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Lamping on/off fixtures

just want to get some confirmation on lamping on/off fixtures where the fixtures lamp controls are shared with other parameters in my case a mac 2000 performance 

is it actually possible using the strobe encoder wheel to take the channel to its lamp off range?  have had a stressful production week and during our first preview one of the units lamped off during act 1

the following day i went through the show in blind and homed the strobe channels in all presets etc and ran the show before hand and it was fine then and during the second preview

im not ruling out a faulty fixture the 2000 range is quite old these days just want cover my bases  

also for some reason i haven't been able to write a macro to lamp on or off a clay paky sharpy I've tried multiple versions both learning live keystrokes and blind macro editing etc

thanks Will

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    The older Martin gear has a tendency to loose the lamp if the voltage drops. Some fixtures can be more prone to that than others. It's worth looking at anyways. The Sharpy's have a few personalities - look for the "LC" lamp controls in the name. The lamp on should be in the About window as normal. You can build a simple "Lamp On" macro but learning it from the button in the about screen. Doing it that way would lamp on any instrument that the desk has a built in Lamp instruction.
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    The older Martin gear has a tendency to loose the lamp if the voltage drops. Some fixtures can be more prone to that than others. It's worth looking at anyways. The Sharpy's have a few personalities - look for the "LC" lamp controls in the name. The lamp on should be in the About window as normal. You can build a simple "Lamp On" macro but learning it from the button in the about screen. Doing it that way would lamp on any instrument that the desk has a built in Lamp instruction.
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    Hi Patrick your point on voltage is good advice I'm new to this venue so I asked around if theres been any power fluctuations in the past and surprise surprise there is a history As for your advice on sharpy macro I do have it patched as the LC profile and have "learnt" the macro from live keying chan 8 about lamp controls lamp on enter enter still no joy??? When I learn this macro live the fixture does lamp on but when i go back again the next day it doesn't do anything my lamp on macro for the other fixture types work fine will keep trying though
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