XLR Speaker Cables

[Jonathan Ford]

Just a quick one....will XLR speaker cables carry DMX lighting signal?

Cheers

J

[Pe7e]

Propper DMX cables are higher spec, but 99% of the time a XLR cable will work perfectly well.

[Jonathan Ford]

Thanks, Pete

[lazersounds]

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

[Jonathan Ford]

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.

[Jiggles]

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.

[addoaddo]

Speaker XLR are normally only 2 wire. DMX needs 2 signals plus a ground wire so very unlikely to work

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

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.

[Shakermaker Promotions]

I uplit a huge barn last year and used XLR speaker cables for long runs and didn't have any problems at all.

[ukpartydj]

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?