You'd be surprised what kind of terrible things can happen on a run of DMX cable. I've seen enough transceivers exploded out of their sockets to be wary. The le

You'd be surprised what kind of terrible things can happen on a run of DMX cable. I've seen enough transceivers exploded out of their sockets to be wary. The leading US manufacturer of lighting controls continues to use socketed DIP rs-485 transceivers exactly because they tend to take hits and fail.