Endearing? not at the time but funny now -Some years ago I was producing a large scale outdoor "picnic style" Shakespeare show in the grounds of a large manor house here.anyone have an "endearing" DMX stories that i can commiserate with/laugh at. i need stories right now...
<I for one would rather set a DMX address on a device than an IP address, and I can't imagine home running each moving light back to a hub/switch as opposed to daisy chaining. DMX-512A will be with us for at least the next 10-15 years (after all, another poster is planning on using a 45 year-old Ariel Davis board) so it's possible some of us will still be using DMX in 2031. >
My bet is that many hundred other lighting techs are in silent agreement with this line of thought. While not perfect, DMX does exactly what it's intended to do- as long as it's fed and watered properly.
curious as to why you think DMX is outdated. Sure, I like New technology, but when you look at it like Derek has, it means a lot more work for us to get the same job done. It will always take less time to set an address and daisy chain than to home run everything. Not to mention that home runs will require more and longer cables. DMX may not be perfect, but it works, and it gets the job done. Plus, with the shear number of DMX compliant gear that is in use worldwide, it is going to take a very long time for people to switch. No one is going to buy an ACN only controller when they have a huge inventory of DMX gear.dmx is out dated but serves it purpose, once configured
<I for one would rather set a DMX address on a device than an IP address, and I can't imagine home running each moving light back to a hub/switch as opposed to daisy chaining. DMX-512A will be with us for at least the next 10-15 years (after all, another poster is planning on using a 45 year-old Ariel Davis board) so it's possible some of us will still be using DMX in 2031. >
My bet is that many hundred other lighting techs are in silent agreement with this line of thought. While not perfect, DMX does exactly what it's intended to do- as long as it's fed and watered properly.
I know this is a relatively old thread, but, once again, your scroller calibration issue most likely had nothing to do with DMX. Chances are you had too many scrollers or too much cable on one power supply and when you tried to change colors the voltage dropped low enough for the scrollers to think they had been powered off. When the voltage came back up they powered back on.Ha,
Reminds me of when our coller scrollers decided to 'Calibrate' in the middle of act II of our musical.
Good Times.
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