Can I connect two Jester 48's to each other and get 96 channel desk

[barefootcoder]

Can I connect two Jester 48's to each other and get 96 channel desk. If so does anyone know how or can you point me to a link to research it please. I have a Christmas Concert coming up very very soon and I need a few more channels of poss. Thanx so much. Kind regards. P.J

 

[kgallen]

The manual page 51 says the DMX input port performs a merge into the DMX output. See also page 20 item 4. So if you patch to different addresses it seems like this should work after cabling the DMX output of one Jester into the DMX input of the other.

So have a read of the manual, and more importantly, try it out.

https://www.vari-lite.com/b-dam/vari-lite/discontinued-products/jester/english/jester-manual-3-4.pdf

Note: All our friends from Zero88 are gone and no one from Vari-lite has any interest in their current consoles let alone legacy ones they had no involvement with. So unfortunately we’re ’flying solo’ now. So us users (or non-users in my case with Jester) is all there is now. If you find out that you can (or indeed if you can’t) chain Jesters like this to expand your controllable channel count, it would be good if you’d take the time to document your findings here, to help other users.

Good luck with your show.