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Installation
Important Installation Notes
Before proceeding with the connection of your lighting system, please take a few moments to
read these important notes which will assist you in ensuring a successful installation.
1. Use good cable routing practices.
• In order to prevent noise or electro-magnetic interference which may adversely affect the
signals transmitted over your DMX communication cables, avoid running the cables close to
AC wiring, line-level cables, or speaker wires.
• Cross any existing electrical cables at 90-degree angles to avoid electrical interference.
Never run them side by side unless there’s at least a 2-in. separation.
• Gently pull cables when fishing. Don’t jerk or yank on the wires or pull them around sharp
corners.
2. Use appropriate fasteners.
• Never crush CAT-5e cables with staples or other fasteners like bent-over nails. Instead,
bundle them or strap them to framing with loose loops of Velcro and then use special cable
straps after all the cables are run. Alternatively, secure the cables to framing using
inexpensive plastic retainer clips such as those used for securing telephone wires or coaxial
TV cable in place.
• If you find it absolutely necessary to use staples to secure a cable in place, use those with
insulators to prevent placing undue pressure on the cable jacket.
3. Tie up loose ends.
• Tie up all your cable runs. Network and audio line levels are small electrical signals compared
with those in AC power lines and noise emitted by fluorescent ballasts and starters.
• Secure the DMX communication cable away from all sources of electrical interference such
as compressors, neon transformers, and air purification systems (or
smoke eaters
).
• Make sweeping, gradual bends of no less than a 2-in. radius, not sharp bends.
