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Synchronous triggering during Stand-Alone operation 35
Synchronous
triggering during
Stand-Alone
operation
Note This chapter details the rules that are used in Stand-Alone
synchronous triggering. It is not necessary to read this chapter
unless you require help with problem diagnosis or unless you
otherwise need a detailed understanding of the algorithm used
for synchronous triggering.
The rules are as follows:
1 Every fixture can have up to 20 on-board scenes with individual fade and
wait times.
2 Scenes are numbered from 0 to 19.
3 A scene contains a fade-section, followed by a wait-section.
4 When running "synchronous triggering" one Imager issues commands to
the other Imagers to "go to scene xx ", where xx is the scene number that
master will execute next.
5 If a slave has fewer scenes than the master, it will derive which scene to go
to by dividing the number of the scene it has been commanded to go to
(scene 5, for example) by the total number of scenes that the slave fixture
has (4, for example) in whole numbers (no decimal places). In this example
5 divided by 4 results in 1, with 1 remainder. This remainder will be the
number of the scene that the slave fixture starts - scene 1. Generally
though, when a Slave fixture reaches its own last scene before the Master
fixture, a "go to scene x " message will result in the first scene being played.