A pile of ION Questions (Wireless Client, NET3 hardware, Data parameters)

With regards to the Ethernet cable, most touring and rental houses go down one of two routes:

1. Buy some 'really tough' STP flexible Cat5e cable, and terminate each end into a small stagebox with female Neutrik Ethercon connector(s).
• If needed, you can get 'multicore' for Ethernet networking to allow two or four Cat5e lines down the same multi.
2. Buy a few big drums of dirt-cheap Cat5e stuff, and then cut to length and terminate normal RJ45s for each job and throw it after each run.
• Remember that you should never terminate a male RJ45 onto solid-core, or a female onto stranded.
  

Which one's better? Dunno - depends what you're doing and how much time it takes you to terminate a few RJ45's.

At most of the 'outdoor' shows I've worked on (admittedly product launches rather than music!) we went for the throwaway approach, mostly because nobody had time to clean the crud off a few hundred metres of Cat5 in the warehouse afterwards.

As to suppliers of tough stuff - it's fairly specialist.

I know that Belden have a few varieties under the tradename "DataTuff" supposedly designed for harsh environments, although I've never used them in anger.

Randall, the update dialogue box that appears in the CIA during an update will tell you (on a channel basis) if you are modifying palettes.  This information is currently at a summary level.  We've been discussing organizing the data (which is currently by cue by channel) in a different way to put priority on more detailed palette data.  

Whenever you have a primary/backup setup, the output count is determined by the lowest available between the two.  If you have a 1K Ion and a 2K Ion (or Ion RPU), one set as primary and the other as backup, your system output potential is 1K (its not that we only backup 1K, we only ALLOW 1K).  When a device comes on the network as a client, its control capability is based on the primary/backup.  So, if you have a 2K Ion, 2K Ion RPU, and bring a 1K Ion in as a client, that 1K Ion can control all 2K outputs.     Since a client isn't tasked with the job of assuming responsibility for the rig, we ignore its native output count.  

Good questions.  Hope this helps!

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Randall, the update dialogue box that appears in the CIA during an update will tell you (on a channel basis) if you are modifying palettes.  This information is currently at a summary level.  We've been discussing organizing the data (which is currently by cue by channel) in a different way to put priority on more detailed palette data.  

Whenever you have a primary/backup setup, the output count is determined by the lowest available between the two.  If you have a 1K Ion and a 2K Ion (or Ion RPU), one set as primary and the other as backup, your system output potential is 1K (its not that we only backup 1K, we only ALLOW 1K).  When a device comes on the network as a client, its control capability is based on the primary/backup.  So, if you have a 2K Ion, 2K Ion RPU, and bring a 1K Ion in as a client, that 1K Ion can control all 2K outputs.     Since a client isn't tasked with the job of assuming responsibility for the rig, we ignore its native output count.  

Good questions.  Hope this helps!

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