They are easy to work with, but a little surprising to me that they don't self-terminate.
I knew there had to be a few, but the vast majority of fixtures do not self terminate, so its best to have terminators on hand and assume that you need them. Though, if ETC has already seat a precedence for selling self terminating fixtures, it does seem like a oversight to not offer that in new products.
ETC's desire, and S4 led line's self terminate. I've actually run into problems if you add a terminator to the final desire in a chain.I knew there had to be a few, but the vast majority of fixtures do not self terminate, so its best to have terminators on hand and assume that you need them. Though, if ETC has already seat a precedence for selling self terminating fixtures, it does seem like a oversight to not offer that in new products.
Please expound, as I don't see how this is possible, given that inserting any male shell into the female switches the onboard resistor OUT of the circuit.I've actually run into problems if you add a terminator to the final desire in a chain.
Bolding mine....
- Self-terminating connectors are available from Neutrik
- These connectors were co-developed with ETC
- They are not cheap, which is likely why not many manufacturers use them
- They disconnect termination when a male is plugged into the pass through female
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Update: we tested them next to our lustr2's and the blue is infact the same blue in raw 7+ mode, the reason the lustrs go deeper is the extra indigo chip to make the deeper hues. (no doubt they'll release a 'pro' version later in the year with the lustr colour engine and price to match!). Also tested next to a 1k par 64 and the beam is pretty much a cp61 beam and equal to such (making the filter extras super useful).
Thanks for that Tidbit.cp61 is a narrow for those of us here in the states.
One of the venues I work at had a problem where a string of desires wouldn't respond to control from the light board. After switching some dmx cable to no avail I removed the external terminator from the final fixture and all worked out.
In annother thread, ST pointed out that sometimes a continuity break in one side of the data pair will sometimes make it look like adding a terminator causes a problem. I'd start by making sure both data+ and data- reach the first instrument in that string.One of the venues I work at had a problem where a string of desires wouldn't respond to control from the light board. After switching some dmx cable to no avail I removed the external terminator from the final fixture and all worked out.
On my extremely long to do list at that venue is to troubleshoot that string of fixtures and try to reproduce the issue and try to single out if the terminator was the cause or just a mask to a bigger problem.
This same venue is giving me grief with a dmx "ghost" every now and then. Making fading led's not fun.
The CSPs are in and we are working them into our big dance show. Initial thoughts are that quality is really nice, lacking a gel frame (a must for diffussion), dimming curve looks great, the white is noticeably greenish. More to come as I work with them this week.
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