We can go back and forth on this all day but the bottom
line is we argued with manufacturers about the problem with 3 pin "
DMX" and they pretty much finally listened and went to 5 or a mix of both. 5 Pin has been and is the industry standard for
DMX transmission and I think
ETC is making a huge mistake by going this route. As well we've known for years that RJ45 is a crappy
connector and nobody's really come out with a great alternative except
Ethercon, and we don't see that very often. Bitch is moving to Cat 5 and the required powered distribution is all fine and well except this
unit doesn't use Net 3. It's
DMX over an inferior
connector.
As well, I have a in-place distribution for 5 pin. If I add Lustre 2's and D60, I still have 5 pin and will BE REQUIRED to put adapters on a
fixture if it uses RJ45 and I choose to daisy. And who is not going to daisy. So what you're saying is I need a 2nd cable run to get to the RJ45 fixtures. That's just BS in my
book.
And as note, I've been using assorted zooms for 30 years. I'm a
road house with a rep
plot that has about 80 S4 zooms in a 300
unit inventory. Love them. Never had bent yokes but don't put the 15/30's in a
yoked out situation. I think
ETC once made a balancing bracket or some such for this
fixture but I've never needed it nor had issues focusing and staying focused. The typical response from visiting LD's is fine, can you make the
image bigger/smaller ? (to the guy in the bucket). The labor saved in not changing barrels is in multitudes of hours. The
unit is cheaper then a regular S4 with
lens tubes to either side of the range ($489 for a 25/50
zoom vs. $319+$129+$129 for a 36deg. plus a 26 and 50 tubes =$577 at an on-line store) Most Euro LD's asks me how come we have them yet nobody else in the US does, when they are all over Europe. I've no answer.