Doug Fleenor Design ColorWheel - Manual (Page 3)

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Power up sequence
When power is applied, the center blue LED will blink to show the number of channels
for which the unit is configured. The Color Wheel ships from the factory configured for 3
channels of control. After the center LED blinks to show its configuration, there will be a
quick test of all LEDs in sequence. The Color Wheel will then set all channels to 50%
and the Color Wheel will be in its master level setting mode.
Changing the number of channels
If you need to control fixtures with 4 or 5 channels, perform the following procedure
- Remove power from the Color Wheel.
- Push and hold the square mode button.
- While continuing to hold the mode button, apply power to the Color Wheel.
- The center LED will flash to show the number of channels it is configured for.
- If the number of flashes is correct, configuration is complete. If not, perform this
procedure again to select a different number of channels. This procedure will cycle the
Color Wheel through 3, 4, and 5 channel modes.
- The channel number selection is held in non-volatile memory so it only needs to be
configured once. The Color Wheel will retain this configuration if power is lost.
Other technical details
The Color Wheel sends 512 channels of data in its DMX packet. If the Color Wheel is
configured for three channel operation, the three channels are repeated until 512
channels of DMX data have been sent. For example, DMX channels 4, 5, and 6 will
contain the same levels as channels 1, 2, and 3. The same pattern occurs for 4 and 5
channel operation.
When the Color Wheel is turned off using the encoder wheel push button the DMX line
is left “floating”. This allows another DMX device to drive the line if desired. For
example, you might use the color wheel to set a color and record those settings into a
preset in a Doug Fleenor Design Preset 10 wall station. When the Color Wheel is
turned off, the Preset 10 can be used to recall up to 10 different recorded color settings.