® Rooms DMX Management For Divisible Halls Operations, Maintenance and Design Manual May 2008 Pathway Connectivity Inc #103 – 1439 17 Ave SE Calgary AB T2G 1J9 403-243-8110 www.pathwayconnect.
Table of Contents Overview Operational Philosophy Operation Maintenance Troubleshooting Layout and Configuration - Overview Layout and Configuration – Design Process Appendix 1 – Typical System Layout Appendix 2 – Design Tables Appendix 3 – Rooms and Pathport Components 3 3 4 4 5 6 7 9 10 15 Pathport Rooms – Operations, Maintenance and Design – Page 2
Overview Pathport® Rooms is a room-combine system for control consoles, providing a DMX Management System for Divisible Halls. Convention centers, meeting rooms and ballrooms often have the ability to be reconfigured into several smaller rooms. While architectural control systems can manage the control of room lighting in these special facilities, portable entertainment control consoles can be a problem.
Operation Operation of the Pathport Rooms system is intended to be transparent to the end user. To change the configuration, the user simply properly closes the walls necessary to create the rooms desired, or the user sets the new configuration with the installation-specific interface (by others). The Rooms Control Module detects the changes and automatically reassigns DMX channels accordingly. Maintenance The Rooms system requires very little maintenance.
Troubleshooting Please remember Rooms is a signal distribution system. The vast majority of problems that arise lie with the control console or the equipment at the other end, rather than the wiring in between. Before attempting the recommendations below, ensure that the controller and the end equipment are powered up, configured and functioning correctly. 1. Lights or other equipment come on in unexpected or undesired places. a.
Layout and Configuration - Overview The steps below will guide a designer through determining the hardware requirements of a Rooms system and will gather and organize the information required to configure and program the Control Module. The steps are suitable for creating a new installation, extending a current one, or retrofitting a Rooms system into an existing hall. Sample worksheets are included in the appendix.
Layout and Configuration – Design Process 1. Make a drawing of the hall. The drawing should be with all walls and partitions closed, showing the maximum number of rooms. Label the rooms (A, B, C, etc.). It may be useful to note the location of the devices described in each further step, or to make copies of the base drawing and devote one copy to each type of device. 2. Create a table of Input Ports.
6. Create a table of Device and Fixture Groups Although not strictly necessary, this step ensures no equipment is overlooked and assists in the logical grouping of equipment. The difference between a device and a fixture is that a device is equipment that receives DMX, such as a dimmer, which in turn controls a fixture or fixtures, such as pot lighting. Some equipment, such as a moving light, can be treated both as a device and a fixture. A device or fixture group can consist of a single piece of equipment.
Appendix 1 – Typical System Layout Pathport Rooms – Operations, Maintenance and Design – Page 9
Appendix 2 – Design Tables Input Ports: Pathport Type and S/N (e.g.
General Output Ports Pathport Type and S/N (e.g.
Dimmer ports Pathport Type and S/N Pathport D Port B Rack name Main Dimmer addresses 1-5 Type of load Down pot lx Room DMX Input start channel A Pathport Rooms – Operations, Maintenance and Design – Page 12
Miscellaneous Device Ports Pathport Type and S/N Pathport C – PP100567 Port Description 1 VL5 DMX start address 120 Number of channels Room DMX Input channel 12 C 25 Device and Fixture Groups Device or Fixture LED Accents (8) Room Pathport Node & Port E PP100298 – B DMX start address 312 Number of channels 24 Notes Can match w/ Room B Pathport Rooms – Operations, Maintenance and Design – Page 13
Connection Description Input Port Room Connects to: Pathport Rooms – Operations, Maintenance and Design – Page 14
Appendix 3 – Rooms and Pathport Components Rooms Controller Modules Model Number 6605 6610 6620 6630 Model Description Pathport Rooms controller for up to 5 rooms Pathport Rooms controller for up to 10 rooms Pathport Rooms controller for up to 20 rooms Pathport Rooms controller for up to 30 rooms Pathport System Components Model Number 6001 6010 6101 6102 6151 6152 6201 6202 6203 6225 6235 6241 6242 6243 6301 6302 6901 6911 6913 6931 6932 6933 6950 Model Description Single node inline power supply Pathpo
