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Keypad Control

Overview

The control (or command-line) keypad also provides control of luminaires. Luminaire

parameters can be programmed from the keypad just as they can from the manual

control encoders, although in most cases the touch screen Sneak function is also

required. This section will cover all manual controls that can be executed using the

command-line keypad alone. Advanced manual control using the keypad will be

discussed along with the Sneak function in “Timing/Filter Displays” chapter on

page 151.

Entries made with the keypad are referred to as “command-line entries” and will be

displayed in the command-line display as they are entered.

Command-line entry guidelines:

• When entering command lines, it is not necessary to specify channel information if

the required channels are already selected. If new channels are selected for

modification on the keypad, this is reflected at the Channel Select panel.

• [Clear] functions as a backspace key when used during command-line

construction. [Clear] is the only thing that clears a syntax error. (Any other

keypad entry is ignored until the error condition is cleared.)

• When working from the command-line keypad, parameters will assume their new

values at full speed unless Manual Timing is currently enabled, in which case they

will use their current timing values. Only when used with the Sneak function can

the keypad selections be assigned discrete timing values.

• Since manual control requires channel selection, this can also be done using the

command-line keypad. Refer to Channel Select “From Keypad” on page 53.

Holding down [Clear] will clear an entire unterminated command line.

select

Chan 1 ∗

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