Leprecon LP-2000 - Manual (Page 35)

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Palettes are named in the normal fashion, by positioning the cursor
under each letter or space in the name, and using the Up and Down
buttons or the keypad to enter the desired letter, number, or
punctuation. Palette names can be a maximum of nine characters in
length.
Below the palette number and name is a listing of the 16 color
positions that make up the gel string of the color changer, with the
appropriate DMX address for each gel. (Only three color positions can
be shown in the display screen at once.) The color names can be up to
nine characters in length, and can be used to list the general colors
(lite blue), the actual gel colors (Daylt Blu), the gel numbers (Lux
65), or any name you desire. To the right of the color name is the
DMX address, which can be set roughly by knowing how many positions
are in the gel string and dividing that number into the 255 DMX
addresses. In practice, it will probably be necessary to use a "trial
and error" method for fine tuning, as the exact values will depend on
the length of the gel segments, the amount they might have stretched
during use, and the type of color changer itself. A DMX value of 0
will represent one end of the gel string, while a value of 255 will
represent the other extreme.
To select the color you wish to edit, position the cursor under the
arrow on the left side of the screen, and use the Up and Down buttons
to scroll through the color list. Once the desired color is selected,
you can move the cursor under the name characters to edit the color
name in the normal fashion, and the cursor can also be moved under the
DMX value to edit it as well. Note that it is not necessary to enter
the colors in the same order they appear in the gel string; they may
be entered in a completely random fashion if desired. Note also that
DMX values can be entered which will position two gels in a "split"
fashion in front of the instrument. This can be an interesting and
useful effect, and since most color changers only allow 11 gel
segments in a string, this leaves five extra color positions in the
palette that can be used for such effects.
Hint: By setting color position values only to 0 or 255, the
palette can be used for controlling motors or other devices that
operate only on 117 volts on or off. By plugging a motor into a
dimmer channel that is controlled by a color fader, a DMX value
of 255 will turn the motor on, and a DMX value of 0 will turn it
off. Be sure when doing this that the color change rate is set
to 0, so that no intermediate voltage values are sent to the
motor.
Setting Console Channels to Color Control
The LP-2000 controls color changers by removing particular console
channels from the normal control of lamp intensity, and reassigning
them to output DMX values directly to the color changers. In other
words, the output of these "color channels" is not affected by the
MASTER fader, the BLACKout button, etc. Moving a color channel's
fader will change the DMX value that it is sending to the color