Park

I'm running a relay pack in slot 1+2 in the SENSOR rack to distribute 120vac to the ML's.  I was under the impression that if I parked these at 100% they would stay that way. But if I use [Select Active] [Out] they go down to zero and turn all my MLs off! I know that to stop subs being wiped out I can use {Select Active][Select Active] but this is a real pain with respect to the parks.

How can I ensure my Parks stay where I want and merely go out and come on when board goes off on on? 

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  • Once a level is set in Park, any actions taken in live could be set or recorded, but would not affect live output.
    When you are using [Select Active][Out] are you sure you have left the Park menu and gone to live?
    Have you parked the channels at full or the addresses?

  • I'm still having problems. I set Ch1 and 2 (Relays) to Full and Parked them. But when I turned the ELE2 off the relays stayed on! I can manually put those channels to full and out to operate the relays. Hmm!

  • What is your system architecture?? Do you have any DMX nodes? One of my facilities connects the console to the dimmers and lights via a series of Net3 Gateways. In the gateways, you can set a DMX Loss timing. In other words, the gateway will hold what DMX values it last saw if you lose DMX signal. It treats the console shutting down as a loss of DMX.

    Could something like this be what's happening to you??

  • Alternately, could it have Hold Last Look on Data Loss enabled?? Try bringing up another light/dimmer & then shutting off the console with it on, does it go out immediately?? If not, then you probably have Hold Last Look enabled. 

  • Our architecture is very simple. Single universe DMX only to SENSOR rack patched 1 to 1 for the 96 dimmers. Dimmer pack D20 for 1&2 was replaced with a ETC R20 relay pack. We are using its output to supply mains voltage to our MLs.

    Manually putting channels 1&2 to FULL closes the relays and setting 1&2 to zero opens the relay as expected. And they can be put into a sub. Sub up = power. Sub down = no power again, as expected.


    Now, if in LIVE I put 1&2 to FULL and PARK the relays work. BUT! When ELE2 is shut down the relay remains closed and power is maintained! I wiped out the PARK and then went into the PARK screen and set it up again with same results. I would have thought the relay would have opened when DMX signals ceased upon board closedown.

    If PARKED and this happens should I  set  these channels to zero in a closing macro?

     

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  • Our architecture is very simple. Single universe DMX only to SENSOR rack patched 1 to 1 for the 96 dimmers. Dimmer pack D20 for 1&2 was replaced with a ETC R20 relay pack. We are using its output to supply mains voltage to our MLs.

    Manually putting channels 1&2 to FULL closes the relays and setting 1&2 to zero opens the relay as expected. And they can be put into a sub. Sub up = power. Sub down = no power again, as expected.


    Now, if in LIVE I put 1&2 to FULL and PARK the relays work. BUT! When ELE2 is shut down the relay remains closed and power is maintained! I wiped out the PARK and then went into the PARK screen and set it up again with same results. I would have thought the relay would have opened when DMX signals ceased upon board closedown.

    If PARKED and this happens should I  set  these channels to zero in a closing macro?

     

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