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Mal Brown:
I just put an Epson 535w into my rental inventory.   Was planning on Cat 5 an a 25’ hdml, Short USB. 6’ ?  Is there another cable type that I should include ?

Target audience is Talking Heads with Power Point primarily, movie night secondarily if at all...

Tia, Mal

Nathan Riddle:

--- Quote from: Mal Brown on March 02, 2018, 11:09:58 AM ---I just put an Epson 535w into my rental inventory.   Was planning on Cat 5 an a 25’ hdml, Short USB. 6’ ?  Is there another cable type that I should include ?

Target audience is Talking Heads with Power Point primarily, movie night secondarily if at all...

Tia, Mal

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Add a 25ft VGA.

USB B or micro or both?

Maybe 1/8" for audio when running VGA?

Absolutely have every type of converter possible. You should be able to accept any type of the following and convert or directly go to the projector. I'm considering adding a scalar to my arsenal.

Display Port
Mini DP (thunderbolt)
HDMI
Mini HDMI
VGA
DVI

RE: Movie night - grab an HDMI audio extractor from Amazon for ~30 that way you can strip the audio to analogue/RCA (or digital if so inclined) and go into speakers.

Ray Aberle:
You won't need a Cat5 on show site, at least for someone to connect to the projector. (Naturally, you may find someone who needs to connect their computer to a wired LAN, so then having a Cat5 cable IS nice to have!)

A basic cable package for me, when doing projector/breakout rooms:
- 2 to 3 50' AC
- 2 to 3 25' AC
- 1 to 2 power strips
- 50' HDMI
- 50' VGA
- Rat Tail
- XLR to reach audio point [Typically, a breakout room will have 1-2 wireless combo packs, a 1402 or similar mixer, and a pair of 450s or EV powered speakers]

With a couple of computer dongles to support adaption. Good to have:
- Thunderbolt to VGA/DVI/HDMI hybrid dongle
- DVI to HDMI
- DVI to VGA
- 1 to 2 VGA and HDMI couplers
- USB C to VGA/DVI/HDMI dongle

It'd be pretty hard to NOT be able to support any speaker with that collection of cabling. I would definitely go 50' instead of 25' on the video cabling- since you'll more likely be going lectern-with-video-source to wall, across wall, and then out to projector point [As opposed to lectern-with-video-source directly to projector], that'll quickly eat up 25 feet.

Re more "vintage" adapters; old school display port, etc: I still have them in my work bag, but to be candid, haven't used them in probably 10 years.

-Ray

Erik Jerde:
I am usually only renting big pjs as part of a larger job.

That said, I expect a power cable and remote.  Usually there’s a vga cable tossed in as well.  You could go two ways, do the basic like I just mentioned and then have a couple cable packages available at an additional cost or bundle it all in one and price accordingly.

You will have more shop prep/check-in time for every rental if it’s a full cables and adapter package.  Since I usually have a video workbox with all that gac I would rather not have it and risk it getting misplaced and not returned.

Bradford "BJ" James:
So looking at Mac video outs, am I correct that there are only 2 different recent video connectors- USB-C and Mini Displayport? I have a talker coming with a Mac next week and we're going VGA into the projectors, and I have USB-C >VGA and Mini DP>VGA...just wondering if there's anything else I should grab to be safe.

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