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Smart Color ION patch

Hello, 

We just acquired  six Apollo Smart Color Pro (7.25), and these are the first "intelligent" fixtures we've used. In the ION fixture library, I only see options for 10, 7, and 5.25. Patching it as a 7 appears to work until we've finished calibrating the scroller,  at which point using  {next} and {last} skip several gels (the gels that are skipped are never next to each other) in the scoller.  The scroller is loaded with the default 18 gel String, but I can't seem to find a way to check that the frames are correct outside of setting up the scroller string in the patch. Is the skipping an issue with the version of the scoller  in the fixture library, or is there an option to set the amount of frames for the fixture?

Also, in our current patch, the six color scrollers are patched along with six separate dimmers into a single channel. Is it possible to simply run all of the scrollers together in this single channel? Or should the each scroller and it's corresponding fixture be patched in separate channels?

 

Thanks,

Todd

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    Hi Todd,

    Welcome to the forums.

     

    I think the Smart Color 7 will work fine

    When you patch the Smart Color the console will give you a default of 16 frames. If your scroll is any different to this you will want to create your own custom scroll string in patch. This is the way to tell the console how many frames you have, and therefore how it needs to split up the DMX range. It is advisable to create your own custom string in any case, as you can then add the specific gels to the list, allowing you options for selecting frames by gel number or from the colour picker.

    Once you have created a custom string it will be saved as part of your showfile and can be applied to any additional scrollers. You can also import the list into other showfiles to save you re-building it time and again.

     

    It is possible to run all six scrollers on the one channel, either by giving them the same address, or by patching them as individual parts of the channel. However, if you have separate dimmers available for each fixture I would recommend patching them as six individual channels - one part for the dimmer and one part for the scroller. This will give you much more control in the long term.

     

    Hope that helps

     

    Graham

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    Thank you very much. It turns out we actually had an extra frame in our scrollers, and a new custom string cleared the calibration issue right up. 

     

    Thanks,

    Todd

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