old style color pros look like a rectangle box with dip switches and 3 pin
XLR, the newer ones have more of an oval shape to them and they have an
LED display on them with 3 pin
XLR. The
protocol in the
express is for the new color pros. The old color pros need a
DMX to LWR
protocol converter, which demulitplexes
dmx, and converts it into LWR
protocol (which i havent seen one in years) or you need to use a color pro controller.
I don't have one in front of me, but I am almost positive the "new" Color Pros (HX and FX's) are 5 pin...not 3 pin.
To the original poster...or anyone else interested in the archaic technology...the old (original)
RGB Color Pros do, indeed take a special converter box to convert your
DMX to LWR. They are also a
bit different in that they do not have a separate dimming wheel or a dedicated
intensity wheel, like the new style do. They have 3
MR16 type lamps in them and each has one
dichroic filter situated in front of the lamp, respectively. Bringing up the three separate intensities of each lamp, proportionally, is how you achieve the color mixing.
The newer HX and FX's are arc source lamps with CM and Y with UV wheels, a
dimmer wheel,
manual zoom and focus lenses (for the HX's) and a
ferrule (for fiber optic umbilical) and twinkle wheel (for the FX's).
-Abby
-Who thanks Don Pugh (formerly of HES, now of Light Parts) for helping me find about 20 or 30
gobo holders for the original CP units back in the mid nineties for a special project. Yep- they had
gobo slots...
And...who also has used way too many Color Pros both old and new, and still maintains 48 "new" style ones in our rental inventory.
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