Jay Ashworth
Well-Known Member
Ganked from Facebook:
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From the inside of an ETC Insight 3 lighting console... this has been included in every console they made for several decades. It used to be populated with an actual connector, in later models they stopped bothering. Apparently the story is that it was for a planned output module that either never got made or never sold very well, but the guy responsible left the company, and it kept getting included in every PCB design after that because despite nobody knowing what it did, they figured it was safer to leave it in case someone somewhere WAS using it.
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"""
From the inside of an ETC Insight 3 lighting console... this has been included in every console they made for several decades. It used to be populated with an actual connector, in later models they stopped bothering. Apparently the story is that it was for a planned output module that either never got made or never sold very well, but the guy responsible left the company, and it kept getting included in every PCB design after that because despite nobody knowing what it did, they figured it was safer to leave it in case someone somewhere WAS using it.
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