Computerized Firing System Field Setup
Taking the above diagram as a reference, notice the general layout of the Pyrodigital firing setup. This is of course
only a small example, but in general, most setups follow this type of structure. If you have an aerial setup, you will
typically group your racks together such that there are 15 guns per group (each PD slave has 16 cues, and each rack typically
comes with 5 guns). Once your racks are kleeted into thier appropriate groups, a PD slave module is secured to each group by
screwing it into one of the racks in that group. Each addressed device is then loaded and wired into the attached slave.
You are now ready to run the XLR line from slave to slave and back to the field controller. Remembering that the "female has
the power", you need to make sure you run your XLR line from slave to slave in a fashion that is consistent with the female
end coming from the power source, in this case the field controller. Otherwise you will have to re-wire your cabling when you
relize you did it backwards.
Now that you understand the basic theory of operation, you can continue on to the
use of the Field Controller.
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