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Turn the key to “Program” to prepare for programming.
The DLC-C003 is now pristine and new, with all options set to default,
and all memories empty, ready for you to start your show.
2.2
Patching dimmers
Each dimmer channel you want to use has to be allocated to one of the
handles. Then, when you want to control the dimmer channel, you just
fade up the slider.
Patching dimmer channels
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Make sure the key is set to “Program”
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Press Patch (one of the blue “command” buttons).
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Press A [Dimmer]
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The DLC-C003 will start at DMX address 001 (shown on
the top line of the display). If your dimmer rack is at a
different address, you can change this by typing in the
new address on the numeric keypad.
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Press the blue preset “Swop” button below preset fader
number 1. The fader and flash/swop buttons will become
the “handle” used to control that dimmer channel.
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The DLC-C003 will update the DMX address to the next
free channel, so you can just press another button to
patch the next dimmer.
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Press Exit when you have finished patching.
You can now control the dimmer channel on handle 1 using the fader
(the buttons do not operate as flash buttons in Program mode, only in
Run mode).
If you have lots of dimmers to patch, there are some quicker ways. If
you just want to patch 10 dimmers in sequence on to handles 21-30,
you can do it this way:
Patching a range of dimmers to buttons
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Enter Dimmer Patch mode
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Enter the DMX channel you want the range to start at, if it’s
different to the one the DLC-C003 is displaying
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Hold down the Swop button of the first handle to be patched
(handle 21)
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Press the last Swop button (handle 30)
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Release the first Swop button, then the last Swop button
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Each handle will be patched in order to a dimmer channel.
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Press Exit when you have finished patching.
You can also patch more than one dimmer channel on the same handle.
This can be useful when you have several lights on different dimmer
channels, but you always want to control them together. For example,
if you have lit an area with several spots and you just want them all to
come up on one fader, this is a good way to do that. Multiple patches
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