Covering Cables on the Floor... Alot.

[Jester]

1" pvc pipe along the wall.

[robdquick]

@ProfessorStrangeman

So if I got one of these and two of these, I could run the foot controller into one of the 4 stands, then the DMX Out to the DMX Transmitter, then run the three recievers to the DMX Ins on the other 3 stands? With them all set to Address 1 that should work right?

You just need 1 sender and 1 receiver. Put the sender on the end of stand 1, and the receiver on the first fixture of stand 2, and leave the rest wired exactly as it was.

Edit: Ignore above. Didn’t realise you had 4 stands in total. 1 sender, 3 receivers. As long as all the dmx addresses bars 2/3/4 are the same as 1 it should work.

[Ryan_Ruel]

I use the Chauvet D-Fi system, it works well. Mine it the 900 Mhz one, never had an issue with signal.

[ProfessorStrangeman]

@Jester

1" pvc pipe along the wall.

Thaaaaaat’s actually kind of brilliant, I’ll look into that too.

@robdquick

You just need 1 sender and 1 receiver. Put the sender on the end of stand 1, and the receiver on the first fixture of stand 2, and leave the rest wired exactly as it was.

Edit: Ignore above. Didn’t realise you had 4 stands in total. 1 sender, 3 receivers. As long as all the dmx addresses bars 2/3/4 are the same as 1 it should work.

Great! Would 4 Transceivers work as well? It’s a bit more money, but it would have more flexibility.

@Ryan_Ruel

I use the Chauvet D-Fi system, it works well. Mine it the 900 Mhz one, never had an issue with signal.

Great to hear! Did you have any latency issues?

[Ryan_Ruel]

No latency that mattered (for me at least).

[ProfessorStrangeman]

@Ryan_Ruel

No latency that mattered (for me at least).

Great! Good to know.

NEW QUESTION

Would y’all suggest 4 stand of 4 par cans, or 2 stands and then 8 uplights? Given it’s a dance floor with drunk people I think the stands would be safer and less step-on-able, but I want to hear all of your thoughts too!

EDIT: If I run DMX out of these, would it control these properly?

[robdquick]

@ProfessorStrangeman

Great! Would 4 Transceivers work as well? It’s a bit more money, but it would have more flexibility.

4 transceivers would work, but unless you’re sending DMX a very long distance the 1 Transceiver should be up to the job.

@ProfessorStrangeman

EDIT: If I run DMX out of these, would it control these properly?

Looking at the DMX channels, the Jelly par profile bar has either a 6, 12 or 15 channel mode. The Jelly go’s have 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7 channel modes. Doesn’t look like the 6 channel mode on the bar lines up with the go’s, so I don’t think it will work correctly. I have no idea what sort of DMX commands the foot controller puts out though, or how it all really works. There’s just a single DMX connection on the bar, so I don’t know how it controls the 4 separate pars.

[ProfessorStrangeman]

@robdquick

4 transceivers would work, but unless you’re sending DMX a very long distance the 1 Transceiver should be up to the job.

Buuuut there’s 4 stands?

@robdquick

Looking at the DMX channels, the Jelly par profile bar has either a 6, 12 or 15 channel mode. The Jelly go’s have 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7 channel modes. Doesn’t look like the 6 channel mode on the bar lines up with the go’s, so I don’t think it will work correctly. I have no idea what sort of DMX commands the foot controller puts out though, or how it all really works. There’s just a single DMX connection on the bar, so I don’t know how it controls the 4 separate pars.

Okay! Just a thought I had. I’ll probably end up going for 4 stands.

[robdquick]

@ProfessorStrangeman

Buuuut there’s 4 stands?

Sorry, I meant 1 Transceiver and 3 receivers…

@ProfessorStrangeman

Okay! Just a thought I had. I’ll probably end up going for 4 stands.

I hadn’t really looked that closely at them before, I didn’t realise it was just a single cable going to each par, I just thought it was a stand, 4 jelly par profiles and a foot controller!!