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ift attached for: LEDJ Performer 18 Quad 4ch/8ch http://prolight.co.uk/images//media/LEDJ252/LEDJ252-um0.pdf (There is one already in the library, but it's a bit incomplete and the 8ch mode is not there). LEDJ Slimline 7Q5 RGBW 2ch/3ch/4ch/7ch http://prolight.co.uk/images//media/LEDJ59/LEDJ59-um0.pdf (Slight update to those in the library already) LEDJ Slimline 9Q8 7ch http://prolight.co.uk/images//media/LEDJ53/LEDJ53-um0.pdf (Not in the library) ift attached for: Stairville CB-100 4ch https://images6.static-thomann.de/pics/atg/atgdata/document/manual/c_286432_v2_r1_en_online.pdf (Not in the library) Regards, Kevin LEDJ_P18Q_S7Q5_S9Q8.ift STAIRVILLE_CB100.ift

(Sorry if this is covered elsewhere). Any guidelines for USB Memory Sticks for use with FLX? Like: compatible/incompatible brands (including physical limitations!), memory sizes, formatting requirements. USB 2.0 specified in the manual, don't see any other specs. Thanks, Kevin

Hi Jon, I wrote a set of fixture profiles for the LEDJ Intense 9HEX10 (9 channel mode options). I referred to the LEDJ Intense 9P10 you tuned for me a while back, and hopefully I've constructed this one to your guidelines. One question/deviation, for the strobe channel, I set the Special type to Strobe rather than None as in your 9P10. Not sure if I did the right thing there. Manual is here: http://www.prolight.co.uk/images//media/LEDJ254A/LEDJ254A-um0.pdf?ProlightConcepts=ylrlcnhjmgfn Please tune if required and add to the next fixture library release. Thanks, Kevin ps Sorry if it's more hassle to check someone else's fixture file than creating it yourself from scratch from the manual! LEDJ_Intense_9HEX10.ift

If I knew how to add a dancing smiley to this post I would, but I don't, so I'll just add a big-grin one instead Thanks for this manual Jon, I realise it's been a lot of work, but it is much appreciated by us users! I didn't find a reference to the software version this version of the manual relates to - usually in Zero88 manuals this is on the first inner page. Well that's my bedtime reading sorted for the next week! Thanks, Kevin

I need to write all of these things down until Jon furnishes us with a manual... Maybe FLX users should write a "user" manual

I found that after touching (on the internal screen) the "Calibrate" "button" (<Setup> then System Settings), I had to press Enter on the desk to get the external touch screen to show the calibration points. Subsequently re-calibrating, I don't recall having to press Enter... I was using the recommended iiyama T1731SR touch-screen monitor. I must confess I didn't find the touch screen response particularly accurate or fast - hence the multiple attempts at recalibration, which didn't particularly improve things. This may well be the nature of these things, this is the first time I've use an external touch screen of this type. Firmware was 7.8.4.

Look up Wide Mode in the manual, which supports 48 channels in a pseudo-2-preset mode. Although I'm not quite sure how this works on an ML with few physical faders... but it's in the ML manual page 11! http://www.zero88.com/manuals/jesterml%20manual%203.0.pdf

Hi Ian/Jon/Derek(?), Thanks for all of the detailed replies. Jon - that's good work! Derek(?) - thanks for the links, very helpful! Regards, Kevin

Hi Jon, Which is the preferred Littllite model for the FLX (LED version preferred if available)? If not Littlite, which product would you recommend? Thanks, Kevin

To the OP: Rob, Does Ian's (excellent) explanation help/make sense? (Excellent piece of deduction there Ian if I may say). Do you need help rebuilding your fixture profile to add a virtual intensity channel? In the first instance I'm sure Jon would help out if you can provide a pdf link to the manual for the fixture. If not, then there are a few of us on here who can put one together for you, or you could download the Fixture Editor from the Zero88 site (here: http://zero88.com/support/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/49/256/zero-88-fixture-tools---version-26) and build one yourself, it's quite straightforward. Actually if your fixtures are pretty basic R, G and B LED pars, then there is almost certainly a RGB+virtual intensity in the Zero88 fixture library already. Regards, Kevin

... must admit I've never tried virtual intensities as all of my LEDs have master dimmer channels. But if the latest release note says it's there (and related bugs have been fixed), it looks good to go! Ian - guessing this feature didn't make it into the Illusion 500 software then?

