Grimtheatre
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This one has me particularly stumped. I'm working in an older theatre where we have 2 Lightwave Research Trackspots and 1 Technobeam in the air controlled through an ETC Express 250.
The DMX situation is a little funky in this theatre. There are 2 in/out boxes backstage, and one at our AP position. These all run up to the attic where they're plugged into an Iso/Opto splitter along with one half of our dimmers and plugged into the first DMX port on the board. The second half of our dimmers are plugged into the second DMX port, and the board is set to one universe, so both ports register 1-512.
A week ago the trackspots decided to take on a mind of their own, the mirror and color wheels moving even when the DMX was unplugged.
A few days ago our technobeam started behaving similarly. I went through the cues to make sure that something hadnt been accidentally recorded and found that there were values for certain control channels where there previously hadn't been. This is my first time dealing with an iso/opto or technobeams, but the profiles were properly loaded onto the board.
Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
~Grim
The DMX situation is a little funky in this theatre. There are 2 in/out boxes backstage, and one at our AP position. These all run up to the attic where they're plugged into an Iso/Opto splitter along with one half of our dimmers and plugged into the first DMX port on the board. The second half of our dimmers are plugged into the second DMX port, and the board is set to one universe, so both ports register 1-512.
A week ago the trackspots decided to take on a mind of their own, the mirror and color wheels moving even when the DMX was unplugged.
A few days ago our technobeam started behaving similarly. I went through the cues to make sure that something hadnt been accidentally recorded and found that there were values for certain control channels where there previously hadn't been. This is my first time dealing with an iso/opto or technobeams, but the profiles were properly loaded onto the board.
Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
~Grim