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Offline MazdaFan

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« on: July 18, 2013, »
I was wondering if these could be powered by a SS Hub and DSCs?

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By my calcs each pulls ~350ma so it would be well within the amperage limits of the controller.

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Offline zwiller

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Re: Question
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2013, »
HUB and DSC are pixelnet and the flood is dmx.  Apples/oranges.  Although you could send dmx from hub and feed 12V to it, the start channel is fixed, although he sells a programmer or will change for you.  I shot Ray an email to see if he will sell "dumb" since I have a need for one of these where an Aether II would be too bright. 
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Offline Steve Gase

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Re: Question
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2013, »
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HUB and DSC are pixelnet and the flood is dmx.  Apples/oranges.  Although you could send dmx from hub and feed 12V to it, the start channel is fixed, although he sells a programmer or will change for you.  I shot Ray an email to see if he will sell "dumb" since I have a need for one of these where an Aether II would be too bright.
I've got 3 of the floods, and learned the wrong way that you can't apply direct voltage (aka "dumb string method") to these. 


They come with a constant current driver enabled DMX controller.  When I tried to swap out the controller with one of the standard 3-channel dumb string DMX controllers I fried the red LED.  I've since fixed it by replacing the LED module, but learned that this won't work as a DSC.


The proper way to incorporate this with the DLA environment is to use the DMX connection off of an Active hub.  (...or a DMX dongle, or DMX-programmed EtD).
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