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It has been awhile. However seeing the post about film crew definitions roped me in. Motion Picture and Television Production Gaffer: The head of the electric department (the Lx1) Best Boy: 2nd (foreman) Set Electrician or Lamp Operator: an electrician working on the shooting crew Rigging...

Right. Spellchecker. ummm nope. Just didn't remember the right word. But thanks for the pass. lol

Thanks. This sounds like cable management that we do on truss that has to come in and out. Cable tied to rings that run on the chain of the motor. As the truss runs out the cable is gathered on the top. Same idea here where we are gathering the scrim on the bottom pipe as it runs out.

Rosebrand is marketing this setup by a company called Wahkberg automation https://www.rosebrand.com/subcategory758/dmx-roll-drum.aspx Anybody had any experience with it?

Thanks for the quick reply!!! And the links!

Hello Hive, The middle school drama teacher in my town is interested in putting a scrim into his facility and with no fly space he is looking into roll drops. Is this viable with black sawtooth? Or white? He mentioned that some systems can be controlled via DMX. This, for me, cuts close to...

Ah yes, I believe you are right

Thanks for the Pinout. I don't see on that drawing where it's provided. Once we used that we have Dmx response. Do the dip switches act as pack #s or something for addressing? I thought they were binary but now I see they are not Thanks again

So I have gone ahead with this after sourcing the ampex connector and getting the chips from digi key. Sadly it's not working. The dimmer outputs do not respond. If the last address dip switch is on then all 4 outputs go on. Anybody have a contact at Leviton or Coloradan?

So we found compatible connectors in Ampex. They were 2.4mm pitch card to cable connectors.

Can anybody tell me what type of molex connector this is?

Thank you to all! This looks relatively easy once I get the parts

Hi all, I did a quick search for DMX control Cards for NSI shoe box dimmers but didn't find them. Anybody have a link? I thought they made a dmx card that would install in the NSI dimmers that are running multiplex. I think they are the DDS4600 and DDS 6000.

Thanks for chiming in ST! I appreciate it. Some things never change: I have just enough knowledge to get into trouble.