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Issue with Mac 2k Wash w/Dimmer Wheel Personality

Today I patched our Mac 2k Washes with dimmer wheels for the first time on our Ion, and was unable to get any intensity out of the fixtures. I used the "Mac 2000 16B Dimmer" personality, assuming this is the personality for units with the added dimmer wheel. I was able to control pan and tilt and (from what i could tell) the CMY.

 On a whim, I swapped the personality to the other Mac 2k wash personality on the console and the shutter momentarily snapped open and closed, but I was met with the same problem with this persoanlity.

 

Any thoughts on this error? Is it possible the built-in personality does not account for the intensity being controlled by what used to be the 2nd color wheel channel and the shutter channel functioning only for strobe?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks!

 

-Nick 

  • Hi, I think what the problem is that the Martin Mac_2000_Wash_Dimmer_16B fixture profile is not mapping any attribute to DMX channel 2 which, according to the manual, must be set to 100% when the dimmer wheel is used.

    If you select a channel that is patched as a Mac_2000_Wash_Dimmer_16B and look at About and Patch, you can see which attributes are patched to which DMX addresses. Here you'll see that although address 8 is patched to Intensity, address 2 has nothing patched - which goes against the manual. (see attached)

    Try parking DMX channel 2 of each fixture to value 255 for the purposes of confirming whether this is the cause of the problem. I've just tried this on an Ion, and in this example if you go into Park display ([Park][Park]) and park Address 1/2 @ 100, then this will fill in the missing value for you in the DMX stream. Alternatively, until the fixture profile is corrected, you could try creating a custom fixture profile with DMX channel 2 mapped to a parameter with home value of 255.

    David



    [edited by: David Buffham at 7:10 AM (GMT -6) on Sat, Aug 30 2008] [edited by: David Buffham at 7:06 AM (GMT -6) on Sat, Aug 30 2008]
  • in reply to David Buffham
    Thanks! This worked perfectly for me. Now to just write a macro....
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