Does anyone else use these??? I want to know if I can make one the master and the other 3 slaves for 1 night as my controller is broken

Anyone know if I can do this? And what the dip-switch settings would be?

Yep... we use these.... hold on and I will wait til del gets home - all I know is that we run all of ours off a computer!

After getting a reply from Martin this morning they do not run as master/slave only through a controller or sound to light....

Oh well just have to wait to get my controller back.

Thanks

Gav

Thats correct. Bit poor really..... would be a useful feature.

Gav... will be able to tell you more once del gets home... we have tons of software from martin to run our scans... but not being too technical I cant say much more.... Del will give me more info when he gets home!

I've got a pair of RoboScan 805's

I dont even know how to set them master slave

P.S I need to replace the mirrors on both because they're cracked. Know anywhere that sells mirrors?

^^^ BUMP ^^^

Help anyone?

Oh the perils of buying 2nd hand Tat from Ebay!

Joe - Drop Karen an Email. Her and her hubby - Del, use mainly Martin equipment on their large Lightshow, so i'm sure they'll be able to advise you better.

You could also use the opportunity to ask Karen about the other matter??

I buy from ebay and dont find anything I get tat

If you are asking about the slave/master question it is impossible to get them to do this on the 812's. You can have both running on there own sound to light but if you want to link them you need a controller.

Gav

Hey Gav - I'm now going to forward all of my "I've just bought this on E-bay and it doesn't work can you fix it on the cheap type emails to you to deal with! .

The amount of people who have yet to realise that "sold as seen" in an auction listing is often code for "It's screwed, so I tried to fix it and made it worse".

Ok they can run master and slave :

It depends which build level you've got though. Earlier ones were designed only to run from a controller, later Martin units had the extra chip required to 'retransmit' master data to slaves. You can tell because on the earlier (non master-slave) versions, there is direct continuity between the in and out DMX XLR pins, on later ones there isnt.

In the heyday of the Roboscan 812, the Master-Slave thing was pretty much for 'DJ' products and units of Martin's class were expected to be operated from a controller in an expensive installation...either the Martin own-brand unit or, most commonly, a Pulsar Masterpiece.






Martin dealer controller recommendation

Why not get a cheap Martin RS485 controller off ebay? No-one wants them these days though they are very easy to use if you have 'all martin' stuff and they are built like tanks, dead reliable..??