Keep up, SteveB. Derek's S4 lamp is now rockin' one of
these.
Drewdesign,
plug the lights into the wall, NOT into dimmers.
Build yourself a Male 5pin
XLR to Female 3pin
XLR adapter, or buy one of
these (last item on the
page) for $2.96. You SHOULDN'T use mic cable to connect the fixtures, but you probably can, depending on how critical these fixtures are to the production; or if it's a rave.
Address the lights,
softpatch the
DMX addresses (aka "dimmers") into Contol Channels, and you're ready to program.
I would suggest choosing control channels so the fixtures make sense on the
screen, e.g.:
see PDF attachment.
You're not going to get fancy
figure 8's or circles without a ton of work, but you should be able to make them do stuff. Read carefully and understand the section in the
MicroVisonFX User Manual that discusses sub-routines (basically a loop of cues). Use subroutines for Pan & Tilt, and put Color and
Gobo channels on the six submasters, for on-the-fly operation. Remember that the
microVisionFX was never intended to control moving lights, so don't whine and complain when it won't do everything the $50K grandMA can.