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Three displays on Ion

hi 

We've had an Ion for about a year now and i had a few questions.  First, ive seen setups where there were three touchscreens/lcds running with the ion and i was wondering how this was achieved, is it through the two dvi ports and the vga port???  also we run about 50 scrollers per show and never had a problem with them on the Insight 3 but now that weve switched to the Ion and have then fixture personalities running them they will randomly start twitching from frame to frame as well as being of a whole frame.  now we have calibrated them more times then i can count and still have the twitching.  i just want to know why in the world its doing this i consider scrollers a vary simple device so whatever the console is spitting out is causing this.

 

thanks

austin robbins

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    Ion supports a maximum of two monitors.

    Some people have used a Client dongle to connect their computer to the Ion giving an additional control surface with its own separate monitors, this may have been what you saw - or it could have been an Eos console, as the monitor displays are identical.

    - You can of course use DVI or VGA splitters if you want a 'copy' of a given monitor.

    The "twitching" scrollers is most likely to be a DMX cabling issue.

    Have you terminated the DMX line these scrollers are on? Lack of termination (120 ohm resistor across data + and data - at the end of the DMX run) is something that you tend to 'get away with' for a while, and eventually it starts causing intermittent issues.

    You may also have a cable or connector that is failing somewhere in the chain, giving an intermittent connection - seen quite a few connectors where the solder joints have started to go, and it tends to manifest as apparently random 'twitches' and 'flickers' somewhere along the line.

    - Scroller Calibration is there because scrolls are never identical and also stretch a bit in use. By calibrating, you can pick "Frame 5" and get Frame 5 on all the scrollers, rather than sending all scrollers the same DMX value and getting 'a little before' on some and 'a little after' on others.

  • 0 in reply to Richard

    this is definately an ion.  so how would they have achieved this.  and on the scrollers they work just fine when they are not patched with a personality an just as a normal channel but that would be an incredible disappointment to have to switch these all to channels with no personality.  and they are terminated.  

     

    thanks 

    austin

  • 0 in reply to austinr14

    Hi Austin,

    yep looks like an Ion - with two monitor ouputs. The third monitor output is probably

    coming from a pc/laptop running client or mirror mode providing the extra monitor output.

    As stated - Ion can only output two monitors.

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    0 Anonymous in reply to corey cascio

    The proof that this is an RVI, RPU or client running along side of an Ion is the fact, with this apparent version of the software, their are two CIA areas...the far monitor is collapsed (with the expand button in the center bottom of that display) while the nearest monitor also has a CIA area.  That CIA area on the monitor nearest is organized in a fashion that would be expected from an RVI, RPU or client from software of that version. 

    Ion hardware only supports two video outputs I'm afraid.  Eos is our only product in this family of consoles that supports three external video connections.

    -D

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