Hi

Not even opened the box of our new Magic 260 yet but I have started setting up the light personality using the Magic 260 software.
This is our first venture into DMX

Ok - we started out ordering a 15 Channel light but ended up taking a 22 channel light

So, what I'm thinking is - two fixtures for each light - 16 and 6 channels. Simply use Fixt 2 to control channels 17 to 22.

Messy, but it should work, shouldn't it ?

John.

Hi John and welcome to the forums.

Yes, that will work. I have done it myself a few times on the Magic 260. Just make sure your patch falls in line. For example, if the light is addressed channel 1, on the console the 6 channel fixture should be patched at channel 17. If it is addressed at channel 11, fixture two on the console should be patched at channel 27, etc etc.

Thanks for that.

Well I have the 260 in my hands now so checking the profiles I have created...

One strange thing happening - Ch11 is not used on the fixture no steps or values. When loaded onto the 260 it is shuffled along to the channel 16 position.
No lights yet to see if channels 12 to 16 work correctly

John

Ah Ha - found out about the channel priority shuffling that the 260 will do - interesting that it doesn't appear to be in the manual......

Now - just one problem to resolve -

The Pan Fine and Tilt Fine are actually channels 17 and 18 on the light (coarse are ch1 and ch2).

Can't get the joystick to work on the fine settings. 16 channel config on the fixture would leave us without fine control which might be a bit too quick and jumpy if we tried using the joystick for follow spot functionality.

John

That's an interesting profile. I have never heard of the fine channels being that far away from the course. They are always directly after the course because a lot of other light boards actually combine the course and fine into a signal channel.

The joy stick won't work unless you have a profile and I believe the channels for pan and tilt need to be next to each other. Why not just setup the profile so that it only uses the course channels and then you can select the second fixture when ever you need to fine adjust?

That's what we have done....

Using fixture 1, the joystick on coarse works fine

Using Fixture 2 - nothing at all on the joystick for ch1 and ch2 ( thats 17 and 18 on the actual lights).

John.

Is it not adjusting values at all? Keep in mind that you have say 360 degrees of pan, each fine value only moves the light about .005 degrees or 1.406 degrees for the whole range. So it might be moving the fixture, its just so small that you can't see it.

I'll have a look at that tonight - should finally have the lights to hook up to the controller then.....after we have rigged them on a lighting bar 6m above the theatre seats - that should be fun.....