• State Not Answered
  • Date
    TBS Lighting
  • Date
  • Replies 6 replies
  • Subscribers 5 subscribers
  • Views 268 views
  • Users 0 members are here

Dimmer Flickering on an iPC

I have a customer running an iPC that is experiencing flickering outputs from dimmers at 0%. If he gives them an intensity value of 1%, the problem disappears. It's a permanent install and they have the iPC connected to their Lectrol dimmers via a Pathport network.

He said an old remedy for that problem was to adjust the DMX refresh rate of the console, but he didn't see anyway to do that in the Hog 3 manual. I am wondering if it's a dimmer issue or perhaps noise on the Ethernet line in the Pathport network. I don't see how the console could be causing it unless there is something to the DMX refresh issue.

Anyone else dealt with a problem like this? Thanks in advance.


Travis Slyter
Ruehling Associates, Inc.
Parents
  • 0
    [quote=tbslyter]A related question. You can slow down the DMX refresh rate, can you increase it past 25/sec or is that the limit? Does the limit very between consoles or DP-8000s/2000s?

    Yes you can increase it, and yes there are different limits.

    The DP-2000 cannot go above 40 or 44 (I forget which)

    The DP-8000 can go much higher than this....I have never tried above 60 on DP-8k though....

    Not sure how this translates to internal widgets on the XPe based consoles.

    Hope this helps:)
Reply
  • 0
    [quote=tbslyter]A related question. You can slow down the DMX refresh rate, can you increase it past 25/sec or is that the limit? Does the limit very between consoles or DP-8000s/2000s?

    Yes you can increase it, and yes there are different limits.

    The DP-2000 cannot go above 40 or 44 (I forget which)

    The DP-8000 can go much higher than this....I have never tried above 60 on DP-8k though....

    Not sure how this translates to internal widgets on the XPe based consoles.

    Hope this helps:)
Children
No Data
Related

www.etcconnect.com