Dimmer Operation
4-6
Revision 2 - 20 March, 1997
HP SERIES DIMMER
OPERATING MANUAL
4.1.6
DMX BANK menu
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Figure 4.2
To make DMX start channel selection easier, the HP12-TR / HP12-SC dimmers can
select a bank of twelve channels from the DMX input signal. There are a total of 42
sequential banks of twelve channels and one last bank of eight channels in the 512
channels available from the DMX-512 source. See section 8.2 for a list of banks and
their corresponding channels.
By selecting DMX start bank 2, the dimmer will respond to DMX channels 13
through 24 inclusive.
•
To select a DMX bank press the
DMX BANK
button on the keypad.
•
The display will change to show the currently assigned DMX bank number.
•
Using the
FUNCTION
encoder wheel, DMX bank numbers may be
incremented or decremented to the desired bank number.
•
To select the DMX bank number press the
ENTER
button on the keypad.
•
The display will then show
“OK”
to indicate the dimmer is now in normal
operating mode.
4.1.7
BUILD menu
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Figure 4.3
The
BUILD
menu is used to record DMX Snapshots or user-defined Scenes.
•
Press the
BUILD
keypad button.
•
Select a flashing Snapshot number (
“SP1 - SP3”
) or a Scene number (
“SC1 -
SC2”
) to record, using the
FUNCTION
encoder wheel.
•
Press
ENTER
to confirm the selection.
4.1.7.1 Snapshot
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Figure 4.3
Once a
SNAPSHOT
number is selected (
“SP1”
,
“SP2”
or
“SP3”
), the display
will scroll the message:
“PRESS ENTER TO STORE DMX VALUE”
.
•
On pressing
ENTER
, the dimmer will store the current DMX values for the
twelve dimmer channels in the currently selected bank.
•
The display will change to
“OK”
to indicate the dimmer is now in normal
operating mode.
