User Guide
Avolites Pearl 2000 Operators Manual - page 50
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5.20.4 Customising Personality Files to put Intelligent Fixture Attributes onto different
Attribute Banks
It is possible to make special Personality Files that allocate Attributes to
different Attribute Banks.
See the Personality File Programmers Manual for details.
5.21 DMX features
5.21.1 Assigning DMX lines to outputs
You can assign which DMX channel is output by which DMX output socket
on the back of the Pearl.
The default settings are :
DMX Output 1 (Socket 1, pins 2 & 3) >> DMX channel A
DMX Output 2 (Socket 2, pins 2 & 3) >> DMX channel B
DMX Output 3 (Socket 1, pins 4 & 5) >> DMX channel C
DMX Output 4 (Socket 2, pins 4 & 5) >> DMX channel D
This is the cause of the apparent anomaly by which DMX lines in the patch
are named A – D, but at the socket on the desk, they are labelled 1 – 4.
You can change them as follows :
• Turn the Key to Program. Puts you in LIVE PROGRAM MODE.
• Press the blue PATCH button on the Program Select bank. Puts you in the
PATCH DIMMER OR DEVICE menu.
• Press Softbutton F [PATCH UTILITIES]. Puts you in the PATCH UTILITIES
menu.
• Press Softbutton D [SET DMX LINES]. Puts you in the SET DMX LINES menu.
• The LCD screen displays the four DMX channels A – D, while the VDU
monitor shows you the current patch. Use the Up and Down Arrow keys
to put the yellow highlighted cursor on the DMX channel you wish to
change.
• Press Softbutton A – D to select the DMX line that you want to change
the cursor value to. Menu autoexits to PATCH DIMMER OR DEVICE menu.
• Press ENTER to confirm all values until the menu exits. Puts you in the
Patch Utilities menu.
• Press EXIT to quit the Patch Utilities menu.
• Press EXIT or the PATCH button to leave the Patch functions. Puts you
back in LIVE PROGRAM MODE menu.
5.21.2 Reducing the number of DMX Channels
If you are not going to use all 512 channels on any of the DMX outputs, you
can speed the output rate of the DMX by specifying the highest number of
DMX Channel that the desk addresses. This means that it does not waste
time outputting to channels that are never going to be used. There are two
ways of doing this.
Either :