Audio crews read a stage plot backwards, from the console out to the stage. The AC 230v quad icon marks a point where the crew has to land power or a direct feed, so that read finishes without a phone call.
Position it, scale it, duplicate it for a second player, and the input list follows along without a rebuild.
A plot earns its keep by settling positions before anyone opens a case. Power drops sit upstage of the performer and out of walking lines. Direct boxes sit at the player's feet so the instrument cable stays short and the noise floor stays low. Anything unusual about the position belongs in the plot notes, so the drawing carries its own explanation.
Worth confirming in the advance. Count these before you send the plot. A missing quad box is one of the most common reasons a load in stalls, and it is trivially avoidable on paper.
AC 230v quad is not an audio source, so it adds no rows to the input list. It is there to make the drawing accurate: it marks a point where the crew has to land power or a direct feed, and the channel count stays clean because nothing silent is padding it out.
The input list behind the plot exports as a Behringer X32 or Midas M32 scene file, a Behringer Wing scene, or CSV channel names for Allen and Heath dLive, Avantis, and SQ, DiGiCo, and Yamaha CL and QL desks. See the console guides.
More AC & DI
14 icons share the AC & DI section of the palette. These are the ones most often placed alongside AC 230v quad.
Marks a point where the crew has to land power or a direct feed is only part of the picture. These icons come from Cables, Stageboxes and Keys, the sections that most often appear on the same drawing.
