DIY patch bay- how to stop 48v?

JonWormwood

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I'm making some patch bays for our live setup and I'm a bit concerned about foh acceidentally switching on or leaving 48v on. From what I remember, there's a simple circuit you can build with some caps and resistors to block 48v. Can anyone give any insight in this? I need to do about 16 channels.
 
A simple capacitor in both the hot and neutral signals is all that is needed. Realistically a transformer would be better but that would get expensive fast.
 
Depending on the impedance of the circuit it will form a high pass filter.