Vari Lite VLX3 User Manual

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O PERATION : DMX O PERATION302.97 03.000 1 A 1 7 Dec emb er 2 012 33DMX Mode 4 Channel Mapping (Enhanced Individual LED EngineControl)Vari-Lite has added a new control mode in VLX3 wash luminaires called Mode 4. Mode 4 allowsusers to program and control each LED engine individually but with significant differences from Mode2 and Mode 3 (as described in Vari-Lite Technical Bulletin LSW-064).To select DMX Mode 4, access the Menu System as follows:DMX -> DMX Map -> Mode 4IMPORTANT! Mode 4 utilizes the same control functionality as Mode 3, but with a differentchannel map. This channel map is useful when patching the fixture as 4 independent fixtures(one for intensity, pan, tilt, zoom and control) while the other 3 control the individual LED cells.Certain console profiles will prefer to use this mode. Please check with your console manufac-turer for which mode their console profile supports.Like Mode 3, Mode 4 provides:• Programmers access to individual control or combined control of the LEDs and allows control ofeasily built effects.• An 8-bit channel called the Engine Modifier channel. This is channel 15 in the DMX map inMode 4. This channel designates the way the programmer accesses the LED engines.a. To operate the fixture as a conventional moving wash fixture, set the EngineModifier channel to a DMX value of 0 (default). This means that the RGBW andStrobe control of engine #1 (DMX Channels 16 - 24) will control all the LED engines asone.b. To control the engines separately, users can set the fixture to Engine Modifierchannel to a DMX value of 15 (11-20 range). Enabling Engine Modifier separatesthe LED engines for individual control using their own individual control channels.• An extended DMX channel count - 42 DMX channels. See Table 3-4, “VLX3 Wash LuminaireMapping Mode 4,” on page 34 for more information.• The ability to set each engine to a different color and create effects with them. If you move theEngine Modifier channel up in the range of 21 through 83, you will notice that the colors youhave selected are now rotating around each of the three engines. By adjusting within this range youare able to change speed and direction of the rotation.• If the Engine Modifier channel is set in the range of 87 through 149, the color selected forengine 1 will be applied to engine 2 and then engine 3 sequentially. It will then apply the selectedcolor on engine 2 to engine 3 and then engine 1 sequentially. It will then apply the color selectedfor engine 3 to engine 1 and then to engine 2 sequentially. This is called LED Pile-On. Bychanging the values within this range you can manipulate the speed and direction the LED Pile-On takes.• It is important to note that the individual colors can be altered while this channel is activated.Simply go back to any of the engines and change their values. The Engine Modifier channelwill recognize the changes in real time. It is also important to note that the Color Timing Channel(DMX Channel 10 in Mode 4) is still recognized with the Engine Modifier channel. Forexample, if you set a slow rotation of the LED engines and then give it a 1 or 2 second color timing