About four years ago I asked our electronics repair department for some 120ohm resistors to use in making up some terminators. I was given a 100pkg of them. In the past few years while I have made less terminators than say 3:5 or 5:3, much less 5:5 or 3:3 type adaptors in their various versions, I’m now about left with like 20 terminators out of the 100 left. This after
whipping out a quick dozen just a few weeks ago in both 3pin and 5pin versions.
Been a few years since I was able to tell what gear might need either
terminator or much less “
Martin reverse
adaptor” but it could be said that 80x terminators in the past few years might say something still about the need for them with some gear, and or the it won’t hurt factor. This granted in new gear it’s at least 100 or more new moving lights bought per year in adding to the inventory over the years.
Were I doing shows, granted I would know if my gear needed a
terminator or not, when I didn’t I would have them requested, this much less have a dozen in my
road box for the issues of weird stuff going on type things. First I would
plug one in if not otherwise knowing the cause by process of elimination or what’s the cause.
Hmm, like 80x terminators made in the past few years... some no doubt have been lost or lifted but not so many persay theorized to be swept up off a floor, I
mark and disquinguish my terminators by way of corporate
heat shrink label over the
plug so even if it’s seen to be just a
plug laying on the floor - perhaps a worthless to a IA guy the might have been cut off a cable, it has our name on it and it’s different than just a
plug. Such a thing if seen on a
deck has more hope of winding up
in one of our
road boxes than just an un-marked
plug that might get trashed. Such terminators get marked in a way that they are more than just thrown out - theoretically at least. Thus the 80x I made in the last few years says that even if most moving lights already sense if it’s the last in
line as a concept I would expect, there is still gear out there that don’t.