3 Channel DMX Controller

 

 

I've built up one light so far as my prototype using one of these boards and a RGB LED MR-16 replacement board sold by bigclive.com that illuminates a 6 inch white acrylic globe. The result looks pretty nice (alot nicer than video in real life). Had 4 of these in the display last year with a single green MR-16 LED inside controlled from a D-Light DCx16. The RGB version uses 3 each color superflux LEDs and is brighter than the single MR16 plus gives me the RGB ability. I've done some quick testing with Vixen and am very pleased with the results so far.

I did a quick video on the prototype using the Lynx Dongle and driving the dmx with WinAMP and DMX Control:

You also need a 12 VDC power source per module. I've tested and plan to provide the 12VDC at the first module and chain it through a RJ45 connection along with the DMX signalling.

 

The board has DMX in and DMX out.

 

I'm going directly from the LYNX dongle (Aurora when I can get the dongle and DMX version) to the 3 channel board and chaining the DMX network.

 

Test using the LYNX dongle with Vixen and WinAMP (using DMX Control as a plugin) have all been successful. Since I'm not a beta tester I'll rely on the little info that's in the forums about Aurora and the upcoming DMX version and suspect that everything should work ok.

 

The one thing they don't tell you in the description of these boards is that they come set to DMX address 1. Since the address is 'soft strapped' via the DMX interface if you want them on any other address you either need to specify the address when you order them or need to purchase their DMX Address Editor(at the moment I'm stuck with 4 of these all set to address 1).

 

In the test video this is 1 board starting DMX address 1. I've tried chaing a few together and as expected they all operate together. I'm currently looking into a slightly less expensive place to get both the same boards and the address editor since I may be putting 8 to 12 of these into the display.

 

If I remember when I build the next one of these I'll takesome photos and try and put together some sort of step-by-step type documentation and post it on my website.

 

 

Actually you'd need 4 units with addresses 1, 4, 7, 10 (remember each is 3 channels) then this would give you the 4 rgb lights on the first 12 channels of the DMX universe.