Setting up new instruments - RGB with 128 max intensity

MaramonJ · Sep 30th 2016

I've got some of these cheap Chinese LED RGB pars, and intensity is on the intensity channel between 1 and 128. 129-256 are reserved by hardware for various speed strobes. How do I set up my instruments to use 1-100% in the 1-128 range in DMX?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Lost · Oct 1st 2016

Hi,

i think you must make a new ddf with the DDF creator. DDF Creator 3
Now you set the dimmer channel to min value 1 and max value 128, for the strobe pulses you have to make a strobe Function in ddf creator
and set this to min val. 129 and max val. 255.
These are only the main functions, you have to assign the other channels too, in your case the colors i think.

Don't forget to assign a channel number e.g 1 for strobe and dimmer andy maybe 2,3,4 for colors.
Like i said, it belongs too your fixture and channel count.

Maybe you can attache a pdf for the fixture so we can help you a little bit more precise.

Kind Regards

MaramonJ · Oct 1st 2016

Much appreciated. The fixtures didn't come with any documentation, so I had to figure out the function by trial and error. Still, they cost about $12 each and give me decent RGB color, so...

MaramonJ · Oct 1st 2016

Ok, I did it. Then I tried to load it in the project explorer, and the program hung on "Creating devices, please wait."

I attached the .xml, but I'll keep working on it.

MaramonJ · Oct 1st 2016

I got it working. Apparently you have to explicitly tell it how many channels to use. My bad.

Here's the file in case you want to use it/are curious.

Thanks to everyone who's worked on and is maintaining this software. It's badly needed.

Lost · Oct 2nd 2016

Hi,

congratulations and thank's sharing the xml with us.

Setting up new instruments - RGB with 128 max intensity

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