Here is a new one for me. I was testing gear before focus today (want to make sure everything turns on for the LD) and discovered a very odd data issue. On my 1st electric and 1A electric all my DMX gear was wiggin' out, the scrollers wouldn't stay put, mirrors just kept roaming around, and the MLs just plain old didn't do anything.
So, my first inclination was a bad cable. I started by pulling the run from the scrollers on to the rest of the chain (scrollers are first off the opto). Lo-and-behold they start working fine. So I start hopping from device to device, plugging them in one at a time, and everything works until I get to the last ML, plug it in and everything goes nuts again. So, I figure maybe it is a bad terminator, yet when I pull out the terminator everything starts acting normal. I popped in a new terminator and I was back to everything wiggin' out. Seems odd to me that the little device that is supposed to solve all the problems is causing them. Now, with this unterminated line everything works just like it should. Go figure!
So, my first inclination was a bad cable. I started by pulling the run from the scrollers on to the rest of the chain (scrollers are first off the opto). Lo-and-behold they start working fine. So I start hopping from device to device, plugging them in one at a time, and everything works until I get to the last ML, plug it in and everything goes nuts again. So, I figure maybe it is a bad terminator, yet when I pull out the terminator everything starts acting normal. I popped in a new terminator and I was back to everything wiggin' out. Seems odd to me that the little device that is supposed to solve all the problems is causing them. Now, with this unterminated line everything works just like it should. Go figure!