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I wanted to know if there was a way of making a universal palette where I can take all my favorite color, beamshape or position pallets and put them into one area so I don't have to push the color, beamshape or position button to get to them and without putting them on submasters. Peter

works great, thanks

Does anybody have a fixture file for a Martin Mania SCX700. The fixture library right now only goes up to the SCX500. Thanks, Peter

I tried cleaning the floppy drive and that didn't work so I ended up taking the board apart "very carefully" and putting in a new floppy drive that I got at a local electronics store "real cheap" and that worked. The floppy drive is now fully operation again. Thanks for the help, Peter

Now if I where to try a floppy drive cleaning kit once I inserted the cleaning floppy into the drive would I just select "load show" and it would clean the driver? Peter

I am having a problem with the floppy drive on my Fatfrog. I loaded some personalizes from a floppy disk the other day with no problems. The next day I wanted to load some more personalizes so I reinserted the same disc and the floppy drive said there was no disk in the driver. I got a new floppy disk and try writing the show I had on the board and it said no disk. I took the new disk out and formatted it on my computer and then reinserted it and got a no disk error again. I try formatting the new disk on the board and got a formatting error. I try taken some old shows and loading them on the board and again I got a no disk error. These old shows I have loaded in the pass so I know that they work. I also try turning the board on and off a few times to see if the floppy drive would reset. At this point Im not sure what to do and I have never had a problem like this before. Thanks, Peter

I have had my fatfrog freeze up to when not formatting the disk before hand and it always works after you format the disk.

Hi everyone, I wanted to find out if it is possible to change the speed of movement from point A to point B. I know right now if I want to set a speed I just change the speed with the wheel. Lets say I set a light to take 3sec to get from point A to point B so I program this and the light takes 3 sec. Now my question is during those 3sec is it possible to change the speed where the light starts out moving fast toward point B but ends up slowing down just before it gets to point B. I know that when you program a light it moves at a constant speed from point A to point B but I want to be able to change that speed during those 3sec. Im using a Fatfrog to do this. Thanks Peter

I got it working correctly now. Thanks for the help.

I couldn’t find any information on how to install the Phantom Frog software on the website. My question is after I download it and unzip it what program do I use to open it. I couldn’t get any windows to pop up that say installation procedure. I’m using Windows XP. Thanks Pete

Check the DMX polarity, as the green LED can sometimes light when the DMX is inverted.

Thanks for the reply. I don’t have version 10.0 on my fatfrog yet, but I will download it and try out this effect.

My fatfrog board has been fixed. The Mother-board had to be replaced. All is well again! Thanks for the help everyone Pete

Im going to call up Act lighting where I bought the board from and see what they say. Pete

Hi My fatfrog board has a serious problem. When I first turn on the board it was working ok for the first 5 min and then both LCD screens on the board started flashing on and off randomly. Also all of the buttons on the board stopped working. This happen after I loaded a fixture file from the floppy disk that was included with the board. I have uploaded files from that floppy disk in the past with no problems but I am not sure if this problem has to do with up loading fixtures or not. I turned the board off and then on and as soon as I turn it on the LCD screens continued to flash and the board would not go though its self test run when you usually start up the board. I turned it off again and waited an hour and it still did the same thing. I turn off the board another time and unplugged all the cables and waited and hour and then plugged all cables back in and the same problem continued. It can’t be the battery because I bought the board 5 months ago and I have never had any problems with the board until now. It has version 9.8 software on it right now. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Pete

1. Select the fixture(s) that you wish to copy the data to. 2. Hold down the relevant attribute selection button (brightness, colour, beamshape, position). 3. Select the fixture that you wish to copy the data from. 4. Release the attribute button I have not had any trouble doing this but when copying a moving figure eight effect from one fixture to another I have not been able to do. The positon numbers are always changing for pan and tilt when doing a figure eight effect. When I copy the figure eight right now to a new fixture it copies only the position of the figure eight at that split second when I release the attribute button to complete the copy. So my question is how do you copy a moving figure eight effect to another fixture? Both fixtures are the same kind. Now I could put both fixtures on the same address to solve the problem but I want to be able to come back later and edit the new fixture I added. I'm using a Fatfrog board. Any ideas would be a great help to me Thanks

Hi All, Is it possible to control the Movement speed differently at the same time for pan and tilt motors using a fatfrog console? Im trying to scan a moving mirror light with left to right panning at speed 255 and I want the tilt motor to move at a slower speed around 165 to have the mirror move down and then up relative to the fast moving scan left to right. (Im using the ellipse movement effect with the Y at 0 and the X at 50 and the ellipse speed at 40 to get the light to scan left to right at the Movement speed of 255) Thank you

The mirror on the Trackspot does move the fastest at the 255 setting and the mirror moves the slowest at the 1 setting. I guest Im having trouble getting a full figure 8 effect. I have try setting all the values of what size and speed I want the figure 8 to be but I have only been able to get a Trackspot to move about a quarter of the way doing a figure 8 and then the movement stops. I just may need to invest some more time in finding out where Im going wrong.

The fat frog can do four movement effects Ellipse, Quadrilateral, Triangle and Figure eight. Im having trouble in programming those movement effects with some Trackspots. Are those effects made up of more then one cue or can they be programmed in one cue? The manual doesn't really give much on how to do movement effects. Thanks

Thanks for clearing up the confusion minimac. I’ll give that a whirl

I don't understand. You can make a point cue but you can not record it as a point cue. So what's the idea of making a point cue if you can't record it? If that's what you mean when the point cue is only made temporarily and then disappears when you move up or down in the memories screen.

I just started to learn how to use a FatFrog and my question is can the FatFrog do point cues? Example would be if I wanted to insert a cue between cue 1 and cue 2. I could make a cue number like cue 1.5 Thanks