Hi Everyone-- First post here- I am designing a show at a theatre currently with a 4 universe Ion-- The ion has been rented for the production, as the house console is an Obsession 2 with 3 DMX universes.
The universes are Hard runs of 5 Pin from the Booth to backstage- about 2-300' runs, and I am told work well. We have the console set up in the house currently, and have run universe 1 and 2 to the back of the console where they are plugged-- They work correctly. The Third Universe is plugged into the net 3 node in the booth, and is connected to the gateway / via a 100' piece of Cat 5 Cable. Currently the only thing plugged into the universe are 6 sections of colorblaze 72, and when we were testing them last night we realized that it took 30-60 seconds for the units to respond to any DMX command-- The issue is not te units themselves, as we plugged them into the second universe and they worked properly-- I am told that the Node / gateway worked properly and was tested in the shop prior to being sent out-
I am just the designer, so am not 100% familiar with the technical specs of the Gateway, or the Node itself- or the settings in the console itself for this particular situation, but does anyone have any thoughts ?? Could it be that the cat 5 run (between the booth and gateway) is too long, and we are experiencing a signal drop-off, or is it some sort of setting at the console itself. the Electrician was going to try extending the 5 Pin line into the house, and moving the node closer to the console-
Any help would be appreciated-
Charlie Cooper
