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Wirless DMX transmitter compatibility

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I just bought a wireless transmitter and receiver for my lighting. Will Freestyler be able to interface with this okay?

http://www.sirs-e.com/st/universal-wire ... 8a1368c8e4


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Re: Wirless DMX transmitter compatibility

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Hooked it up last night. Works fantastic! I can't guarantee it's going to be flawless in every venue due to possible interference, but I'd say it's pretty darn'd good.

Since I (unfortunately) use simple microphone cable for my wiring, I've seen some interference on my lights. So hopefully, this will make me use less wires.
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Re: Wirless DMX transmitter compatibility

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Hey, wondering how the wireless has been working out for you... I am wanting to go wireless to simplify setup as well as to isolate different parts of the lights from each other... right now we're running a long, single DMX chain and if one fixture freaks out it brings down the entire show.
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Works fantastic every time I used it. Nice to put a light in each corner of a room and not wire anything except to plug the AC cable into an outlet near the light. I love it.
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Diggler wrote:Hey, wondering how the wireless has been working out for you... I am wanting to go wireless to simplify setup as well as to isolate different parts of the lights from each other... right now we're running a long, single DMX chain and if one fixture freaks out it brings down the entire show.
i don't think wireless DMX would help you with that. you should get a DMX splitter instead to split your daisy chain to several chains.
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Re: Wirless DMX transmitter compatibility

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LJ_krede.dk wrote:
Diggler wrote:Hey, wondering how the wireless has been working out for you... I am wanting to go wireless to simplify setup as well as to isolate different parts of the lights from each other... right now we're running a long, single DMX chain and if one fixture freaks out it brings down the entire show.
i don't think wireless DMX would help you with that. you should get a DMX splitter instead to split your daisy chain to several chains.
It should... I want my laptop to transmit, and have a receiver on the front of the stage and one on the back truss. The receivers will only pass info to fixtures downstream from them; it won't pass it on to the other receiver. So if a fixture in the front of the stage sends bad data, it won't affect the entire back truss because it will have its own signal received straight from the laptop's transmitter.

The real answer is to find out which of the front fixtures is sending the bad data and messing everything up, which I am doing this week... but the 'broadcast' nature of the wireless looks like a good safety net to keep ALL the lights from going down if another one goes bad in the future.
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Re: Wirless DMX transmitter compatibility

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Diggler wrote:It should... I want my laptop to transmit, and have a receiver on the front of the stage and one on the back truss
ahh yes, of course.. my bad. didnt thought of u could use several receivers to split the signal from one transmitter :oops: .
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I use one transmitter, and 4 receivers all on the same frequency. Works great.
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Re: Wirless DMX transmitter compatibility

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I'm thinking about this one...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0289717219

The only thing is that if you compare it to sirs-e's page, the picture doesn't match the description. The description is of a much better version (frequency hopping, etc) than the item represented in the photo. I'm waiting to hear from the seller what's up.
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There are a couple of versions. One has the channel hopping which is more money. The other one is like $116 each. A real bargain for the time and energy they save you.
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what is channel hopping?
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Channel hopping is supposed to be more secure.
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Re: Wirless DMX transmitter compatibility

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I emailed the owner of the Ebay store and he confirmed that his company is the supplier for sirs-e.

However, he didn't answer whether the units were the DMXW2.4 version!

His response:

Yes, We are supplier for Sir-E.com, We just have two version--2.4Ghz or 900MHz, If perhaps, Please let me know your email address, I will send all information via email soon

With the photo of the older, discontinued version, it makes me nervous because the asking price is not a good deal for the older version. I would hope that since they have only one 2.4 version, that it is the newer updated version. That's probably the case, but the picture really spooks me.
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I've ordered from Sirs 3 times and it was a good experience. They answered my emails. And, I even got a hold of them on the phone once.
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Re: Wirless DMX transmitter compatibility

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I've gone back and forth with the fellow from the auction I listed and I can't get a straight answer from him. He says it has frequency hopping, but then I sent him a link to SIRS-E's page for the discontinued DMX 512 PRO, which does not, and asked if it was the same one... he said yes.

So who knows what you'd get. They can't even tell me what they have.
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