Hooking up a DMX Universe

Examples of Lynx/Tiger DMX hookups - Please click on picture to see full size

Basics

• You must know the basics before you can have Blinky Flashy!!
• DMX stands for Digital MultipleXing; it is an international standard maintained by the Entertainment Services and Technology Association.
• One DMX universe is 512 channels or 32 addressable devices. You are able to use more dongles or splitters to create another universe or use more devices.

What you Need

• To create a DMX universe you need a few items
  • DMX dongle
  • Vixen with DMX attached plugin
  • DMX object to be operated
  • Termination (usually incorporated into RJ's controllers)

Lynx DMX Dongle

• The Lynx Dongle is the interface that transforms USB signal output by Vixen into a DMX signal ran down a Cat5 cable via RJ45 jack.

DMX controller

• There are many controllers out there that can be ran using the dongle to create a universe.
• A few of ours are:
  • 128 channel Lynx Freestyle
  • 16 channel Lynx
  • 16 channel [Lynx Express]
  • SSR4
  • Grinch with DMX converter