Showtec Sunstrip Active DMX

[sicole]

Hi all,

 

Please help urgently. Doing a show from Wed onwards and need a fixture importing. I have the fixture editor downloaded but cannot get my head round how to do this fixture.

 

Basically its a unit with 10 lamps in, each individually adressable via DMX. How is this acheived?

 

TIA

Si

[Kirkup_xp]

Hi Si

 

You basically have two options with the fixture. You can either patch it as 10 generic lamps, or create a fixture profile with 10 LTP parameters. There are benefits and disadvantages of each. Unfortunately, the current range of desks don't support fixtures with multiple HTP parameters.

 

By patching it as generic lamps, your sunstrips will be inhibited by the grand master and playback master/submaster. However, you will use valuable generic channels. If you choose to go for an LTP fixture, you lose the inhibiting feature but gain the ability to make palettes and would only have to patch one fixture instead of 10 generics.

 

Do you have a URL for the DMX channel allocations? If so, I can put together a fixture profile for you very quickly. Let me know which of the above options you'd like.

[Kirkup_xp]

I discovered the fixture manual online (here) so I've gone ahead and created the fixture profiles for you.

 

If you use these fixture profiles on a Frog2, they will automatically create a virtual brightness parameter, allowing you to dim them as a group and individually. On a Frog or Illusion, you will just get 5 or 10 LTP channels in the Beamshape group. For the sake of completeness, i've included 1 channel, 5 channel and 10 channel modes. Also, this fixture profile has now been added to the master fixture library, and will be included with the next fixture library release.

 

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

 

Peter

[sicole]

Peter,

 

Thanks very much for your help really appreciated - I look forward to trying it tonight.

 

Si