Stageline PARL36 - what controller

[skawillow]

Hi I've recently purchased some Stageline PARL36 LED lamps which are 5 channel.

I've been looking at purchasing an ELATION LED OPERATOR controller but this seems to support 4 channel LED fixtures.

 

Will this work or have I missed something fundamental?

 

Thanks

[DMXBandit]

This thread may be worth a read.

[musht]

Slightly more recent, Showtec LED Commander, control 8 groups of up to 8 channel fixtures, just over £100 at Thomann

 

http://www.highlite.nl/index.php/highlite/...s/led_commander

 

Differs from ADJ product by addition of 61 more DMX channels fro same money.

[skawillow]

I presume you don't need to buy a specific 4 channel or 5 channel controller as all you do is programme the value for the channel's you're controlling - Upto the maximum number of channels available on the controller - correct?

 

Some interesting points about running parallel units (with same start channel) does this cause any problems that anyone knows of?

 

Are there actually no standards for channel sequencing for LED fixtures. Seems very random..

These Stagline units are PARL36DMX http://www.monacor.de/de/FLE/PARL36DMX.pdf summarised below.

 

From the controllers I looked at I was expecting faders

 

Operating Mode

Red

Green

Blue

Speed

MASTER

 

does it really matter?

 

DMX value

Function

CHANNEL 1: Operating modes 1 - 4

0 63

mode 1: manual colour adjustment via the brightness of the RGB LEDs brightness of the red LEDs ® adjustable via channel 2 brightness of the green LEDs (G) adjustable via channel 3 brightness of the blue LEDs (B) adjustable via channel 4

64

127

mode 2: automatic fading between 7 colours fading speed adjustable via channel 2

128

191

mode 3: automatic change between 7 colours speed for change of colour adjustable via channel 2

192 255

mode 4: automatic change between red, green, and blue speed for change of colour adjustable via channel 2

CHANNEL 2: Red, speed for the operating modes 2 - 4

0 255

with mode 1 adjusted (DMX values 0 63 for channel 1): 0% → 100 % brightness of the red LEDs

 

 

 

 

0 1 255

with mode 2, 3, or 4 adjusted (DMX values 64 min. speed max. speed → min. speed

255 for channel 1):

CHANNEL 2: Green

 

 

 

 

0 255

with mode 1 adjusted (DMX values 0 63 for channel 1): 0% → 100 % brightness of the green LEDs

CHANNEL 4: Blue

0 255

with mode 1 adjusted (DMX values 0 63 for channel 1): 0% → 100 % brightness of the blue LEDs

CHANNEL 5: Fast change of colour, music control

0 10

no function

11

100

fast change of colour red/green/blue* max. speed (DMX value 11) → min. speed (DMX value 100)

101 150

no function

151 255

music-controlled change of colour via the integrated microphone* max. sensitivity (DMX value 153) → min. sensitivity (DMX value 255)

 

thanks..

[musht]

Yup, DMX 512 is a generic control standard, can configure most DMX controllers to control most DMX devices.

 

Running things at same address very common, ADJ is limited in that it only has the 3 channels, Showtec has 64, 8 channels in 8 groups.

 

There are no standards with LED channel layout, even from same maker a few months later..

[Chris Beesley]

The Elation LED operator only works with 3CH (RGB) fixtures.