Out of curiosity .....

Goliath

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I have some waterfall lights 31V DC. Two wires go to a control box that sends the chase effect to the various strands.
Could the DMX2-24 be utilised power it, and to turn it on and off.
I know it is designed for AC strings, and surely works by switching positive and negative rapidly to use both channels of that string. If you only commanded, say, channel 1 on, and left channel 2 off, wouldn't that effectively be a DC supply?
 
You could put a 3A diode in series with channel one (anode to controller, cathode to +ve of connected load) so that at worst it would output pulsed DC and not reverse polarity whatever you're feeding.
 
How many wires from the controller out to the lights?
The DMX2-24 toggles the polarity at 100Hz or whatever frequency it is that I last made it. Having 1 channel on and the other off actually provides a 0-31V square wave of 50% duty cycle at 100Hz.
 
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