Dmx-512 Control Connection; Dmx-512 Connection With Dmx Terminator; Device Dmx Start Address Selection - High End Systems SolaHyBeam 2000 User Manual

DMX-512 CONTROL CONNECTION

Connect the provided male side of the XLR cable to the female XLR output of your controller and the
female side of the XLR cable to the male XLR input of the device. You can connect multiple devices
together in a serial fashion. The cable needed should be two core, screened cable with XLR input and
output connectors. Please refer to the diagram below.
Address 79 Address 40 Address 1

DMX-512 CONNECTION WITH DMX TERMINATOR

For installations where the DMX cable has to run over a long distance or is in an electrically noisy
environment, such as in a discotheque, it is recommended to use a DMX terminator. This helps in
preventing corruption of the digital control signal caused by electrical noise. The DMX terminator is an XLR
plug with a 120 Ω resistor connected between pins 2 and 3, which is then plugged into the output (female)
XLR socket of the last fixture in the chain. Please see illustrations below.

DEVICE DMX START ADDRESS SELECTION

All fixtures should be given a DMX starting address when using a DMX signal, so that the correct fixture
responds to the correct control signals. This digital starting address is the channel number from which the
fixture starts to "listen" to the digital control information sent out from the DMX controller. The allocation of
this starting address is achieved by setting the correct address number on the display located on the base
of the device.
You can set the same starting address for all fixtures or a group of fixtures, or set different addresses for
each fixture individually.
If you set the same address on all devices, all the devices will start to "listen" to the same control signal
from the same channel number. In other words, changing the settings of one channel will affect all the
fixtures simultaneously.
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