Dmx Address - Martin MAC III AirFX User Manual

Battery power
The display and control panel are powered by the MAC III AirFX's onboard battery. This gives access to the
most important functions in the control panel – including DMX addressing – when the fixture is not
connected to AC power.
To activate the display when the fixture is not connected to power, press the Escape button. The display
extinguishes after 10 seconds with no jog wheel activity and the control panel is de-activated after 1 minute
with no jog wheel activity. Press the Escape button again to re-activate.
Mains power indicator
When the fixture is connected to AC mains power, a 'battery recharging' icon appears in the display. When
the battery is fully charged, the battery icon is replaced a mains plug icon.
Status indicators in display
The status indicators on the right of the display have the following functions:
• LAMP lights green when the lamp is powered.
• ETHERNET lights green when the MAC III AirFX is correctly connected to an Ethernet network (at the
moment there is no provision for direct connection to Ethernet).
• DMX lights green when the MAC III AirFX is receiving a valid DMX signal.
• PAN/TILT lights yellow when pan/tilt limits have been activated (see page 17) and lights orange when
Followspot mode is enabled (see "Followspot mode" on page 25).
Shortcuts pop-up
If you hold the Escape button pressed in for 2 - 3 seconds, a pop-up window with shortcuts to important
commands appears. Select a command and click the jog wheel to activate, or press Escape to cancel.
• RESET resets the whole fixture
• LAMP ON/OFF strikes or douses the lamp.
• ROTATE DISPLAY rotates the MAC III AirFX display.
• FOLLOWSPOT MODE calls up the followspot menu.
• EVENT LOG calls up the event log menu.
Settings stored permanently
The following settings are stored permanently in the fixture memory and are not affected by powering the
MAC III AirFX off and on or by updating the fixture software:

• DMX address

• Fixture ID
• All personality settings (pan/tilt and pan/tilt limit, linked zoom/focus, lamp cooling, fan clean mode,
dimming curve, DMX lamp off, DMX reset, parameter shortcuts, all display settings, error mode)
• Factory settings
• Fixture info (resettable power-on, lamp-on, lamp strikes, and air filter counters)
• All Service settings (adjust, calibration, firmware)
These settings can be returned to factory defaults using the control menus or via DMX.
DMX address
The DMX address, also known as the start channel, is the first channel used to receive instructions from the
controller. For independent control, each fixture must be assigned its own control channels. If you give two
MAC III AirFXs the same address, they will behave identically. Address sharing can be useful for diagnostic
purposes and symmetrical control, particularly when combined with the inverse pan and tilt options.
DMX addressing is limited to make it impossible to set the DMX address so high that you are left without
enough control channels for the fixture in the 512 channels available in one DMX universe.
DMX address setting
To set the fixture's DMX address:
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