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High End Systems Power Cue DMX User Manual

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SET UP PATCH - THE FADER PANEL

The Power Cue DMX allows you to patch various types of effect to an external control device,
usually with faders, so that such effects may be faded in and out or set at varying levels and not just
switched on and off. The Power Cue DMX lets you make 16 of these patches.

Power Line produces the Power Cue DMX Fader Panel specifically for this purpose. Your Power
Cue DMX may have been delivered complete with a Fader Panel already fitted. If not, it is still
possible to add one as a separate unit, connected via a data cable supplied with the Fader Panel.
Contact your dealer for details. In both cases power comes from the Power Cue DMX and no further
external power source is required to drive the Fader Panel.

Alternatively, you may use any lighting desk giving a 0-10V analog output. Make a suitable cable to
connect 16 desk channels to the Power Cue DMX’s auxiliary control input (pin connections detailed
below). Note that the desk must be powered in the usual way and

not from the Power Cue DMX.

Therefore, when you make your cable, do

not connect pins 14 and 15 at the Power Cue DMX end.

Using programs you have already made you may assign to a fader :

•a scene,
•a chase,
•a channel,
•the contents of an output key.

You may elect to patch all channels of a chosen scene to the fader or just the HTP channels; this
allows the dimming up/down of moving lights without affecting LTP channels, such as mirrors and
color wheels. When patching chases, only HTP channels respond to the fader, in order that the fader
does not interfere with mirror movement, color wheels etc.

The patch is programmed via the Power Cue DMX’s SetUp menu as detailed below.

Using a fader while you are In RUN MODE will cause the patched effect to be sent to the
outputs.

When a scene is patched to a slider, a copy of the scene is made and and assigned to a
memory of its own. When you edit the original scene, the patched scene will not be
updated. You must make the patch again to update it.

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