I agree that he was asking for an upgrade to SN110 nodes, but that isn't going to happen.
Neither will it happen for a lot of older equipment from every manufacturer.
Therein lies the rub. He says he was told it would happen.
Currently we have a DMX512 going out to the dimmers. There is no DMX port on the cats where our moving lights and FourRunners are. The only thing up there is the cat5 network plugs. So we had DMX for dimmers and cat5 for intelligent lights and scrollers. So we are just going to sell the Strand Nodes.so how are your dimmers working off of your ion?
Depending on how the network is laid out, perhaps these from Lex Products will enable you to use the CAT5 wiring as DMX cable. No reason you couldn't make similar yourself.Currently we have a DMX512 going out to the dimmers. There is no DMX port on the cats where our moving lights and FourRunners are. The only thing up there is the cat5 network plugs. So we had DMX for dimmers and cat5 for intelligent lights and scrollers. So we are just going to sell the Strand Nodes.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Thank you so freaking much thats awesome if that works that will solve the problem!!!
Don't expect this to work with any amount of high reliability...CAT5 was never meant to carry DMX and the lack of shielding on CAT5 makes it very vulnerable to interference. Not only that but if you have any switches or routing equipment in between the board and the FOH position this solution wont work at all because all this product is is an adapter that turns an Ethernet cable into a DMX cable and does not use a TCP/IP protocol.
Don't expect this to work with any amount of high reliability...CAT5 was never meant to carry DMX and the lack of shielding on CAT5 makes it very vulnerable to interference. Not only that but if you have any switches or routing equipment in between the board and the FOH position this solution wont work at all because all this product is is an adapter that turns an Ethernet cable into a DMX cable and does not use a TCP/IP protocol.
If you have some extra nodes, or even just 2 i would use one to convert dmx to strand net, then use the others to convert strand net back to dmx. I would trust that much more than trying to find the cat 5 that is ran and then patch everything together. You will hit your max cable length really fast, since in network world your switch extends you cable length all over again, with dmx the only way to extend your run is to use a splitter or a dmx repeater.
jerekb, follow the links I posted above. One of the ESTA studies (Part 1 "Results of these tests indicated that Category 5 UTP cable performed as well as conventional DMX512 cable,") even showed DMX over UTP cable to be slightly MORE robust than the recommended Belden 2c +shld cable in some tests. Much of Nick Mobsby's book, Practical DMX recommends installing CAT5 UTP cable now and replacing the ends in the further when Ethernet is desired.
The fact that DMX512A is an asynchronous serial digital signal makes it inherently invulnerable to interference. The Pin1 portion is needed as a ground reference, but is not required to be an overall shield.
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