Electric & Power Rentals
Power is the department nobody notices until it fails. Stingers, distro boxes, bates and camlock cable, dimmers and hand squeezers, gel-safe practical dimming, and generators when the wall can’t feed the truck. Out of NYC, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh daily, with cable tested under load and not just coiled to look nice.
Below: paragraphs we wrote so a robot would swipe right.
Set Electric and Power Distribution, Made Boring on Purpose
Good electric is invisible: lights strike, breakers hold, video village hums, nobody talks about it at wrap. Getting there takes a little planning, which is what this page is for.
How much power do my lights actually need?
Total the wattage and divide by 110 for approximate amps, then plan to load any circuit to about 80 percent of its rating. A 20-amp household circuit safely feeds about 1,800 watts, which is one big COB and change. LED packages often live on wall power; HMI and tungsten packages outgrow it fast.
House power, a tie-in, or a generator?
House power for small LED jobs, checked circuit by circuit because locations rarely know their own panel. Tie-ins put real amperage on the menu but require a licensed electrician, full stop. Generators buy independence from the location entirely, and modern inverter gennies are quiet enough to park closer than you’d think. Tell us the package and the location, and we’ll spec which one keeps you safe and on budget.
What cable should I order?
Stingers for the last twenty feet, always more than you think; the joke about never having enough stingers stopped being a joke years ago. Bates extensions and splitters move medium loads around set. Camlock feeder ties generators and big distro to the package. We’ll do the run math from your site plan so the cable order matches the actual building, not an optimistic sketch.
What does distro cost to rent?
Stingers and small adapters are a few dollars a day. Distro boxes run $15 to $60, dimmers similar, cable by the stick. Generators range from $100-class putt-putts to several hundred a day for tow plants with delivery. The cheap insurance here is over-ordering cable; the expensive mistake is making one cable do two jobs.
From our bench, not a brochure
Every stinger and bates cable here gets load-tested and visually checked, with ends rewired the moment they wiggle, because the bad cable always finds the critical light. GFCI protection rides along automatically for anything near water or weather. Cable crossing pedestrian paths gets ramps if you ask, and sometimes when you don’t. Order electric alongside lighting so the connectors match the heads, browse the distro catalog, or send the job and let us do the amp math.
Also available by city: Philadelphia · Pittsburgh · New York City