2.5kV Isolated DMX 512 Shield for Arduino - R2

Name: 2.5kV Isolated DMX 512 Shield for Arduino - R2
SKU: 1078
Price: 44.95 USD
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 3.75 (10 reviews)

(10 Reviews)

2.5kV Isolated DMX 512 Shield for Arduino (RDM Capable) - R2

Designed by Conceptinetics in China

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2.5kV Isolated DMX 512 Shield for Arduino (RDM Capable) - R2

Overview This fully isolated (2500 Vrms for 1 Minute) DMX / RDM Shield for Arduino is designed to connect your project to professional large size DMX networks. Cables usually consists of much longer …

Overview

This fully isolated (2500 Vrms for 1 Minute) DMX / RDM Shield for Arduino is designed to connect your project to professional large size DMX networks. Cables usually consists of much longer lengths and the chance on ground loops and interference from other systems increases when using non isolated shields. This shield has been designed to restrain EMI and to eliminate ground loops specifically.

This shield has longer pins to ensure sufficient space between the Arduino board and the Shield than the standard DMX shields for isolation purposes.

The shield is based on a MAX485 which is different from its earlier version but designed with the isolation properties of the previous shield (CTC-DRA-13-1), it allows you to connect 32 devices on a single bus as is specified in the DMX512 specification.

All components have been carefully selected on their characteristics to ensure proper isolation in combination with low power consumption.

This DMX / RDM Shield is a high quality solution for reasonable costs that allows you to connect your Arduino driven artwork safely into DMX512 networks.

The MAX485 based shield can be used as DMX Master, Slave and as RDM transponder A unique RDM device id will be handed out from out range to you as well, this will make your device worldwide unique

The following settings are configurable via the onboard jumpers:

Send data via TX or Digital pin 4
Receive data via RX or Digital pin 3
Hardware slave mode or Software Controlled Slave/Master via Digital pin 2 (Required for RDM)
Enable / Disable shield via jumper or enable / disable via digital pin 7

_ In case you have the shield configured to use the RX and TX pins you have to disable the shield before you can upload your new sketch onto the Arduino board. This jumper allows you to disable the shield without disconnecting it from the Arduino board which saves time. _

The shield comes standard in a 3pin NEUTRIK XLR version, 5 pin versions will be available as well (please check the store first), contact us for pricing and delivery times in case of any additional requests or services.

The Conceptinectics DMX Library for Arduino can be downloaded from the source forge website

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25-49	$32.95
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Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (3.90)

Documentation: (3.50)

Shipping: (3.70)

Communication: (3.90)

Matthias | March 11, 2022

NEVER GET THE PRODUCT

How can I review that product? I never received it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Magnar | Jan. 31, 2019

Great tool, does exactly what I want it to do.

Purchased my first shield half a year ago, just recieved a second one. The shield does exactly what I want it to do: Send dmx signals to my light installations based on sensor signals processed by my arduino.

There wasn't really any documentation at all, and it took some time to get going with the correct arduino library (I'm very new to arduino), but after a week of fiddling it was doing what I wanted it to do.

All in all super satisfied.

Jean-Philippe | Dec. 16, 2018

DMX Shield Review

Nice product, Quality and reliability AAA. You can select when order the XLR type 3 or 5 pins. We use this product for industrial purpose. We recommend to use Arduino like Leonardo or Mega with more than one serial port to be able to use monitor and programming port without problem. Jumper configuration are nice but in your final product it will be better to weld pins instead use jumper.

Arnaud | May 9, 2018

No way to have my DMX shield working

I needed to use this shield on a DMX LED PAR in master mode.
I have tested with conceptic library and many Arduino (nano and mega).
No way to make it work: I have tested with all different positions on switches. (I have tested with DMXMaster library too)
I had the issue to upload the source code, that I have solved by unswitching UART and/or EN.
Code is going to arduino then I reswitch EN, Master and 2 other swith in UART mode and nothing hapened on DMX light.
My DMX PAR works well with address 4 at 255 (power) and 5 (RED) from 1 to 255 to light the RED leds. I have programmed this 2 address. On another hand, there is a small red light on the DMX PAR back. When we are speaking in DMX on the line from any source this led is blinking. With the DMX Shield it doesn't blink at all.
How could we step by step test this shield, because after 3 days investigation, I think the board isn't working.
When it works, I could buy many shield for Sound and Light shows.
If I can't run it, I will move to Raspberry with EMTEC USB.

Edmond | Oct. 18, 2017

Great Product!

Took a while to get my code together but now that I have it written this shield works great! Excited to order more for my future projects.

Shipping was slow to the U.S. so be sure you have enough time before your project is due. (took a little over a month)

Tim | Oct. 5, 2017

Super satisfied with this shield

The shield was super easy to install on my Arduino Leonardo ETH. The provided documentation is very good and I could use the shield with only a few changes on my Arduino (I documented the changes here: https://github.com/NERDDISCO/VisionLord). My DMX universe is controllable like with every other DMX controller. The quality is also super good. I'm very satisfied and I'm looking forward to buy more shields in the future.

Wendy Ann | May 23, 2017

Arrived on time

2.5kV Isolated DMX 512 Shield for Arduino - R2 arrived on time and works as expected. We will order another one. Thank you.

Greg | March 10, 2017

Received wrong board

Contacted the selled about receiving the wrong board . The board does not have any XLR connectors and is part number CTC-RSA-20-1 instead of the DMS shield part number CTC-DRA-13-R2. hope this gets resolved. Plus it took over 4 weeks to get the shield.

4/7/2017 Update --- Seller was great in getting problem corrected. Finally got the correct shield today 4/7/2017, Thanks

Response from Conceptinetics | March 10, 2017

Dear customer,

Your order has been accidentally mixed up with that of someone else, of course it stands to reason that when you receive another product then the product ordered it won't have the features or might even look completely different.

And of course the originally ordered product will be send to you after discovering this mistake.

Ole | June 26, 2015

Worked fine when arrived, no tracking on package

The order was processed within a day, however the shipping took a long time, as advertised. For this reason the lack of a tracking code was quite a nuisance. The product itself works great and lives up to the expectations.

Response from Conceptinetics | Sept. 28, 2016

Thank you for your review!

It is unfortunately true that China Post depending on the destination can take ages, we are working in finding a better solution for this.

In the meanwhile, If your project is in need of the products quickly we do offer expedited shipping using FedEx, DHL, or similar as well.

Andreas | Oct. 8, 2014

A quality product

The shield works well and has a very solid build with two XLR plugs of good quality.
The library is also very simple to use.
Note:
To not switch the onboard jumper back and forth between programming and testing it's possible to use two IO pins instead of RX/TX, the manufacturer also suggested to eventually use an Arduino Leonardo…

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