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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Roper" data-source="post: 73652" data-attributes="member: 2281">Cable issuesHad an inconvenient issue this weekend, when my 30m Cat5e cable that I bought to use for my S16 decided not to make/hold a connection back to my X32. I&#039;d only used the cable once before, last week, and it worked fine, but someone mustn&#039;t have rolled it up properly after the event. That said, it still worked to plug my laptop into a router, but obviously the AES50 connection has a lower fault tolerance. This cable was just a standard Cat5e one that I got from a electronics store, while I wait to get a proper shielded tour-grade cable on a drum - suddenly I don&#039;t have any reservations dropping a few hundred dollars on a single cable!I ended up using a shorter Cat5 cable, with the X32 stuck side of stage, and ran the show from xControl at the back of the room - life saver. The other odd thing was the routing to the S16 went a bit funny, and while I was getting all the inputs into the desk okay, nothing was coming out of the XLR outputs, even though I could hear it in the headphones on the S16 itself.. had to drive the FOH and wedges from the local outputs on the desk in the end... I managed to reset it all and get it working afterwards, and grabbed a Cat6 cable for the interim, which is a bit tougher, and works fine - though I&#039;m the only one that&#039;s allowed to roll it up now!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Michael Roper, post: 73652, member: 2281"] Cable issues Had an inconvenient issue this weekend, when my 30m Cat5e cable that I bought to use for my S16 decided not to make/hold a connection back to my X32. I'd only used the cable once before, last week, and it worked fine, but someone mustn't have rolled it up properly after the event. That said, it still worked to plug my laptop into a router, but obviously the AES50 connection has a lower fault tolerance. This cable was just a standard Cat5e one that I got from a electronics store, while I wait to get a proper shielded tour-grade cable on a drum - suddenly I don't have any reservations dropping a few hundred dollars on a single cable! I ended up using a shorter Cat5 cable, with the X32 stuck side of stage, and ran the show from xControl at the back of the room - life saver. The other odd thing was the routing to the S16 went a bit funny, and while I was getting all the inputs into the desk okay, nothing was coming out of the XLR outputs, even though I could hear it in the headphones on the S16 itself.. had to drive the FOH and wedges from the local outputs on the desk in the end... I managed to reset it all and get it working afterwards, and grabbed a Cat6 cable for the interim, which is a bit tougher, and works fine - though I'm the only one that's allowed to roll it up now! [/QUOTE]

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