MAC500s being sent to lamp-off by edit

[LeeStoddart]

What could I have done that would mean that MACs are being sent a LAMP-OFF command when I go to edit a memory?

 

I have recorded cue 5 with the beamshape parameters for LAMP ON, and cue 6 with beamshape params for open shutter, (and a submaster with brightness at 100%.

 

But I can't keep the lamps lit - it seems that as I start building a new cue the MACs are sent a 255 on each of the attributes resulting in a LAMP OFF. The position params are also sent as 255s - seems that all attributes are affected but the significant one is the shutter control because 255 means LAMP OFF.

 

I must be doing something wrong - any suggestions???

 

Thanks

[K-Nine]

I am not sure what is happening here :?

 

I have just tried it on a desk, and when you edit live an unprogrammed memory - the fixture parameters are set to zero - not 255.

 

Illusion Reference No 4731 - Edit Live an unprogrammed memory.

 

Is there any possibility that the fixture parameters were set to 255 in an earlier memory and these values are being tracked through ?

 

An alternative method to try might be to open the program window using the channel or fixture buttons, set up the data as required then save as the memory number you want.

[LeeStoddart]

This must be down to operator inexperience. Somehow - and I don't know how, - I had Beamshape parameters against each of the cues I had saved. There was also Beamshape parameters on a submaster which I intended just to have the Brightness of the 4 MACs.

 

I suspect that I had managed to record 255 into the beamshape parameters at some stage and they then got added into each Q.

 

Thanks for your help