PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME WITH MY DMX LIGHTING!

[Charlie123]

Hey everyone.
I would like to start by saying I CANNOT GET MY HEAD AROUND DMX AHHH!
It's so annoying!
I have got a greenwhich instruments GW-DMX that I need to setup but need to know what to set the dipswitch settings to etc...
I have got a impossibled(4/10 channel) that goes to a acme invincibeld(3 channel) that goes to a equinox sigma(5channel) that goes to a revo 3 (4/10 channel)
Please could someone tell me what value I would need to put the dipswitches/values to etc.. To set them up?
This would be very much appreciated :)
Thanks,
Charlie

[Jiggles]

First, Give people time before bumping your thread!

Second, Look here for a DMX calculator: http://www.seda.org.uk/resources/dmxcalculator/ first fixture set to 1 then the next channel 5 or 11. Keep on going until all your fixtures are addresses. If two fixtures share the same address numbers they will both react to the same dmx data. Which can be a good thing or a bad thing!

[Charlie123]

Sory! I was getting a bit panicky because I really want it set up for the next gig :)
So the revo and impossibled would both be set to DMX address 1 even though one is at the start of the chain and one is at the end of the chain?
So it would go 1,5,11,13?

[Jiggles]

Sory! I was getting a bit panicky because I really want it set up for the next gig :)
So the revo and impossibled would both be set to DMX address 1 even though one is at the start of the chain and one is at the end of the chain?
So it would go 1,5,11,13?


Yep. I have had rigs where the first device in the chain had channel 200. It doesn't really matter. So long as the channels are set right it will only listen to those and yes.

[Charlie123]

WOW!! That's a ridiculously big rig! I bet that looked good though?
Mines just basic, but gets the job done :)
Thank you so much! That's helped me get the grip of it much better!

[Jiggles]

WOW!! That's a ridiculously big rig! I bet that looked good though?
Mines just basic, but gets the job done :)
Thank you so much! That's helped me get the grip of it much better!


Not really most was taken up by hard patched dimmers... :bang:

[Charlie123]

Ahh, bit of a pain in the ass then :(
Just another quick one, on the controllers software it says the minimum DMX channels you can use is 16 and the highest I am going is 13?
Don't suppose you know how to get round this? :/

[DJ Jules]

Ahh, bit of a pain in the ass then :(
Just another quick one, on the controllers software it says the minimum DMX channels you can use is 16 and the highest I am going is 13?
Don't suppose you know how to get round this? :/

Create a fake fixture to use up the remaining 3 channels. The controller can send DMX data to addresses 14,15 and 16 and it'll just be ignored by the units you have on lower numbered addresses.

Julian

[Charlie123]

So could I just leave it out at 13, and it should work?
How would you setup the 'fake fixture'?
Thank you :)

[jamesh]

WOW!! That's a ridiculously big rig! I bet that looked good though?
Mines just basic, but gets the job done :)
Thank you so much! That's helped me get the grip of it much better!

Best thing to do is to try it! If it doesn't work then no!

On a side note from that. I've know controllers say the maximum fixture channels it can handle are 16 but not minimum but i could be wrong.

This might be a silly question but you sure the controller says minimum 16 channels to use not Maximum... Seems odd that a controller will make you use a minimum of 16 channels to start with bearing in mind quite a few lights will only have 3 or 4 channels.

Just a thought and may answer some of the confusion and stop you doing something you don't need to do.

[Charlie123]

Hi,
Yes I though it was very strange as well because in the promo/introduction video on greenwhich instruments it shows 4 LED PAR cans being controlled. It does say on the software you have to start at 16 channels which is annoying!

[BossmanKaraokeDisco]

Hi,
Yes I though it was very strange as well because in the promo/introduction video on greenwhich instruments it shows 4 LED PAR cans being controlled. It does say on the software you have to start at 16 channels which is annoying!

That is just the software, when you create a new sequence it automatically starts with 16 channels, you do not have to use them all. Double click and label them according to your lights channels and it makes programming so easy.

Ch 1 - Impossibled
Ch 2 - Impossibled
Ch 3 - Impossibled
Ch 4 - Impossibled

Ch 5 - Invincibled
Ch 6 - Invincibled
Ch 7 - Invincibled

Ch 8 - Sigma
Ch 9 - Sigma
Ch10 - Sigma
Ch11 - Sigma
Ch12 - Sigma

Ch13 - Revo
Ch14 - Revo
Ch15 - Revo
Ch16 - Revo

Your manuals will tell you what each channel does for each fixture.

Hope this helps :beer1:

[Charlie123]

Ahh! That's made it much simpler! Thank you! Do you use a GW DMX?

[BossmanKaraokeDisco]

Ahh! That's made it much simpler! Thank you! Do you use a GW DMX?

Yes, great bit of kit and sits on a bit of velcro at side of deck stand, with a bit of practice you can set the lightshow to do all sorts :D

[Charlie123]

I was amazed when I found out about it! It's literally one of the best little controllers of its kind I rekon!
It's it fairly easy to create each sequence and put them together? :D