User`s guide

Dimmer Pack! A light intensity controller. They come
in several varieties. DMX512 controllable dimmer packs
may be used with Solo Performer Show Controller.
DMX512! A lighting industry standard for light control
that was published by the U.S. Institute of Theatre
Technology (USITT). In this light control method, the
control cables for lights are wired by daisy-chaining
them together. Each light has a separate address and
responds only to commands sent to that address over
the control line.
DMX512 Description Table! A table showing what a
DMX512 device does when it receives a particular
DMX512 value on its address. For example, a color
changing light might have a DMX512 description table
that says DMX512 value 25 corresponds to the color red,
and 135 corresponds to blue.
DMX512 Device! A device, most often a light fixture,
which responds to DMX512 control commands to do
such things as turn on and o", change color, or move.
DMX512 Value! This is the number, from 0 to 255,
that is sent, following an address, to a DMX512 device to
make it perform its actions.
Fixture! Another term for a lighting device.
Gobo!! A disc that is inside of certain lights that has
geometric shapes cut in it, through which the light is
projected. The result is that the shape that is cut on the
gobo will be projected in the color of the light. Some
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