Legacy Unison Upgrade

Hi blue2blue,

When you say control hardware, do you just mean the Legacy Unison? 
If so the answer is yes it's possibly to only update 1/2 of the system.

Questions thought:  is the Unison Rack in a standalone enclosure on the wall, or is it part of a Dr Rack (Architectural dimmer rack).
ie....does it look like this:
or

The upgrade to Legacy Unison would be a Paradigm Processor (ERN-2 or ERN-4).  Paradigm can speak DMX or sACN which depending on how your system is setup is what the Sensor racks use so it can natively control them without having to also upgrade your Sensor racks.
https://www.etcconnect.com/Products/Architectural-Systems/Paradigm/

If you were asking can you just upgrade the CEM or CEM+ processor in the Sensor/Sensor+ rack to Sensor 3, no you can't.  Upgrading to CEM3 requires a new backplane and CEM3 processor at the same time.

Hi Chris, 

We have a standalone Unison Rack in addition to the two Sensor racks. I was hoping that it would be possible to just upgrade the Unision to a Paradigm Processor without needing to mess with the dimmer racks (They're both working just fine). 

Yep you can certainly upgrade the one and not touch the Sensor Racks.

If the Sensor racks are running on DMX then that's really simple.  If they are on network, it's still doable.

Yes, our racks are running DMX, which is perfect. Thanks for the help!