What is a channel in DMX?
What is a channel in DMX? "DMX" stands for "Digital Multiplex Signal". To better understand the word channel, think of a DMX "Channel" as a "Color", so if you have an RGB light this light would use 3 "Channels" or "Colors". You can control up to 170 RGB Lights in a single DMX universe or up to 512 single color lights in one DMX universe. How many channels does my DMX light have? 512 DMX consists of 512 individual channels which are known as a Universe. Each channel or channels are assigned to control different parameters (known as a personality)...