Fat Frog certainly does support a virtual intensity channel if you've built the fixture definition with it. Make sure you've got software 10.12 on the desk. See the release notes: Jan 2018: update linky: http://support.zero88.com/Legacy-products/Legacy-Consoles/Frog-Series/975242041/Frog-Series-Overview-Software.htm

Here's a showfile. Cue 67.5 is the one in question. What I've done for this upload, is to edit the latest showfile I'm using in the theatre, on the Phantom Frog, and to edit the Q67.5 chase to snap-fade profile (in the actual show it's snap-snap because of this issue). Since I'm at home now and edited this on Phantom Frog, I haven't tested this on the real rig to ensure the effect I'm reporting exhibits on this showfile, but hopefully it would - maybe you have a DMX sniffer to use on a real Fat Frog DMX output? Thanks, Kevin ps Note also this is Q67.5 because try as I might, I couldn't edit my previous scene Q67 to make it a chase type, so Q67 got deleted and Q67.5 created instead! ETA Correction: Only Fixture 2 (an LEDJ 9Q8) is used in Q67.5. It's at brightness=34%/green=255 in both steps of the chase. It's at DMX 120. Other LED fixtures in the rig are at brightness 0% in all steps of this Q. ETA I didn't see any of the other generics flicker, but I'd say the blink was too quick for tungsten to respond, but it was obvious with the LED fixture. The generics use Betapack 1's and 2's (analogue from a Demux48) and the LEDs are fed from one output of a Chauvet DMX optical splitter and the Demux48 is fed from another output, so there is a degree of isolation between the DMX feeds to the two luminaires involved in this query. The LED DMX chain is terminated in the last of 5 daisy-chained fixtures. This picture shows a bit of an oblique shot of the scene. The generic of channel 9 is that lighting Dorothy/Tinman etc behind a gauze and the LED fixture 2 is producing the green backlight on the skeleton character on main stage to the left. The bottom of the LED fixture can just be seen as the highest green bright spot to the upper centre-left in the picture. http://www.pixelsintime.co.uk/Category/The-Wizard-of-Oz/i-zTcBpbR/0/X2/The%20Wizard%20of%20Oz-232-X2.jpg

It seemed to be at the transition point between the steps, so I think at the snap on point (i.e. after the fade down) and at the top of the fade (i.e. after the snap). Lights were in significantly different locations, so weren't side by side to compare exactly. The generics were front/cross light and the LED backlight, so could see one or the other in peripheral vision. The generic (just a pair of tungsten PAR16s) that was intended to be the only one changing was channel 9/DMX 9 and the LED fixture I definitely saw blink is up at DMX 120 (fixture 2). There were other LED fixtures in the rig at brightness 0; I didn't see these come on at all, just the one that was on blinked off. When the show is done I could probably create a showfile. Actually I could send the one for the show as now and you could edit the chase cue to change the chase fade profile if you like? I understand this desk is well out of production, so I'm not expecting you to spend on any time on this really! Thanks, Kevin Edited to correct which LED fixture it was (2) and DMX base address (120). There was only this LED fixture on for the Q in question, the others were at brightness 0% [and didn't blink on].

