Dove Systems IQ 512 User Manual

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IQ512

12 Channel DMX controller

with the manufacture and sale of its equipment. This warranty is
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Contents

Setting Default Patch.............................................................................................5

Patching Dimmers to Channels..............................................................................6

to selecting dimmers. Select the dimmer you wish to control (using

the up and down keys). Use the right arrow to move over to setting

ate control channel slider to full. For example, if you are building a

output of the IQ512 will follow the adjustments as you make them.

Introduction............................................................................................................3

Quick Start.............................................................................................................3

Making A Scene!...................................................................................................4

Lights Out!.............................................................................................................4

Using the Menu......................................................................................................5

Clearing the Patch Table........................................................................................5

Patching Channels To Dimmers............................................................................6

LIMITED WARRANTY.......................................................................................8

Patching dimmers to channels also allows you to “set a
look” on a control channel. To do this, select Edit Patch Table ->
patch channel @ dimmer @ level. To set the first “look” on chan­nel 1, leave channel 1 selected. Use the right arrow to move over

levels. Use the up and down keys to adjust the level of this dim­mer. Once this dimmer is set, use the left key to move back to se­lecting dimmers. Use the up and down keys to select the next
dimmer to set. Use the right arrow key to move over to setting lev­els. Again, use the up and down keys to set the level. Repeat this
until the “look” for this channel is set. You can then either use the
left key to get out of the menu, or use the right key to move to the
next control channel.
You can watch the look being built by setting the appropri-

look on channel 1, set the channel 1 slider to full. As you patch
dimmers to channel 1, you’ll see the effect on stage. The DMX

When you start building the look for channel 2, bring channel 1 to
zero and set channel 2 to full.

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Patching Channels To Dimmers

Press the right arrow key to select Patch dimmer @ channel

using the up and down arrows. Press the up arrow to select a higher

patch is finer than that of the display. It may, at times, take two or

♦

Once all patch assignments are set, press the left key to exit

Patching dimmers to channels is just like patching channels

the IQ512 lets you patch the way

you

want to patch. The procedure

controller. Each control channel may be proportionally patched out

to 512 DMX channels (dimmers). The IQ512 also includes a grand

The patching capability may also be thought of as a submaster

ideal for television applications where one look may light the news

all the way down. Connect the supplied power supply ("wall wart")

To patch channels to dimmers, follow these steps:
♦ Press the right arrow key to enter the menu. The display

will say "Edit Patch Table."
♦ Press the right arrow key to select Edit Patch Table. The

display will say "Patch dimmer @ channel @ level."

♦

@ level. The display will say “dimmr@chan@level” on the first
line, and “> 01 @ 01 @ 100%” on the second line. The ">" before
the "01" indicates we can change the dimmer we are patching to

dimmer number and the down arrow to select a lower dimmer
number.
♦ Once the dimmer you want to patch is selected, press the
right arrow. The ">" moves to being in front of the channel num­ber. Use the up and down arrows to select the channel this dimmer
is to be patched to.

♦ Once the appropriate channel is selected, press the right
arrow key. The ">" moves to being in front of the level to be used

in this proportional patch. Use the up and down arrow keys to set
the level in percent. Note that the patch proportion is a full 8 num­ber (where 0 correspond to zero and 255 corresponds to full). The
display, however, is in percent. The result is the resolution of the

three key clicks to increase or decrease the level by one percent.
Each key click is making a change of about 0.4%.

♦ Once the patch level is set, you can hit the left key to go
back and set up another channel, or hit the right key to move to the
next dimmer.

the menus.

Patching Dimmers to Channels

to dimmers, only backwards! It’s all a matter of perspective, and

Introduction

The IQ512 is a "single scene with hold" 12 channel DMX

master control, blackout switch, and channel bump buttons.
The "single scene with hold" turns this compact controller
into a two scene controller with split dipless crossfaders, making it
ideal for small theatre applications. Patching allows each control
channel to control any or all of the 512 dimmer channels. This al­lows the IQ512 to be used in "dimmer per fixture" installations.
One control on the IQ512 may control hundreds of dimmer chan­nels.

capability. By patching dimmers at specified levels to a channel,
the user can establish a "look" on that control channel. In this
application, the IQ512 can hold 12 "looks." This makes the IQ512

anchor desk, another may light the weather set, another may light
sports, and another may light the newsroom for that "breaking
story" look.
The IQ512 - A small controller with big capabilities.

