problems with a dmx light

[JMC]

And a convenient tool for you: http://www.theatrix.net/main/dip.htm

[jayselway]

It's actually BCD (binary coded decimal) rather than binary

 

Sorry! :D

[tokm]

Hmm, are you even sure your plugging the XLR cable from your controller into the correct socket..?

 

You mention Jack sockets etc, but as other members have said, this is for a controller, not DMX input. On the unit somewhere, there should be an DMX In & Out in the form of a male and female 3pin XLR connector., just so you can't get confused heres a picture of what the sockets should look like/similar to > http://www.cis.hawaii.edu/guc/info/AuxiliaryPanel/XLR.jpg (ignore that the connectors in the picture are marked Mic In & Line Out, its what the sockets look like that I'm trying to show)

 

As others have said, make sure the address is correct, so for simplicity sake, turn off all the dip switches apart from the 1st one. From that, just move some of the faders on your desk and something should happen at least..

 

While having never used these lights personally, I would still assume they would show they have DMX somehow, maybe there's a small LED to show the units have DMX? Or the unit moves into a position that looks like its getting DMX, but the channels are at 0%

 

HTH.

 

Tom

[Bryson]

Just to check: when you are setting the DMX address on the dip switches, you are doing it in Binary aren't you, so 1, 2, 4, 8,16,32,64,128,256 -

 

e.g. not switch 3 for address 3 (should be 1 & 2)....Just a thought there.

 

It's actually BCD (binary coded decimal) rather than binary :D

 

Ummm...it isn't actually.

 

For example, a set of dip switches (which are in binary) would encode 123 as 1101111

In BCD, it would be 0001 0010 0011*

 

Read this for further geekery.

 

You know, there are 10 types of people in this world..... ;)

 

Now who's the: ?

 

 

 

*=assuming you're using standard BCD 8-4-2-1 notation. There are more efficent ways of notating BCD, but you need to have agreed on what you're doing.

[Tomo]

You know, there are 10 types of people in this world.....

Those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who confuse it with trinary. :D