The City Theatrical PWGW DIN V, Vignette DIN Mount Gateway, or Vignette 485 Architectural Gateway, is a DIN-mount Vignette Architectural Gateway series provides a connection from your architectural lighting system to the RS485 wall stations using a multi-drop data bus. It contains four Vignette Playbacks for Snapshots and Zone control.
Vignette is an architectural DMX Snapshot Record and Recall system consisting of wall stations and gateways. Vignette's Architectural Gateways provide connectivity for the Vignette wall stations, DMX In used to capture scenes from a programming console and DMX Out/Thu to your lighting rig.
The gateway features terminal blocks that can be removed from the module to facilitate wiring. Both compression screw and IDC terminal blocks are supplied. Use IDC connectors with solid core cable and compression screw with stranded copper wire.
Power
The gateway must be supplied 24 VDC. If your system uses the full 64 insert capacity, you must supply 72W. DO NOT use the IDC connectors on the main power connector.
DMX
Connect the control source you want to snapshot to Port B. Observe the same polarity convention throughout the system. Connect the lighting system (LEDs, Dimmers, Interfaces etc.) to Port A.
Station Buses
All station bus wiring must be in a continuous run and daisy-chained. No "tees" are permitted. Maximum cable length for category 5 wiring is 500ft (152m). Maximum cable length for Belden 9773 wiring is 1000ft (305m). The last station on the line must be terminated with two resistors with a value of 100 to 120 ohms, between pins 1 & 2 and between pins 3 & 4. Architectural Gateways ship with four preterminated IDC connectors. Each bus can power up to 16 inserts. For example, a wall station comprising of one 4-button master and a dual slider slave counts as 2 inserts. The gateway can power a total of 64 inserts across the four buses. There is no addressing logic per bus; by default, button 1 on all stations is snapshot #1, etc. Advanced wall station configuration must be done over an Ethernet network link with Pathscape running on a PC.
Contact Closures
Dry contact closure terminals are provided on gateway model PWGW DIN VD2C8, VE2C8 and VC16 (8, 8, and 16, respectively) for triggering memories with external momentary contacts. Buttons with LED indicators are included on the gateway itself for local control or testing purposes.