Quick Start

The IQ512 ships with a default one-to-one patch. Control
channel 1 drives DMX channel (dimmer 1). Control channel 2
drives dimmer 2, etc. Use a standard DMX cable to connect the
IQ512 to your dimmer system. Slide the left sliders (GM, X, and
Y) all the way up. Slide the right sliders (channels 1 through 12)

to the IQ512 and an electrical outlet.
The display on the IQ512 should say "IQ512,
dovesystems.com". Slide each of the channel sliders up and down
to verify they are controlling dimmers 1 through 12. Press each of
the "bump buttons" below the channel sliders. The appropriate
light on the dimming system should flash to full.
You're controlling lights!

is almost identical to above, but channels and dimmers are re­versed on the display.

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Making A Scene!

press the hold button. The hold button lights and the display says

next scene, move the X and Y crossfaders all the way down, fading

"live." To set up a new scene, hit hold again, set the new look, then

menu. The up and down arrows scroll through menu selections. To

patch table). The display will say "Confirm Load Default Patches."

patch table. The display will then say "Load default patch table."

On power up, the X and Y crossfaders should be all the
way up to make the channel faders live. To set the next scene,

"HOLD MODE, Move Xfaders Down". Don't move the crossfad­ers yet! Adjust the channel faders to the settings for the next scene.
The lights on stage will not change. When it is time to move to the

into the new scene. The X scene is always the "old" held scene,
while the Y scene is the scene you are bringing up. With this in
mind, it's possible to delay the fade out of the old scene or to delay
the fade in of the new scene (perhaps even doing a fade to black
between scenes) by delaying the motion of the X or Y crossfader.
Experiment with it a bit to see how it works. In most applications,
you can just grab both X and Y crossfaders and move them to­gether.
Once the crossfaders have been moved to the down position,
the hold button goes out and the display returns to the normal
IQ512 display. At this point, the channel sliders are once again

move the crossfaders up.
The general sequence is: hit hold, set up scene, move cross­faders down. Hit hold, set up scene, move crossfaders up. Repeat
as necessary.

Using the Menu

The setup menu in the IQ512 is modeled after the Lynx web
browser. The right arrow key "follows a link" or takes you further
into a menu selection. The left arrow backs you out of the current

enter the menu, hit the right arrow key.

Setting Default Patch

After messing with patching, you may want to restore the de­fault one-to-one patch. To restore the default patch, follow these
steps:

♦ Press the right arrow key to enter the menu.
♦ Press the down arrow key until the display says "Load de-

fault patch table."

♦ Press the right arrow to select this option (load default
♦ Press the right arrow to confirm that you want to load de-

fault patches. The display will show the model number and soft­ware revision. It will then test the memory that holds the patch
table, clear the patch table, and load the default values into the

You can hit the left arrow key to exit the menu or an up or down
key to choose another menu option.

Lights Out!

You can instantly black out all lights by hitting the blackout
button. The display will say "Blackout Enabled," and the blackout
button will flash. Hit the blackout switch again to bring the lights
back to their previous levels.
You can "fade to black" using the GM (Grand Master) con­trol. Sliding the GM control down dims all lights proportionally
until they are out. When the GM control has turned off all the
lights, the blackout switch will light and the display will say
"Grand Master = 0." Slide the control back up to fade the lamps
back up.

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Clearing the Patch Table

Prior to putting in your own patch settings, it's nice to start
with an empty patch table. Follow these steps:

♦ Press the right arrow key to enter the menu.
♦ Press the down arrow key until the display says "Clear

Patch Table."
♦ Press the right arrow key to select this option (Clear Patch

Table).

♦ The display will say "Confirm Clear Patch Table."
♦ Press the right arrow key to confirm that you want to clear

the patch table. The display will say "Clearing Patch Table," then
say "Clear Patch Table."

♦ Press the left arrow key to exit the menu or the up or down
keys to select another menu option.

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