137: Cables (DMX & Analog)

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137-DMXEX3-J
$5.25
3 foot basic DMX cable. Male 3 pin XLR to female 3 pin XLR. 24 gauge wire. These cables have been popular for over 10 years and work fine for about 99% of our fixtures and 99% of our customers. If you are daisy chaining over 20 fixtures or running over 300 total feet of cable, we suggest you use the Heavier MP style DMX cables.

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137-DMXEX6-J
$6.25
6 foot basic DMX cable. Male 3 pin XLR to female 3 pin XLR. 24 gauge wire. These cables have been popular for over 10 years and work fine for about 99% of our fixtures and 99% of our customers. If you are daisy chaining over 20 fixtures or running over 300 total feet of cable, we suggest you use the Heavier MP style DMX cables.

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137-DMXEX12-J
$9.45
10 foot basic DMX cable. Male 3 pin XLR to female 3 pin XLR. 20 gauge wire. These cables have been popular for over 10 years and work fine for about 99% of our fixtures and 99% of our customers. If you are daisy chaining over 20 fixtures or running over 300 total feet of cable, we suggest you use the Heavier MP style DMX cables.

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137-DMXEX25-J
$13.35
25 foot basic DMX cable. Male 3 pin XLR to female 3 pin XLR. 20 gauge wire. These cables have been popular for over 10 years and work fine for about 99% of our fixtures and 99% of our customers. If you are daisy chaining over 20 fixtures or running over 300 total feet of cable, we suggest you use the Heavier MP style DMX cables.

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137-DMXEX50-J
$19.99
50 foot basic DMX cable. Male 3 pin XLR to female 3 pin XLR. 20 gauge wire. These cables have been popular for over 10 years and work fine for about 99% of our fixtures and 99% of our customers. If you are daisy chaining over 20 fixtures or running over 300 total feet of cable, we suggest you use the Heavier MP style DMX cables.

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137-DMX-EX100
$33.50
100 foot basic DMX cable. Male 3 pin XLR to female 3 pin XLR. 20 gauge wire. These cables have been popular for over 10 years and work fine for about 99% of our fixtures and 99% of our customers. If you are daisy chaining over 20 fixtures or running over 300 total feet of cable, we suggest you use the Heavier MP style DMX cables.

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137-DMX5MP
$7.50
5 foot MAXPRO, Pro Grade, Heavy Duty DMX Cable. Male 3 pin XLR to female 3 pin XLR. These are top of the line DMX cables! A true 18 gauge cable that is wound 5 times tighter than standard cable and is 120 ohms. You can pay more, but you can't get a better working DMX cable!

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137-DMX10MP
$11.25
10 foot MAXPRO, Pro Grade, Heavy Duty DMX Cable. Male 3 pin XLR to female 3 pin XLR. These are top of the line DMX cables! A true 18 gauge cable that is wound 5 times tighter than standard cable and is 120 ohms. You can pay more, but you can't get a better working DMX cable!

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137-DMX25MP
$15.75
25 foot MAXPRO, Pro Grade, Heavy Duty DMX Cable. Male 3 pin XLR to female 3 pin XLR. These are top of the line DMX cables! A true 18 gauge cable that is wound 5 times tighter than standard cable and is 120 ohms. You can pay more, but you can't get a better working DMX cable!

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137-LCR25-08
$10.50
25' ext cable with a 9 pin male plug on one end and a 9 pin female plug on the other. Use this with our analog relay packs. These cables are currently gray, not black.

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137-LCREX50
$17.50
50' ext cable with a 9 pin male plug on one end and a 9 pin female plug on the other. Use this with our LCR-RP8 relay packs. These cables are currently gray, not black.

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137-STR-EXT20
$4.55
20 foot cable for linking strobes. Use with any strobe needing a 1/4 inch mono cable.

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137-DMX3M5F
$2.97
3 pin male to 5 pin female DMX adapter. For 5 pin DMX Input.

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137-DMX5-M3FC
$4.95
5 pin male to 3 pin female DMX adapter. For 5 pin DMX Output.

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137-CABLE-TESTER
$44.00
Cable tester for: Speakon 8 pin, Speakon 4 pin, RJ45, USB, XLR 3 pin, XLR 5 pin, DIN 3 pin, DIN 5 pin, DIN, 7 pin, DIN 8 pin, RCA, 1/4 inch (2 conductor and 3 conductor). 16 different LED's light up to show correct continuity. Uses one 9 volt battery.

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Let's talk about DMX cables... I recently received and email from a blog monitor that said... "There are MICROPHONE cables and there are DMX cables and one can NOT be used for the other". That's a very strong statement. Very "Black and White". Unfortunately, it's also very untrue. That statement would be like saying that Chevy's are for taking your kids to school and Ferrari's are for racing and one can not be used for the other. I have seen many people race Chevy's successfully and I have also seen a few Ferrari's in the school pick up lanes. I don't know exactly why people make those black and white statements about DMX cables. Perhaps they merely lack real world experience in the field. If they had real world experience, they would know that there were companies like NSI making digitally controlled lighting boards and dimmer packs with signals carried thru 3 pin XLR cables long before the term DMX was ever heard of here in America. (NSI calls their proprietary signal MICROPLEX and they still use it today). What do you think those digital signals were carried thru back before the late 90's when DMX was introduced to the commercial market here in America? MICROPHONE CABLES. That's all we had back then, that's what was used and that's what worked for years. Perhaps some cables marked "DMX Cable" might perform better than some cables marked "MICROPHONE Cable", but it can also be proven that some mid to high grade MIC cables work better than some DMX cables and if you and your audience can't tell the difference, who cares? What does matter is which pins the wires are connected to on the 3 pin XLR plug. At High Energy Lighting (CheapLights.com), we currently buy "MIC" cables and "DMX" cables from over 22 different suppliers. Regardless of how they are marked, we test samples from each different "MIC" and "DMX" cable model to make sure they work in a DMX chain before we ever offer them to our customers. Here's an interesting fact... In the ten to fifteen years that we have been selling cables for transmitting digital signals for light processors, we have never had any cables returned by customers saying they didn't work as a DMX cable, unless the cable actually had a physical defect, such as a wire not connected to the plug or a cut in the wire. That's a great statement to be able to make! Here's a few more interesting facts... 1. "DMX" was created in 1986, but not widely used or known. At that time, the popular method for transmitting signal to dimmer packs was zero to ten volts. 2. "DMX" was revised in a major way and started gaining recognition in 1990. (But not in America). 3. The first DMX lighting controllers were displayed at the American LDI Lighting convention in 1999 by LitePuter. 4. "DMX" was introduced as the "Standard" digital signal for the World Wide lighting industry in 2000.