Can anyone help me solve this one:

I've programmed a bunch a scenes in my Elation DMX Operator 192 for the ADJ Punch LED Pro's & ADJ REVO III's. The Punches are all set to the 7 channel mode and all have the same DMX address. The light board is set to a 2 sec. fade between scenes.

During the creation of some of the scenes, I used the handy color macro function (ch. 5) for the Punches instead of color mixing by eye.

When I manually trigger the scenes from the board, the Punches scroll thru a series of unwanted color macro color changes until finally arriving at the designated color. This happens on EVERY scene in which the Punches use a color macro color.

The problem is allviated if, instead of using the color macro function, the lights are RGB color mixed. Scene changes for the RGB mixes will produce a smooth fade between scenes/colors instead.

I notice a similar sort of thing happening in the 10 channel mode for the REVO III's as well - scene changes will cause them to scroll thru a series a patterns until they finally arrive at the designated scene pattern. There is no fix for this as they can't be RGB mixed.

Increasing the length of the fade time causes the color/pattern changes to happen even more slowly. Decreasing the fade to 0.0 will cause the scenes to effectively change to the intended look, however, you lose the ability to smoothly fade and so the scene change appears to be rather abrubt.

I've made certain that when programming the Punch scenes there is no unwanted ch. 6 data going to the Punches which would envoke them to scroll thru their 3 or 7 color color change mode functions.

Is there a fix for this?

You can select on the dmx op wither to have the fade function work for all channels or just pan and tilt i believe. check out the manual.
Sincerely,

Jingles,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

I checked the manual for my DMX OP 192 - no such function that I see. You can enable/disable joystick for pan & tilt, though but that seems unrelated to my problem.

Besides, I want the fader to work. What I don't want is the color macro scrolling which takes places between scenes.

Any other ideas?

I take back the post above. There is a feature to assign the time fader to work with only the Pan/Tilt channels or ALL channels.

Since I'm not using any lights which require P/T I've never assigned any of that data to the scenes.

The time fader control function is currently set for ALL which is the way I intend to use it with the fixtures I have.

Well if you keep the fade on and you have a fade time on your op when playing back scenes or chases it is gonna fade ALL channels including the macro channel. so perhaps dont use macro channel? honestly i never do when i had my dmx op and my led cans. But its up to you.
Sincerely,

OK - thanks for your reply.

Guess their's no way to stop the pattern stepping during scene changes on the REVO III's expect to use a 0.0 fade time?

yes or if you can manually adjust the fade per scene as your playing back your show.
Sincerely,

Got it. Thanks

ya i double checked with our product specialist the pan/tilt or ALL option is strictly for fade times.
Sincerely,