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<blockquote data-quote="Rob Timmerman" data-source="post: 124648" data-attributes="member: 172">Re: DMX and water..Anything&#039;s fixable, it just comes down to time and cost.&nbsp; If you&#039;ve verified that the fixtures are in the proper mode, that DMX data flows properly with the fixture bypassed, and that the XLR connectors are actually making good contact, the issue is probably internal to the fixture.&nbsp; An internal failure is probably the RS485 transciever chip, or any related protection circuitry (likely to be minimal on this fixture).&nbsp; If you know your way around PCBs and are decent with a soldering iron, repair shouldn&#039;t take longer than an hour or so (probably less), and you&#039;ll pay more in postage than for the parts.&nbsp; On the other hand, an hour of bench time for a bench tech equipped to do&nbsp; SMT rework will probably be more than the fixture is worth, so repair probably isn&#039;t worth it unless you do it yourself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rob Timmerman, post: 124648, member: 172"] Re: DMX and water.. Anything's fixable, it just comes down to time and cost. If you've verified that the fixtures are in the proper mode, that DMX data flows properly with the fixture bypassed, and that the XLR connectors are actually making good contact, the issue is probably internal to the fixture. An internal failure is probably the RS485 transciever chip, or any related protection circuitry (likely to be minimal on this fixture). If you know your way around PCBs and are decent with a soldering iron, repair shouldn't take longer than an hour or so (probably less), and you'll pay more in postage than for the parts. On the other hand, an hour of bench time for a bench tech equipped to do SMT rework will probably be more than the fixture is worth, so repair probably isn't worth it unless you do it yourself. [/QUOTE]

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