Operating Instructions; Setup; Setting Up The System; Fixture Addressing - Chauvet DMX-50A User Manual

O
PERATING

Setup

S ET T ING U P T H E SY ST EM
1) Place the DMX-50A on a leveled surface. Note! The DMX-50A can also be rack mounted,
occupying 3U spaces.
2) Plug the AC to DC power supply to the system back panel and to the mains outlet.
3) Plug in your DMX cable(s) to your intelligent lighting as described in the fixtures respective
manual. For a quick Primer on DMX see the "DMX Primer" section in the Appendix of this
manual.
FI XT UR E AD D R E S S IN G
The DMX-50A is programmed to control 20 channels of DMX per fixture, therefore the fixtures you
wish to control with the corresponding "SCANNER" buttons on the unit, must be spaced 20 channels
apart.
F
IXTURE OR
S
CANNER
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Please refer to your individual fixture's manual for DMX addressing instructions. The table above
refers to a standard 9 dipswitch binary configurable device.
JO Y ST ICK AS S I G NM ENT
Because not all intelligent lighting fixtures are alike or share the same control attributes, the DMX-50A
allows the user to assign the joystick the correct pan and tilt channel for every individual fixture
including 16 bit channel assignments. It also allows the user to re-assign physical faders to fixture
DMX channels so that the user can combine or unify control of similar or the same attributes across
different types of fixtures.
Action
1) Press and hold FINE & MODE buttons
together, (2) times to access the channel
assignment mode. The Assign LED will
light.
2) Press a SCANNER button that represents
the fixture you would like to set the pan &
tilt.
3) Move the FADE TIME fader until you arrive
at controller channel "X "which is the
joystick pan.
DMX-50A User Manual
I
NSTRUCTIONS
D DMX S
EFAULT TARTING
# A
DDRESS
1
21
41
61
81
101
121
141
161
181
201
221
B D S
INARY IPSWITCH ETTINGS
S "O
WITCH TO THE N POSITION
1
1,3,5
1,4,6
1,3,4,5,6
1,5,7
1,3,6,7
1,4,5,6,7
1,3,4,8
1,6,8
1,3,5,6,8
1,4,7,8
1,3,4,5,7,8
Notes
All physical faders and even the joystick can be re-
assigned to output on a different DMX channel. Both
faders and the joystick are given a channel number
and are labeled on the surface of the controller as
such.
The Pan & Tilt Joystick use controller channel 9 & 10
(Page A) respectively. FINE movement is controlled
using channels 19 & 20 (Page B).
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Operating Instructions

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Revised: 2006-04-24 15:26:16