okay where to start:
Rock club that occasionally has DJs. There is no one in charge of running lights, I need an automatic solution.
We do have a DMX board with DMX dimmer packs for our live show cans, but I want to stay seperate with my recently purchased 2 DJ Scan HPs 250. I have learned a very annoying new term called "Duty Cycle". I love how its no where on the outside of the box.
So I bought a copilot to run the scans, turn one off and one on for 10 minutes.
First question, thats not really working. I have on channel 1 and one on channel 2; switched to the 10 minute program. The only switch the occurs os channel 1 goes off after 10 minutes.
Second question; should I be doing that to the lights? Thats a lot of test turn on cycles to go through for the night.
Third question; should I just dump these lights and the co pilot and get some run all nighters? I'd really like to have some other trick lights in the future, but this duty cycle stuff is really throwing a wrench into this.
fourth question; i wanted to stay away from this but can I program the DMX controller to switch through duty cycles for me?
Hope Im not asking too much. Old to sound; very new to lights.
Best
Ryan
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