![]() Anytime you're dealing with incandescent par cans or any fixture that is "on or off" only, you probably need one. The bottom line is, you don't NEED a dimmer pack for certain situations at all but in others it is quite advisable. On the contrary, for a wedding as another example, a dimmer/switch pack would be a bit overkill, unless you're using incandescent par cans and you want them to flash or be "dimmable". ![]() Sure, you could put them all on a breaker, but it's much better to have complete 100% control over power to each light from the lighting station. So, when do you need them? For example, in a club with your lights permanently installed on the ceiling, you want to be able to remotely control power to them. Many dimmer packs also allow you to turn them into switch packs, wherein the pack won't dim the lights based on DMX value, but turn them on above 127, and off below that. You can use dimmer/switch packs if you want to be able to control power to the lights remotely. It is a slightly abstract concept, but simple to resolve. Think about what you're doing, not necessarily how you get the work done(as in through/via a dimmer pack). When you think this way, it makes perfect sense. Dimmer packs control or operate fixtures, so therefore assign the profile to the channel(s) used by the dimmer pack appropriate for what is hanging off the dimmer pack, but not the dimmer pack itself. It's not like if you swap out the Par64s for Par38's and don't tell MyDMX that it's honestly going to make a difference to MyDXM, because MyDMX doesn't care, nor is it its job to care. These profiles are for your benefit anyways. ![]() Honestly, MyDMX doesn't care what you have assinged to a channel. In which case, MyDMX doesn't really have a profile for those either, so the advise for that is to select a generic so you can tell in the 3D Visualizer that it is turned on, which is about the only amount of control you're gonna have anyways. Simply select 4 Par64 profiles, each assigned to the appropriate channel and you are good to go.īut what if you're not using something like a Par Can? Then chances are you are using a "Hi-Tech FX" type fixture. What is more critical is assinging a profile for the devices hanging off the dimmer pack, which in this care are Par64 lights. Giving a profile to the dimmer pack itself is useless. I can, via a DMX controller, such as MyDMX, control the intensity of those 4 Par64 lights via sending control instructions to the dimmer pack. Let's assume I have 4 Par64 lights on the dimmer pack, 1 per channel. So, a profile should be made for the dimmer? No, it shouldn't. This dimmer pack, just for the sake of argument is an ADJ DP-DMX20L, a fairly common dimmer pack capable of using 4 DMX channels. Why? Because the dimmer pack itself is an intermediary device to get something else to work.Ĭase and point. ![]() MyDMX doesn't have profiles for dimmer packs for a very simple reason. ![]() Also, some motors have DMX functionality but that's a different yet related issue. By fixture, I am refering to a piece of electronics that is designed to produce light for the purpose of illumination, not "on unit displays". Second, on their own, the dimmer packs are not a fixture. Let me set some things straight to sort out the confusion.įirst, it is acknowledged that dimmer packs, switching packs and power packs(here-after all inclusively called dimmer packs) are all DMX devices. And time and time again, the answers are the same. You keep complaining that "gee, there is no profile for my dimmer pack". Do you have dimmer packs? Some of you do. ![]()
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