Lynsey Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Hi, I've just bought a Soundlab G018WG DMX Controller which I was hoping to use with 6 Eurolite LED parcans but I can't seem to make it work. All I really want is to be able to colour mix with the cans. I only need to be able to create a few states (e.g- Fader 1 all the lights come on red, Fader 2 all lights blue etc.) Is this possible or have I bought the wrong thing for the job? (I'm a noise girl pretending to be a lampy) I've managed to get as far as linking out of the controller into the first light then linking the rest together, I've made a terminator to go in the last fixture, I've addressed the lights to what the manual says..... but now I'm a bit lost. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Cheers Lyns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dekw1 Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 With the Eurolite Led Pars you need to set dip-switch 10 to "on" to enter DMX control mode.If you set the first par to "1" Chan 1 will be Red, 2 Green, 3 Blue, 4 Strobe, and 5 Dimmer.The second par should be set t "6" third to "11" etc.Dek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norty303 Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 If you don't need the lights to be doing different things then the best way would be to set them all to address 1 (e.g. dips 1 and 10 on, all the rest off) Depending on which Eurolite LEDS you have will depend on which channels will need to be up.The 10mm Par64's are: ch1: RedCh2: GrnCh3: BlueCh4: DimmerCh5: strobe So in order to get any light out at all you'll need Ch4 up and at least one of channels 1-3. To get colours other than one of the basics you'll need to mix channels 1 to 3 to get the desired shade. I believe that controller has buttons for 'Head 1', 'head 2' or similar. If you patch all the pars to DMX address 1 you'll need to have the head 1 button selected in order for the faders to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Beesley Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Usually the SoundLAB equipment is reverse polarity to the majority of equipment on the market... one of these should do the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norty303 Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Don't they have a polarity switch on the rear? I know the other 192 units did and if its the same as the Stairville DJX16 then it should do also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Beesley Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Don't they have a polarity switch on the rear? I know the other 192 units did and if its the same as the Stairville DJX16 then it should do also.Indeed they do...! It may be worth switching the polarity across as this is likely to be the problem. User Manual >>> Clicky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkPAman Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 User Manual >>> Clicky! What a horrible manual B-) Love this bit at the end!CAUTION!This operation is harmful to the memory (PEROM), please be careful not to use it frequently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynsey Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 Thanks everyone, I'll try some of the things you've suggested and let you know how I go on. cheers lyns B-) A concurrent post has been automatically merged from this point on. B-) :D :D Thanks so so much! I've made it work! It turned out to be the polarity switch... working like a dream now. Cheers Lyns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulsilverwood Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Don't they have a polarity switch on the rear? I know the other 192 units did and if its the same as the Stairville DJX16 then it should do also.Indeed they do...! It may be worth switching the polarity across as this is likely to be the problem. User Manual >>> Clicky! Hi - I have recently bought one of these Soundlab SRC-173 / G018WG and have managed to get it working after a fashion. But the manual is of little help and I seem to have messed up the settings so I'm wondering whether there's an idiots' guide, training course or video, anything which will help a complete novice like myself? (It's for band lighting and I want to be able to set up "mood" lighting e.g. slow fade from blue to red and then switch over to sound controlled chase patterns.)Thanks a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahall41116 Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Don't they have a polarity switch on the rear? I know the other 192 units did and if its the same as the Stairville DJX16 then it should do also.Indeed they do...! It may be worth switching the polarity across as this is likely to be the problem. User Manual >>> Clicky! I have this board, as well as 2 x led par cans and a soundlab DMX dimmer board using 4 par 56's with the polarity switch on one setting the led par cans work, with the polarity switch set in the opposite, the soundlab DMX dimmer works! would one of http://cpc.farnell.com/AV14519 these work somewhere in the rig? Ash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Baldwin Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Not sure exactly what that CPC part does - it might be suitable, depending how it's wired. What you need is a short cable wired as follows: 1 -- 12 -- 33 -- 2 connected between your dimmer and your LED PARs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Yes, the CPC AV14519 will be fine. It is wired 1:1, 2:3, 3:2, see http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/level5/module.j...=cpc/382515.xml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahall41116 Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Yes, the CPC AV14519 will be fine. It is wired 1:1, 2:3, 3:2, see http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/level5/module.j...=cpc/382515.xmlThanks for that does anyone have a better manual/user guide than the one supplied? Ash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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