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Clear Com question of the day, (
DMX response below) will it work on
ethernet cable, at this
point how to
wire it if possible give the above twisted pairs concept.
Interesting... it's up and running in doing the in shop programming for a major tour. Tested it using the cable check on a
DMXter and it passed the
DMX signal 100%, and it's now running a light board.
I was kind of amazed that the pull didn't at least break or make unusable any of 16 lines of
DMX/
Ethernet lines pulled but it all worked given the possibly wrong
wire pulled and wrong wires to the terminals... granted it's only 60 or so feet and I have passed
DMX thru the brushes on a shop light cable reel but in this instance as with the other, it seems just fine.
DMX code for me at least seems fairly rugged in passing
thru all sorts of things including cheap crap
microphone cable for short distances at least... this given I'm a barbarian when it comes to stuff like that. I do use the proper stuff when possible - I have the budget to do so I do it properly, but also don't at times. Interesting that it should not work - it works. Most likely not recommended for others to try or at least most reasonable to do so with the recommended
shield / drain being tied to the second
wire of a pair. Sounds reasonable but I'm not re-soldering what's done.
Perhaps with a longer length and or perhaps there is not enough datta going
thru the pipe yet. Guess that's a back of the head thing for later should it come up and I hope it does not. In the mean time, the
DMX and
Clear Com are done, (the
Clear Com was in this instance run
thru a two pair
DMX with pins 1-5 wired up so I could if necessary use it for
DMX in addition to the unknown.) The
Clear Com thru Ethernet question for this instance was more musing or academic. I back burnered the
ethernet and
BNC connections on the project - not enough time, not enough time... a tour left last night at 12:30 that needed by far too many custom fixtures from scratch built. Had to say bye bye to the wisiwig project given the amount time needed to complete the other tour's project. Since Thursday morning at 8:30 AM (and I was on time for once... or really early all week on all days, as of last night I just finished working a 37.1/2 hour day Friday/Saturday in going from one project to another which added up to a total as of last night of 101 hours in six days... Yep, so far at least taking the weekend off, and came in a half hour late this morning. I'll get back to the Wisiwig project perhaps in a week or two after I'm done converting 5K Mole light
Fresnel into
Pixel Pup mounting fixtures - this second half of the week project for a third tour. Told the various shop managers that the right side of the exact same panel won't be even thought of doing for at least the next two months. They can find someone else to do it if they want it before than. That said, no doubt next week both systems will no doubt be due. It's touring season and we have that big three bay room to potentially program three shows inside of. Gotta test it I suppose.
Hope I never have to fix the
DMX/
Ethernet and it's a
bit more rugged than as stated.... I really hope that it continues working not as per the spec on concept but in reality in it working and continuing to work no matter how much datta in the future is run. that's going to be the main question of the future. Passes datta so far as the only
line doing so, once you get 31 lines of various types of datta running
thru that 2"
conduit... don't know yet given the above.
On the right side, I'll give a shot to doing as a compermise the white/stripes to the drain and the solid colors to the pins. This at least for pins 1-3. Given the nature of a four pair cable of what ever type, it doesn't add up to a five pin
DMX, this much less anyone ever try to fit a lot of wires into a five pin
Neutrik panel mount? For pins 4&5 I'll probably just dual pair them green/green-white pin 4 and brown/brown-white pin five. This double
wire concept for pins 4&5 would work well with a Hog remote given it's sending
power down those conductors I would think. Might not work as a concept so well with a time stamp type data but given the robust nature of the signal theorized above, it should be fine. All stuff to look into by way of
Ethernet/
DMX I suppose.
thanks for the info, hope it's wrong... as it were.