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OK I have downloaded the software although I haven't yet hooked up my Operator 192. I am just trying it in demo mode.

The light pars that I have are new, they are by Microh, you can't even see them on the website, although there is a similar system that is exactly like mine except different pars. I have checked the online manual for the system that they have online and it is exactly the same and works the same way.

The system is the LED Quadpar. It consists of 4 pars on a single tree. The tree carries the power and the DMX. All four of these lights run off a single DMX channel but you can put the tree into DMX mode 4 which allows you to control the RGB of each fixture individually and runs across 14 channels. In the manual it says that the red for the first fixture starts on channel 1 and that the flash and the master dimmer are on channels 13 and 14 respectively. In fact I either have something set up wrong or it's a misprint because the master dimmer is actually channel 1, the flash (or strobe) is on channel 2 and the red for the first fixture actually starts on channel 3 and runs through to 14.

Since you don't have a profile for this Microh LED Quadpar system in the Compu Easy Standalone software, I was wondering if there would be a way that I could find a led par can that only uses 3 channels (RGB) and add four of them starting at channel 3 and then perhaps there is someway to install a generic master dimmer on channel 1 and a generic strobe on channel 2 so that I could trick the software and my Operator 192 into thinking that they are controlling the LED Quadpar system. This way any thing I come up with here will translate to the actual lighting fixtures live. I guess if I couldn't use a generic dimmer and strobe on channels one and 2 I could just ensure that I have the fader up full on the operator 192 all the time and leave the strobe off (I'll never use it). So I guess I could still get by if I could find an LED par can the just uses 3 channels for RGB. That list is so extensive that unless you have a good working knowledge of lights (which I don't) it would be hard to find one.

My only fear with the master dimmer is that I would be able to come up with scenes in the software and store them in the 192 and then it would be all dark because I didn't enter any master fader values.

Just for reference, here is the link to the system I am using, might help to visualize. The manual is downloadable from this page, if needed.

http://www.microhpro.com/ledquadpar.html

Thanks,
Kevin
Last edited by litesnsirens
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