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Soft patch with scrollers

Hello All,

 

Getting ready to load in a production and have a question.  We have new color scrollers and am wanting to see if I can soft patch them (on the EOS) when I do everything else.  I am using VW 2010 sp2 and have the scrollers inserted into the plot as accessories.  I want the scroller and the source 4 to be patched as compound channel so that when I bring up the channel for the S4 I'll also have the color scroller on an encoder.

I am probably forgetting some other real important bit o' information, but this is all I can think of at the time!

 

TIA,

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  • Hi Pat,

    If you are asking how to simply patch scrollers into compound channels, I can help, I think.  Here is what works for me:

    The power supplies of our scrollers are set up to use the addresses 201 through 296.  Generally we use them in the 2nd or 3rd universe, so on the Eos, that would be 2/201 > 296 or 3/201 > 296.  When I begin patching, I start by taking that range of addresses and select Type, then choose the fixture (ours are Wybron Coloram II's).

    Next I just patch as normal.  Say your scroller channels are 1 through 5.  The dimmers for the lights are 101 through 105.  Patching by address, I go [101 @ 1 Enter.  2/201 @ 1 Enter]  This puts the Intensity of channel 1 in Part 1 and the scroller in Part 2.  I suppose you could also go [101 + 2/201 @ 1 Enter].  The only thing that I pay careful attention to is keeping all of the scrollers in the same channel part, as I've encountered some unexplained weirdness when some are in Part 1 and some in Part 2.

    Hope this helps, B

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  • Hi Pat,

    If you are asking how to simply patch scrollers into compound channels, I can help, I think.  Here is what works for me:

    The power supplies of our scrollers are set up to use the addresses 201 through 296.  Generally we use them in the 2nd or 3rd universe, so on the Eos, that would be 2/201 > 296 or 3/201 > 296.  When I begin patching, I start by taking that range of addresses and select Type, then choose the fixture (ours are Wybron Coloram II's).

    Next I just patch as normal.  Say your scroller channels are 1 through 5.  The dimmers for the lights are 101 through 105.  Patching by address, I go [101 @ 1 Enter.  2/201 @ 1 Enter]  This puts the Intensity of channel 1 in Part 1 and the scroller in Part 2.  I suppose you could also go [101 + 2/201 @ 1 Enter].  The only thing that I pay careful attention to is keeping all of the scrollers in the same channel part, as I've encountered some unexplained weirdness when some are in Part 1 and some in Part 2.

    Hope this helps, B

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