User manual AMX PROLINKAXLINK PROGRAMMING

[. . . ] instruction manual AMX Lighting PROlink/AXlink Programming Lighting Control AMX Limited Warranty and Disclaimer AMX Corporation warrants its products to be free of defects in material and workmanship under normal use for three (3) years from the date of purchase from AMX Corporation, with the following exceptions: · · · · · Electroluminescent and LCD Control Panels are warranted for three (3) years, except for the display and touch overlay components that are warranted for a period of one (1) year. Disk drive mechanisms, pan/tilt heads, power supplies, MX Series products, and KC Series products are warranted for a period of one (1) year. Unless otherwise specified, OEM and custom products are warranted for a period of one (1) year. Batteries and incandescent lamps are not covered under the warranty. This warranty extends only to products purchased directly from AMX Corporation or an Authorized AMX Dealer. [. . . ] All special presets can be stored and recalled just like the other 128 standard presets. The addition of preset ramping as a preset was most useful for dry closures, giving them the ability to raise or lower lighting levels using simple switches. Preset ramping can raise or lower all the levels in a preset in a proportional manner. Preset ramping gives you the ability to raise all the levels to 100% or lower all the levels to 0. The preset will retain its proportional levels after it has been raised or lowered to an extreme level (0 or 100). If a preset is raised to all levels equal 100%, then it can be lowered back to its original state with all levels in proportion to the others. If a preset has channel 1 at 75% and channel 2 at 90%, then ramping the preset up 10% will put channel 1 at 85% and channel 2 at 100%; then ramping down 20% will put channel 1 at 65% and channel 2 at 80%. All presets can be recovered after ramping the preset to an extreme level. All presets and startup features are stored in a separate non-volatile memory chip. The memory protect jumper on each control card will physically prevent the memory chip from being updated, or accidentally erased. If the Memory Protection jumper is installed the AMX Lighting controller will still react like it has changed or stored the new preset without actually doing so. There is no digital command to determine if the jumper is in place or not. AXlink Programming Strings Earlier lighting products communicated via RS232 that required them to use Send_Strings. More recent lighting products began to use AXlink cable to communicate on an AXlink bus. Send_Commands, channel and level information was also added to the programming language. PROlink uses Send_Strings such as "13, $0D, 'S'" where decimal, hexadecimal, and ASCII characters are used respectively. The relation between the two is that the current Axcess language used in AMX Lighting integrates the two. For example: SEND_COMMAND <device>, '<Send_String>' As Axcess processes a string expression, it evaluates each member of the expression from left to right, and the result is a complete string. Levels The best way to get levels from the AMX Lighting controller is to use the AXlink level feature built in to each AMX Lighting controller. Use the DEFINE_CONNECT_LEVEL feature for touch panel and wall panel bargraphs. The CREATE_LEVEL command feature can be used to display the 8-bit AMX Lighting level or to use the level on other AXlink 8-bit level devices like the AXB-VOL3 box, a text window, or the AXB-DMX512 controller. Active bargraphs on touch panels tend to raise or lower lights in uneven steps. The size of the active bargraph does not lend itself to smooth dimming, especially at the top or bottom of the slider. [. . . ] 42 Curve D Voltage output in volts DC 52 AMX Lighting PROlink/AXlink Programming Appendix B: AMX Lighting Curves FIG. 45 Curve F Voltage output in Volts RMS AMX Lighting PROlink/AXlink Programming 53 Appendix B: AMX Lighting Curves FIG. This is provided for informational purposes only as the current RDD-DM4 does not support FDB mode due to large variety of FDB ballasts. AMX recommends using the RDM-FDB, RDM-FDB2, RDC-HFDB, or RDC-MDM module for 3-wire dimming control of FDB ballasts. FIG. [. . . ]