Hey guys this is Martin again from SIRS-E.
And today I am going to talk about.
DMX addressing and binary code.
And how to address all of your LED-CON2-R2 LED-CON4-R2.
And pretty much anything that has dip switch.
Or some sort of DMX addressing module or panel.
So we are going to start with an LED-CON2-R2.
This LED-CON2-R2 has a regular DMX dip switch.
Type of addressing module here on the side.
And the way this works, it works by binary code.
And binary code essentially is just.
A fancy way of saying that each little dip switch.
Has value to it.
So dip switch one has value of 1.
Two is has a value of 2.
Three has the value of 4.
Five has the value of 8.
And it keeps going.
16, 32, 64 and this thing goes.
All the way to 256 up to nine.
Dip switch ten is not really used for addressing.
It is just like a test function.
Here on the LED-CON2-R2.
So for DMX addressing you really use one though nine.
That being said.
I am going to show you a small example.
I am also going to talk about why DMX addressing is important.
DMX addressing.
When you set the starting DMX address of a fixture.
Essentially what that is.
It is the starting address value where.
The DMX signal is going to be sent for that particular fixture.
So within a DMX Universe you have 512 channels.
And, whenever you set your starting DMX address for a particular fixture.
That is where that fixture is going to be at.
So let’s say you have an RGB strip.
Connect it to one of these.
It is 3 channels red, green and blue.
And you want to connect it after another fixture that is also 3 channels.
And then you would go to channel 4.
So to find channel 4 here.
You know that one is 1.
Two is 2, three is 4.
So in reality, the way it works.
With dip switches here.
Is you actually add value.
So, since dip switch three has a value of 4.
The only one you would put down is three.
Now this is at 4.
So it is as simple as that.
There is also an iPhone app.
Which I will show you guys here.
In just one second.
This iPhone app actually, you could select.
Let say you want address 4.
So if you see there it will show you.
That dip switch three is the one that needs to be up.
So if you could pretty much figure out any DMX address.
In a matter of seconds.
So it will show you pretty much any DMX address.
What the dip switch value should be.
But if you don’t have this you can just do the math.
It is a little bit trickier but it works either way.
The name of this app is DMX-Dip.
So you can go to the app store and.
I think it is 99 cents or it might be free.
I really don’t remember.
But anyway
There is another type of DMX addressing.
That is also available in other fixtures.
Or LED drivers or decoders.
And this is a digital display.
And it is a lot easier you don’t need an app.
You don’t need anything.
This one all you do is.
You go to the mode.
Where you set your DMX address.
And you can either go up or down.
And you could actually find the address you want.
So you want 4 there you go 004.
You want 6, there you go 006.
Simple as that.
And that is what DMX addressing is for.
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