Martin Roboscan812 - Need some quick answer please.

[Thomas]

yea, your getting a good deal. They are good lights, just remember they are old technology. They are heavy. They don't rotate or you can't change the gobos. They don't master/slave.

Check into getting a martin controller maybe with preprogrammed scenes. It seems I've seen them around, but can't recall the model number.

I think they will be a good beginner set of scanners for me.

1) Cheap, but good.
2) A good trainer for me to learn DMX and how scanners actually look and work.
3) I can sell them in a year or two and probably break even.

 

[cclark65]

I'll send you the addresses that my scanners are on, then you can make a bunch of very cool scenes, export them and send to me, then I'll have some to use rather than just letting them go random!

I'm using showxpress, a bit spendier than others, but it works for me.

I have decided that instead of trying to create a ton of scenes, I"ll make a panel that I can choose the color, gobo, and movement pattern. Then I can select any combination to run on the fly, or set them to random and let them go. I"m guessing that I can let the showxpress software choose them also if I want them all to be in sync.

I'm not much of a light guy, they are just there to light up and do things while I work the sound board.

 

[Guest]

I think they will be a good beginner set of scanners for me.

1) Cheap, but good.
2) A good trainer for me to learn DMX and how scanners actually look and work.
3) I can sell them in a year or two and probably break even.

OK just so you know the 812's work on Martin protocol and not standard DMX, you need to reverse the DMX cable or get a converter box for the Martins.

 

[Thomas]

OK just so you know the 812's work on Martin protocol and not standard DMX, you need to reverse the DMX cable or get a converter box for the Martins.

Yeah I seen that on the manuals I downloaded.

Does this mean I need to put them on the end of my dmx series?

Just reverse the cable heading into them?

 

[Thomas]

I'll send you the addresses that my scanners are on, then you can make a bunch of very cool scenes, export them and send to me, then I'll have some to use rather than just letting them go random!

I'm using showxpress, a bit spendier than others, but it works for me.

I have decided that instead of trying to create a ton of scenes, I"ll make a panel that I can choose the color, gobo, and movement pattern. Then I can select any combination to run on the fly, or set them to random and let them go. I"m guessing that I can let the showxpress software choose them also if I want them all to be in sync.

I'm not much of a light guy, they are just there to light up and do things while I work the sound board.

Sure. It will probably be a while before I get anything figured out.

 

[Thomas]

I'll send you the addresses that my scanners are on, then you can make a bunch of very cool scenes, export them and send to me, then I'll have some to use rather than just letting them go random!

I'm using showxpress, a bit spendier than others, but it works for me.

I have decided that instead of trying to create a ton of scenes, I"ll make a panel that I can choose the color, gobo, and movement pattern. Then I can select any combination to run on the fly, or set them to random and let them go. I"m guessing that I can let the showxpress software choose them also if I want them all to be in sync.

I'm not much of a light guy, they are just there to light up and do things while I work the sound board.

Sure. It will probably be a while before I get anything figured out.

I was messing around with freestyler and all I figured out was a headache.

 

[cclark65]

OK just so you know the 812's work on Martin protocol and not standard DMX, you need to reverse the DMX cable or get a converter box for the Martins.

Actually, they will autodetect martin or DMX protocol.

However, you are correct about the cable. I made cables with pins 2/3 reversed for the roboscans, and marked them with an M on the connector.

If yours are at the end of the chain, then you only need to reverse the first one, and then jumper to the rest.

Mine are in the middle of other lights, so I made the connectors that reversed, then unreversed them. If I don't use the 812's, then I just plug them into each other and bypass the reversal that way. (I can explain more if it doesn't make sense)

 

[Thomas]

Actually, they will autodetect martin or DMX protocol.

However, you are correct about the cable. I made cables with pins 2/3 reversed for the roboscans, and marked them with an M on the connector.

If yours are at the end of the chain, then you only need to reverse the first one, and then jumper to the rest.

Mine are in the middle of other lights, so I made the connectors that reversed, then unreversed them. If I don't use the 812's, then I just plug them into each other and bypass the reversal that way. (I can explain more if it doesn't make sense)

I have been reading some more on them. It's basicly a rs-458 network, I deal with them all the time.

 

[Guest]

Yeah I seen that on the manuals I downloaded.

Does this mean I need to put them on the end of my dmx series?

Just reverse the cable heading into them?

As Clark stated.. yes!