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PATCHING AND MANAGING DEVICES
This chapter will explain how to patch and manage fixtures.
Step 1: Call the system settings
In order to perform the following steps call the system settings by keeping the ESC/MENU button pressed for
three seconds. The display indicates the first menu item “01. Patch fixture”. All necessary DMX settings can be
made in this menu. Press the ENTER button to start the configuration. The display indicates “Please select a
fixture”. Select the fixtures using the 8 FIXTURE buttons on the left side of the device. For instance, if you press
button 1, the respective fixture can be selected and deselected. After your settings (steps 1-4), keep the
ESC/MENU button pressed for three seconds again to exit the system settings.
Step 2: Adjust the DMX start addresses of the fixtures
After you selected a fixture using the FIXTURE buttons, the DMX Color Chief calls menu item “Patch fixture“ and
suggests a DMX start address for the fixture. The start address can be adjusted using the encoder wheel. Confirm
your settings by pressing the ENTER button. To confirm the memory procedure, all LEDs of the controller flash
three times. Now continue the configuration by pressing the SWAP button. Use the ESC/MENU to exit the “Patch
fixture“ menu and abort the configuration.
Using default values - The easiest way of setting the start addresses is to adjust them according to the DMX
Color Chief’s default values, i.e. a multiple of 30 + 1. Assign the first fixture to start address 1, the second to 31,
the third to 61 etc. If identical units are to be controlled synchronously, they can receive the same start address;
otherwise each unit must receive an individual address. For further information, please refer to the fixture’s
documentation.
Fixture Start address Fixture Start address
1 1 5 121
2 31 6 151
3 61 7 181
4 91 8 211
Default values for the starting address of the fixtures
Manual assignment – You may also split the 240 available DMX addresses among the fixtures as desired. Then,
usually the first fixture is assigned the address. 1 The second fixture receives the next free DMX channel as start
address. If the first fixture requires, for example, 14 DMX channels, the start address of the second fixture must be
assigned to the 15th channel. Proceed according to this scheme, until all fixtures receive a start address assigned
to the console. If the display inserts “!” behind the set start address, an overlap in the DMX addresses exists.
Several fixtures then try to access the same DMX address. This is usually the case, if you have already assigned
the start addresses, yet have not entered the lighting functions and thus also not the number of channels.
Step 3: Assign the DMX channels according to the fixture library
The DMX Color Chief has a large fixture library with several profiles of common types of spot lights and spot light
systems (Eurolite KLS models) already recorded. You can use this library to adjust the fixture and its functions by
pressing the SWAP button to select the menu item “Patch Channel”. Then keep the SWAP button pressed for
three seconds in order to call the library. You can now select the desired fixture profile with the encoder wheel.
Confirm with ENTER. The fixture profile is now assigned to the FIXTURE button, thus the configuration is now
complete. Additional spot lights or spot light systems are patched following the same scheme (step 1 to 3). After
your settings, you can exit the fixture library with ESC/MENU.
A special feature of the DMX Color Chief are the Eurolite KLS laser systems. In order to control all the functions,
these models are split into 2 fixtures and are assigned to 2 fixture buttons on the DMX Color Chief. For Fixture 1
you select the profile “Laser_KLS-PRO-SPOT-Derby_28CH” and for Fixture 2 you select the profile
“Laser_KLS_PRO_Effects_28CH”. Bear in mind that the DMX addresses have to directly follow one another in
order to avoid gaps in the DMX protocol (in this case the display indicates an exclamation mark). As one fixture
always occupies 20 DMX channels, Fixture 2 needs to be patched with a distance of 20 channels to Fixture 1. If
you want to use multiple KLS laser systems, each of them has to occupy 2 Fixture buttons. In total, you can
control up to 4 KLS laser systems.