High End Systems SHOWGUN - Manual (Page 34)

CHAPTER 3
SHOWGUN® Menu System
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Menu System Options
The following sections describe and give examples for selecting and/or setting available menu
options.
DMX Address Menu
DMX Address is the top level menu selection used to set the fixture’s DMX start channel. Use this
menu option, to change the existing DMX start channel to another DMX start channel.
Setting DMX Start Channel
To set the DMX start channel:
1. Press the Menu button to unlock the menu system or to move back up the system to the top
level menus. DMX ADDRESS MENU is the first menu item at the top level.
2. Press the Enter button to select. The display will show SET DMX START CHANNEL:### . The display
will show the start channel currently assigned to the fixture.
3. Use the up and down arrows on the Center button to select a new DMX start channel from
001– 483. The display will flash a new option ready for selection.
Note: The last valid Start channel for a SHOWGUN fixture is 483 (512–30+1).
4. Press the Enter button to accept the new DMX Start channel.
Note: If the Enter button is not pressed, the old value will remain selected
after exiting the menu.
Determining DMX Start Channel Assignment
There are 512 available channels on each DMX link divided among all the devices in a particular
link. A fixture must have a unique Start channel number in order to respond independently to
controller commands.
To determine each fixture’s DMX start channel in a link, identify the channel range of every fixture
on the link. Channel range is the number of consecutive channels a fixture requires. Each
SHOWGUN fixture requires a block of 30 consecutive channels on a 512-Channel DMX link. The
Start channel is the first number of a fixture’s channel range.
INFOMATION
MENU
DISPLAY ERRORS
MENU
XXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXX Scrolls through errors displayed in 2-line,
16-character format
CHANNELS
NEEDED:
##
Displays channel range for current
configuration (30 for SHOWGUN fixtures)
NEXT DMX
CHANNEL:
##
(Current start channel + channels
needed+1)
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