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  1. Just noticed a little thing under my last concert. When running fixtures on a submaster, and using the wheels to control another set of fixtures the wheels starts to work slow and hang. Is this a software thing or just lack of processing/memory thing

  2. I wasn't using the fixtures this time, and nope none of them was tagged.

    But yesterday I programmed using some fixtures, and all ended up wrong. On SM1 I programmed a fixture show with some really white spots on the artists which worked perfectly. But on SM2 I programmed another background show with the fixtures. And it worked fine right after I programmed the values. But under the show when I changed from SM1 to SM2 some of the fixtures wouldn't change position and the other values. hmmm, funny episode I would say. Nice cozy background, and 2 REALLY WHITE spots in the middle of the stage. WHY !!!! WHY !!!!

    I never had theese problems with the other softwares, but after changing to v.9.6 It has only been problems. really unstable.

  3. Our DMX system (22 devices) hasn´t such problems with the DMX wiring.

    How do I damage my scanners and movinghead´s with a wrong DMX signal of max. current DC5V ?

     

    Basic because of the simple formula.

     

    Resistance*Current=Voltage

     

    In other words.. if you need DC5V and have less resistance.. Well then the current will be higher to meet the required voltage. Then the fixture will get other inputs than it is manufactured for. Therefor.. It will work, but for how long ?? And different electronic equiptment act's different when this happened.

    And other will do just fine. So it isn't said that it will be damaged, but CAN be damaged.

  4. Don't the manufactors say that regular XLR (microphone) cables is not to be use as DMX ? But that is probably because of the resistance.

    And there is the question.. If you use a cable that has to low or high resistance, is it possible to custombuild a termination plug to suit the DMX requirements ?

    And normally it's only special fixtures that demands this.

     

    "We use normal microphon cables for DMX connections as we don´t want to build up a seperate DMX cable park works fine too. "

     

    It works fine but it's unstable. The dimmers may start to flicker, and you can damage fixtures like movingheads and scanners.

     

    The thing with CAT5 cables that I really like is that you can get hold of cables with 4,8, 12,16, and up to 256 pairs. So you can actually have in one cable (and it is actually not that expencive), 102 DMX512 and 170 DMX256 cables in one cable :) Thats what I call a multi-cable :twisted:

    And you can build the DMX into a patch-system, so that you are preperd for Ethernet, ChilliNet and the other new systems. You can even combine it with the sound. And all in one cable, with shielding enough for them all.

    And the signal won't even leak.

     

    Think this was a little off-topic now though, but...

  5. Here in norway is under half the price with Cat5 cables. And you can actually run 2 DMX cables in one shielded CAT5 cable. In other words. Lets say you are installing a concert stage. It's about 100m from FOH to the stage. And you need at least 2 DMX universes. This would have alot to say in money if you were using CAT5 vs. DMX cable

  6. Had a show last week, and programmed some submasters in a hurry.

    My desk is in partial, and I programmed the 4 firt subs to 4 different colors colors (from the faders), and the next 4 with some fixture chases.

    I set the SM 1 up to full and putted SM 6 up and it cancelled the first SM. It did not happened with the other SM2,3, and 4. And the programming was the same on all of them. This problem has happened before to.

  7. When I use my desk theatre, and using above 40 scenes. It would have been nice to have a printout of the scenes and memories. So that I can use this as a reference when going through the script with others.

  8. I'm using ClayPaky StageColor 300

     

    I have used it alot of time before, and it has work as it should, but it is mostly the middle wheel that stops functioning, and moslty under brightness and position attribute. The brightness is at 100% and will only go down to 99% (I think it was that). And under position it will not do anything but the other wheels will.

     

    I'll check if someone has done anything to the "edit-mode" and report back.

  9. I'm using the latest software, and currently using all 12 fixture controls.

    But for some strange reason one of the wheels sometimes and sometimes don't work with 2 of the fixture's. very annoying since it works with the other fixtures.

    Is it just that it need a reset or is it the "fixture program" ???

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