maxjones2000 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Hi, recently, I have seen many people posting things about 'slaving' DMX desks and lighting fixtures, and I wondered what this meant? Any ideas? Cheers! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew C Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Typically connecting two or more devices together, so that by controlling one the others follow the commands as well. One example would be a bunch of disco lights that are slaved so that they all do the same thing when the first is controlled. Ie all go red, with a star gobo, and wiggle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjones2000 Posted April 1, 2010 Author Share Posted April 1, 2010 Oh right thanks! I suspected it was something like that but I wasn't sure. Earlier this year we did a concert at school and linked 4 mac 250 entours together by 'feeding' (I think that's what the technician said) off each other. Is this another improper term meaning slaving? Cheers!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jivemaster Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Many terms are used improperly in the industry! In disco slaving means getting one light to react to or with another light without a controller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 The usual way to use it is as "Master" and "Slave" - one master, the rest are slaves. Sound and lighting kit can work like this. Many items of typically Disco kit have this facility, as has been said. If they detect DMX input, then they behave like most fixtures, operating when told to - but if there isn't any input detected, then they change to master mode, and generate their own DMX output that the following units respond to. Older computer systems had their drives referred to as Master and slave, although this isn't quite the same thing (but let's not do computers here) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryson Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Oh right thanks! I suspected it was something like that but I wasn't sure. Earlier this year we did a concert at school and linked 4 mac 250 entours together by 'feeding' (I think that's what the technician said) off each other. Is this another improper term meaning slaving? Cheers!! Maybe, but probably it was more likely that the control signal was going from the console, to the first fixture, to the next and so on, but with each having it's own address and so the ability to do different things. Slaving is where one unit is "in charge" and the rest do the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjkered Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Oh right thanks! I suspected it was something like that but I wasn't sure. Earlier this year we did a concert at school and linked 4 mac 250 entours together by 'feeding' (I think that's what the technician said) off each other. Is this another improper term meaning slaving? Cheers!! In this case the "feeding " of the four MAC's to-gether could just be joining them together with a DMX cable. In this case they may NOT be master/slave and the feeding is just passing the DMX signal around the lights. The lights can be set in Master Slave Mode as well as others have described in the post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokm Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 Mac250s' don't have a master/slave function. Just a test mode! Robes on the other hand.. Right upto the 1200/2500 range IIRC. T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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