DMX 54 Channel Light Controller for DJ and Stage Lights - Mini 512 Console With Control Board for LED Lighting

Highly suspect I was sent a used and defective item. The box was torn in several places and the so-called manual had been crumpled up and crammed inside the box—possibly by a deservedly frustrated former owner?And as for the manual? Four folded sheets of what might as well have been hieroglyphics. To qualify, I know what the terms device, scene, chase mean and how they figure in lighting effects. Seemingly, whoever wrote this piece of trash doesn’t know that there is a standardized parlance for DMX programming. One that is quite helpful in explaining how the features of a controller function. This manual is just a bunch of goofball names for functions thrown together in twisted sentences that just leave one completely at sea concerning the operation.So…putting the manual and my rising doubts aside, I tried to see if I could at least control one PAR or more. Adhering to the industry standard of one multi-channel light set at d001 and a second connected device at d008 (using 7 channel PARs for test), I set the projector (their word for device) on what should be Chan 1.At this point, different faders SHOULD control RGB and combos of these in a steady illumination. A single color with no fade, jump, or strobe. NOPE. Instead only one fader did anything at all and it appeared to be running some random program that hadn’t even been set.Just to see how defective this thing is I persevered. As mentioned, I had daisy-chained another PAR (all brand new cables, BTW) and set it to various addresses. I set the controller at what should be channel 2 and tried every fader; zilch, no light.After an hour and a half spent switching lights, cables, and trying different channels I gave up in disappointment and frustration.Some reviews describe success, so maybe it’s possible with this product. I will say the unit is sturdy, compact, with neatly laid out controls. So, yay for all that, I guess. But, for me, this item is going back, like, today. I’ve already ordered another brand that has a proven performance and instruction video on YT.

Just got this works perfect for what I needed. Smaller than my other one and with the less buttons way better.

The product is built well and does what you need for a good price. Getting it to do what you need requires a bit more effort than it should because of the poorly written manual. The overall usability of the device is OK once you understand how it works.

The unit arrived a head of schedule however when I tried to program it, it would not work. The return service and credit back to me was seamless and fantastic just sorry it did not work

Out of the box this controller looks very well built and attractively designed. But the curled edges on the cheaply printed user's guide immediately suggested that this device may have already been returned by another customer before it was shipped to me.The text of the user's guide seemed to describe something different than a general DMX controller. (Perhaps it had been translated by a poor automated translator program.)According to the user's guide, the controller was supposed to begin a self-test and then stop. But, after 15 minutes, the lights on the control panel were still blinking!After trying several combinations of button presses, I finally got it to stop blinking and show what seemed like the ready-to-use pattern of lights on the control panel.But from then on, whenever I tapped any button, the controller began flashing random patterns on its control panel and I could not get it to any of the stable states described in the user's manual.