I was setting up our theatre's mighy scans this past week and I encountered a problem. When I plugged the DMX cord into the fixtures, all of them turned on immediately and rebooted. The kept on rebooting until I uplugged them or disconnected the DMX cord.
We have a second dimmer rack for a newly added system of lights. This is controlled through DMX port 2 on orur ETC 72-144 light board. This cord runs upstairs. We then ran another cord from the output on this dimmer rack back down to the booth to plug into our house light wall panel (our panel splits the signal into a few different outputs at other parts of the theatre). I then ran the cord from our house light panel backstage onto the electric and into the fixtures.
Before we started, all of the lights were controlled together on the same DMX dimmer(s) out of our DMX port 1 on the board (we changed it to DMX port 2 so it wouldn't interfere with the existing lights - controlled through DMX port 1 - and that they could all be controlled using the same cord - just daisy chained from fixture to fixture). By using this set up, all of the lights worked - now we just want to control them all seperately.
Any help would be appreciated greatly - thanks.
We have a second dimmer rack for a newly added system of lights. This is controlled through DMX port 2 on orur ETC 72-144 light board. This cord runs upstairs. We then ran another cord from the output on this dimmer rack back down to the booth to plug into our house light wall panel (our panel splits the signal into a few different outputs at other parts of the theatre). I then ran the cord from our house light panel backstage onto the electric and into the fixtures.
Before we started, all of the lights were controlled together on the same DMX dimmer(s) out of our DMX port 1 on the board (we changed it to DMX port 2 so it wouldn't interfere with the existing lights - controlled through DMX port 1 - and that they could all be controlled using the same cord - just daisy chained from fixture to fixture). By using this set up, all of the lights worked - now we just want to control them all seperately.
Any help would be appreciated greatly - thanks.