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Hey Everyone,

I have a small LED show that has 8 PAR 56 LEDs and 8 PAR 36 LEDs - The PAR 56s are 6 channels and the PAR 36s are 4 channel. Everything works great so far, I can control the lights and make them do what they need to be doing - BUT, if I use the master intensity fader to fade out (or fade in) the lights, the fade rate is different on the different fixtures. I know that this is the result of the 4 channel LEDs only having 128 intensity steps where the 6 channels have 256, but is there any mechanism that will compensate for this so they fade in and out at the same rate?

Thanks

hi can you tell me which fixtures you use.
and which fixture files you use..?

/spirit

Hi,

I actually made them myself (the fixture files, not the lights )

They are just simple 4 and 6 channel LED pars with channel 1 as intensity, and 2,3 and 4 as RBG. The 4 channel intensity is from 0-127 on ch1, the rest of it from 128-255 is the strobe. The 6 channel has 0-255 as intensity on CH1 with 5 being the strobe and CH6 being the fade rate. I set up the fixtures with the strobes although I doubt that I would ever use them.

So when I have a scene that contains both types of lights, and I use the master fader to fade them out, the four channels turn off later than the 6 channels and they turn on sooner when fading in. The also reach full brightness sooner as well.

The only way I can see fixing this is to make the 4 channels 'double the count' from 0-127 so that each value will be doubled but it will have the same number of intensity steps as a fixture that uses the full 0-255 scale for intensity - i.e stretch out the intensity range of the 4 channels to match the fade in/out times of the 6 channels.

hi i made a Fixture my self but it works perfect at my side..

i have one fixture with a Intensitie 255 and the other 127..

if i drag the master intnensitie to
100% i get 255 and 127
0% i get 0 and 0
50% i get 127 and 63

i uploaded my version of the 4 channel ledpar..
so you can take a look at it..


/spirit

Thanks Spirit,

I'll take a look at it and see what I am doing wrong. Maybe the resolution is off on my fixtures.