Mode Lighting ColourStyle, User Manual

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The ColourStyle is unusual in that you can connect multiple fixtures to one DMX
universe even if you want to control them totally independently of each other. This is
because the ColourStyle allows you to change any DMX channel level or group of
channels’ levels at a time without having to specify the levels of all the other channels.
For further details see the section on creating custom Scenes (see CD).
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Using the ColourStyle looks and feels very much like using a pocket MP3 player: you
set up scenes as if they were songs, and sequences are handled much like play-lists.
You can assign Favourite looks for quick access.
Configuring the DMX Generator is performed entirely using a combination of the
scroll-wheel, the “Back” button, the “Select” button and three soft-keys.
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“Back” button used to return to the
previous menu
“On / Off” button
used to “mute” the DMX output “Select” button,
used to activate a menu option
Soft-key buttons
for selecting spe-
cial features
LCD Screen
(backlit)
Scroll wheel. Used to move between
menu options or
adjust values.
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The three pairs of con-
figurable terminals on
the rear of ColourStyle
can be configured as
either Contact Inputs or
Analogue outputs (see
page 32).
They are wired as
follows:
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1) Switch Input
2) Button Input
3) Fuorescent Ballast
Output
1) 2) 3)
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Up to 32 “loads” may be connected to each DMX universe. Modern DMX fixtures
do not present a full unit of “load” to the DMX output, and therefore more than 32
may be used. For example all DMX fixtures from Mode Lighting are 1/10th load, and
therefore 320 may be connected to each DMX Universe.
If you need to connect more than 32 fixtures-worth of “loads” then use a DMX
signal amplifier or booster.
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For further informa-
tion on DMX wiring
and termination see:
“ R e c o m m e n d e d
Practice for DMX512,
A Guide for Users
and Installers” by Adam Bennette,
available from PLASA.