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Wired Control: DMX

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RR and R2 lights have RJ45 ports for control with DMX512 or with Ethernet.  Conventional DMX 5 pin to RJ45 converters can be used.

To set Lamps to Wired DMX Control:

  1. Go to Config → Wired Settings, set the Wired Mode to “DMX512”

  2. Go to Config → Wireless Settings, set the Wireless Mode to “Off”

  3. Go to Config → Status Lights and set to “ON”

When the lamp has a Wired Data connection, Wireless connection and Manual data will be ignored, as the priority goes to Wired.

When lights are controlled with Wired DMX, the screen displays the DMX start address, the number of Pixels, Profile, total number of channels and Output Mode. If the lights lose wired data they will hold last look until either data is restored or a manual change is implemented. If the light is in multipixel mode the and it loses wired data subsequent manual changes will take the state of pixel one and apply it to the entire light.

Each light has a DMX IN port and DMX OUT port, which allows for daisy chaining.

The lights have an internal switching mechanism between DMX In and Ethernet In.  The lights must be set to DMX512 for DMX control.

Note

When the light is set to DMX mode, the DMX signal is always passed to the Output port so you can daisy chain other dmx devices.

A note about RJ45-to-XLR DMX cable adaptors: Any RJ45-to-DMX adaptor must comply with the ANSI/EIA-568 wiring scheme T568B:

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  • RJ45 Pin 1 white/orange [DMX data+] = DMX XLR Pin 3

  • RJ45 Pin 2: orange [DMX –]  = DMX XLR Pin 2

  • RJ45 Pin 7 (white/brown) and Pin 8 (brown) [Ground] = DMX XLR Pin 1

Important

When using XLR-to-RJ45 adapters for DMX input, please be aware that some cheap adapters are not wired correctly and will not work with our lights.

To avoid any problems you can obtain the correct RJ45 adaptors directly from the Quasar Science online store

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