DMX Help Please!

[cooper]

Have you tried using a DMX terminator at the end of your DMX chain?

No, because I have no idea what that is. If a company was actually interested in marketing DMX, you'd think they'd be able to describe what that is, or where to obtain it. (Sorry, my frustration is not directed at you, but rather at this concept known as DMX. It's as if the rapper himself created it and thought it was a good idea.)

Yes, I'm using DMX cables, as previously mentioned.

[DJ M&M]

ran into the same problem with my own rig, i had four chauvet scanners and one mircoh virus laser and using showxpres. The virus was set to channel 1 and the rest where set to there respective channels for dmx. However when i tried controlling one of the scanners the laser would react as well. To fix this I booted all the fixtures up in sequence as dmx'd addressed. Try that and see what happens.

[Synaxis]

Update:

Master/slave indeed works in DMX mode.

The problem seems to be when I introduce the Radius to the chain. That's when "crosstalk" happens. With only the Radius fixture selected, both other fixtures blink randomly and respond to the faders sporadically. Really annoying. I've tried assinging it a starting address of 049 to make it fixture #4 and the same thing happens. And to be honest, I can't replicate the Radius' sound active mode using DMX, so I think I'm just going to leave it out of the chain and power it up once the upbeat songs start, and leave it in sound active mode.

Your issue seems VERY eerily similar to what I was experiencing in my chain. I think it may be a problem with the Radius itself, either hardware or software wise.

That's the reason why I ended up selling it.

EDIT: Do you think you can post up a video?

[DJzrule]

Sounds like the Radius isn't actually set to DMX.

[cooper]

Sounds like the Radius isn't actually set to DMX.

I'm following the manual, the LED display indicates it's set to DMX, so unless there's something wrong with the unit, it's in DMX.

At last night's wedding it actually worked out perfectly having the Radius set to sound active and its own power outlet. Having control over blackout is awesome, and very effective!

[CHAUVET DJ]

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