically reroute equipment should the need arise, such as equipment failure.

Today, i worked with Joel trying to sort out some wiring issues.  A problem came up as a result of the wires that had been removed yesterday.  While trying to trace the problem, we discovered the audio patch panel has some unexplainable cross connections.  The audio to the various transmitters was ending up at the correct places but was taking a confusing route through the patch panel.  This made tracing the problem extremely difficult.  While correcting the problem, we decided to reconnect the wiring in the patch panel so that all the wiring now followed a logical path.  Hopefully, next time it should take a lot less time to troubleshoot audio problems.

Close up of the patch panel which allows lots of flexibility in ‘patching’ around equipment problems.

This is the wiring on the back side of the automation system and patch panel. It took quite a bit of tracing wires, but Joel and I finally sorted them out.