Where am I supposed to get an IEC chord (male to female) for my Chauvet OBEY 70 to my fog machine?
Dec 12, 2009 by stevenson3393 | Posted in Other - Electronics
frys, radio shack or an epo store might have them. Most of the times when I cant find special cords an epo store will have them, they are computer part stores.
amy g | Dec 12, 2009
frys,
radio shack or an epo store might have them. Most of the times when I cant find special cords an epo store will have them, they are
computer part stores.
amy g | Dec 12, 2009
Help with DMX Programming?
Apr 26, 2009 by ₫avi₫ | Posted in Other - Electronics
It's called daisy-chaining.
Each unit should have an "out" and an "in". Plug the "in" to the controller, and the "out" to the "in" of the next lighting fixture and so on. They don't need to be in any order. However, DO NOT use a splitter!
A single DMX line can actually control up to 512 fixtures through daisy chaining. The lights you daisy-chain can all be different, as long as the controller is generic and not tailor made for a specific fixture.
DMX signal is "multiplexed" meaning ALL the data for all fixtures is sent to all fixtures, but the fixtures pick out the data that is meant for them. The way this works is through "addressing". You assign an address to a fixture, usually with small DIP switches.
So say you have 4 fixtures and each has 5 channels. You'll set the addresses to:
Fixture 1: 0
Fixture 2: 5
Fixture 3: 10
Fixture 4: 15
(More often than not, address start at 0, not 1 - but there are some manufacturers that ignore address 0 - just so you know. I can't really say more unless I know what lighting fixtures you have
But these will be in binary, so if you have 9 dip switches, it's:
Fixture 1: 000000000
Fixture 2: 000000101
Fixture 3: 000001010
Fixture 4: 000001111
So the only thing you need to buy is one XLR to XLR (male to female) for each lighting fixture and then daisy-chain them.
Hope that helps
•נoםes• | May 03, 2009