I have a Chauvet Gigbar2 with an ADJ Dotz Par attached to the stand. I use it with a Sushi DS and use ESA2 on a laptop to control them. I don't know much about DMX but was able to muddle my way through setting it up until it worked fairly well. Simple and effective.
Then suddenly on one of my gigs the DMX wasn't working. I sent in the Sushi and got a new one. It worked... and then it didn't. It must not be the Sushi so it must be the light, right? I purchased a new Gigbar2 and also new DMX cables just to be safe. First gig I did went flawlessly. The second time I went to use it it didn't work! I have spent the better part of the day trying to trouble shoot the issue with no luck.
To clarify, I can't get either the Gigbar or the Par to work at all. I have the Par daisychained to the Gigbar, both for power and DMX. I have the Gigbar set to 3 channel (1 through 3) and the Par set to 9 channel (4 through 12) which corresponds to what I have programmed in ESA2. There were no changes to the values in ESA2. The Gigbar does work fine in sound mode. My laptop has 3 USB ports and it doesn't work in any of the ports.
The only thing that hasn't been replaced is the ADJ Dotz Par and the actual laptop. I don't want to replace the laptop unless I absolutely have to.
Has anyone had anything like this happen? I'm looking for some guidance. I don't even know which thing to troubleshoot because I may be screwing up something that wasn't the problem.
ARGH!
Then suddenly on one of my gigs the DMX wasn't working. I sent in the Sushi and got a new one. It worked... and then it didn't. It must not be the Sushi so it must be the light, right? I purchased a new Gigbar2 and also new DMX cables just to be safe. First gig I did went flawlessly. The second time I went to use it it didn't work! I have spent the better part of the day trying to trouble shoot the issue with no luck.
To clarify, I can't get either the Gigbar or the Par to work at all. I have the Par daisychained to the Gigbar, both for power and DMX. I have the Gigbar set to 3 channel (1 through 3) and the Par set to 9 channel (4 through 12) which corresponds to what I have programmed in ESA2. There were no changes to the values in ESA2. The Gigbar does work fine in sound mode. My laptop has 3 USB ports and it doesn't work in any of the ports.
The only thing that hasn't been replaced is the ADJ Dotz Par and the actual laptop. I don't want to replace the laptop unless I absolutely have to.
Has anyone had anything like this happen? I'm looking for some guidance. I don't even know which thing to troubleshoot because I may be screwing up something that wasn't the problem.
ARGH!