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Martin Wireless DMX: The Easy Solution
The world is going wireless. The increasing popularity of Martin’s Wireless DMX-512 and Wireless DMX-512 Pro Diversity devices is proof of that.
Martin’s Wireless DMX devices are the easiest way to connect remote fixtures to a DMX system, especially a system with hard to get at fixtures, as no cables and expensive downtime is required. Martin architectural distributor Lux Lumen of Belgium has used the Martin wireless system to great effect on a number of projects and found the system not only easy to use but also stable.
In the town of Charleroi, Lux Lumen has used Martin Exterior 600 washlights to add color to the castle’s belfry, the Beffroi de Thuin. The tower is illuminated using two Exterior 600s working with a Martin Wireless DMX-512 Pro Diversity transmitter with two receivers. The signal is transmitted over the castle’s ditch and about 100 meters further.
For the client to get DMX lines where they needed them would have cost five times as much as the Martin wireless DMX solution. Lux Lumen’s installer for this project, company WAVE, comments, “The distance involved was quite extensive. Experience showed that the transmitter should be a Martin Pro Diversity system to have the best results. The signal strength was just enough and the system works flawlessly.”
At Piens Music Planet, Belgium’s largest music store, customers are welcomed by a dynamic Martin Architectural light and sound concept using Martin Exterior 200 washlights and Martin ViroSphere panels. Amazingly, the project was programmed from a car with wireless DMX transmitted over the site via a Martin Wireless DMX-512 device. As Lux Lumen reports, “the system even worked from a closed car, driving around! A warm, comfortable car makes programming of any outdoor installation suddenly less of a burden.”
At this year’s Interieur 04 design exhibition in Kortrijk, Lux Lumen used a Martin Wireless DMX-512 system over three identical dynamic, temporarily stretched ceilings. According to Lux Lumen’s Duncan Verstraeten, it was impossible to connect the three sites with DMX cables so they turned to a Martin wireless system, which reportedly proved to be very stable.
The Martin Wireless DMX-512 has a range of up to 200 meters (Pro Diversity up to 300 meters) and can be setup via a PC and PC-based controllers such as the Martin LightJockey. Both versions operate through radio signal, via a powerful WLAN card, transmitted between the mother box and receivers.
9th December 2004
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