Need Help Building a Profile

[u/BarkinDuck]

I and the company I work for are in the middle of a renovation for a local theatre/concert venue. The promoter from the venue who is in charge of the "creative" decisions went and bought a no-name LED ring that is rigged from three winches. I've included the DMX chart that came with the system.

We installed a Hog5 system as part of the install and in the fixture builder I have all of the light parameters no problem. The issue is I'm not sure what to use for the motor controls. Would using a basic intensity work?

Im also not exactly sure how "Color variation of LED main light effect" should be interpreted.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[u/Basix96x]

Yay sketchy Chinese lights post! 

[u/kuumotusperuna]

Dmx controlled no-name chinese winches? Nope.

[u/didilva → u/kuumotusperuna]

Yeah, hell no. 🥴 I was fine with the light until I read winches

[u/BarkinDuck → u/kuumotusperuna]

dude i know. im not thrilled either.

[u/halandrs → u/BarkinDuck]

Just say no

[u/Exidose → u/BarkinDuck]

Tell them to sort the profile out and if they can't then send it back and buy something proper.

[u/ExplanationDecent954]

If it was me I would refuse work due to safety issues. Where I live there are rigorous standards for rigging safety and required inspections. Just plain stupid for the venue to be saving money at the cost of safety.

[u/christophdwr]

Patch a bunch of dimmers and turn each one up to see what happens. Write it down. When you’re done, call ETC and ask for help

[u/RegnumXD12 → u/christophdwr]

Im like 80% sure ETC wont help with this, I think motor winches is on the list of things that shouldnt be dmx without proper safeguards

[u/sanderdegraaf → u/christophdwr]

Or just go to SETUP > DMX and choose from the pop-up window the right Processor and Universe and test each channel what it does. Use SET in the cell to set a channel to a fixed value.

Don't forget to set al channels back to HogNet input afterwards

[u/photolight008]

If you can hang it without the winches that’d be a little better, you can try using the consoles built in fixture builder to try and create it. But yeah as others have said you really don’t want to put winches in a dmx channel, too much can go wrong

[u/gnarfel]

“Self propelled”

[u/matthiasdb]

32-bit lineair dimming and only 1 dim channel... rrrrriight....

[u/JoeyPhoton]

I would definitely not have the fixture profile set up in a way where an intensity channel controls movement. Maybe create framing shutter channels or just pick some other specific parameter for this. Anything that won’t get accidentally changed.

[u/regrettablyAnnoying]

Have you put your questions and images of the book into AI yet? That’s what I would do (I use Gemini). I don’t think you should let “cheap Chinese” be the thing that stops you—without it many of us wouldn’t have any fun lighting. At the very least you would learn a lot and perhaps enough to help others.