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DALItoDMX User Guide
Trigger Mode
Trigger Mode (set when DIP Switch 6 is ON)
allows a DALI controller to trigger a DMX
device, such as a show recorder / playback
product (see Figure 2 below).
Trigger Mode uses virtual DALI devices but,
in contrast to Device Mode, they are not
proxies for actual fixtures.
As such, the DALI addressing modes (Device,
Group, Scene) lose their literal meaning.
Instead, they should be viewed simply as
data streams that enable various triggering
options.
The virtual devices are pre-commissioned
to define this triggering structure. The tables
in Appendix 3 detail the pre-programmed
relationship between the virtual devices and
the DMX output slots.
DALI
DALI
Rail-PSU-D4
DALItoDMX
DALI
Controller
Show recorder/playback unit
DMX
Figure 2: Trigger Mode Data Flow
Virtual DALI device set-up
Selecting the number of devices
The number of virtual DALI devices can be
set to 1, 4, 16 or 64 using DIP switches 3 and
4 (see Table 1).
The Dimming Curve Translation (DIP Switch
5) is operative for Devices and Groups.
Dimming Curve
