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MAC Allure Wash PC User Guide
Control options
You can control the MAC Allure Wash PC using DMX and/or Martin P3 video protocol. The fixture
auto-senses the type of data that it is receiving and will respond correctly with no need for manual protocol
selection.
The following options are available:
• DMX control over standard DMX cable connected to the fixture’s 5-pin XLR connectors.
• DMX control using Art-Net over Ethernet cable connected to the fixture’s etherCON connectors.
• DMX control using streaming ACN over Ethernet cable connected to the fixture’s etherCON connectors.
• DMX control over DMX cable and P3 video display data over Ethernet cable.
• P3 video display data with embedded DMX commands over Ethernet cable. If you connect DMX / Art-Net
/ sACN to the P3 system controller, the controller can merge the DMX commands into the P3 video signal
and send them to the fixture over Ethernet.
You can decide how the fixture should behave if it receives both a DMX signal at its XLR connectors and a
P3 signal at its etherCON connectors. The default setting is for the DMX signal to take priority, but you can
set the P3 signal to take priority and you can crossfade between DMX and P3.
Fail-safe connection
The MAC Allure Wash PC has a fail-safe network connection. If the fixture loses power or if you shut it
down, it will continue to relay an Ethernet signal, and the Art-Net / sACN / P3 signal to the other networked
fixtures in the daisy chain will not be interrupted.
Data rate
Any Ethernet switch used to relay Art-Net, streaming ACN or P3 data to the MAC Allure Wash PC must be
capable of running at 10/100 Mbps speed, as the fixture does not support Gigabit Ethernet data rates.
DMX
The MAC Allure Wash PC accepts a DMX-512A data signal.
DMX setup
The DMX address, also known as the start channel, is the first channel used to receive instructions from the
controller. For independent control, each fixture must be assigned its own control channels. If you give two
MAC Allure Wash PC fixtures the same address, they will behave identically. Address sharing can be useful
for diagnostic purposes and symmetrical control, particularly when combined with the inverse pan and tilt
options.
DMX addressing is limited to make it impossible to set the DMX address so high that you are left without
enough control channels for the fixture.
To set the fixture’s DMX address:
1. Press Enter to open the main menu.
2. Press Enter to enter the
DMX ADDRESS
menu, then scroll to the desired address and press Enter to
save.
3. Press Menu to exit.
DMX modes
The
CONTROL MODE
menu lets you set the MAC Allure Wash PC to one of the two DMX operating
modes, Basic and Extended:
• Basic mode offers 8-bit control of strobe, CTC effects, virtual color wheel, beamshaper, FX and other
selection functions plus 16-bit control of RGB, dimmer, zoom, focus, pan and tilt.
• Extended mode includes all the functionality of Basic mode but adds individual 16-bit RGB control of each
of the fixture’s seven pixel segments. Use Extended mode if you want to patch virtual dimmers to
individual pixels.
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