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ELC Lighting to unveil latest innovation at LDI

DMX control specialist ELC Lighting will unveil its latest innovation, designed to enable the creation of fully-redundant DMX networks, at the LDI show in Las Vegas this month. Now, for the first time, a damaged DMX cable is no longer liable to be a show-stopper.

Until now, redundant DMX networks could be built right up to the ethernet-to-DMX node. However, the last link in the essential chain of lighting data - the DMX cable itself - always remained vulnerable as a single point of failure. With the new Redundant DMX feature, lighting production crews can use ELC Lighting’s dmXLAN nodeGBx system to provide automatic, seamless take-over in the event of damage or disconnection of the DMX cable, or of partial network failure.

The dmXLAN nodeGBx system offers complete system redundancy. To enable this redundancy, the user connects the last fixture from the DMX run back into a nodeGBx unit and configures this port as a ‘DMX backup’ via the standard dmXLAN software interface.

In the case of a DMX cable breakage or unplugging, the backup port will take over the DMX output within 50 ms. In case of a partial network failure, takeover will occur directly after the set DMX hold time. When the ‘fault condition’ has ended, the recovery time is less than one DMX frame. Together with the dmXLAN software, the nodeGBx system also provides early detection of failure.

ELC Lighting’s Redundant DMX feature is available as a firmware upgrade to the dmXLAN nodeGBx system, and will be available for demonstration at the LDI show in Las Vegas, USA (22-24 November 2019) on booth #2545.

www.elclighting.com

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