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Dip Switches on Dimmers and Controllers
Solved this issue the other day on a job site and thought it would make a good post!
Dip Switches are a series of tiny binary switches numbered 1-9 that can be switched ‘on’ or ‘off’.
They have different functions on different devices.
Sometimes they indicate the radio frequency the device uses to operate - for example, perfect cues.
In the case of Dimmers, they determine the starting address of the dimmer.
- For example, if you have 1 ON and the rest OFF, on a 4 channel dimmer, channel 1 will be address 1, channel 2 will be address 2, channel 3 - address 3, and channel 4 - address 4.
- If you have a additional dimmers, you could set the dip switches such that the dimmer channels will be addresses 5-8, 9-12, etc.
Similarly, for analog lighting controllers, dip switches determine the starting address of the faders.
- For example, if you have 1 ON and the rest OFF, fader 1 will control channel 1 of the fixture assigned to address 1.
Hope that clears up some confusion and helps troubleshoot “issues” that you may encounter in your lighting setups.
Often the “fix” is as simple as flicking a switch to the correct setting for your desired outcome!
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Dip Switches on Dimmers and Controllers
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