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[Nate Armstrong]

Has anyone used this product before ?  I was thinking about getting a Male and Female for a drive snake.

http://www.markertek.com/CATV-Headend-Interface/CAT-5-Transmission-Systems/Audio-Over-CAT5-Systems/Energy-Transformation-Systems/PA202F.xhtml?utm_medium=shoppingengine&utm_source=googlebase&cvsfa=3786&cvsfe=2&cvsfhu=4554532d504132303246&gclid=CIKT6KGJlb4CFexZ7AodASwARQ

[TJ (Tom) Cornish]

Has anyone used this product before ?  I was thinking about getting a Male and Female for a drive snake.

http://www.markertek.com/CATV-Headend-Interface/CAT-5-Transmission-Systems/Audio-Over-CAT5-Systems/Energy-Transformation-Systems/PA202F.xhtml?utm_medium=shoppingengine&utm_source=googlebase&cvsfa=3786&cvsfe=2&cvsfhu=4554532d504132303246&gclid=CIKT6KGJlb4CFexZ7AodASwARQ

No personal experience, but doing simple math means that if they're getting 4 runs from a Cat 5 cable, that means you need to use shielded Cat5 to get a ground at all, and all 4 runs will be grounded together.  Whether this is acceptable depends on your application.

[David Sturzenbecher]

Also check out...
http://www.soundtools.com/catsnake.html




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[Brian Jojade]

The price seems obscenely high for what it is.  There's nothing inside the box other than a cat 5 jack and 4 XLR connectors.  Maybe at 20 bucks a pair, it would be worth it. At $120 each, it seems a bit obscene.

[Bob Leonard]

I don't see any benefit to using what really should be designated a stage snake setup. If I had a special application, maybe, but if I'm running extensions or splits I want the security of a good snake on the stage.

[Keith Broughton]

These would be handy for running com .
Shielded cable would be a must.
You could build them for less but $120 is not unreasonable.

[Tim McCulloch]

I don't see any benefit to using what really should be designated a stage snake setup. If I had a special application, maybe, but if I'm running extensions or splits I want the security of a good snake on the stage.

I used the system shown on Markertek on an industrial show where the client added stuff after all the cabling had been flown.  The video dept put in 2 spare CAT5 runs from techworld to backstage (for projection spare or alternate confidence monitor feed).  The graciously let me use 1 of the runs for the extra audio.

I see these as more of "oh shit, we need to do WHAT?" devices than as infrastructure.

[Jordan Wolf]

I see these as more of "oh shit, we need to do WHAT?" devices than as infrastructure.

+1

Spare lines are always handy; heck, I've done 4ch. of analog, balanced line-level down CAT5 when I needed to get audio between rooms (network hardware was patched around, of course).  It worked great, and I only had to build break-in/break-out adapters, and re-patch from room-to-room via the patchbay.  I still have them in case there's a need to a makeshift 4ch. snake.

[Craig Hauber]

These would be handy for running com .
Shielded cable would be a must.
You could build them for less but $120 is not unreasonable.

clear-com type analog com acts weird through these.  You do get audio but call light function doesn't work and the whole system acts like it doesn't have enough power.
I was using 500' of unshielded cat-5 so that could have been the issue. 
For audio use it worked flawlessly -it was across sand buried on a beach and I didn't want a couple drive-snakes being exposed to those conditions for the amount of time (days) the show was active.

[Cory Ramsey]

They work well. We have many of them that we use for corporate events. No noise issues. . Use the shielded cat5 as mentioned. Also a Cost effective way to fedex a snake to a small show.

[Kevin Graf]

The Steve Lampen, Beldon Blog about audio and Cat 5.

"The Strange World of Cat 5e and Cat 6"

Posted by: Steve Lampen on October 08, 2013

http://www.belden.com/blog/broadcastav/The-Strange-World-of-Cat-5e-and-Cat-6.cfm

[Lou Kohley]

I just started using one of these to send midi data to the stage for an x32.

I got mine from CBI for $90 a pair. I also got the shielded Cat5e cable with ethercon. I've been able to pass audio talk back and headphone cue back on the other two lines.

This is my low budget way of making a FOH split. The console lives on stage with or without a monitor engineer and I can control FOH with the ipad/ midi fader bank.

Here's a link to the CBI version.
http://www.cbicables.com/products/dmx_to_cat__shuttle_snake.aspx
 
LOU

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