Please forgive my ignorance, but I have never dealt with a remote head XTL. I recently received a remote mount XTL 2500, with zero cables. Does anyone have a list of required cables?
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XTL 2500 Cables
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Which control head do you have?
xtl2500 only has one model head!
For the OP. you will meed a remote head cable and a power cable for the control head.
The XTL2500 actually has two compatible heads, the O5 and the M5. I think that's what he was asking. Regardless, they use the same cables
The data cable( blue connector) , Head power cable( red connector)n with the red, yellow and black wires with the speaker plug, External speaker and Main Red /black power cable. If you need any of them I have all of them you can contact me
This is misleading, the M5 head is the only officially supported control head. Sure you can "convince" the 2500 to be a 5000 through tools or change the pad on o5 head to become a M5. However, if you put a o5 head on an XTL2500 without any modification of either component, they will not work and you will get a CH MISMATCH error.
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