DMX Adapter | Terminator 3-pin (male)

A DMX terminator is an important part of any DMX light system. If you find the light switch off, flicker, change color, pattern, etc. That may be a sign that you need a DMX terminator!

When no DMX terminator is used, the signal, when arriving at the end of the DMX chain, will bounce back or “reflect” into the cable. This is called “reflections”. Not the entire signal is reflected, only a small part of it, but that’s enough to deteriorate the signal. The information carried in the signal is therefore not clear as it should be and your lights start to behave strangely. Just picture this : your appliance receives the reflected signal as well as the original signal, it sees two numbers at once. Therefore it gets confused. It is a simplification, but helps to understand what is happening. A DMX terminator will simply stop this reflection from happening, keeping the single signal clean.