lighting hookup
Posted: September 15th, 2011, 1:13 am
i have read up on, and understand a pure dmx lighting hookup. The universe is posted in a series of packets, and each light listens for the group of packets that is signified through its start address.
This is quite simple for me to get, but the setup i have is weird (it is a setup for stage lights). i got freestyler to work with it but just adding pars, but the problem is when i try to change light addresses. I hooked up freestyler through the data input on a black box labeled 'entec lighting panel' (or something similar) (no model or significant identification). this box is in turn connected to a huge (bigger than human) box, which is probably a transformer of some kind. the problem is that the lights are in turn powered by a 3 pin very wide plug with gaint leads. (these are just banks of what looks like pars).
when not using freestyler we make use of a 8 channel lighting board with a master (this is also hooked to the entec box). in order to use the freestyler software we have to open the black box, and move a slide switch from normal to bypass; then back to normal again to use lighting board. The entec box has a very primitive display inside it with a group of six buttons, probably intended to program it somehow.
So the question is, does anyone know what kind of setup we have, because i cannot make heads or tails of it. And would anyone potentially know how to change the channels of the banks of stage lights.
This is quite simple for me to get, but the setup i have is weird (it is a setup for stage lights). i got freestyler to work with it but just adding pars, but the problem is when i try to change light addresses. I hooked up freestyler through the data input on a black box labeled 'entec lighting panel' (or something similar) (no model or significant identification). this box is in turn connected to a huge (bigger than human) box, which is probably a transformer of some kind. the problem is that the lights are in turn powered by a 3 pin very wide plug with gaint leads. (these are just banks of what looks like pars).
when not using freestyler we make use of a 8 channel lighting board with a master (this is also hooked to the entec box). in order to use the freestyler software we have to open the black box, and move a slide switch from normal to bypass; then back to normal again to use lighting board. The entec box has a very primitive display inside it with a group of six buttons, probably intended to program it somehow.
So the question is, does anyone know what kind of setup we have, because i cannot make heads or tails of it. And would anyone potentially know how to change the channels of the banks of stage lights.