Les
Well-Known Member
First mistake was buying these cheap generic LED lights, but they seem popular enough and this is a cheap little effect that can't have a large fixture inside it and quality doesn't matter much.
Here's the fixture we're dealing with; four of them inside pendant lights. No doubt they look a little familiar as they're a dime a dozen all over the place. I'd like for them to be addressed individually, but we can't figure out how to get them to listen to DMX (ETC Element) at all.
Here is the back of the fixture and the "manual". The DIP switches are a little unusual in that they also select operating modes. I'm just a little (or a lot) unclear on how to get the fixture in to DMX mode and then how to set the starting channel.
So far, I'm thinking it basically comes to setting the DIP switches and then bringing up an intensity channel before individual color control can be achieved (and of course creating a simple RGB LED personality in the console, which is easy enough). I read a comment on YouTube that seemed to state a similar point:
"I believe channel 1 is actually intensity/blink, and 2-4 is Red,Green,Blue. ... If channel 1 is set to 0-127 it is the intensity of the whole fixture, and 128 and above changes blink rate. If you set the fixture to channel 1 and move the channel 1 slider to about 50%, then you'll probably see that channel 2 controls red just fine, 3 is green, and 4 is blue. Maybe not what you're expecting compared to other fixtures, but that's the way it's stated in the manual, and the way my cheap-off-of-ebay lights work."
Other than that, any advice from those who have dealt with similar things in the past? I'm bad enough with regular DIP switches...
Here's the fixture we're dealing with; four of them inside pendant lights. No doubt they look a little familiar as they're a dime a dozen all over the place. I'd like for them to be addressed individually, but we can't figure out how to get them to listen to DMX (ETC Element) at all.
Here is the back of the fixture and the "manual". The DIP switches are a little unusual in that they also select operating modes. I'm just a little (or a lot) unclear on how to get the fixture in to DMX mode and then how to set the starting channel.
So far, I'm thinking it basically comes to setting the DIP switches and then bringing up an intensity channel before individual color control can be achieved (and of course creating a simple RGB LED personality in the console, which is easy enough). I read a comment on YouTube that seemed to state a similar point:
"I believe channel 1 is actually intensity/blink, and 2-4 is Red,Green,Blue. ... If channel 1 is set to 0-127 it is the intensity of the whole fixture, and 128 and above changes blink rate. If you set the fixture to channel 1 and move the channel 1 slider to about 50%, then you'll probably see that channel 2 controls red just fine, 3 is green, and 4 is blue. Maybe not what you're expecting compared to other fixtures, but that's the way it's stated in the manual, and the way my cheap-off-of-ebay lights work."
Other than that, any advice from those who have dealt with similar things in the past? I'm bad enough with regular DIP switches...