I think you're thinking of a different type of dimmer setup. If you look at the link I included to the dimmer pack in question, the way it works is that it plugs in to mains power and then provides 4 channels of power output. Each channel can be controlled via DMX. The original design of this unit allowed configuration of each channel to be either Switching (a relay physically switches the power on/off to that circuit) or Dimming (the voltage provided to the channel can be varied).Baer wrote:I don't get it...
If all the Lights (LEDS and Halogens) are on the same circuit how would you be able to dim the halogens without dimming the leds?
If you can put them on several dimming channels you already need to have different circuits...
So the way this would work is the dimmer/switch pack plugs into the main power circuit. The power channels going to LED fixtures would get configured to Switching (on/off only) and the halogen would get configured to Dimming. Then I use DMX to control the dimmer/switch pack to turn on/off LED fixtures as needed and dim the halogen as needed. The LEDs would also be on the same DMX chain so DMX dimming and color changing could also be done via DMX.
However, the problem arose in that they changed the design of this unit to eliminate the configurability between switching and dimming and only kept dimming. (a change that doesn't make sense given the rise of LED stage lighting)
I'm looking at another dimmer/switch pack unit (https://www.amazon.com/Eliminator-Light ... tag=519-20) that does retain both dimming and switching. However, the compromise there is that it only allows configuration in pairs of channels, so I could set Ch 1+2 to switching and 3+4 to dimming, but not 1-3 switching and 4 dimming.
