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XLR Speaker Cables
Just a quick one....will XLR speaker cables carry DMX lighting signal?
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J
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Propper DMX cables are higher spec, but 99% of the time a XLR cable will work perfectly well.
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Jonathan Ford's Travelling Discotheque http://www.jftd.co.uk/
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I Agree, if i'm short on proper DMX Cables a normal XLR Will do the job. Think DMX cables are more shelded than Audio Cables, but could be wrong
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Rather annoyingly, this was the 1% when they didn't work! I used a 10m speaker cable to run across the from of a stage (for mood lighting), and everything after that cable flickered constantly. Swapped the cable, and it all worked.
Jonathan Ford's Travelling Discotheque http://www.jftd.co.uk/
Thoughtful mobile disco entertainment across the Midlands
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DMX is 120ohm twisted cable. Mic cable isn't. Ethernet cable would be better than mic cable. Make some XLR to Ethernet sockets and a load of ethernet cable? Just use one of the twisted pairs and the shield.
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Speaker XLR are normally only 2 wire. DMX needs 2 signals plus a ground wire so very unlikely to work
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Originally Posted by
addoaddo
Speaker XLR are normally only 2 wire. DMX needs 2 signals plus a ground wire so very unlikely to work
Not very unlikely. I've been using them for years without problems.
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I uplit a huge barn last year and used XLR speaker cables for long runs and didn't have any problems at all.
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Originally Posted by
addoaddo
Speaker XLR are normally only 2 wire. DMX needs 2 signals plus a ground wire so very unlikely to work
I've never heard of a 2 wire XLR ... all mine are 3 wire & 3 pin - are you sure you haven't been misinformed about this?
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