[fat frog and smart lights, please help]

hi there

i have used this desk for over two years now at my college so know it inside out. hope my answers are of help to you.

 

Another Question: Is fat frog capable of controlling led lights?

 

yes you can control led lights, you attach them to a fixture just how you do for the intelligient lighitng you use.

 

Another question: Is it possible to assign (position, beamshape, color, etc) to sliders such as submasters. So that at the bottom of the slider the values would be zero. As I start bringing the slider up, the values gradually increase. I want to program the x position on one slider, and the y position on another slider. So that when I need to move the robots, I can easily do so by bringing up the sliders. Please explain what is possible, and if it is, how do I do this? I have tried programming onto the submasters in my Phantom frog. But as soon as I bring up the slider, its values go up to its highest values.

 

yes you can you have to use a attribute called pallets. on a pallet you can programme gobo's, colour's, positions and intensity.

 

Also, is it possible to turn off the brightness of the fixtures, or adjust the brightness of the fixtures at any time? Or do I have to send them home to do that? I remember I had problems with brightness last year. How do I adjust the brightness of the moving fixtures at any time?

 

yes you can turn of the brightness without sending the fixture to home you simply put it to zero when it is in whichever position it is in. then the shutter will shut. to then re-use the brightness you simply scroll it up to the brightness you desire.

 

hope this helps

lucy

[fat frog]

we have a fat frog desk at college, unfortunatly everything is going wrong with this desk. when you put up a single channel with just one patched luminaire sometimes more than just this single luminaire comes on. we have checked the pathcing in the dimmer packs itself, the manual patching on the desk and all the dmx outputs on the desk. all of which is fine so we cant find any explaination for this problem. also when plotting cues random luminaires that you have not put up on there fader just flashes randomly. again we can find no explaination for this. also unless you have the grand master and the a/b and playback master at full because when you do this the house lights and other luminaire will flash. as well as this out dimmer keep tripping out up to 4 times a day, we are unsure whether this is due to the desk sending signals via dmx to cause it tripping out or another reason. we have had the desk about 6 years now. can anyone help us try to fix it? we have a show next week so this is very important.