oysterbandit

Hi I am doing a show tomorrow where I need to use DMX relay packs to kill the fan noise from my moving heads during the quiet bits. I have found 2 ways to do this: 1) to program the relays onto MFK's using the relay profile from the standard fixtures list 2) using the dimmer sliders to control the relays directly My problem is that I want to be able to enable/disable the lights and know that their state will stay fixed until I choose otherwise. I don't want the [clear] or [home] buttons to affect the relay setting. How do I fence off selected sliders, or alternatively, how do I create a relay fixture that is immune from the clear/home functions? Many thanks

Thanks Peter The diagnostic showed that it was a problem with the desk, so at least I wasn't going mad last night! After repeated hard pressing of the beamshape button I have got it to function now. I guess my concern is that it may come back and haunt me at a later date, so not sure whether to suggest you go ahead and replace the desk now, or cross my fingers and hope that the button will continue to work fine now? I need to get it programmed and used ASAP, so can't really be without it. What do you recommend? Oysterbandit.

I have a brand new Leap Frog 48. I created a profile for my moving spots last night and it all seems to work fine - except I can't get the beamshape button to light up or do anything when controlling the fixtures. I have programmed the 3-wheel settings for beamshape to control the gobo etc, but nothing works. Colour and position selection works fine and light up when pressed. Tried loading other fixtures from the library and these won't work either! As I haven't used this desk at all yet, I just want to know if I am being stupid or if my desk may have a fault? HELP!!!