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Explain DMX to me?

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Topic: Explain DMX to me?

Posted By: SamV
Subject: Explain DMX to me?
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 3:16am

And no I don't mean the rapper.

I have a few DMX lasers, some par cans and a dmx smoke machine.

My experience of DMX is just slide faders, up for on etc

Is that all you can do?

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Posted By: DC
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 12:47pm

Depending on the device you can adjust PAN, TILT, GOBO's, color filters. But as said depends on the device. for a smoke machine it probably just on and off. Scanners can use a couple of DMX channels, so 1 for tilt, 1 for pan, 1 for colorfilter etc...

Posted By: James Tengo
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 12:53pm

Light reading (pun intended)
http://www.images2.co.uk/Lighting_Equipment/resources_dmx_512_equipment.html

Posted By: James Tengo
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 12:55pm

Also, rubbish looking website but lots of good info
http://www.dmx512-online.com/

Posted By: SamV
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 1:17pm

Cheers dudes.

Posted By: Richard Hart
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 11:46pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX512-A - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX512-A

Posted By: jas0n
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 1:54pm

nice links