[SML] LED Star Curtain Control

Jerry Durand jdurand at durandinterstellar.com
Thu Apr 11 17:16:28 UTC 2024


Maybe start with all at 100% to take care of any master.  Assuming it 
starts doing something, then start setting channels to 0 to find the 
master, if there is one.

After that leave the master up and start adjusting one channel at a time.

On 11-Apr-24 20:09, Ford Sellers via Stagecraft wrote:
>
> I don’t recognize that particular unit, but do note that it uses 7 
> channels, not 6. (5,6,7,8,9,0,1)
>
> I’d still do what Greg suggested...
>
> Set a series of single channels to faders, and start banging away.
>
> If Master Dimmer was the last channel (it sometimes is), then you 
> would not have seen anything if you were only testing with 6 channels.
>
> A few comments.... Maybe there’s a Master Dimmer, Maybe not. Maybe 
> there are separate Effect and Speed channels. Maybe the effects just 
> have a series of values and go slow-fast or fast-slow.
>
> There are a ton of possible permutations.
>
> Here are a couple of the possibilities (Note that Macro and Control 
> Channels may be in different order), also note that it is common to 
> have either Master Dimmer, RGB(W), or RGB(W) Master Dimmer:
>
> 1
>
> 	
>
> Master Dimmer
>
> 	
>
> Master Dimmer
>
> 	
>
> Red
>
> 	
>
> Red
>
> 	
>
> Red
>
> 	
>
> Red
>
> 2
>
> 	
>
> Red
>
> 	
>
> Red
>
> 	
>
> Green
>
> 	
>
> Green
>
> 	
>
> Green
>
> 	
>
> Green
>
> 3
>
> 	
>
> Green
>
> 	
>
> Green
>
> 	
>
> Blue
>
> 	
>
> Blue
>
> 	
>
> Blue
>
> 	
>
> Blue
>
> 4
>
> 	
>
> Blue
>
> 	
>
> Blue
>
> 	
>
> White
>
> 	
>
> Master Dimmer
>
> 	
>
> White
>
> 	
>
> White
>
> 5
>
> 	
>
> White
>
> 	
>
> Control (good luck figuring out what each value does)
>
> 	
>
> Master Dimmer
>
> 	
>
> Control (good luck figuring out what each value does)
>
> 	
>
> Effect Macro
>
> 	
>
> Effect Macro
>
> 6
>
> 	
>
> Effect Macro
>
> 	
>
> Effect Macro
>
> 	
>
> Effect Macro
>
> 	
>
> Effect Macro
>
> 	
>
> Macro Speed
>
> 	
>
> Macro Speed
>
> 7
>
> 	
>
> Macro Speed
>
> 	
>
> Effect Speed
>
> 	
>
> Macro Speed
>
> 	
>
> Effect Speed
>
> 	
>
> Control
>
> 	
>
> Master Dimmer
>
> And on, and on, and on...
>
> -Ford
>
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> *Cc:* David Neale <dneale at asij.ac.jp>
> *Subject:* Re: [SML] LED Star Curtain Control
>
> I'm sending a link with pictures.  Thanks for the suggestion, Ed.
>
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>
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>
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