CHAPTER 6
General Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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SHAPESHIFTER User Manual
Coplaner Alignment
Coplanar alignment allows the user to superimpose all seven beams and ensures that they all
converge on the same area. The user adjusts each module after homing to be coplanar, selects
coplanar alignment on the control channel, and these settings are stored into the fixture’s non-
volatile memory. On subsequent power cycles and homing, all sever beams are aligned, or
coplanar.
This alignment is necessary to compensate for slight differences in focal position that will naturally
happen with mechanical tolerances and homing tolerances. Note that the following example
utilizes a HOG4 Lighting Console bu
To reinstate coplaner alignment:
1. Set the fixture to
Enhanced Mode
in the menu system. Then, at the lighting console:
2. Patch the SHAPESHIFTER:
— Add 1x SHAPESHIFTER master as fixture #1
— Add 1x SHAPESHIFTER static module as fixture #2
— Add 6x SHAPESHIFTER moving modules as fixtures #3-8.
3. Select fixtures 1 THRU 8, then press ENTER. This selects all fixtures
4. Working with the SHAPESHIFTER master, fixture #1, use PAN & TILT to position the light
output from the fixture on a flat surface. We recommend that the surface be straight up, and
perpendicular to the light output.
5. Under the MODE menu, select FIXTURE MODE INDEPENDENT. NOTE: This sets DMX channel
5 (MASTER LED X/Y Function to a DMX value of 255. FIXTURE MODE INDEPENDENT allows
for individual X/Y positioning of the moving modules.
6. Select the first moving module, Fixture #3, and use the LED X Pos and LED Y Pos encoders to
adjust the position of the first moving module. Align the first moving module to form a single
output superimposed over the static module output. NOTE: It may help if you move all 6
moving modules away from the center module initially.
7. Continue aligning all moving modules, fixtures #4-8, until all are convergent.
8. On HOG 4, Press SETUP then select the DMX button to open the DMX Output Window.
9. n the DMX Output Window, select DMX Channel 23 (Control Channel).
10. Press SET, and enter a DMX value of 96. Press ENTER, and hold that value for 3 seconds.
11. In the DMX Output Window, Select DMX Channel 23 (Control Channel).
12. Press SET and enter a DMX value of 0. Press ENTER.
13. The moving modules will home.
14. Release DMX channel 23 from the DMX Output Window by pressing the “Set to HobNet Input”
button in the Dmx Output window.
15. Clear the programmer. The moving modules will now be aligned.
