curtis73
Well-Known Member
In my blackbox, I got a grant for all new LED fixtures a few years ago. They've been flawless. I set up 5 of our old incandescent fresnels on some edison dimmers as house lights; three on one, 2 on another to avoid overamping. They've worked great for four years now.
We open a show tomorrow and the two house-left fresnels on the one box started coming on randomly. It's not with a cue, just they sometimes come on in the middle of the scene. The board says they're off. Trying to command them up or down does nothing. Thinking I had a bad dimmer pack, I replaced it with another one. Same issue. I tried re-patching the address to a different channel, same thing. I tried choosing different addresses and re-patching - same thing. Tried a third dimmer pack - same thing.
My ME suggesting maybe we have too many DMX in the chain, but I only have 5 Altman Phoenix RGBW and both of those edison dimmers on the chain (so only 58 addresses) which has never been a problem before.
Early ION console
Donner wireless DMX to the grid, then wired between instruments
Instruments include Colorsource Pars, Altman Phoenix, and four Clay Paky Alphas
Leviton 4-channel edison dimmers.
Like I said, it has been flawless for 4 years. I would love to blame the wireless DMX, but I think it would cause more global issues instead of affecting just those two addresses on a single dimmer. Anyone want to venture a guess before I randomly light audience members in the middle of the performance tomorrow night?
We open a show tomorrow and the two house-left fresnels on the one box started coming on randomly. It's not with a cue, just they sometimes come on in the middle of the scene. The board says they're off. Trying to command them up or down does nothing. Thinking I had a bad dimmer pack, I replaced it with another one. Same issue. I tried re-patching the address to a different channel, same thing. I tried choosing different addresses and re-patching - same thing. Tried a third dimmer pack - same thing.
My ME suggesting maybe we have too many DMX in the chain, but I only have 5 Altman Phoenix RGBW and both of those edison dimmers on the chain (so only 58 addresses) which has never been a problem before.
Early ION console
Donner wireless DMX to the grid, then wired between instruments
Instruments include Colorsource Pars, Altman Phoenix, and four Clay Paky Alphas
Leviton 4-channel edison dimmers.
Like I said, it has been flawless for 4 years. I would love to blame the wireless DMX, but I think it would cause more global issues instead of affecting just those two addresses on a single dimmer. Anyone want to venture a guess before I randomly light audience members in the middle of the performance tomorrow night?