DIP SWITCH SETTINGS 101

Thats a good one..
I've been wanting to post that forever.
Thanks.

i beat cha! lol n.p i do this informative thing when i start a new forum. lol. jingles!

one thing you might want to add is that to get that address you want you add up the dip switches that are on, like in your example dip switches 6 and 3 were up so -
3 = 4 and
6 = 32 so
32 + 4 = 36

and another example, you want to address to 173 maybe so add up until you reach 173

8 = 128
6 = 32 (so far we have 128 + 32 = 160)
4 = 8 (160 + 8 = 168)
3 = 4 (168 + 4 = 172)
1 = 1 (172 + 1 = 173)

so for 173 dip switches 8,6,4,3,and 1 all on, the rest off.

hope this helps!!!

jthtiger

Ok, so this is cheating, but when you are under the gun with a crew that [might] suck. This is easy...

Enjoy.

Nice Chart Anthony,
I recommend everybody printing this chart!

Thanks.

John, are you on LN also? There is a thread on there asking about your LED pars. You might want to chime in on.

well that always works too. it would be perfect if you could memorize all of them. but that would be alot of numbers.

jthtiger

Newbie here. I like the cheat sheet for the dip switches for the lites. I am confused how does the mixer (Stage Setter-8) know what lite goes to what channel?

let me see if i can explain this simply(because i've been told that i go into to much detail when i explain stuff) the mixer doesn't really "know" what light is where it just sends a signal called a DMX signal. this DMX signal consists of a number 0-255. the signal has a specific channel associated with it(i.e. 4 (can be up to 512))this channel corresponds with the address the light is set to. it is addressed usually using the DIP switch has stated above, and if the channel in that signal is the same as the lights address then the light will see what the signal tells it to do(i.e. turn on). i hope this helps. let me know and i can explain it more if ya want.

jthtiger

Thanks for the information. I have some colorspash jr led lites each lit uses 5 channels

1 Not used yet
2 strobe
3 red
4 green
5 blue

So I guess I would set the dip switches to channel ?

ok set your first light to channel 1 (DIP Switch 1 up, the rest off) then your second light to channel 6 (DIP switches 2,3 on, rest off) your third light to channel 11 (1,2,4 on, rest off) and fourth to channel 16 and so on just adding 5 channels. A little semi-visual presentation showing you

Light One(addressed to channel 1):
Ch. 1 - not used yet
Ch. 2 - strobe
Ch. 3 - red
Ch. 4 - green
Ch. 5 - blue

Light Two(addressed to channel 6):
Ch. 6 - not used yet
Ch. 7 - strobe
Ch. 8 - red
Ch. 9 - green
Ch. 10 - blue

Light Three(addressed to channel 11):
Ch. 11 - not used yet
Ch. 12 - strobe
Ch. 13 - red
Ch. 14 - green
Ch. 15 - blue

Light Four(addressed to channel 16):
Ch. 16 - not used yet
Ch. 17 - strobe
Ch. 18 - red
Ch. 19 - green
Ch. 20 - blue

hope this helps!

jthtiger

Thanks for your help

no problem glad to do it!!!

jthtiger

Another newbie her! I am working with the Opti RGB and I am helping with an instal in a church. I have 8 Opti lites on a bar and I am pairing them off into 4 sets of 2. I would like them programmed so that I have a red, green, and blue channel with a master dimmer channel for each pair of two. How would I go about assigning the dip switches to accomplish this?

Sir,
Are these OPTI RGB or OPTI TRI PAR fixtures? I just want to verify which model # you have. This will help me tell you which mode to run it in.

RC

wow...... all my lights started working finally.