My church has an older CD80 pack (AMX only) and Mantrix board. For our Christmas program I'm trying to set up to run off a laptop so I can do a cue list instead of running manually. We've bought an NSI IF501 and an Enttec Open DMX USB unit. We also bought an NSI 808CP to use as a day-to-day controller. According to the documentation I should be able to use both the DMX and the Lumanet controls at the same time, but nothing's working right with these controls at this point.
With the Mantrix board everything works OK. With the Enttec, running Stage Console, the lights on a channewl are dark until the fader is at about 50%. Noticable flicker at low levels. Slow movement of the fader gets to max brightness at about 80%, then holds at max the rest of the way up. Fast fader movement with the mouse or a timed cue change causes seemingly random flashing, and the lights go dark at about 80% on the way up and stay off above 80%. The 808CP at "off" gives about 30% light level at all fixtures. Going to manual mode the sliders seem to work OK, but 0% slider setting is still around 30% light from the fixures. These tests were with just the controller being tested connected.
I've checked and cross-checked the jumpers, and they're correct as far as I can tell. I've also ohmed-out the cables. There's a chance the 808CP is bad -- it was bought as new, but it's obviously an open box return (shipped directly fron the vendor, but there's a UPS label still on the box showing a drop shipment from Leviton to an address in the midwest). This could also be me mis-reading the documentation -- it's not nearly as complete as the engineer in me would prefer.
Any suggestions on what to look for would be appreciated.
Martin
With the Mantrix board everything works OK. With the Enttec, running Stage Console, the lights on a channewl are dark until the fader is at about 50%. Noticable flicker at low levels. Slow movement of the fader gets to max brightness at about 80%, then holds at max the rest of the way up. Fast fader movement with the mouse or a timed cue change causes seemingly random flashing, and the lights go dark at about 80% on the way up and stay off above 80%. The 808CP at "off" gives about 30% light level at all fixtures. Going to manual mode the sliders seem to work OK, but 0% slider setting is still around 30% light from the fixures. These tests were with just the controller being tested connected.
I've checked and cross-checked the jumpers, and they're correct as far as I can tell. I've also ohmed-out the cables. There's a chance the 808CP is bad -- it was bought as new, but it's obviously an open box return (shipped directly fron the vendor, but there's a UPS label still on the box showing a drop shipment from Leviton to an address in the midwest). This could also be me mis-reading the documentation -- it's not nearly as complete as the engineer in me would prefer.
Any suggestions on what to look for would be appreciated.
Martin