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<p>For a 10 foot cable, I'd cut off the connectors and save them for spare parts. Short DMX cables are fairly inexpensive.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">If you have the skills & tools to solder the connectors on new cable, then do so. Soldering is a good skill to learn, but it takes some time and practice to do it well. You won't blow anything up if you do it wrong, but it's not hard to make a cable that doesn't work. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Funny story: Back when I was a college student, we had a maintenance class where among other things we learned to solder and everyone made a short (1 foot) mic cable with a 3-pin XLR on each end. Super basic stuff. Everyone brought their cable to the next class, and the teacher made us a proposition. "Let's hook everyone's cables together, end to end. If it works, then everyone gets an automatic A grade and we take the rest of the class off!" Grabbing a continuity tester, everyone was excited until it didn't work. The teacher had pity and removed half of the cables to try again. Still no. Removed half of the cables again. Again, nothing. I think it came down to 3 or 4 cables in length before it finally passed a continuity test. This was in a class of around 30 students. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Out of curiosity, a few of us privately asked the teacher after class if he had ever made that deal to previous classes. Every class before us had the same deal, and it had never once worked. The teacher was clever enough to know that the chances of having a 100% pass rate for new soldering students was extremely low. It made for a fun demonstration, though. </span></p>
<p>Stephen</p>
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<p id="reply-intro">On 2024-03-28 6:57 am, Ross via Stagecraft wrote:</p>
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<p>In the hunt for grimlenes in the lighting system, I found that some DMX cables got to close to the fixture & the outer coating melted a little. (Having replaced said cables the grimelines have gone away).</p>
<p>These cables are roughly 10'. Is it worth the hasel to find some one to fix them?</p>
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<p>Ross</p>
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