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Special Note: Line Termination. When longer runs of cable are used, you may need to use a termi-

nator on the last unit to avoid erratic behavior. A terminator is a 110-120 ohm 1/4 watt resistor which is

connected between pins 2 and 3 of a male XLR connector (DATA + and DATA -). This unit is inserted

in the female XLR connector of the last unit in your daisy chain to terminate the line. Using a cable

terminator (ADJ part number Z-DMX/T) will reduce the risk of erratic behavior.

DMX ADDRESSING.

All fixtures should be given a DMX starting address when using a DMX controller, so the correct fix-

ture responds to the correct control signal. This digital starting address is the channel number from

which the fixture starts to "listen" to the digital control signal sent out from the DMX controller. The

assignment of this starting DMX address is achieved by setting the correct DMX address on the digi-

tal control display on the fixture.

You can set the same starting address for all fixtures or a group of fixtures, or set different addresses

for each individual fixture. Setting all fixtures to the same DMX address will cause all fixtures to react

in the same way. In other words, changing the settings of one channel will affect all the fixtures simul-

taneously.

If you set each fixture to a different DMX address, each unit will start to "listen" to the channel number

you have set, based on the quantity of DMX channels of each fixture. That means changing the set-

tings of one channel will only affect the selected fixture.

For example, when this unit is operating in 6 channel mode, you should set the starting DMX address

of the first unit to 1, the second unit to 7 (1 + 6), the third unit to 13 (1 + 6 + 6), and so on. See the

chart below for more details.

CHANNEL MODE UNIT 1 ADDRESS UNIT 2 ADDRESS UNIT 3 ADDRESS UNIT 4 ADDRESS

6Ch

9Ch

10Ch

12Ch

15Ch

18CH

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