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Hey guys,

Been absorbing and learning a ton from your threads, (thanks!). I have two Intimidator 150 LED's running DMXis and wanted to run an issue by you fine lads. Almost certain that I have the correct fixture profile as well as all the parameters in the 11 channels seems to work just fine... minus this.

I'm having a problem getting the units to pan to a particular setting without spinning the long way around to get there. Seems they just wont move "left," when dead center. They have to go all the way around to get to the desired position.

I also noticed that the degrees/values are 000-255 (0-540 degrees). Is this because moving to the left would be considered a "negative value" which doesn't exist?

Hej

I am not sure that I understand you right but.

The control are an absolute value.
Imagine a fixture which have a pan of 180 deg. It will go 180 deg in 255 steps
0 will be in 0 deg position and 255 will be in 180 deg position

The fixture you have will turn 540 deg meaning it can turn more that a whole round (360 deg)
With 540 deg, and if you mount the fixture pointing backwards the you will still have 180 to both side where you can turn the fixture.

Turning the fixture will not be considered as a negative value because you don't subtract anything.
You go to an absolute value.

I think a way see what is going on is to open the output monitor and then see what values are send to the fixture.
If you use the sliders in right side of FreeStyler then you can control pan smoothly and in small steps (using + and -) see how it moves.

/Jan

Much obliged, Jan!

I think this will help in explaining my situation much clearer =)

Well you are trying to go from 0 to 255 in one step and that will make fixture going into orbit.


If you look at FreeStyler movement control instead of your faders then you will see that all movements are centered round 127, 127.
If the fixture file you are using are created correct then the blue ball should be in the center.
If not the default values for pan and tilt channel are wrong.
If you then open a shape then you will see that they are centered round 127, 127

So set pan to 127 and adjust Tilt until the light are pointing forwards.
Build you sequences round these values.

/Jan