Contact closure adapter and remote trigger switch for I/O port

This adapter plugs in to the Remote I/O connector on the back of your Ion, Element, Gio, Gio@5, Eos, or Eos Ti console or I/O Gateway and accepts a standard 5-pin XLR control cable. (Some people would call it a "DMX" cable but in this case it isn't used to transmit DMX data.) Use it to trigger a cue, macro, or submaster remotely.

Uses

  • Allows an actor to turn any number and wattage of lights on and off using a practical wall switch
  • Put a switch next to your DP or gaffer to let him/her trigger a cue
  • Simple house lights control for the cleaning staff
  • Set up a switch next to your house light switches for easy access to kill the lights in your rig when the house lights are up
  • Gaslight anyone on the crew by building a light switch into the wall that only "works" when you want it to

Features
Allows up to 4 different cues, macros, or submasters to be run from 4 different control circuits
A SPDT switch allows one cue, macro, or submaster to be triggered from the "up" position and another to be triggered from the "down" position
Allows any number of switches to control the same cue, macro, or submaster (through the use of jumpers, not supplied)
Compatible with any 5-pin XLR cable
Compatible with any 3-pin XLR cable with use of adapters (2 control circuits only.) Does not have to be DMX-grade cable.
Compatible with a standard networking "Ethernet" cable with use of adapters.
The male end is at the console, preventing anyone from plugging a DMX line into it
Tested to work with 400' of control cable

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contact closure adapter set



Edit: The original Eos doesn't have a 15-pin connector on the back.
[edited by: John728 at 4:32 PM (GMT -5) on Tue, May 30 2017]
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  • In that case, all you have to do is unplug the fixture, open up the fixture, cut and strip the wires going into and out of the switch, and wire nut them together.

    If you want to make the switch trigger the cue, then you take the two leads from the switch and wire them to your contact closure. (You could use my invention for that. :) )

    Put the housing back together, plug the fixture into one of your dimmers, and you're good to go.

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  • John, all that would be pretty basic and easy if I knew about the cue, and especially that the talent was going to trigger it on-camera, more than about 45 seconds before we roll. (I expect you've been there!) That's why I'm looking for something I can slap into, or onto, a practical circuit double-quick and trigger a Go macro or cue through the analog port.
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