Martin CX-2 Advice needed!!!!

[jimbo6871]

Hi All,

 

Having some issues with some Martin CX-2 colour changers and although I've searched BR and the web I seem to draw a blank, so any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

 

I have four in a set up for a small stage all on separate DMX addresses running from a jester ML24, during use they seem to get confused about the position of the gobo and colour wheels relative to the DMX address.

 

It goes something like this:

 

Power on; they calibrate and all is well with the world.

 

Select all four on the jester and all four respond the same (same gobos, colours, speed, brightness etc).

 

All work fine for a while then during a colour change or a gobo change one (or more) (no one fixture in particular) will drop out of sync with the rest, (three could be on L iris and one on M iris or even between the two, or it could be the colour wheel three fixtures on red and one on yellow) ((colour and gobo choice are just random, it can occur with any colour or gobo or even both at once)).

 

I use the desk with nodding buckets and they are all fine so I can pretty much rule out the desk as the problem, the desk is still sending out the same DMX values to all the lights, it's as if the wheels were slipping on the motors (but they're not).

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Cheers

[jonr]

My experience with these units as well.

 

They don't seem to respond to quick and rapid changes very well, tried programming them in a stack with very random results.

 

The only way to get them back is to home the units, or take individual control of a unit and gently/slowly take it through cycle of changes.

[jimbo6871]

My experience with these units as well.

 

They don't seem to respond to quick and rapid changes very well, tried programming them in a stack with very random results.

 

The only way to get them back is to home the units, or take individual control of a unit and gently/slowly take it through cycle of changes.

 

Thanks Jon,

 

At least I'm not the only person on the planet with this issue with the cx-2's (and using the same work around too).

 

J