Hand the plan to the venue
Read the site overview, export the CSV, and print the draft for the electrician — assumptions, phases, cable runs, what is not checked and a blank sign-off box.
On this page
The output of PowerSense is not a number. It is a draft the house electrician can check quickly and the stagehands can plug in from.
Read the site overview
All lists — site overview at the bottom of the page shows one row per list: List, Feed, Load, Worst phase, Headroom and Status. The status reads Within guideline values, Tight (under 20 % headroom, or from 70 % continuous load on a generator) or Overloaded (worst phase above the breaker). A generator list turns red from 90 % already. Under the table: Site total: … W · … kVA across n list(s).
Fix anything Overloaded before you print — move devices to another list, choose a bigger feed, or split the load.
Export the CSV
Export CSV downloads every list with feed, device, power in W, quantity,
phase and subtotal, the per-phase totals per list, the site total, the
cable runs and the assumptions (region, voltage, power factor, safety
margin). Columns are separated by semicolons so the file opens cleanly in a
German-locale spreadsheet. Cells that start with a formula character are
neutralised, so a device named =SUM cannot run in someone's spreadsheet.
Print the draft for the electrician
The print button opens a clean print window without the platform chrome. The sheet is headed as a planning draft — not an installation design, a test record or a sign-off — and carries:
- The header: event, list, date, PowerSense version.
- The assumptions: region, voltage, power factor and the safety margin, with a note that the phase currents already include it.
- Per list: the amps per phase and the site total, and the loads grouped per phase with amps per row — the plug-in sheet, including how many units of a split row go on each phase.
- The cable runs: label, length, cross-section, what protects it, the rating after derating, the current, the drop and the verdict.
- The harmonics note on lists marked mostly LED / switch-mode.
- Not checked by this plan: earthing and bonding, loop impedance and disconnection time, RCDs, how the cables are laid, measurements.
- Which rules the installation follows — named only as what the electrician applies, for example DIN VDE 0100-711 and DIN 15767 with DGUV Vorschrift 3 in Germany, BS 7909 with BS 7671 in the UK, NEC Articles 520, 525 and 590 in the US.
- A blank sign-off box for the electrician. PowerSense never fills it in.
Before printing:
- Press Auto-balance phases so the placement is current.
- Press Pin auto phases so the plan you print is the plan that stays.
- If the browser reports Print window was blocked, allow pop-ups for this site and try again.
Save it as a PDF from the print dialog if the venue wants a file rather than paper.
Where the plan goes next
The site total is the number the advance needs. RiderSmith, when it ships, imports it into the rider's power section; until then, paste it from the CSV.
The printout is a planning draft, not a certificate. Leave the "not checked" box and the disclaimer on the sheet — they tell the electrician what the numbers are based on, and what is still theirs to check.
Thanks for the feedback.