Lightmaxx fixtures

Do you have a PDf manual for these fixtures?
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I have the user manuals for these fixtures.

QUAD LED: Lightmaxx Quad LED manual

Tri LED:
Lightmaxx Tri LED manual

Thanx!

Thanks. It might hurt my neck looking at my screen sideways but these should be easy to make. haha.
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Here is the updated Lightmaxx XML for emulation.
http://db.tt/Nhy4JulR
You know how to place this file on your computer for the program to see it yes? If not let me know what OS you are using.
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Thanks a lot!
I going to check it right now.

And sorry for your neck... It was the only thing I had.

Oke, I posted the XML file in the right place.
The fixtures appear in the list so everything is fine.
But both fixtures don't seem to respond properly.

The Tri-LED fixture can only do white (with main dimmer). When I change the color mix bars, nothing happens. Also when I touch the strobe bar, I can't seem to turn it off again. When set to zero, the fixture still does a very slow strobe.

The Quad LED fixture only does Red, and no dimming at all, just on and off. Strobe works but has the same problem as the Tri-LED. It still does a very slow strobe even when the bar is set to zero.

I'm hoping you can help me further.
Thanx!

hmm I'm not sure. Try updating emulation to the latest.
Windows: http://db.tt/CzzKBaPu
Mac: http://db.tt/GENycnVZ
The updates are not on our website yet but they should be by the end of the week. After updating let me know if these still persist. If for any reason you need to download the Lightmaxx xml again the link from my other post will still work.
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Unfortunately the update didn't change anything.

It looks like some mismatched DMX channels, but the strobe problem I don't recognise.

Any other ideas? I can't use the fixtures and the software right now and my theatre group is breathing down my neck.

Okay, I'm a little bit further.

The Quad LED does seem to work properly when I set the DMX channels of both the program and the fixture to for example 3. However, when I touch the strobe, everything goes wrong again and I get the same as before. Also setting all the faders to zero or even hit the 'clear' button twice, doesn't solve it. I must remove the fixtures from the patch list and restart Emulation to get it right again. And that doesn't even work all the times.
The Tri LED has the same problems as before, only white and when I touch the strobe, I can't turn it off.

Hi Johan, The profiles still look good to me. I can also confirm that for some reason the strobe channels are not going down to 0 value. Might be a bug. One thing I could do is move the strobe channel to a custom fader that way it doesn't really attach to a certain function. The program just thinks it is a generic fader. If you want me to try that let me know and I will modify the profiles for you no problem.
you said the Quad works better now that you have the fixture itself addressed to start at channel 3 and the profile in the program set to channel 3 aswell? What was it on before?
The TRI LED has RGB faders for color mixing just fine on mine. Let me clarify that the profiles i made are labeled "Quad LED" and "Tri LED" in the lightmaxx list.
sorry you are having so much trouble, these are simple profiles and usually just work.
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Hi James,

I used the right profiles so that is not the problem.
The DMX channel for the first fixture was '1' before. When I set it to '3' for both the fixture and the program, so actually no change at all, it worked almost fine. But now whatever channel I set it to, I can't seem to make it work, so we're back where we were. This problem consists with all the fixtures which let me to believe it is a bug of some sort in the program.
The strobe problem is also still there so if you have a solution I'm all ears. As long I still can use the strobe function.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but I really need it to work.

Thanx for the help, cheers, Johan

Sorry for the delay. If you want I can move the strobe function to a custom fader in the custom part. Might help the shut off strobe issue. The rest of the stuff I really am not sure.
Let me know.
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Hi James,

Let me first try the fixtures on a hardware light controller. If that also doesn't work, it's the fixtures.
I'll get back to you.
Cheers

Hi James,

Today I tested the fixtures on a hardware controller and they worked like a charm.

I hope you can find a solution. Otherwise I am forced to return the program and work with a hardware controller.

Hope to hear from you,
cheers, Johan

i found the fix for the strobe. but what other issue is going on again?

Ah, nice that you found the fix for the strobe.
The other issue is that the fixtures don't respond to the right DMX channels. So I can only get red from the Quad LED fixtures and no dimming on that color. The Tri-LED fixtures only do white.
This is no matter what I do and no matter what DMX channel I try.

right well here is the updated .xml for the strobe functions. give it a shot.
http://db.tt/Nhy4JulR
honestly if the channels are lined up as they should and the DMX traits are correct from the info you gave me it SHOULD work. This is gonna give me a headache. lol.
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Hi James,

I'm sorry, but the new XML file didn't change anything. Even the strobe problem still exists.
I'm not sure what the problem would be if all the DMX channels are lined up in the right way. The fixtures just don't 'listen'.

I think I'm better of using a hardware controller unfortunately.

Thanx for all your effort.

Cheers, Johan

Well I am sorry to hear that. I hope you find something that will please you. sorry for all the troubles we had.
Happy Holidays.
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