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I have 9 color palattes programmed location 1-9. These are for Mac 250W & Mac 300W. When I pull up the palattes by; Select fixtures/color/Focus/Palatte everything changes color corectly. However, at this point, if I continue to select different colors, eventually something will get off. If i bounce around a few colors and go back to an offending pallatte, it is correct. Anyone know why this is? BTW- it's wrong in both the 250 AND the 300 fixtures. I'm thinking it may be due to LTP? In order to correctly use the palates I asume i need to always get out of the programmer by defaulting back to Locate. then it works correctly.

sometimes, when a fixture uses multiple color wheels and flags, if there's no zero value listed for one of them, then one of the wheels/flags will stay in it's last position while the wheel you want to move to the right position moves to the right position...

For example... let's say i want to make red on a color mixing fixture, then go to green.

You set your red palate to 255 magenta, 192 yellow...
You set your green palate to 255 cyan, 192 yellow.

You hit the red palate, light turns red. You hit the green palate, the values become 255 cyan, 192 yellow, and since there's no zero value on magenta, 255 magenta.

the solution is to redo the palates with 'threshold' values for unused wheels/flags...

red would be 255 magenta, 192 yellow, and 1 cyan.
green would be 1 magenta, 255 cyan, and 192 yellow.

Tumbleweed you are the man! Corrected 100% of my problem and makes total sence! thank you.

Are you the tumbleweed from San Francisco?

Note that in the previous example the values can be set to zero - you don't have to set to 1 if you don't want. It's just important the value is in the programmer.

nope, I'm Tumbleweed from Texas

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