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    What I mean to say regarding the DMX personalities is that the core set of parameters that appear in all 3 personalities are shifted downwards each time there is a personality with more DMX parameters, and things can get confusing if you think you are in one personality and you are running another.

    So if you look at advanced splitter DMX personality, the DMX addresses for output 1 are as follows (assuming start address is 001)
    1- X Gain
    2- X Offset
    3- Y Gain
    4- Y Offset
    5- Red Gain
    6- Green Gain
    7- Blue Gain
    8- X State
    9- Y State
    10- Swapped

    When you switch to 1 input router, then it looks like this:
    1- X State
    2- Y State
    3- Swapped
    4- Red Map
    5- Green Map
    6- Blue Map
    7- X Gain
    8- X Offset
    9- Y Gain
    10- Y Offset
    11- Red Gain
    12- Green Gain
    13- Blue Gain

    The problem here is if I want to switch personalities, I have to re-patch where the X-Gain parameter goes in my DMX lighting controller for each personality type. A potential problem is if I had the lighting desk set for 1 input router and the device is set for advanced splitter, unexpected things could happen when I bring up levels. A better method is to keep the parameters that are common to all personalities within the same range of DMX addresses. This way the 1 input router personality would look like this:
    1- X Gain
    2- X Offset
    3- Y Gain
    4- Y Offset
    5- Red Gain
    6- Green Gain
    7- Blue Gain
    8- X State
    9- Y State
    10- Swapped
    11- Red Map
    12- Green Map
    13- Blue Map

    And 2 input router would look like this:
    1- X Gain
    2- X Offset
    3- Y Gain
    4- Y Offset
    5- Red Gain
    6- Green Gain
    7- Blue Gain
    8- X State
    9- Y State
    10- Swapped
    11- Red Map
    12- Green Map
    13- Blue Map
    14- X Source
    15- Y Source
    16- R Source
    17- G Source
    18- B Source


    In this manner, I always know that the first 10 DMX addresses always do the same thing no matter what personality I am running.
    The way that lighting desks work, this would be a far more straightforward approach to patching.
    Hope that makes sense from a lighting designer perspective!
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    I think the recessed trimpots are a very good idea, those knobs WILL get tweaked given the chance when unsupervised! Maybe there can be a way either via the menu or DMX to enable/disable the front panel pots?

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    Quote Originally Posted by luxilid View Post
    Maybe there can be a way either via the menu or DMX to enable/disable the front panel pots?
    Actually.... I agreed with this and would be willing to wait if it were "easily" feasible somehow. I'm guessing though, that this might be difficult. I worry about that ALOT with how I use my existing splitters. They are sometimes in an unprotected area often near bridal parties head table and there are sometimes little kids running around too.

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    Hi luxilid, thanks again for your perspective on this, I'll talk with Ed about this and see what we can do. There's nothing in the hardware that would need to change to implement this change and would just be code, but I'm not sure how much coding would be required. I'll post an update after I discuss it with him.

    Regarding the front panel potentiometers, there would be no easy method to enable/disable the potentiometers, so the options would be either external accessible pots or internal trimmers.

    Thanks guys, we appreciate the input!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by DZ View Post
    Regarding the front panel potentiometers, there would be no easy method to enable/disable the potentiometers,
    I figured as much, I think that's asking for a whole re-design from scratch.
    so the options would be either external accessible pots or internal trimmers.
    Then definitely pots for me, as originally intended. Internal trimmers I could see being a pain after awhile.

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    It seems to me like it would be easy to make a mesh cover with a hinge that could mount with the rack screws on either side. Could be a completely separate piece that just bolts on with the rack. Something like this could also be attached for portable use, in theory.

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    Looks very interesting, I'm suitably interested come the 1st June....
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    Quote Originally Posted by norty303 View Post
    Looks very interesting, I'm suitably interested come the 1st June....
    Yes.... yes, you should be! DZ's original splitter should be a damn near standard required item if you own more than one projector and this... blows that away. You want one.... trust me.

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