Hi,
I'm new to posting forums so hope I do this right. I'm a TD at my church. We have an EDI MX dimmer rack that has all the theatricals AND house lights for our auditorium. The theatricals are controlled by a Bijou Console and the house lights are controlled by a Smart System with a Master Station and 3 10 button stations in different parts of the auditorium. Something happened, maybe a power hit we did have one last Friday. When I came in last night I was told by our facilities manager he was trying to figure out why an entire bank of house lights was out and in fooling around with the stuff, now all the lights are mixed up. House lights are on the Bijou and Theatricals are on the Smart system. I tried everything I could including power cycling the Bijou and the entire dimmer rack. I took the control module out of the dimmer rack and cleared the memory, also reset the processor, also changed the battery for the memory. I tried re-programming the Smart System, took the Bijou back to factory presets and repatched everythiing. In the end I was able to get it usable for our weekend services, BUT the Smartfade stations are still bringing up the theatricals, on the Bijou and none of the house lights. The house lights wound up on the Bijou. They've never been there before. We are about to replace the Bijou with an ETC Element but I'd like to get the dimmers back to normal first. Any ideas?? The old line diagrams say DMX 1 from the dimmers goes to the Bijou, and DMX 2 goes to the Smart System.
thanks
I'm new to posting forums so hope I do this right. I'm a TD at my church. We have an EDI MX dimmer rack that has all the theatricals AND house lights for our auditorium. The theatricals are controlled by a Bijou Console and the house lights are controlled by a Smart System with a Master Station and 3 10 button stations in different parts of the auditorium. Something happened, maybe a power hit we did have one last Friday. When I came in last night I was told by our facilities manager he was trying to figure out why an entire bank of house lights was out and in fooling around with the stuff, now all the lights are mixed up. House lights are on the Bijou and Theatricals are on the Smart system. I tried everything I could including power cycling the Bijou and the entire dimmer rack. I took the control module out of the dimmer rack and cleared the memory, also reset the processor, also changed the battery for the memory. I tried re-programming the Smart System, took the Bijou back to factory presets and repatched everythiing. In the end I was able to get it usable for our weekend services, BUT the Smartfade stations are still bringing up the theatricals, on the Bijou and none of the house lights. The house lights wound up on the Bijou. They've never been there before. We are about to replace the Bijou with an ETC Element but I'd like to get the dimmers back to normal first. Any ideas?? The old line diagrams say DMX 1 from the dimmers goes to the Bijou, and DMX 2 goes to the Smart System.
thanks