- High End System SHOWGUN User's Manual

CHAPTER 3

SHOWGUN® Menu System

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User Manual

Menu System Options

The following sections describe and give examples for selecting and/or setting available menu

options.

DMX Address Menu

DMX Address is the top level menu selection used to set the fixture’s DMX start channel. Use this

menu option, to change the existing DMX start channel to another DMX start channel.

Setting DMX Start Channel

To set the DMX start channel:

1. Press the Menu button to unlock the menu system or to move back up the system to the top

level menus.

DMX ADDRESS MENU is the first menu item at the top level.

2. Press the Enter button to select. The display will show SET DMX START CHANNEL:###. The display

will show the start channel currently assigned to the fixture.

3. Use the up and down arrows on the Center button to select a new DMX start channel from

001– 483. The display will flash a new option ready for selection.

Note: The last valid Start channel for a SHOWGUN fixture is 483 (512–30+1).

4. Press the Enter button to accept the new DMX Start channel.

Note: If the Enter button is not pressed, the old value will remain selected

after exiting the menu.

Determining DMX Start Channel Assignment

There are 512 available channels on each DMX link divided among all the devices in a particular

link. A fixture must have a unique Start channel number in order to respond independently to

controller commands.

To determine each fixture’s DMX start channel in a link, identify the channel range of every fixture

on the link. Channel range is the number of consecutive channels a fixture requires. Each

SHOWGUN fixture requires a block of 30 consecutive channels on a 512-Channel DMX link. The

Start channel is the first number of a fixture’s channel range.

INFOMATION

DISPLAY ERRORS

XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Scrolls through errors displayed in 2-line,

16-character format

CHANNELS

NEEDED:

Displays channel range for current

configuration (30 for SHOWGUN fixtures)

NEXT DMX

CHANNEL:

(Current start channel + channels

needed+1)

Level 1 Level 2 Option/Setting Description/Notes