Lotos
Active Member
Okay, so...
During our evening show tonight, one of my moving lights wigged right out... It had "twitched" a few times before, but today, it may as well have been in demo mode...
Needless to say, I had zero control from the console, and the only solution was to physically remove power from the posessed fixture.
Post-show, I take a lift up to figure out what happened, and in the midst of cable changing, a problem solving, I notice that whenever I remove the NEXT data cable in the path, the problem goes away...
In complete curiosity, I remove the terminator from the final light.
Problem solved.
Plug the terminator directly into the problem light... It starts dancing.
Remove the terminator, it responds the console as if it were fine.
Okay, now I'm confused.
I've run into my fair share of DMX issues in my career... But never one that removing a terminator fixed...
Thoughts? Comments? Questions?
During our evening show tonight, one of my moving lights wigged right out... It had "twitched" a few times before, but today, it may as well have been in demo mode...
Needless to say, I had zero control from the console, and the only solution was to physically remove power from the posessed fixture.
Post-show, I take a lift up to figure out what happened, and in the midst of cable changing, a problem solving, I notice that whenever I remove the NEXT data cable in the path, the problem goes away...
In complete curiosity, I remove the terminator from the final light.
Problem solved.
Plug the terminator directly into the problem light... It starts dancing.
Remove the terminator, it responds the console as if it were fine.
Okay, now I'm confused.
I've run into my fair share of DMX issues in my career... But never one that removing a terminator fixed...
Thoughts? Comments? Questions?