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    Question About DMX Universes

    Those are definitely the same manufacturer, and a search led me to this thread. This is almost the same board I started on in the late 80s as a high-schooler. Ours had 12 dimmers, 40 patchable circuits, and two large levers that swapped the dimmers from house light to stage lighting control...
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    Question About DMX Universes

    OH, I'm certainly in that club. My high school had a large, 12-dimmer system with slider patch...dimmer sliders were about 15" of travel as I recall. Wish I could remember the details. We upgraded to a 0-10v control system using, I believe, a 25-pin serial cable. Didn't have DMX until I was...
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    Question About DMX Universes

    What the heck? I didn’t go searching for a thread...it was on the general thread list! Why on earth was it displayed if it was from 2003?? Weird. I guess that’s what I get for forum-ing at 3:30am after 13 hours at work!Now I’m I one of those people.
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    Question About DMX Universes

    Some of it has already been explained somewhat, but I'll try to give some info as well.A DMX universe is 512 channels of 256 levels. A DMX channel is not the same as a console channel/fixture.If you patch a dimmer to DMX address 1, that dimmer has 256 levels of control between 0 and 255...
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    Strange Socapex Pin-outs?

    Not necessarily an odd cable, as the cable was standard 19-wire, but I used to work for a company that ran their socopex as 12-hot, 6-neutral, and pin 19 ground. Never had a single issue with it, although I know it's technically wrong.
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    Control/Dimming Coming this summer---MA3

    Do desks fail that often? In my decades of production, I can only think of a few times where we've needed the backup desk. But the reason you carry one: that one time you DO need it.A lot of situations do not need a duplicate of the primary. A local regional facility running on an MA...
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