100 xpress

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100 xpress

Postby rdcee93 » 05 June 2015, 10:51

Hi, sure would be nice of Chauvet to eliminate the 100 channel restriction on this device. As a loyal Chauvet customer and supporter with 1,000s in fixtures, I must say I feel slighted by the built in limitation. There are no hardware limitations, just a Showexpress software feature limitation for Chauvet people who bought 300$ USB cable interface. I know you might have to change the name of the device, but thats ok. as far as marketing, it does not store any shows, and must have a computer to drive any show. Thanks for listening!

PS, there are 99$ USB DMX interfaces with 512 DMX channels on the market!, Also, i see that retailers offer xpress 100 for 200$ now, a good change indeed.

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Re: 100 xpress

Postby zkflow » 09 June 2015, 02:43

+1

And yes... 100 channels its ENOUGH for mobile entretainment... BUT!!!! You can do a lot if you expand the numer of fixtures... example... in my case.. in mobile entertainment i use A LOT of LED PARCANs... 4 channels per fixture... so i can control, technically, 25 of them... in my event the MAX is 15... so i have 40 channels remaining for... idk... a pair of mobile heads or some atmospheric effects!
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Re: 100 xpress

Postby rdcee93 » 09 June 2015, 10:11

100 channels is ENOUGH??? really, that is not the point of the post. so be happy with your limited application that does not need more.
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Re: 100 xpress

Postby zkflow » 12 June 2015, 22:22

Read again please my application. I use basic fixtures, A LOT OF THEM... so... ok... lets have 100 channels... but something that doesnt makes sense its the restriction of only 10 FIXTURES!!!!!!!!!

even a mobile DJ doesnt use only 10 fixtures...

and if you request its UNLIMITED FIXTURES + MORE CHANNELS... So.. there is the D512 my opinnion about this topic its to eliminate the restriction of 10 fixtures.
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Re: 100 xpress

Postby JohnRichards » 13 June 2015, 08:01

It is easy to overcome the 10 fixture issue. For example if you have 5 led parcans of 4 (RGBDim) channels each, create 1 fixture of 20 channels(RGBDimRGBDimRGBDimRGBDimRGBDim). I have grouped fixtures for certain clients this way. Also note that 3D-view is not possible with the cable connected, so I then create the actual fixtures from dmx 201 and then use the Dmx patch 1=1+201, 2=2+201 and so on. This gives us full 3D view as well. Hope this helps.
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