MatthewB Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Can anyone help with programming these to use a Showtec LED Operator 1 Controller? What dipswitches need to be on/off? This is the 10 dip switch model. Many thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamtastic3 Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Don't know the controller or parcan, but almost any controller will control DMX channels from 1. So set your parcan to DMX channel 1 (dip switch 1 on). Then you can figure out what faders control what attributes (R,G,B, dim, strobe, macros etc) and take a note. If you get no light when moving faders, try putting up dip switch 10 with dip switch 1. Some pars use dip 10 to tell the parcan it's using DMX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatthewB Posted December 21, 2012 Author Share Posted December 21, 2012 Thanks for the reply. No joy I'm afraid, the par can doesn't seem to recognise that it's plugged into the controller. Dip 1 gave me nothing, and dips 1 and 10 gave me white light, which was the same when I tried it with the controller unplugged. Adjusting any of the sliders/buttons on the controller made no difference on either dip switch setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsabre Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Does the controller have a pin2/pin3 polarity switch on the DMX output. If it does, try switching it. If not, try making a cable which swaps pins 2 and 3 over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatthewB Posted December 21, 2012 Author Share Posted December 21, 2012 No polarity switch. The cable is a bought one, and I have tried 2 now... Problem solved... The idiots had sent me XLR sound cable http://www.blue-room.org.uk/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif Thanks for the help anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shez Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Other than what's printed on the cable / packet, what's the difference between the original cable that didn't work and the new one that does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsabre Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Problem solved... The idiots had sent me XLR sound cable http://www.blue-room.org.uk/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif Thanks for the help anyway! There's no difference between "XLR sound cable" and DMX cable?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitlane Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Problem solved... The idiots had sent me XLR sound cable http://www.blue-room.org.uk/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif Thanks for the help anyway! There's no difference between "XLR sound cable" and DMX cable?? Is that a question or a statement? We both know that there IS a difference. We both also know that there is a good chance that the 'sound' cable should have worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Allen Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 This may be the manual for your LED Par 56 Short DMX see page 6 for dip switch settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulDF Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 From what I can gather on the LED par cans you only need dip switch number 1 switched on, all the other 9 off. This should set the start address of the cans to 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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