Keeping Channel Levels

First if all: a dimmer is not the right tool to power moving lights. A dimmer channel dims by chopping up the some wave, and even at full it will not output a perfect sine wave that electronics expect. It might work for a while but in the long term you'll damage your fixtures.

There are dinner modules that are socially made to be able to dim or to power electronics, like the ETC ThruPower module. Other than that you will want a hot power or a switch pack.

When controlling power sources you can either use Park, a shielded sub or start using SelectActive SelectActive which will write Select NonSub Active.

I remember my SCR basics and agree. At the time it was the best of a bad set of choices. I have some small remote 4 outlet dimmer packs that have a "Switched" mode. They go full blast when DMX >128 But I think a central Power supply we can control but with a full smooth output like your ETC Thrupower may be something we should look at. Happy New Year!

Try  putting your powerchannels at Full into Park. That way you cant accidently turn them off. 

That's a good idea.I really need this when I want to use [Select Active] out rather than using [GoToCue] [Out]

Depending on what dimmer rack you have, most of them have a module on it that allows you to set them to "non-dim" and full power, this can not be changed by the console without some fancy RDM that I can't explain. Then they will stay on until you power down your dimmers. I would also recommend that you not use dimmers for any intel fixture, it is not made for them, and they do not handle them very well. For my final recommendation, if you do want to be able to cut the power from the console you can park them at full, then they will not change even when you pull your sub/clear your cue stack/go to cue out/anything. Once you power down your console, again depending on your dimmers' sleep timer, they will shut down, and when you turn on your console they will regain power automatically.

-aidan

Definitely Park your Non Dims.

Side note though.

If you double tap Select_Active you get Select_NonSub_Active (if for instance you have the house fader up for auditorium worklights while still working on Cues)

The double tap is a useful tip - thank you. Ref the dimmer pack - we're not using the regular D20's. We have some outlet packs that in relay mode bypass the SCR to give a regular, full and smooth AC sinusoidal (per oscilloscope)