The Trackspot Bolt Menu Options; Address Menu (Addr) - High End Systems trackspot Bolt User Manual

CHAPTER 3
The Menu System

The trackspot Bolt Menu Options

The sections below explain how to access the fixture options shown in the fixture's menu map.
This manual uses the following conventions in the descriptions for menus and menu navigation
buttons:
Example
Press the appropriate LED display navigation button on the fixture. For example, the
<Button>
<Enter> button on the LED display panel.
Italics are used to indicate the appropriate menu selection you should choose from the
Menu Option
on-board menu system. For example, the AddR menu option.

Address Menu (AddR)

The DMX Start Channel is the first channel of a device's channel range on a DMX link and
identifies the fixture for the DMX controller. There are 512 available channels on each DMX
universe divided among all the devices in a particular universe. A device must have a unique
DMX Start Channel number in order to respond independently to controller commands. You
must assign a DMX start channel to every fixture on the link.
The Address menu allows you to change the DMX start channel that is currently assigned to the
fixture. The fixture's DMX channel range must not overlap any other device's channel range on
the link. When two devices on the same DMX universe have overlapping channel ranges, one or
both devices will be disabled or behave erratically.
Note: The single exception would be if two or more fixtures need to respond to
controller commands in exactly the same way. In that case, those fixtures
must be the same type and must share the entire channel range.
The trackspot Bolt fixture requires a unique range of 21 channels on the DMX link for standard
protocol. The last valid Start Channel on a DMX512 link is 491.
To set the DMX start channel:
1. Press and hold <Menu> until AddR appears on the LED display. Press <Enter> to select.
2. Select a new DMX start channel. The LED display flashes when a new start channel is
selected.
3. Press <Enter> to accept the new DMX start channel. The LED display stops flashing when a
new option is entered. If you do not press <Enter>, the new option you selected is not
stored.
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