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Title: Eurolite ERX-4 NOT as a dimmer
Post by: AxelF on November 19, 2017, 05:15:37 PM
Hi,

I have some Eurlite ERX-4 http://media.steinigke.de/documents_t/70064210-MANUAL-2.10-en-de_00109135.pdf to switch on and off devices with noisy fans.

Unfortunaly the personality of ERX-4 has implemented it as a dimmer. So it switches on  at a dmx value >= 128 and off <= 127.

This causes, that they switch off, I I tear down the master dimmer below 49%. I don't want that.

It is possible to implement it as some other device, which is not a dimmer, so that it is not depenant from the master dimmer ?

I use it on CueluxPro.

Regards
Axel
Title: Re: Eurolite ERX-4 NOT as a dimmer
Post by: Julien Levaufre on November 19, 2017, 05:32:41 PM
i changed the dimmer to shutters, so it shoudl not respond to master fader anymore.
Tell me if it's ok now,
Enjoy, ;)
Title: Re: Eurolite ERX-4 NOT as a dimmer
Post by: AxelF on November 20, 2017, 10:36:03 PM
Julian,

thank you.

It works, but I have a small problem: The shutter works inverted, that means, it is on by default.

I have changed the range to 128,255 and it works fine.

On the way to modify my existing setup I had to exchange two devices and need to modify four cues. Cuelux has crashed completely four times at that work. I still hope, that it will get better once in the far future.

Regards
Axel
Title: Re: Eurolite ERX-4 NOT as a dimmer
Post by: Julien Levaufre on November 21, 2017, 04:18:48 PM
Glad it worked for the fixture file, but sorry to ear about the crashs...
Cuelux is really stable since a long time, we did not have any crash reports fro a while, even me using it almost every week end on different events do not have crashes switching fixtures or editing cues.
So maybe it's coming from you cuelux installation...
Title: Re: Eurolite ERX-4 NOT as a dimmer
Post by: AxelF on December 12, 2017, 05:50:18 PM
Julien,

I have just found out another problem:

If I press "Blackout" all ERX switches are set on. So I think the shutter is not a good idea for this function.

What else can we use ? A gobo ?

Regards

Axel
Title: Re: Eurolite ERX-4 NOT as a dimmer
Post by: Julien Levaufre on December 13, 2017, 01:12:31 AM
Axel,
yep this is not the way it shoudl work, so i changed the fixture file and put the control on tha LAD function in the misc tab.
Now you should not have anymore problems with that!
enjoy, ;)
Title: Re: Eurolite ERX-4 NOT as a dimmer
Post by: AxelF on December 13, 2017, 12:41:06 PM
Julien,

thanks for your work. Where can I download it ?

Regards

Axel
Title: Re: Eurolite ERX-4 NOT as a dimmer
Post by: Julien Levaufre on December 13, 2017, 02:09:24 PM
oops...i updated my previous post with the file! ::)
Title: Re: Eurolite ERX-4 NOT as a dimmer
Post by: AxelF on December 13, 2017, 09:47:28 PM
Sorry, it does not work from a cue.
Title: Re: Eurolite ERX-4 NOT as a dimmer
Post by: Julien Levaufre on December 14, 2017, 01:50:39 PM
That's strange, it works fine on my setup... :-\
Title: Re: Eurolite ERX-4 NOT as a dimmer
Post by: AxelF on December 14, 2017, 01:55:37 PM
Thats CueluxPro: 100 + 1 errors.
Title: Re: Eurolite ERX-4 NOT as a dimmer
Post by: Julien Levaufre on December 14, 2017, 03:25:03 PM
oups i tested on cuelux...
So just tested it on cuelux pro 1.4.13 ( that's the version i am using) and it's working too... ???
Title: Re: Eurolite ERX-4 NOT as a dimmer
Post by: AxelF on December 14, 2017, 03:26:53 PM
I assume that you mean 1.431 not 1.413, correct ?
Title: Re: Eurolite ERX-4 NOT as a dimmer
Post by: AxelF on December 14, 2017, 10:10:24 PM
Julien,
I have checked it again:

You have mixed up on and off: In your fixture on is 0,127. This will cause an inverted function.

I have set on to 254, 255 and it works better.

Anyway: If I have the LAD in a cue and the cue ist set to background, so that it starts automatically at CueluxPro startup, the fixture is switched on, but the status display in CueluxPro shows off.

If I switch off and on again, the status is shown correctly. There are a lot of situations in CueluxPro, where the display update does not work correctly, but nobody in your companie seems to be interested in fixing it.

Regards
Axel
Title: Re: Eurolite ERX-4 NOT as a dimmer
Post by: Julien Levaufre on December 15, 2017, 04:31:05 AM
sorry for the inversion, but glad it works.
I will transfert to the dev team your issue, that's the best i can do on y side.
enjoy ;)