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Dmx/ dimmers Express & Ion.

  1. I’m working on a 72/144 express consul. I have 1024 DMX addresses, i. e. 1024 dimmers. Patching 1:1 will only give me 240 dimmers that I can use. I assume that the rest of the dimmers are dead to me. I want to purchase an Ion. How do they get around that on the ion?
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  • This is an old thread, I know, but:

    The Express you're using has two DMX outputs, but only has 240-ish channels of control.That means you can plug up to 1024 dimmers (or fixtures with a sum total of 1024 attributes) into it, but you can only send 240 disparate values to any of these - so hypothetically if every fixture needs one channel for each of its attributes, you have 240 only addresses to work with - though they can be patched anywhere in that 1024 output range.

    The Ion has many more addreses available (with additional hardware, like an ethernet gateway), so you can have a *bunch* more 512-address universes than the two outputs the actual console has. Early versions of the Ion had 1000, 2000 or 3000 channels available, and software licenses were (are?) available for purchase if you needed more of them unlocked on your console, up to 3000. A later revision doubled those numbers. So the Ion is far more flexible than the express in terms of how much you can plug in, and its expandability.

    As much as I miss my old dependable Express console, I'm not looking back.

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  • This is an old thread, I know, but:

    The Express you're using has two DMX outputs, but only has 240-ish channels of control.That means you can plug up to 1024 dimmers (or fixtures with a sum total of 1024 attributes) into it, but you can only send 240 disparate values to any of these - so hypothetically if every fixture needs one channel for each of its attributes, you have 240 only addresses to work with - though they can be patched anywhere in that 1024 output range.

    The Ion has many more addreses available (with additional hardware, like an ethernet gateway), so you can have a *bunch* more 512-address universes than the two outputs the actual console has. Early versions of the Ion had 1000, 2000 or 3000 channels available, and software licenses were (are?) available for purchase if you needed more of them unlocked on your console, up to 3000. A later revision doubled those numbers. So the Ion is far more flexible than the express in terms of how much you can plug in, and its expandability.

    As much as I miss my old dependable Express console, I'm not looking back.

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