User manual
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The numbers on the DIP switches correspond to the following values:
SWITCH VALUE
1 : 1
2 : 2
3 : 4
4 : 8
5 : 16
6 : 32
7 : 64
8 : 128
9 : 256
10 : N/A
Switch 10 is not used for DMX addressing. Notice then setting switches 1-9 to the ON position will give a maximum
DMX address of 511.
Quad Flame Projectors have a total of 4 channels where:
Channel 1 = Red; Channel 2 = Yellow; Channel 3 = Green; Channel 4 = Blue
As you can see from above quad flame projector, one can have a different amount of channels and the channels are
assigned to different functions. Keeping this in mind, we can now proceed with setting the dip switches.
When we set the dip switches we set where channel one is located (Channel 1- Channel 512) and all the other
channels will come after channel one whatever order they are in.
So, if we put dip switch one ON and keep the rest off on the quad flame projector, channel one on our RDS8 will be a
red flame color for the first flame projector, and channel two will be a yellow flame color and so on.
If we want our flame projector channels to start on channel 9 we can do this by putting switch 1 and 4 down, this will
mean that the values of both of the switches will add up to 9, meaning that now the red flame color will be on 9,
yellow will be on 10 and so on.
You can set any of your flame projectors in your chain to start on different channels meaning that you can control
them individually, alternatively you can also have more than just one flame projector on one channel, you can group
flame projectors together and control them with the same choreography.
One thing that commonly confuses people is what happens if you set say one Quad Flame Projector on channel one
and then a second Quad Flame Projector on two, all that will happen in this case is that every time you use the red
color on quad flame projector one the other quad flame projector will use the yellow color instead of the red. To
operate the flame projectors successfully, it is important that you separate them according to the amount of channels
(or functions) the flame projector has. Since you have Quad Flame Projectors that use 4 channels, the next fixture
should start on channel 5, and so on.