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CHANNELS are the total number of DMX channels used by the fixture. This can be
any number from 1 to 32. When you change the number of channels be aware
that other things such as fixture addresses and number of multi fixtures can be
automatically changed when you change the number of channels for an existing
fixture. Fixture attributes such as black channel, pan or tilt will be automatically
disabled if you select a number that is smaller than the channel numbers that are
already assigned to those attributes. For example if you have already assigned pan
to channel 8 and you reduce the total number of channels for the fixture to 4, pan
will automatically be set to "None". Likewise if you increase the number of channels
from 8 to 9 and you had previously set up 4 multi fixtures using all 32 channels, the
multi fixture setting will automatically be reset back to 1.
BLACK CHANNEL is the channel that will be affected when the "BLACK" switch is
pressed. You can choose any available fixture channel as well as "ALL" which will
force all channels to the selected black value.
BLACK VALUE is the DMX channel level that will be used for the selected black
channel(s). This will accommodate fixtures that use the gobo wheel for blackout
and use a value other than 0 to set the gobo wheel to black. You may also want
to blackout all channels to a value other than 0 since this is used as a reset by some
fixtures. For some fixtures a value of 1 achieves the same result as a value of 0 for
blackout.
PAN CHANNEL is the channel used by the fixture for pan motion. This can also be
set to "None" if the fixture does not have a pan feature. This is also the pan coarse
channel or pan high byte channel for those fixtures that use two channels to
control pan. This directs the joystick output as well as other pan functions.
PAN FINE is for fixtures that use two channels to control pan. This is also referred to
sometimes as the pan "Low Byte" channel. Set this to "None" if the fixture uses only
one channel for pan. The joystick will control this channel with "Fine" mode turned on.
TILT CHANNEL is the same as described above for pan channel except that it
controls tilt motion.
TILT FINE is the same as described above for pan fine except that it controls tilt.
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