PRG Bad Boy User Manual 1.6 - Manual (Page 51)

BAD BOY ® SPOT LUMINAIRE USER MANUAL 43
Wheel Control
Every wheel, gobo or color, as well as the gobos within a wheel, follow the exact same method of control. Select the
mode with the associated control channel: continuous [index], discrete [step], spin, random slow, medium, and fast,
with strobe range at the end.
The preceding 16-bit channel sets either your choice (a gobo or color in continuous, discrete, or strobe modes,
indexed position for gobos), or your rate (spin/gobo rotation). The strobe speed range at the end sets how fast your
selection on the preceding 16-bit channel strobes to open. Gobo wheels, color wheels, and gobos all follow this same
logic, and the same control channel ranges.
Setting the Shortest Path: All wheels take the shortest path on a full speed command (instantaneous change to a
new DMX value with timing channel set to 0 or 255). If the timing channel is set to enable a timed transition, the wheel
will travel the "natural" path, i.e., it will not cross over the home position. Note that many control consoles will execute
a crossfade by sending a sequence of incremental DMX value changes, which will explicitly determine the path that
the wheel will take.
Table 3-2: Wheel Control
Range Function Notes
0-9 Continuous Continuous wheel positioning
10-19 Discrete Positioning limited to half panel increments
20-39 Spin
Continuous range from full reverse spin to no spin to full forward
spin
40-43 Slow Random Random strobe - slow rate
44-46 Medium Random Random strobe - medium rate
47-49 Fast Random Random strobe - fast rate
50-255 Speed Range Variable strobe rate from slow to max speed
Table 3-3: Gobo Wheel
Position DMX Value Notes
Open 0
DMX values are for
full panel positions
(Continuous mode).
1 7641
2 16023
3 24398
4 32768
5 41142
6 49511
7 57894
* Bad Boy CMY Color Luminaire: the CMY wheels
are open at DMX value 0 and fully saturated at
DMX value 65535.
Table 3-4: Quantum Color Wheels
Position DMX Value Notes
Open 0
DMX values are for
full panel positions
(Continuous mode).
*
This chart applies to
all color wheels.
1 8192
2 16384
3 24576
4 32768
5 40960
6 49152
7 57344