Hello everyone, just joined today in an effort to get a better grasp on my own repairs. I'm a one man band, I got 10 different DMX LED par can fixtures, plugging in my guest mic in a hurry one night I accidentally plugged in my spare mic cable into my stage right dmx lighting (luckily only 4 LED par cans) when the 48V phantom was on. Half way through the night the lights went nuts flickering, blacking out, stuck on, it was almost like I had the 3 pin dmx phasing switch reverse, but too inconsistent. For weeks/a dozen shows after, I thought I can't find any info online, some night my lights work fine, others it has it's own mind, even blackout doesn't work, yet I go over and wiggle the xlr cable and it works fine for 5 seconds sometimes. I don't have the end terminated as I'm only running 40 feet maximum to each side of the stage.
Taking it apart, some of my lights are dip switch, some are LCD display, I took an dip switch model apart and it pin 2 and 3 (+/-) go through diodes inside. I tried some spare diodes since it almost seems to have ac interference. It fixed the one test fixture, but makes my lights half as bright now in the 177 pc par 64.
The part I can't seem to google is can anyone tell me what voltage/amperage dmx uses so I can shop for the proper diode to put in? I wouldn't even know where to take my par cans in to be repaired, even though I'm in Toronto. It's an amateur question but otherwise I'm looking at replacing half of my lighting rig when a $0.12 diode might be all it needs. I don't feel I need to build a terminator yet, but my lights are unpredictable (even the good ones) when 2 or more are plugged into my controller. Thank you in advance. Adam
Taking it apart, some of my lights are dip switch, some are LCD display, I took an dip switch model apart and it pin 2 and 3 (+/-) go through diodes inside. I tried some spare diodes since it almost seems to have ac interference. It fixed the one test fixture, but makes my lights half as bright now in the 177 pc par 64.
The part I can't seem to google is can anyone tell me what voltage/amperage dmx uses so I can shop for the proper diode to put in? I wouldn't even know where to take my par cans in to be repaired, even though I'm in Toronto. It's an amateur question but otherwise I'm looking at replacing half of my lighting rig when a $0.12 diode might be all it needs. I don't feel I need to build a terminator yet, but my lights are unpredictable (even the good ones) when 2 or more are plugged into my controller. Thank you in advance. Adam