ESTA E1.64 PDF

This standard establishes minimum requirements for the design, manufacture, installation, commissioning, inspection, operation, and maintenance of machinery control equipment in the Entertainment Industry including equipment that is used in production, touring, and temporary or permanent installation.

This standard offers guidance in the selection of sensors used to provide feedback of information gathered from the machinery and sent to the control system. It focuses on control equipment, user devices, enclosure assemblies, incoming power, cable assemblies, and the action/reaction of control signals and motive power.

Machinery standards may have additional requirements for control equipment, control system safety requirements, and user interface(s) that are directly related to the application covered by those standards. The reader should refer to the ESTA Technical Standards Documents web page and combine the requirements and recommendations of this standard with the machinery standard that matches the application.

The assemblies covered by this standard are limited to voltages of not greater than 1000 volts.

Purpose

To harmonize and become the reference point for stage machinery control sections of ESTA/ANSI Standards that pertain to the design, manufacture, service, and/or maintenance of stage machinery in the Entertainment Industry.