DMX Lighting Tutorial Part 3: Dip Switches | UniqueSquared.com 

My head is blown, you just taught me binary. Not sure why I never understood it before, partly i never studied it, but you just schooled every DMX and binary tutorial on the internet. I have watched a bunch of vids on this topic and ALL of them assume that you know a bit of something. They should all take down their videos and bow to this one. I went from zero to hero in three videos and there are 2 left. Well done.

Dude what awesome software are you using for these amazing tutorials? Great job, keep it up!

that is very informative and clearly explained thank you for this dude! thumbs up

thanks that was helpfull I will use the dip switch caculator by chauvet !!

Those numbers are the values assigned to the switches in your DMX address. Each switch has a corresponding value, and the DMX address is calculated by adding together these values.

Ohhh ok ok, I think I get it better now. I just started a few months ago, so everything's still kind of odd for me. Lol, thank you very much! And thanks for your videos again. (:

This is why I've uploaded to LCD screens. So much higher easier!

Useful..

Logically speaking, a specific combination of those numbers 1,2,4,8....256 can create every number from 0 to 511. It is not random. They are 9 very powerful numbers when used in such a combination.

Thanks very good

Hey, I volunteer to do lights at a local Jr. High. We are running a Nsi 24/48 light console running to 3 Nsi 8 channel dimmer packs. After a while, a dimmer channel will just stop working. Is there anything perhaps that i am doing wrong. Also is there any way to troubleshoot and/or fix this problem. Also there is one channel that is consistantly stuck on full.

Man, I don't get the Math part. Where did u get those numbers? 1,2,4,8....256? And then u rest other numbers, but for what if u r still using those ones u already have? It'd be cool if I could get an answer. Ur videos are awesome, thanks!

awesome

your digit values are back wards its left to right 1 2 4 8 16 32 etc

Look at minute 3:07, it's wrong. You wrote 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ... from left to right, when numbers should be wrote from right to left. In fact, binary 110100010 isn't equal to 139 in decimal, but to 418. Decimal 139 would be 10001011 in binary.

binary teachings are pretty nice but why can't we just start counting from the back and use the "1" channel to make up uneven numbers? ch 503? 256+128+64+32+16= 496, + (DS 1,2 and 3 witch are equal to 1,2 and 4 and we leave DS4 out of the math cause 8 would be to much ) = 496 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 503 ...you said its always 512 channels per universe and it's binary so there won't be any bigger numbers.....channel 163? DS 8,6,2 and 1 wich equals channel 128+32+2+1=163 ....easy as pie and ten times faster than always looking at an app at ur smartphone while at work. Oh yeah, btw your tutorial is the best!