I had my own made up at a local DMX shop .. I simply took the wiring diagram into them and they had one posted out to me in a week's time (shipping halfway around the world isn't exactly cheap.)
Last edited on Thu Sep 10th, 2009 04:46 am by marquisite
That is definitely the 3 pin XLR DMX adapter that is needed to run the boards from a DMX lighting console. I bought one a while back - haven't gotten to use it yet. They basically take a 6' network cable and hack it in half. They put a 3 pin male XLR on the cut ends and have 2 adapters from one CAT5 cable.
Wow, I really don't know how I missed that. Thanks though!
I plan on using the adapter to come out of the iDMX then into a Grinch controller and then into some DCSSR's. Plan on using different color LEDs in my north pole lights and this will control it. However, I need a way of getting the DMX signal from the XLR plug into a cat 5 cable.
The thing is that the LOR boxes don't use the same pins of the RJ-45 jack that DMX on RJ-45 uses. So that adapter is very specific to go from DMX XLR to a LOR box. You will need an adapter that converts to the pins normally used for DMX on RJ-45.
This link was posted in a different thread. I'm not entirely sure if they will use the typical DMX on cat 5 pinout, or if they are intended to be used in pairs to replace expensive DMX cable with Cat5, in which case they might not have bothered to match the normal pinouts.
