So we have a large stack of Teatronics modules from our old dimmer rack. (Replaced by ETC about 5 or so years ago). Anyway are these modules worth anything? Are they even DMX?
Teatronics MD 160
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They are worth something to an installation that has them, as replacement parts/spares. Perhaps send a message to CB member ControlBooth - View Profile: Teatronics. Perhaps they could be of value or the manufaturer might know of someone who could use them.
I'll assume the MD 160 is a tray-mounted dimmer module. In a dimmer rack, DMX stops at the electronics module/control card/"brain." From there a PWM control signal is sent to each dimmer module's SSR. Thus a dimmer module may be a part of a DMX-controlled dimming system, but the module itself is not DMX.
New question. Are MD 160 modules compatible with an MD288 rack?
waynehoskins
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Ok sorry guys I should have said what I meant. Of course I know the modules themselves aren't DMX. I was wondering if they were intended for use in a DMX rack.
Obviously we have no use for them and are looking to sell them. I know CB doesn't have classifieds but I wanted to know if they were worth selling in the first place.
Obviously we have no use for them and are looking to sell them. I know CB doesn't have classifieds but I wanted to know if they were worth selling in the first place.
Perhaps an inquiry to one of the vendors listed in the Collaborative Article: http://www.controlbooth.com/forums/collaborative-articles/9401-sources-used-equipment.html ?
I have made a lot of prtable dimmers from Teatronics modules. Add a power cable, some output connectors and a control board from Northlight DMX products. By the way, the control modules for the Teatronics MD288 can do both DMX512 and AMX192. For AMX, you set the first thumbwheel for 6 and then the next two for the tens and units. The 6 on the first thumb wheel indicates 0 in AMX hundreds settings and 7 represents 1 in the hundreds. I forget exactly how it deals with the numbers above 192, but I think that it requires running a seperate line to the third module and starting at 601 again. Somebody gave me the old dimmer rack, because they were told that it was not DMX compatible. Once I discovered that it was, they had already been sold three 96 dimmer sensor racks. so they told me to keep it. I've made a lot of good stuff out of the parts.
