Hog III DMX Dynamic Refresh Rate?

I'm currently working with a company that makes a DMX recorder that's giving me fits when I try to use it with the Hog III consoles (Hog III and Hog 3PC).

Their engineer seems to think it has to do with the Hog III either not being set at a high enough refresh rate (mine is currently set at 25, which I think is the default and should be sufficient) or because the Hog could be in what he calls a "dynamic DMX mode". I've never seen such a mode anywhere on the system, and can't find anything now. Any idea? I'm definitely seeing drops in the DMX data, especially when I bring up menus and whatnot.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mark Novick
Lighting Designer
Fastlane Productions
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    Thanks for your detailed reply.

    Unfortunately, from the user interface, I see no way to adjust the DMX recorder to handle how the Hog sends data. It would have to be something handled on the engineering side. According to the information I've gotten from them (and it could likely be far more complex than what I've been told) is that the DMX recorder needs to see at least 20 frames per second otherwise it thinks the data signal has been lost.

    I'm going to send your post on to the engineer I've been working with, and hopefully we can figure out a solution that will work. Let me know if you want his info so you can work with them directly.

    -Mark
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    Thanks for your detailed reply.

    Unfortunately, from the user interface, I see no way to adjust the DMX recorder to handle how the Hog sends data. It would have to be something handled on the engineering side. According to the information I've gotten from them (and it could likely be far more complex than what I've been told) is that the DMX recorder needs to see at least 20 frames per second otherwise it thinks the data signal has been lost.

    I'm going to send your post on to the engineer I've been working with, and hopefully we can figure out a solution that will work. Let me know if you want his info so you can work with them directly.

    -Mark
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