Fixture Setup; Using The Control Menus; Fast Focus Mode; Setting Dmx Address - Martin ELP CL User Manual

Fixture Setup

This section explains the fixture characteristics you can set that determine how it can be controlled
and will behave. You choose the settings using the menus available from the control panel, and
they are retained even when the fixture is powered off.
Options can also be set over the DMX line using RDM from a suitable controller, see "Setting
options by RDM" on page 19.
A complete map of the control menu structure and brief explanations of their purposes can be
found in "Control menus" on page 27. Only the most-used functions are described in this section.

Using the control menus

Use the fixture's control
panel as follows:
•
To access the control
menus, press the MENU
button.
•
Navigate the menu
structure using the
ENTER, DOWN and UP
buttons.
•
To select a menu option
or to confirm a selection,
press the ENTER button.
•
To return to a higher
level in the menu
structure without making
a change, press the
MENU button.
•
To exit the control menus
completely, press and
hold the MENU button.
The display flashes when
DMX is not present.

Fast focus mode

If you need to focus the fixture but there is nobody to operate the lighting console, you can quickly
turn the fixture on in "Fast Focus mode" using the control panel. Hold down the ENTER button for
5 seconds and the fixture will come on at full brightness in open white for 60 seconds, allowing you
to set the focus. After 60 seconds the fixture will return to normal operation.

Setting DMX address

Each fixture must be assigned a DMX address. The DMX address, also known as the start
channel, is the first channel used to receive instructions from a DMX controller. The fixture is
controlled using between 1 and 17 DMX channels depending on the personality set. If a fixture
using 17 channels has a DMX address of 1, then it uses channels 1 to 17 inclusive. The following
fixture in the DMX chain can then be set to a DMX address of 18.
For independent control, each fixture must be assigned its own control channels. Two fixtures of
the same type may share the same address if identical behavior is desired. Address sharing can
be useful for diagnostic purposes and symmetric control, particularly when combined with the
inverse pan and tilt options.
Martin ELP CL Profile user guide 15