Recent content by dmx512rdm

I worked on Frankenstein on Broadway over 35 years ago - gear was a bit more primitive then. Bran Ferren had a big VanDerGraff generator built which cost a fortune but looked spectacular. I'd suggest you add a couple of high power strobes on top of your pillars/towers etc, and chase the LRD...

As said above, there is confusion between ground, shielding and signal reference. DMX512 is a 3 conductor system. The third conductor may or may not be a shield, and it can be shown as stated above that the shield provides minimal protection from noise. The signal reference is the third...

Particularly in a black box, the question isn't nodes or splitters, it's nodes and splitters. A solution we have seen is to provide permanently installed ethernet cabling that provides some number of DMX outputs, and then take those outputs and drop multiple DMX512 hub-in-a-wall-box to cut down...

While I would normally repeat some of the grounding comments, I'm not sure this is a grounding problem. But a short comment on grounding follows - ideally consoles earth ground pin 1 of the data line, and fixtures isolate pin 1 from chassis ground. This can be found by application of an ohm...

If you need any replacement channel faders, we have a bunch we scrapped out of a working AVO of that generation. [email protected] Rosemary Goddard Design Co.

The grandfather/father of the TTI was the Izenour Edkotron (might be spelled wrong) which was an unfiltered SCR or triac dimmer which had as many mechanical issues as it had electronic ones. I had the unhappy experience of running a summer theater festival with a pile of them in 1967 or 68. I...

As you are in the UK, contact Chris Cook of XTBA ([email protected]) He has what you need, and is local. Rosemary Heath/Goddard Design Co.

Artistic Licence invented Art-Net. They also support streaming ACN (sACN) on their node products. If you are not interested in paying a lot of money for sheet metal, take a look at their 2 Port and 4 Port sACN/Art-Net nodes in a DIN rail package. In this case you would run cabling directly to...