You may have an issue with your MC7016 controlling
LED fixtures.
First,
LED lights use the
DMX control
protocol. Does your MC7016 have the 5-pin
XLR jack on the back panel? Many of these use the
Microplex protocol which uses a 3-pin
XLR and
Microplex itself is NOT compatible with
DMX fixtures.
So you may currently have
Microplex communication to the DDS9800 dimmers. If you happen to have the optional 5-pin
XLR DMX jack, a
power supply that plugs into the
console is also required for
DMX; it is not required for
Microplex.
Second, your
console can operate in either 2-scene 16-channel, 1-scene 32
channel, or 1-scene 16-channel + 16
preset scene mode.
The 16
preset mode is handy because it allows you to save 16 scenes or looks and
fade them in or out independently, but then you only have 16 channels to operate the
LED fixtures.
You can get white light only
LED DMX fixtures and they will use 1 or 2 channels EACH, so your
console would possibly just have enough channels for 16 fixtures (assuming 1
channel per
fixture).
However, one advantage of
LED fixtures is the ability to change the color of the light to whatever you want, and that requires a minimum of 3
DMX channels per
fixture, so those same 16 fixtures would now require your
MC7016 to control 48 channels, which is a problem. You can set the
DMX fixtures to the same addresses and use fewer channels, but then they will not be able to be controlled individually, only as a group.
So, kind of depends on how many fixtures will do the job and how you intend to use them. In addition, you will need a
DMX infrastructure, meaning control cables from the
console to the fixtures, and,
non-dim power
to the fixtures (NOT from the dimmers) as mentioned above.