Bobbsy
Boring Old Git
.,"To this end, we standardised on IEC sockets/plugs for everything technical so the cleaning lady couldn't plug in her vacuum cleaner etc."
Heh! In my last but one job I had a big, 2 fan industrial vac and peeps would borrow it (never fekkin' emptied it!) That I did no mind SO much but the lab boy's cable tie tails block vac pipes up disastrously! So I chopped the V long mains lead 500mm from the vac and made up an IEC male to female for it. The 13A to f'male I could lock away!
I bet that system would not be allowed now Bobs? Non fused mains leads?! I guess the IEC skts were in fused banks?
Dave.
A mixture. Each edit suite or control room had a local breaker box with appropriately rated breakers--and power supplies for racks and desks were via fuses distribution units (usually at the top or bottom of each rack) with each fuse supplying a single IEC socket.