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Not an expert on programing and lighting but have picked up some things over the years owning a nightclub. Anyway I just bought 2 dj spot 250 and have a older Elektralite cp10 that i would like to use with them but i cant seam to figure it out. The issuse im having is i do not know what fixture out of the fixture libary to use to. Any help would be greatly appricated. i also have a american dj show designer, rev 2.03 that i could use but more fimilar with the cp10.

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Eric
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Thanks alot for the quick responce and i understand that you can not help with other products.

ok then lets try this i have 2 dj spot 250 and the american dj show designer ver 2.03 and cant get the lights to responce, all they do is run in test mode. is there a way to know ther gettin dmx signal

i have the first fixture addressed as 1 and the second as 7, with the controller using the mighty scans from the libary, still nothing, any idea

eric

any help would be appricated
Not that this is a totally conclusive way of testing, but I built one of these and they work. It's a very basic DMX tester. DO NOT use a dual-element LED, use 2 LED's, trust me, it works better(or rather: it works)

This is super basic. It will NOT do any diagnostics, but only show you that "hey, you got DMX here" and can act as a DMX terminator as well. It will not show if there are problems with the DMX signalling(like errors). All of us should have one of these.

Those who are really into this should get a real DMX tester, but those are expensive and not really practical for most of us.

DMX Tester

See if your SD console has a polarity reversing swithc. Make sure your lights are set to addresses you are expecting to use(even if you don't have a profile). Make sure your lights are in DMX mode. Make sure you are using DMX cabling and the cabling is good. Don't trust any pre-installed wiring right now, bypass everything you can and go as direct to the fixture as possible using known good DMX cable.

AlSO: use a DMX terminator. Easy to build as well. Most ADJ manuals for DMX fixtures shows how to make a DMX terminator. Super easy stuff. If you can build the tester, you can definately build the terminator as it is only 1 resistor over leads 2 and 3.

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