Assigning A Fixture Address; Channel Range - High End Systems Studio Spot 250 User Manual

To select the fixture number control method:
1. Press and hold the <Menu> button until "ADDR" appears on the LED
display.
2. Using the <Up> and <Down> arrow buttons, scroll to the "SET" menu
and press the <Enter> button to select the "SET" menu.
3. Using the <Up> and <Down> arrow buttons, scroll to the "CHNL" menu
and press the <Enter> button to select the "CHNL" menu.
4. Using the <Up> and <Down> arrow buttons, scroll to the "ADDR"
option and press the <Enter> button to select the "ADDR" option.
Note: You must select a control method for each Studio Spot 250 or Studio
Color 250 fixture on the link.

Assigning a Fixture Address

The fixture's address identifies each fixture's channel range on the DMX link. After
you have selected a control method, you must assign a DMX start channel or fixture
number to each fixture:
• If you chose the DMX start channel control method for the fixture, you must
assign each fixture a DMX start channel.
• If you chose the fixture number control method, you must assign each fixture a
fixture number.
You must assign a unique fixture address to each fixture that you want to respond
independently to controller commands. If you want two or more fixtures to respond to
controller commands in exactly the same way, all fixtures must be the same type (for
example two Studio Spot 250 fixtures) and must share the entire channel range.

Channel Range

There are 512 available channels on each DMX link. These 512 channels are divided
among all the devices in a particular link. The number of channels each fixture
requires is called the fixture's channel range. The size of each fixture's channel range
is determined by the fixture type (see "Fixture Types" on page 2-1).
Each Studio Spot 250 fixture reserves a block of 18 contiguous channels. Each Studio
Color 250 fixture reserves a block of 15 contiguous channels. Therefore, you can
control up to 28 Studio Spot 250 fixtures (512 DMX channels available / 18 channels
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