Control of Chauvet Colorstrips?

[reverymike]

I'm planning on buying 4 Chauvet Colorstrips and a controller, however, I have some questions.

1. What's a good controller to use? I don't want to spend an arm and leg, but I'd like good control of the lights.

2. Can you control the color of the strips without the random color flashing? I'd like to be able to hit a button and get all RED, and then another button and fade into all BLUE, then maybe go for scrolling or flashing WHITE. All the video demos I've seen seem to be pretty random as far as the colors go.

Thanks!
Mike

[theatre4jc]

I have 12 of these units and have nothing but issues with them. The DMX is spotty. If you don't get a Chauvet controller you will most likely have issues with the lights. My advice is either pay a lot more money and go with Chauvet's Production line or pick another manufacturer. These lights are not very fluid on the mixing, have issues with random flashing due to DMX incompatibilities and have caused me more frustration that pleasure.

[BillESC]

Originally Posted by theatre4jc

I have 12 of these units and have nothing but issues with them. The DMX is spotty. If you don't get a Chauvet controller you will most likely have issues with the lights. My advice is either pay a lot more money and go with Chauvet's Production line or pick another manufacturer. These lights are not very fluid on the mixing, have issues with random flashing due to DMX incompatibilities and have caused me more frustration that pleasure.

Using a Chauvet controller will eliminate the problems. There is a known refresh rate situation between the Chauvet fixtures and the better theatre controllers that is being looked into. However, I don't have an ETA on the fix.