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Originally Posted by sblair
I proved it in our QC labs at HES many times by connecting (20) 5 foot cables together and you'd get tons of reflections compared to just using a single cable 100 foot cable.
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Thanks for comments Scott.
According to your test results, our 32 fixtures chain is already fragile more due to 32 sockets connection rather than unit loads.
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Originally Posted by ericthegeek
Yes, it's still a good idea to use repeaters. Connecting all 170 of them on a single segment would be a terrible idea. Limiting each segment to about 32 devices is still a good rule of thumb for the reasons that Scott mentioned. But you can go higher under certain conditions (good cable, excellent connectors, etc.).
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Exactly, I beleive even a blind repeater (without signal regeneration) would be useful to renew signal and reduce signal reflection which Scott mentioned.
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Originally Posted by ericthegeek
I'm counting individual contacts. 170 devices with 3 wires each (Data+, Data-, and Common) = 510 connections.
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You are right, I got it now!
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Originally Posted by ericthegeek
I believe the one I worked on years ago is still available. I don't like to promote products here so please contact me outside the forum.
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Sure, I will contact you for more details soon
Thanks.