Thread: DMX Vampire in Coffin (MIB)

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Originally Posted by guitarist155

WARNING...... par cans get very very hot, and because they get very hot they have venting, the venting can allow fog to get into the light which could cause a short. also by the time you get a couple of par cans, gels,bulbs you could have just gotten the dmx colour splash.

This doesn't apply to LED PAR lights, these don't get hot and don't have vents, they are splash resistant at the front but not waterproof.... Id say you are probably OK using them in this case.

i was just talking about conventional par cans, guess i should change that to say conventional

Originally Posted by Phoenix_UK

The problem with mic cable is you whilst its well documented that mic cable is not suitable for DMX, there is always someone who will take a mic cable plug it into a DMX network and demonstrate that its working just fine, thus proving that those who say that mic cable is not suitable are wrong....

yes, its true a mic cable in a DMX network will probably work......BUT......

....its also true that when you have a DMX network thats playing up then 90% of the time the problem is traced to a mic cable.

Its kinda like the old ratio math questions, where a bath with both taps full on fills at 10 gallons per minute, and with the plug removed it empties at 1 gallons per minute.... now when you want to fill the bath the smart thing to do is to put the plug in and turn on both taps, however, if you know your math its also possible to fill the bath with the plug removed, it just takes a little longer.

using a mic cable is like removing the plug from the bath, yeah it will still fill, but not so well, using two mic cables is like removing two plugs and so on all the while the bath will still fill, just a little bit less efficiently each time you remove another plug..... until that is your wife flushes the toilet, and reduces the water supply which causes your bath to stop filling

lol i love it

Originally Posted by Phoenix_UK

This doesn't apply to LED PAR lights, these don't get hot and don't have vents, they are splash resistant at the front but not waterproof.... Id say you are probably OK using them in this case.

lol i just noticed you added a u to colour in the quote

yeah... I thought you forgot it

actually this time it was an accident, my browser has a spell checker and I automatically accepted the corrections

OK Ive tried to grasp the DMX but my brain hurts........I went to fright props and saw the picoboo F1-104 & 105 seems to vary simple and a fast way to finish this prop, so maybe next year Ill step up to the DMX when I can spend, the money and time to do it right, My question is has anyone used these and are they worth it
Rottin corps

i know alot of people on here use them and say they work great, in fact there is another MIB project that uses one of these as control. i will find the link

2008 Monster in a box

it's post number 33 mid way down the page. it is pretty much the same setup, you just use a coffin instead of a crate

Actually, here is a pretty good video that shows why you should use dmx cable over microphone cable. He explains it really well.
YouTube - DMX Cable Vs Microphone Cable - What's The Difference?

I was just wandering if anyone had ever ordered from this place? Their dmx cables are the cheapest I have found.
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