tony97 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Hi I have recently acquired a new jem ZR33 Hi-Mass in our venue however I cannot seem to get it to work with my lighting desk an Avo pearl 2000. is there anyone who has managed to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsabre Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Hi I have recently acquired a new jem ZR33 Hi-Mass in our venue however I cannot seem to get it to work with my lighting desk an Avo pearl 2000. is there anyone who has managed to do this? yes, often... are you just patching it as a dimmer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alistermorton Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Does it work ok with the manual controls on the back? We use our ZR33 regularly just patched, as Tim says, as a single dimmer channel. Not on an Avo, admittedly, but we've used it on ETC Ion, Strand 300, GSX and 6 way manual DMX slider pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony97 Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 yes I tried finjding a fixture profile on avolites but I was unsuccessful... Hi I have recently acquired a new jem ZR33 Hi-Mass in our venue however I cannot seem to get it to work with my lighting desk an Avo pearl 2000. is there anyone who has managed to do this? yes, often... are you just patching it as a dimmer? Does it work ok with the manual controls on the back? We use our ZR33 regularly just patched, as Tim says, as a single dimmer channel . yes the manual controls work but I tried patching it as a single dimmer and it did not work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alistermorton Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Is it showing DMX received on the back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsabre Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Well there's 2 things could go wrong, assuming the thing itself is working ... 1. You haven't got the dip switches set right. Try patching your dimmer at address 001 and set the switches to 1 on, all others off. 2. DMX problem - can you plug something else in to test? Or take the zr33 to the console Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony97 Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 it shows the Valid DMX light and when I remove the DMX it goes out so the signal seems ok, yes I set the dipswitch to the correct address as I only used 001. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsabre Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 it shows the Valid DMX light and when I remove the DMX it goes out so the signal seems ok, yes I set the dipswitch to the correct address as I only used 001. Um OK so if you view the DMX output on the Pearl, can you see channel 1 going up and down?Have you patched it on the right DMX output line?Are you sure you've got the dip switches the right way up (sorry if this seems really obvious, but I have lost count of the times people have set switch 1 "off" and all the rest "on"). The dip switches normally have a little arrow on saying which way is "on" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alistermorton Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Are you sure you've got the dip switches the right way up (sorry if this seems really obvious, but I have lost count of the times people have set switch 1 "off" and all the rest "on"). The dip switches normally have a little arrow on saying which way is "on" Ho yus - climbed up to an atomic that wasn't working to find exactly that - the address was completely inverted. Easily done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmoorcroft Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Have you tried it on a different address? I recall an occasion a few years ago where I addressed a Jem machine to a certain address (think it was 512) and it didnt like it - may have been a faulty dipswitch. Another address worked fine, A temporary solution may be to unscrew the controller from the back of the unit and place it next to your avo, using a 3 pin line (perhaps your sound multi) to get signal between the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingwalker Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Is the address on your machine set to 001 or 100? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjadingle Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I had a similar problem with a ZR33 on a festival a few weeks ago. Set to DMX address 001 with it patched on Chamsys as a dimmer, fist fixture in the chain. Worked fine for the first 4 hours, then just would not respond. Rest of the rig responded as normal, checked the address and nothing changed. Changed to a different address, repatched but still not output. Had to take it out of the chain and put it on auto, it still worked fine in manual mode. Would have used the controller but digital snakes make it kind of difficult :-) Never did work out what went wrong with it, haven't tested it since.... Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alistermorton Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Bizarre. Ours spent a week under the fish slab at Minack and never put a foot wrong, on the same circuit as the hazer (which also worked first time every time). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony97 Posted August 6, 2014 Author Share Posted August 6, 2014 smoke machine seems to work on a dimmer desk just don't understand why it won't connect to the pearl. anyone know if you have to use it on run mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alistermorton Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Just treat it as a dimmer - that's as simple as it gets. Bear in mind, it doesn't "connect" to the pearl, as such, the pearl just throws out DMX levels. So if it works on one desk, then, addressed the same, it should work on any desk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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