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Dmx Lighting Makes An Impact

In today's live entertainment arena, there are certainly a wide variety of tools used in creating the most memorable, and amazing performance possible. One of most important aspect of a live show, whether it is the theater, the opera, the concert stage, or any other live performance venue, is stage lighting. Stage lighting has several different functions in a live performance. Everything from the simple illumination of the actions happening on stage, to setting a particular mood, or more complex actions like revealing of form, or acting as a plot trigger, and employing a comprehensive lighting design is crucial to the culmination of an artists work. With the multitude of different types of entertainment options available, and the need for one type of entertainment to distinguish itself from another, the demand for elaborate and dazzling stage lighting has never been in higher demand than it is today, and there have never been more choices as there are in modern day stage lighting as well, which brings us to DMX lighting.

DMX lighting is a fairly common place fixture in the modern stage lighting scheme. Its features and functions are only matched by its value and flexibility. DMX lighting, like the intelligent or moving head lights for instance, offer features far beyond the limited capabilities of standard, stationary stage lighting of the past. With motorized color wheels offering up to 13 different colors, color mixture functions, focusing and zooming of its light beam as well as many more, these wonders of lighting technology have taken the place of what in the past would have required multiple stationary fixtures. With its mechanical and automated features such as the panning and tilting abilities, these DMX Lighting products completely surpass anything the standard par-can or fresnel lighting aperture could ever offer. However, DMX lighting is not just intelligent lights only. Lighting products such as LED (light-emitting diode) lights, strobe lighting and laser lights all fall within the purview of DMX lighting.

Because of these newer lighting fixtures and their advanced features, it soon became necessary to have a control system with the ability to transfer the complex signals needed to realize these advance lighting components full potential. The standard of communication between a lighting desk and a dimmer module was a simple analog connection. With the complexities of today's DMX lighting and due to analogs crippling restrictions on bandwidth and data transfer speeds, a newer form of communication became necessary. This is when we saw the advent of DMX. In DMX lighting, the controlling factor is a RS-485 based communication protocol called DMX512A. The DMX protocol, coupled with a dedicated, unshielded twisted pair cable provided a platform by which these advanced lights would now be controlled to the point to where their potential could be fully exposed.