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D M X A D D R E S S I N G
All fixtures should be given a DMX starting address when operating with a DMX controller, in order
to ensure that the correct fixture responds to the correct control signal. This digital starting address is
the channel number from which the fixture starts to “listen” to the digital control signal sent out from
the DMX controller. This starting DMX address is assigned by setting the correct DMX address on the
digital control display on the fixture.
You can set the same starting address for all fixtures or a group of fixtures, or set different addresses
for each individual fixture. Setting all fixtures to the same DMX address will cause all fixtures to react
in the same way. In this case, please note that changing the settings of one channel will affect all the
fixtures simultaneously.
If you set each fixture to a different DMX address, each unit will start to “listen” to the channel num-
ber you have set, based on the quantity of DMX channels of each fixture. That means changing the
settings of one channel will only affect the selected fixture.
As an example, when operating this fixture model in 11 channel mode, you should set the starting
DMX address of the first unit to 1, the second unit to 12 (1 + 11), the third unit to 23 (1 + 11 + 11), and
so on. Refer to the chart below for more details.
Channel
Mode
Unit 1
Addr
Unit 2
Addr
Unit 3
Addr
Unit 4
Addr
11-Ch 1 12 23 34
14-Ch 1 15 29 43