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Offline soakes94

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Lynx Dongle to DMX 5 pin
« on: November 16, 2011, »
Hi, I'm a bit confused with all the diagrams and LOR and Lynx and 3 pin and 5 pin and crossovers and stuff and was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. I have a lynx dongle and I need to connect a 5 pin dmx to the end of the cable. What pin from the lynx dongle goes to what pin on the DMX connector? I found this page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login and it confused me a little haha. So if you tell me what diagram to follow I should be sorted.

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Re: Lynx Dongle to DMX 5 pin
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2011, »
Steve,
Pin 2 (Orange with white stripe) from your Lynx device (or dongle) goes to Pin 2 of your 5 pin DMX plug and Pin 1 (white with orange stripe) from your Lynx device (or dongle) goes to Pin 3 of your 5 pin DMX plug.

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Re: Lynx Dongle to DMX 5 pin
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2011, »
The link you have is the best I have seen.  The only thing I could add is watch the pin numbers on cat5 cables as the color wire can vary because of different cable standards. 

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Re: Lynx Dongle to DMX 5 pin
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2011, »
So just to check I don't need the ground? It's for a commercial dimmer.

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Re: Lynx Dongle to DMX 5 pin
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2011, »
Yes you still will need ground, connect pin 7 & 8 of the cat 5 to pin 3 of the 5 pin xlr

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Re: Lynx Dongle to DMX 5 pin
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2011, »
Pin 3 of the 5 oin dmx is already used for data, is it pin 1 i use?

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Re: Lynx Dongle to DMX 5 pin
« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2011, »
yea pin one is ground.

XLR-5 pin out                                                 Lynx equipment

 pin 1 Signal  (Ground)                  ----> Rj45 7&8   (optional)
 pin 2 Data 1- (Primary Data Link)  ----> RJ45 Pin 2 (Orange)
 pin 3 Data 1+ (Primary Data Link) ----> RJ45 Pin 1 (White/Orange)
 pin 4  Unused Data -
 pin 5  Unused Data +

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Re: Lynx Dongle to DMX 5 pin
« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2011, »
Thats great thanks :)

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Re: Lynx Dongle to DMX 5 pin
« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2011, »
I have a 12 channel controller and a 30 watt led flood i use that has xlr connectors on them. So i have a adapter outside mounted in a box to covert the cat5 to xlr.

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Re: Lynx Dongle to DMX 5 pin
« Reply #9 on: November 22, 2011, »
Ahh okay, I was talking to my school technician about my kit and he wanted to have a go on the stage lights, nothing fancy, there all just par cans and things

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Re: Lynx Dongle to DMX 5 pin
« Reply #10 on: November 22, 2011, »
Well i built both the items, but at the time i did not even have a dongle or computer control. I had a console with 24 channels on it that i controlled the stuff with.

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Re: Lynx Dongle to DMX 5 pin
« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2011, »
Sounds good :) did the consol give good effects?

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Re: Lynx Dongle to DMX 5 pin
« Reply #12 on: November 22, 2011, »
It was a stage effects console, so you could fade lights, and make different scenes with it. The led flood i made has 3 10 watt leds in it, i dont know how thee aether II is, but at our mini my flood blew the Aether I away.

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Re: Lynx Dongle to DMX 5 pin
« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2011, »
How did you make your flood? I'm interested in using some high power leds, maybe start with 3 watts or 5 watts, the bit I struggle with is the power supply because I know resistors are know use for that power of led.

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Re: Lynx Dongle to DMX 5 pin
« Reply #14 on: November 22, 2011, »
Well the 10 watt leds im using, the blue and white run on straight regulated 12 volts, but the red has a wire wound resistor.
I put all 3 leds on a heat sink i made, then put that inside of a flood light unit like the aethers use.