Chauvet DJ DMX5P5FT 5 Foot Male To Female 5 Pin DMX Cable DMX 5P 5FT

This 5 ft 5-pin DMX cable connects a controller to a fixture, or one fixture to the next, in any DMX-512 lighting chain. It is built specifically for lighting data rather than audio: conductors are 24 AWG and impedance measures 117 Ohm, matching the roughly 120 Ohm spec DMX-512 was designed around. Microphone cable looks identical from the outside but runs near 70 Ohm, and that mismatch causes signal reflections along the run. In practice that shows up as fixtures flickering, jumping to the wrong color, or ignoring cues entirely, usually at the end of a long chain and usually in the middle of a show. Bad cable is one of the most common reasons a lighting rig misbehaves, and it is also the easiest variable to remove. Male to female 5-pin XLR connectors let you daisy-chain fixtures in either direction and combine this cable with other 5-pin runs to reach any length your rig needs. At 5 ft, it covers short hops between fixtures on the same truss or stand. Keep a mix of lengths in the case so each run is close to the distance you actually need, which keeps coils off the floor and the chain tidy.