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ETC Element 500 and ETC Nomad - Outputs/Parameters vs. Channels

I expect this has been covered before but I'm going to ask anyway.

We have an ETC Element 60-500 in our venue and I'd like to be clear on what the System Capacity is as we are purchasing some new (to us) VL 1100 TSD's and some other movers.

So, SYSTEM CAPACITY for this console is listed as 1024 Outputs/Parameters and 500 Channels.

Is a Channel (in the count of 500 for this console) just the Intensity attribute?

So if we have a Sensor Rack with 96 Dimmers and an additional 45 intelligent lights (of various kinds) does that add up to only 141 Channels used of the System Count of 500?

To run these 141 Channels we use 632 DMX Addresses (as some of the movers use up to 27 DMX Addresses per fixture).  So this count of 632 DMX counts toward the capacity of 1024 Outputs/Parameters for this console, leaving 392 Outputs/Parameters for future expansion?

Have I got this right?

Next.  I'm likely going to purchase ETCnomad to run on a Laptop (and a ETC Gadget USB-to-DMX/RDM) to use as a back up and remote for the console.  So I'd need the ETCnomad256 with an additional ETCnomad512 Up 512 Outputs Upgrade (one universe) to be able to backup this console?

Does this sound right?

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  • you got most of it right:
    - yes, you have 141 channels out of 500. 1 channel is one device that you control. it doesn't matter how many different parameters each of these devices have.
    - i don't know which fixtures you have, but yes it could be that you will use up 638 addresses of your 1024 output count.
    - if you want it to be backup, you will need the same system count as your primary. in your case this means 1024. so to your license of 256, you would need the first upgrade to 512 and then another full universe of 512. if you just want to remote (in eos language that would be a client) a nomad 256 would be enough. but please be aware that neither with element client nor backup you get separate command lines. so if someone on the client types something, it will interrupt the person on the main console (and vice versa)
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  • you got most of it right:
    - yes, you have 141 channels out of 500. 1 channel is one device that you control. it doesn't matter how many different parameters each of these devices have.
    - i don't know which fixtures you have, but yes it could be that you will use up 638 addresses of your 1024 output count.
    - if you want it to be backup, you will need the same system count as your primary. in your case this means 1024. so to your license of 256, you would need the first upgrade to 512 and then another full universe of 512. if you just want to remote (in eos language that would be a client) a nomad 256 would be enough. but please be aware that neither with element client nor backup you get separate command lines. so if someone on the client types something, it will interrupt the person on the main console (and vice versa)
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