Color Control; Color Mixing; Snap Colors - Vari Lite VL2402 User Manual

Color Control

Color Mixing

The color mixing mechanism is made up of three graduated color disks: blue, amber
and magenta. These disks provide full-spectrum color crossfades from pastel to
saturated color.
Color Mixing Mechanism

Snap Colors

Snap is a feature that enables each of the color mixing disks to use the shortest path
when changing colors. This transition may in some cases produce a white flash, as the
disk passes through white. Snap is not applied to a timed color change, even if it is set.
These timed transitions always use the default disabled setting that allows the color
fade to occur. Snap is a menu based setting that can be enabled or disabled. Disable is
the default setting.
Snap can also be enabled or disabled using the DMX control channel. When utilizing
the control channel functionality for the snap function, the snap setting will change
immediately following the input of 20-25 (Snap ON) and 30-35 (Snap OFF). No other
values or actions within the control channel will change the Snap setting. The action of
the Snap is based on the last command executed. Snap will not change until another
value of 20-25 or 30-35 is entered into the control channel. Resetting the luminaire or
cycling the power will not affect the Snap setting.
Note: The control channel value will remain visible on all the cues unless another
value is input. We recommend that the control channel number not be changed, so that
the current Snap setting can be viewed in the cue data without having to know the last
change that was made. Even if the Snap feature is not changed in the show data, it will
be beneficial to set Snap in the first cue. This will prevent inconsistencies when
changing or substituting other luminaires that may have a different Snap setting.
Snap is applied only to the Blue, Amber, and Magenta color mixing disks and not the
fixed color wheel. The diagnostic tests for the color mixing mechanism will behave
differently depending on the snap setting. This has been done so that differences in the
snap setting will be evident when checking a group of luminaires. These differences
can be seen is tests Bl 3, Amb3, MAG3 and MiX3. See
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Magenta Color Disk
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