Lighting Automation

A lamp, some motors and a computer, hanging upside down

A moving light is a lamp, a set of motors and a small computer, hanging upside down twenty feet in the air, being told what to do by a cable that has been daisy-chained through nine other fixtures before it reaches this one. Automation is the craft of making that arrangement reliable.

Inside: This Book Does Not Replace the Manual - What a Moving Light Is - Inside the Fixture - Colour, Gobos and the Beam - DMX, Physically - What Is On the Wire - RDM - The Network - Patching and Building a Rig - Running the Rig - Why Fixtures Fail - Maintenance - Automation Beyond the Show.