AntonGildebrand Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 If the scrollers are made by Stairville (http://www.thomann.de/se/stairville_scroller_set_cs600_4er.htm) I have the soulution for you. You see, in chinese off means on and vice versa. And the dipswitch settings is like on highend stuff. all dips off means channel 1. So try all dipswitches on the scroller set to on and in the desk patch a scroller to channel one and you will see it works. oh, almost forgot, after editing det dipswitchsettings, you have to lose the power of the psu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 in chinese off means on and vice versa. And ... all dips off means channel 1. oh, almost forgot, after editing det dipswitchsettings, you have to lose the power of the psu.:) ... Crikey! If that's the case, then it serves you right for buying cheap sh!tty disco-tat scrollers! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trunker Posted January 25, 2009 Author Share Posted January 25, 2009 OK guys thanks for your help. I played with the patching with help from someone on the phone and it worked out that they wouldn't respond to being called a 'scroller', but had to be patched as 'scroller +lamp', or something like that. Out of curio, why is this the case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gherriott Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 Scroller+lamp adds the attribute channel (your scroller) to the intensity channel of the lantern it is fixed to, allowing you to select the channel with the lantern and scroller and control both intensity and colour at the same time. Only reason I could think of it not working just as a scroller, is because you have been one DMX address out? Not quite sure to be honest. It should have still worked though thinking about it if you had two scrollers one of them should have moved! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trunker Posted January 26, 2009 Author Share Posted January 26, 2009 It is strange because I am controlling the lantern off a dimming channel, not DMX. Oh well it is working now :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 No you are controlling everything, including the dimmers, via DMX - DMX isn't something tangible really - just a protocol to allow equipment made by different firms to understand each other - in the same way MIDI does a similar job for music kit. Your issue was just addressing. If you set the control up to be a dimmer & scroller pair, then the dimmer channel takes the first DMX address, say 101, and the scroller channel is automatically set to 102, in your case, you missed the correct channel, by assuming that the patch made to 101, means setting 101 on the scroller, but sadly, it doesn't. The advantage on most control desks is that by entering the DIMMER number lets you flash a lantern up and down, but then the colour control is automatically going to scroll the colours on that same lamp. If you do it separately, the control desk thinks that one channel works 'something' (it cares not!) and maybe another also does 'something'. With a small quantity of kit, it doesn't really matter - but when you have a lot of kit, and a proper control desk with knobs for colour.gobo, iris etc, it makes sense to use these - so patching a scroller/dimmer combination is a sensible thing to do - saving lots of time, giving proper displays on the monitor and generally making life easier! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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