lovegoodperformingarts
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I am very comfortable with technology generally, but am brand new to theater lighting. We purchased and were donated a load of Leviton gear (mostly DDS 6000s) that have all had the DMX conversion applied (I am assuming by the appearance of a 5 pin connector on both in/out sides of the units). I am learning all I can about DMX and how channel assignment works. One question that feels like it should be obvious, but is not, is about the dip switch settings on the Leviton gear for channel selection. I find a lot of DMX switch setting calculators online, but the settings do not align with what I find in the manual for the DDS. Is it safe to assume the DDS doesn't use standard DMX dip switch settings for channel assignment? In which case I should be ok to just use the manual to set the channels on the DDS units, which in theory should work like any other gear that uses the more standard DMX dip switch settings? I spent a while trying to find someone referencing this online somewhere, but came up empty handed. The DDS unit has 7 dip switches while many of the online calculators I see show 10.
Thanks for helping a noob out!
Thanks for helping a noob out!