But, says Artistic's Wayne Howell: "What do you do when the lighting console is still in the truck? Or when you need to address a light in the workshop? Or if you want to check the temperature sensor? That's where Jump-Start comes in - plug it into the DMX connector and moments later you have a display of all the important information: start address, footprint, personality, sensors, temperature, voltage, lamp hours to mention but a few. A couple of key presses are all it takes to edit the settings, you can even plug into the entire lighting rig and auto-patch all the lights."
Jump-Start also operates as a straightforward DMX tester: users can set individual channels to a level or have them ramp continuously, and even store the channel settings to a memory. Two 'AA' batteries power Jump-Start, giving around 12 hours talk-time and about six months' standby.
Artistic Licence can be found on stand G12 at PLASA.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
