We had a problem with somestage lights programmed onto the architectural panels. Somehow we wipped everything out so now the panels don't control anything. I read the
manual and it talked about connecting the lightboard to a
DMX512 panel. I can't sem to locate a
DMX512 panel specifically or that
system. There are 118 dimmers and 2 non dims split between a 96
dimmer rack and a 24 wall mount cabinet. The wallpanels are 2 or 3 (8)
preset fader stations and two on/off buttons.
If the
system is truly "wiped" you probably need to re-load the configuration file. The typical
Unison processor brain has a 3.5" floppy drive mounted on the right side and hopefully somebody saved the .cfg file to a floppy. Is there a disc in the drive ?, or one stored in a safe place nearby ?. If you have one, proceed to step 2, which is to
call ETC tech support to get help as to how to re-load the config. 1 800 688 4116. They can talk
thru a
system re-load. If you have the
ETC job number that would be helpful info. to
ETC as they can look up what was originally installed, and they sometimes have the config file if you cannot find a disc (getting it to you is not instantaneous though).
In general and often times, the
DMX data from a
stage lighting
system will be routed
thru the
Unison processor. This lets
Unison "see" the
DMX stream and act upon it in some ways. Typical would be a "snapshot" of whatever the main
stage lighting
console is sending, for a backup. In your
system, it does not sound like there's a backup capability, as from how you describe the
system, I don't think there are any snapshot record buttons to press to
enable the snapshot. Thus there might not be a
DMX pass-thru to
Unison as there's no need.
Unison may simply be sending
DMX to whatever dimmers it needs to control, as a parallel feed to a
stage lighting
desk. That essentially means you need to get the
Unison processor restored unless you want to control all from the
stage lighting
desk.
There should be a
DMX input port to the
system as you mention in other posts, an Expression and Status consoles, as well as 118 dimmers. I'm going to assume the
Unison was not the primary lighting controller, thus there needed to be a way to get
DMX from a lighting
desk to the dimmers.