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is there a possibilty of making a converter for....

... DMX to LWP.

Why, you ask? Well, some of the venues I was in last year had HES fixtures that were running off of LWP.

Instead of being difficult and making the house guys swap dip switches, I just ran them off the old I-beam controllers, using whatever crap programs they had (except once venue where the programming was so bad i shut the Technobeams off).

Plus, in one venue, just accessing the trackspots would ahve taken more time than i had available to do the swap.

If it's possible to make a DMX to LWP converter, then i could just plug in and go- just like my DMX to AMX converter for those ancient venues that still use those.

is it even possible to create such a device?

How to the T-Spots, I-beams, etc read data signal? Do they run off of DMX when in DMX mode, LWP when in LWP mode, or do they convert one format to the other to drive the fixture?
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    [quote=tadawson]

    These guys just need to be coerced into an "accident" with their LWP controllers, and get with the times when they replace them . . .

    - Tim

    I tend to agree...

    but then again, I ran into four venues that had 30 year old 10v analog boards, one whose fkn controller used DIALS instead of faders, and, the biggest insult of all, i was given an X-10 remote control and told that it turns on "THE" light (one 26 degree Source 4 was the entire lighting rig in that room)

    no, there s currently no device that does this- I'm asking if it's possible to create one.
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    [quote=tadawson]

    These guys just need to be coerced into an "accident" with their LWP controllers, and get with the times when they replace them . . .

    - Tim

    I tend to agree...

    but then again, I ran into four venues that had 30 year old 10v analog boards, one whose fkn controller used DIALS instead of faders, and, the biggest insult of all, i was given an X-10 remote control and told that it turns on "THE" light (one 26 degree Source 4 was the entire lighting rig in that room)

    no, there s currently no device that does this- I'm asking if it's possible to create one.
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