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DMX400 Problem using 12 moving heads

Post by Rodrigo Henrique »

Hello people!!!
I use the Freestyler here in Brazil and the software is very great.
But I am having a strange problem.
Using DMX400 with 4 or 6 moving heads everything works normal, but when I set 8 or 12 moving heads the moving head nº 7 enter the value 252 instead of the value 255.
It is a little difference, but my moving heads enter in strobe worth 251 to 254 of the dimmer channel that makes the moving head nº 7 different from the others while using DMX400.
This has happened to someone?
And I have other little question. What I do for use one chanell of DMX 400 to control 2 or more moving heads at the same time?

Thank you already!


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Re: DMX400 Problem using 12 moving heads

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Can you tell me what the moving heads you are using are?
Also if you made your own profile for them can you upload it please?

I have tried to recreate using a generic profile but it all seems to work for me.
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Re: DMX400 Problem using 12 moving heads

Post by Rodrigo Henrique »

Hello!
The moving head that I use is the 250 Spot, 13 channels, the brand is Rockbit.
These movings heads came from China and I even created the profile to add them to Freestyler.
How do I put the configuration file of the moving head here in the forum?
Can I post my backup too? Because if the problem is some configuration that I did you may identify.
Thank's!
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Re: DMX400 Problem using 12 moving heads

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Here is the PFF.
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Re: DMX400 Problem using 12 moving heads

Post by dmxlighting »

Can you post a copy of the user manual in PDF as well ?

I cant see anything wrong with your profile except the intensity is set as 0 to 255 on the shutter channel (4) and I would guess that this might need to change but I can tell what the values should be. I can find any info on these heads on the internet.
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Re: DMX400 Problem using 12 moving heads

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Which version of the Freestyler you used for the test?
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Re: DMX400 Problem using 12 moving heads

Post by Rodrigo Henrique »

I discovered what was happening.
The problem was the operator! :oops:
I had not noticed that the value selected in the slider 7 of the maximum value limiter in DMX400 was 252.
That is what was limiting the amount of the chanell!
I must have clicked on it without seeing, and do not use this function to limit the maximum value or that could be noticed that.
Still thank you very much!
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Re: DMX400 Problem using 12 moving heads

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Glad you found the problem!
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