Documenting for prosperity... Whilst programming a show the other day I set up a simple 2 step chase on a single generic channel to do a 'flicker'. I found that if I set the chase type to the snap-fade (|\) profile, it caused some LED fixtures in the rig to blink at the step change point. These fixtures weren't changed at all in the two steps. The desk was in full mode. If I set the chase profile to the snap-snap (|-|) setting I didn't get the blink. Shame really as the snap-fade setting was much better for the effect. Software is 10.12. Kevin

Leej, what approach did you use in the end (I'm interested)? Kevin

Can you tell us a bit more about what you see on the desk when you try to control the fixture? Did you build your own fixture profile (maybe you could attach to this topic)? Is the fixture assigned (yellow LED turned on in the button)? That fixture number patched to DMX 501 in the Fat Fog manual patch screen? Selected the fixture then see some attributes come up in the fixture LCDs - select Colour and see e.g. Red and Green and Blue? Dimmer at > 0%? Mode of the fixture the same as the fixture profile definition? As 501 is right up at the end for a 12 channel fixture, maybe try it down the DMX address range a bit. Give 200 a try. Kevin

Page 27 and page 30/31 of the manual: http://www.zero88.com/manuals/7340300_jestermanual_3_4.pdf Your mirror ball was an "Auxiliary". You will need to find out what DMX channel the mirror ball is connected to. My assumption is you have some sort of DMX controlled mains relay, as I wouldn't expect a mirror ball to be connected to a dimmer (if nothing else, channel preheat is usually enough to run mirror ball motors continuously...)

Replacement battery page is here: http://zero88.com/support/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/546/280/replacement-battery-information 3.6v, 150mAh Varta Mempac

Looking at the 8 Nov 2006 entry on here http://zero88.com/forum/topic/3850-problems-with-demux48/ looks like you have the same problem. The problem with that one was a flat battery, so looks like the mempack needs replacing in yours. I must check ours one day before it leaks...!

On the Phantom Frog there is a tickbox to show the monitor - is that the same on Phantom Jester?

Is it a "vanilla" Jester 24/48 (i.e. not an ML or TL?). If so you'll have to map the channels of the LED fixture to individual faders since that desk does not have support for "intelligent" fixtures. You need to count up how many DMX channels you need - so how many "normal" (generic) lights on dimmers do you have (if any) and how many channels do you need to get the granularity of control you need for the LED fixtures. So the manual for the LEDJs is here: http://prolight.co.uk/images//media/LEDJ252A/LEDJ252A-um0.pdf Each LEDJ unit has either a 5 channel or 9 channel mode, so will take either 5 or 9 DMX addresses. You could "parallel" more than one of these units to keep down the channel count required. What that means is set the DMX address to the same on more than one fixture, but this means that one fader will control say the Red LED on all of those "parallel" units. If you must have individual control of every colour in every unit then you are going to eat through your 48 channel maximum capability very quickly. More so if you need the fancy features and choose to use the 9 channel mode on one or more units. You can use the Jester in either a 2-preset 24-channel setup or a 1-preset 48-channel setup. And of course you can program your show into a cue stack with 48 channels available per cue. Let us know if any of that makes sense then we can elaborate more. It would be useful if you could have a think/research you total channel needs based on what other lighting you have, how many LED units you have and what compromises you can accept on individual control of colours in a unit. And of course the Jester manual is here to have a read of: http://www.zero88.com/manuals/7340300_jestermanual_3_4.pdf

As the reboot didn't help, probably need to rule out a hardware problem. With the desk unpowered hold down F1, then power the desk keeping F1 held until the main LCD shows a test page. Press the channel flash button for channel 14 to get the button test page. Pressing buttons should now give an indication on the LCD (if I remember right!). See if pressing F2 is observed...

The only thing I can think of is to put your 'flash' lights onto a sub master and use the sub master flash button - hold button for your half a second then release. That's usually a bit easier and cleaner to do than a double tap on the GO button. Having had a read of the manual I think they are probably your two options. Submaster programme is page 13 and use in Run mode is page 24 of the manual. Kevin

The USB drive has to look like lots of floppys. You will still have the 1.44Mb size restriction implicit with the desk still thinking it's talking to a floppy drive. There is no way round this. The USB drive has two buttons to 'page' the USB into floppy sized chunks. You need to chop up the fixture library, there are instructions on the fixture download area here: http://zero88.com/support/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/584/0/legacy-desk-fixture-library