So I have around 13.5 years until I can retire by normal expectations. (As told by a friend, really retire.. no probably not afford it.) So far in my lighting career, I have gotten by without learning how to code DMX or use modern light boards. Sure I understand the concept(s) and protocol for how it's done... but I have guys to actually do it.
As I normally say... It's post 1979 technology, and not my field of study (even if I do LED's by them forced on me.)
That same friend offered me more education in lighting which could help my pay rate getting above steady and into something else in training/pay grade which would help with retirement. At first.. no I'm fine in glide path to retirement, but now in thinking about it... I should learn and engage in learning financially and personally. Become vibrant in doing what I do with new things as opposed to just doing what I do now board.
Good faith on my part, first to personally understand the what is simple binary code in learning to program DMX. Any advice in reading/learning it? Next to start learning modern light boards which I'm sure I could learn from work by way of sitting down in the console cage and being taught.
As opposed to counting down my days until I retire, given a easy glide path to that... time to go to school again in trying to catch up in technology with the hope of advancing to my possibilities in being useful for more than what I am already. 13.5 years to further advance my career, and beyond... yea, won't retire anyway.
So what do I need to read best on line to learn this coding of DMX given from a mechanical standpoint I already know it, and have read DMX Protocal a few years ago in surfing over what I didn't need to understand. Back to it, or website to read?
What else to read in catching up with the Ethernet versions of DMX - understand how/why it works, limitations or benefits, but gets over my head once it gets into fiber etc. in details that I now need to understand in that push to learn and advance in the last stages of my career.
As I normally say... It's post 1979 technology, and not my field of study (even if I do LED's by them forced on me.)
That same friend offered me more education in lighting which could help my pay rate getting above steady and into something else in training/pay grade which would help with retirement. At first.. no I'm fine in glide path to retirement, but now in thinking about it... I should learn and engage in learning financially and personally. Become vibrant in doing what I do with new things as opposed to just doing what I do now board.
Good faith on my part, first to personally understand the what is simple binary code in learning to program DMX. Any advice in reading/learning it? Next to start learning modern light boards which I'm sure I could learn from work by way of sitting down in the console cage and being taught.
As opposed to counting down my days until I retire, given a easy glide path to that... time to go to school again in trying to catch up in technology with the hope of advancing to my possibilities in being useful for more than what I am already. 13.5 years to further advance my career, and beyond... yea, won't retire anyway.
So what do I need to read best on line to learn this coding of DMX given from a mechanical standpoint I already know it, and have read DMX Protocal a few years ago in surfing over what I didn't need to understand. Back to it, or website to read?
What else to read in catching up with the Ethernet versions of DMX - understand how/why it works, limitations or benefits, but gets over my head once it gets into fiber etc. in details that I now need to understand in that push to learn and advance in the last stages of my career.
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