Cyberlights

[lord]

Hello,

 

I was wondering if anyone knew of a web page that may help with info on Cybers, Iv'e got problems with 'dipping' the switchies. could be pilot erro or switch or DMX bord or.......

 

any help or info very well recived.

 

Thanks. (there running of a pearl)

[Guest lightnix]

Hi lord,

 

welcome to the Blue Room :unsure:

 

The manual for Cyberlights is available from the High End Systems website - click here (PDF file, 4.27 MB)

 

There are a couple of other PDFs on the Cyberlight webpage, but they look more like brochure material.

 

Yes, the DIP switches on Cybers are a pain in the bum, they don't work according the usual "power of 2" system IIRC.

 

Maybe slightly OT, but another thing I used to do with Cybers (as a result of bitter experience) was either put them either at the end of the data line, or their own separate run (it doesn't have to be a whole universe, just an output from a splitter, say). I'm not sure if it's still the case, but back then they seemed to mangle the DMX slightly, preventing any non-HES gear further down the line from working properly.

 

Hope this helps <_<

[Tomo]

Hokay...

Cyberlights were originally made by Lightwave Research (which is what it says on the side), but are now High End.

 

The manual is here:

Cyberlight CL, CX, SV

 

The 'Personality' dipswitches are not used for choosing DMX personality.

They are for testing, information and lamp change purposes, and dips 6-8 allow pan/tilt invert/swap.

 

Usually, all these would be 'Off' - the Info LED then shows lamp hours, and pan/tilt are normal.

 

The 'Address' dipswitches are for addressing and choosing personality.

 

By default, Cyberlights receive LWR/High End protocol - the Pearl doesn't support that.

You have to use the last two dipswitches in order to choose DMX control and the correct personality.

You would normally choose Mode 2 as it has 16-bit movement and the most control.

 

To choose Mode 2, set Address dip 7 ON and dip 8 OFF

This limits you to 25 Cyberlights per universe.

 

However, DMX addressing is very strange:

You do NOT set an actual DMX address. You set a fixture number between 1 and 32 (in Mode 2 up to 25)

Fixture 1 would have address dips 1-6 OFF, Fixture 2 would have address dip 1 ON, 2-6 OFF

Basically, the fixture number is the binary value of the address 1-6, plus one.

 

In DMX Mode 2 these correspond to DMX start addresses 1, 21, 41, etc up to 481.

 

And Lightnix is right, Cybers do funny things to the signal - so always put them on their own leg.

 

Incidentally - the lamp hour meter will read Zero for all values over 999 hours.