User manual

3. Setup | Setting Up The Board
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Setting Up The
Board
The Obey™ 6 should be set up where the operator can see the lights they are programming. The
board must be connected to the lights with DMX cables and the lights must be addressed correctly.
The sections below describe DMX cabling and DMX addressing.
DMX Cabling
DMX cabling is required to send DMX signals from the board to the lights. To DMX cable the lights,
do the following:
1. Connect a DMX cable from DMX Out of the board to DMX In of the first product in the rig.
2. Connect another DMX cable from DMX Out of the first product in the rig to DMX I
n of the next
product.
3. Continue repeating steps 1 and 2 until all the products are connected.
DMX Cabling
Diagram
DMX
Addressing
Of
Lights
The Obey™ 6 uses specific DMX addresses, so the lights must be set to the correct DMX starting
address for the board to control them.
The Obey™ 6 is designed to control 6-
channel LED lights that have the following DMX channel
assignments.
• Channel 1 – Red
• Channel 2 – Green
• Channel 3 – Blue
• Channel 4 – Amber
• Channel 5 – White
• Channel 6 – UV
Lights with different DMX channel assignments will work with the Obey™ 6,
but the fader color
labels might not match, and the preset colors and color change modes will look slightly different. For
example:
• If a light has a DMX channel assignment of 6 – Red, the UV fader will bring up the red color of
the light.
• If a light has only red, green, blue, and UV, the preset colors and color change modes will show
the effects of mixing only red, green, blue, and UV.
More than one light can be set to the same DMX starting address, but those lights should be the
same type of light. See the light’s User Manual for information on how to address it
to one of the
DMX starting addresses listed in the DMX Addressing Chart.
DMX
In
DMX
Out
DMX
In
DMX
Out
DMX
In
DMX
Out
1st Product
2nd Product
3rd Product
Other
Lights