How to program DMX lights for beginners (simple lesson) 

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Really appreciate those kind words and glad it's still helpful after all these years!

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I love getting comments like this on my channel!! Thanks so much for the kind words and good luck with your light shows.

Really appreciate those kind words and glad it was helpful- thanks for watching and good luck with your programming!

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Really appreciate your kind words and glad the Obey 40 is working out for you (its a work horse of a controller!) Wishing you continued success with your light shows :)

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+LearnLizard My question is, what about different types of fixtures? Does everything daisy chain together and you assign the addresses, or does there need to be some kind of splitter to send each model its own lead?

DMX512 is just a protocol, and doesn't care what fixtures or dimmers you use. You can daisychain up to 512 channels on one universe (a set of 512 addresses is called a universe). On large boards you have multiple universes, that means you use one DMX output per universe.

LearnLizard Love you're work, you inspired me and I scored myself a beginner dmx controller hat does 192 control channel for 12 projectors with up to 16 channels 16 bit resolution for fine Pan/Tilt movements 6 programmable chases with up to 240 scenes 8 Preset Scenes from New Zealand's equivalent of Ebay for $40nzd with roadcase, now just need some fixtures and a stand.

LearnLizard Love you're work, you inspired me and I scored myself a beginner dmx controller hat does 192 control channel for 12 projectors with up to 16 channels 16 bit resolution for fine Pan/Tilt movements 6 programmable chases with up to 240 scenes 8 Preset Scenes from New Zealand's equivalent of Ebay for $40nzd with roadcase, now just need some fixtures and a stand.

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Mate, its easy. Trust me. I've been doing it for years with all different types of consoles, including, ETC Element, ETC Ion, GrandMA3 Light, ONYX and Zero 88. Just see what you find easiest and learn it.

Thanks so much for the kind words and glad it helped. Programming scenes can be a lot of fun!

+Danny Finch I have not been using a terminator (although it is good practice to) as my cables are under 30 feet long. The longer your cables, the more necessary they become to avoid signal transmission problems. Thanks for watching!

I got a terminator, they're only about $5. Plus, couldn't resist buying something as cool sounding as that.

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more good practice in using terminators is when you are using a larger number of fixtures in the chain. me personally as a general rule if i have 2 or more fixtures in the chain i use a terminator. save yourself some money buying a ready made one if you have a little bit of tech knowledge is a waste of money. make your own for a fraction of the price ( i make mine for about $1.70AUD). take a male XLR connector, remove the casing and solder a 120ohm 0.5W resistor between pins 2 and 3 (looking at rear view thats the left hand side and bottom pins). replace the casing and you're good to go just connect it in your final fixture on the chain

+Aaron Wilson Hi- The reason they do that is because different fixtures have different numbers of channels- The Obey 40 can accommodate a fixture that has up to 16 channels (thus the the starting address of fixture 2 starting at 17) Hope that makes sense and thanks for watching.

Yes, that really helps! Thank you so much. I love your videos, not only are they informative, but they are highly entertaining!

you could do that, or in the case of the obey 40 you could start fixture 2 at ch 9 through 14 so you could control it on bank 2 of fixture 1, thus doubling the fixtures you could use (depending how many channels your fixture has). the reason its not traditionally done this way is because it gets so confusing having to remember precisely where your fixtures start. I personally use software based DMX control with USB to DMX conversion these days. the process is so much more streamlined than using a physical dmx board, eliminates carrying around that extra hardware, though i have kept my physical board because you just never know when you may need to use it as a back up (has gotten me out of crap a couple of times such as computer glitches or hardware issues). and what i love is that when adding fixtures to your universe the software i use takes the address guesswork out by telling you what start address to program your fixtures to. this also as you pointed out continues the next fixture from the next available channel so it eliminates wasting channels. in the case of my software controller, i can theoretically connect 512 single channel par cans (think halogen with color gels) and not waste a single available channel

​@Devondria Mbala-Robertson With this controller in particular, the third fixture would be at 33. the Obey 40 doesn't care how many channels a particular fixture has, it basically has already hard-set a bunch of 16-channel fixtures in its memory.

Wow- I really appreciate those kind words and so glad it was helpful. Its interesting that most simple DMX fixtures are programmed pretty much the same way in 2020!

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It is the same as shown. He is even using one. The controller he is using is probably the most cloned model unlike the Obey 70.

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...and good luck with your shows- hope they turn out well :)

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That is really awesome to hear! Thanks so much for the comment and hope you take your light shows to the next level...

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If you don’t have a controller how set up have that DMX cable

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Wow- thanks for those kind words and really glad the video helped. Have fun with your Obey 70 and appreciate you watching!

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Ha ha- yeah, the Obey 40's have been around forever, but they still get the job done-- and built like tanks :)

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