Nick Caburis
Member
In our auditorium, we use LED parcans (pretty much DJ grade stuff) which needs constant power. What we choose to do with our ETC Element is park channel 250 at full and patch the dimmer we plug the LEDs into onto the channel. We usually keep the board running constantly with blackout on and the grandmaster down when we're not using it(which doesn't affect the park obviously). However I'd like to be able to shut it down and let other people shut it down. When the board is shut down while the channel/dimmer is parked, it sets the dimmer to zero(I believe) and the LEDs get screwy.
Read the next paragraph with this in mind, the less user-input, the better because of the people who come into contact with the board.
As of right now the possible solutions are unplugging the LEDs from the dimmer(which is located as far from humanly possible from the control booth), unpark/repark during shutdown/startup, or possibly creating a macro to start shut down. The problem with the macro idea is that it I could make a button or leave instructions to launch the shutdown but as of right now I don't believe I can program a macro to automatically launch on startup. Any ideas?
Read the next paragraph with this in mind, the less user-input, the better because of the people who come into contact with the board.
As of right now the possible solutions are unplugging the LEDs from the dimmer(which is located as far from humanly possible from the control booth), unpark/repark during shutdown/startup, or possibly creating a macro to start shut down. The problem with the macro idea is that it I could make a button or leave instructions to launch the shutdown but as of right now I don't believe I can program a macro to automatically launch on startup. Any ideas?