Design Brick 70 II

all good questions.. will investigate.

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Originally posted by wbrown:
Just received our order of the new Design Brick 70 II.
The DMX modes in the manual don't match the modes on the fixture. Through trial and error I've figured out:
Color control - 5 CH MODE (DEFAULT)
Color prog - 8 CH MODE
Color_Saturation Hue Intensity CT - 4 CH MODE
Color prog. Hue Saturation CT - 11 CH MODE
Group Control - 35 CH MODE

My questions,
What is Pixel Grouping, and how does it work?
I have a remote that we bought with our Design Bricks v1, will they work with the II (v2)?

Thanks

hi Will, send me an email (service at elation lighting dot com)i do believe there is an updated
manual. also yes you should be able to use the same remote.

Bump

Sent an email to the service address, still waiting a reply.

Thanks, Will

hi Will, let me check and see if the updated manual is ready yet.

Pixel grouping is the ability to control each section as a pixel. It let's you basically turn a stack of them into a low res LED video wall, especially if you are using a media server of some sort (Catalyst, Axion, etc). That is not to say you can't take the time and program the same effect without a media server, it would just take forever. The effect would basically look like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...2qRI&feature=related

Any Updates?
I have a show where I want to do pixel mapping. I don't really want to change them to 32 channel mode. How exactly does the pixel grouping work? I played around with it a little, and all I've seen it do is turn off pixels.

in order to do pixel mapping, you have to run the fixtures in full channel mode (IE: 32 channel light has each section RGB or what not) then, in a mapper it uses each rgb section as ONE pixel of an image/video... give you an idea, most computer monitors now run in atleast 1028x1024 pixel resolution. so it can be used as a very low resolution image or video....or, like most use it for is when you do a color fade or swirl, it knows which pixels to use for which colors in the fading....here is a quick youtube video of an example where you use pixel mapping across LED lights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtQ9Yz2iEj8

Thanks for the response - BUT I am still waiting on an updated manual. I have sent multiple emails to your service@elationlighting.com over the past now 2 years and have heard no response. So its either getting bounced on your end, or I am being ignored.

i will send it to your email in a moment, let me get a copy of it for you and will send it to you....sorry for this major delay, this must have been over looked