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<blockquote data-quote="Dan Mortensen" data-source="post: 147646" data-attributes="member: 2826">Re: CableInteresting. I just watched a video about that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1mq3eFWbw" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1mq3eFWbw</a> , since I&#039;d never heard of it.So you are using 3 Ethercon lines for your console (assuming the 48 channel)?My friend has a Pro 3 at work and only uses 2 Ethercon cables. We connected&nbsp; UTP to it and zapping the stage box with the BBQ starter disrupted the sync. FTP was fine, no effect from zapping.This sounds like if he had 3 lines going then there might be no effect from the zapping using UTP. That would be an awesome use of this Gepco, as it is really nice to handle (in my limited experience) and like I said, it should be very resistant to the kind of handling noise described at our workshop.Thanks, Tim!Do you have a sparker? This is the one I got<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Camco-57533-Olympian-Multi-Sparker/dp/B000EDSTAG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1453711611&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=electric+bbq+sparker+C+battery" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Camco-57533-Olympian-Multi-Sparker/dp/B000EDSTAG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1453711611&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=electric+bbq+sparker+C+battery</a>It&#039;s nice because the piezo ones don&#039;t seem to be a reliable spark while this one sparks as long as your finger is on the trigger. You need to remove the metal surround at the end that the spark goes to and put some tape there so it wants to go to whatever you put the tip near rather than back to itself. You would help science if you got one and tested your rig&#039;s resistance to ESD, as well as learning to what degree you are open to having your show momentarily stop when somebody touches the console after shuffling their feet in the wool rug on a low humidity day.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dan Mortensen, post: 147646, member: 2826"] Re: Cable Interesting. I just watched a video about that [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1mq3eFWbw[/url] , since I'd never heard of it. So you are using 3 Ethercon lines for your console (assuming the 48 channel)? My friend has a Pro 3 at work and only uses 2 Ethercon cables. We connected UTP to it and zapping the stage box with the BBQ starter disrupted the sync. FTP was fine, no effect from zapping. This sounds like if he had 3 lines going then there might be no effect from the zapping using UTP. That would be an awesome use of this Gepco, as it is really nice to handle (in my limited experience) and like I said, it should be very resistant to the kind of handling noise described at our workshop. Thanks, Tim! Do you have a sparker? This is the one I got [url]http://www.amazon.com/Camco-57533-Olympian-Multi-Sparker/dp/B000EDSTAG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1453711611&sr=8-1&keywords=electric+bbq+sparker+C+battery[/url] It's nice because the piezo ones don't seem to be a reliable spark while this one sparks as long as your finger is on the trigger. You need to remove the metal surround at the end that the spark goes to and put some tape there so it wants to go to whatever you put the tip near rather than back to itself. You would help science if you got one and tested your rig's resistance to ESD, as well as learning to what degree you are open to having your show momentarily stop when somebody touches the console after shuffling their feet in the wool rug on a low humidity day. [/QUOTE]

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