The Hansol Sunshine 5 Head Flame System unit is a 5-head flame projector that can be controlled by any of the DMX-capable firing systems, such as Piroshow, Pyromac, PyroSure, fireTEK, Cobra, Pyrodigy and Mongoose.
Figure 1 – Hansol Sunshine 5 Head Flame System
The Hansol Sunshine 5 Head Flame System has a 5-channel DMX personality with independent control of the five heads, and a 1-channel pilot flame that can be configured to an independent DMX channel address. The pilot flame address can be shared by multiple fixtures. Some versions of the Hansol Sunshine also have a safety channel at a fixed DMX channel address, channel 1, which must be shared.
Finale 3D combines the concept of safety channel and pilot flame and controls them both with a single “Safety Channel AND Pilot Flame” effect. If your version of the Hansol Sunshine requires a safety channel at DMX channel 1, that forces you to configure the pilot flame as DMX channel 2 so the two channels can be turned on together by the “Safety Channel AND Pilot Flame” effect. If your version of the Hansol Sunshine does not require a safety channel, then you can configure the pilot flame to any free DMX channel.
Instructions for the two options, safety channel or not, are shown in Table 1. Each row in the table lists the Fixture Type for the positions representing the flame systems, the number of channels each such position will use to control its flames (5), the Fixture Type of the position representing the safety channel or pilot flame , and the number of channels that position uses (1 or 2).
Table 1 – Safety channel options
| Option | Flame system’s Fixture Type in Finale 3D | Flame system fixture number of channels | Safety channel or pilot flame Fixture Type in Finale 3D | Safety channel or pilot flame fixture number of channels | Flame system fixtures share the same safety channel or pilot flame channels |
| Option 1 | “Hansol [055] Sunshine Fixture: 5 Head w/ Safety And Pilot” | 5 | “HANSOL [056/0000] Safety Channel AND Pilot Flame” | 2 | Yes, required |
| Option 2 | “Hansol [057] Sunshine Fixture: 5 Head w/ Pilot Only”. The “Safety And Pilot” | 5 | “HANSOL [058/0000] Pilot Flame” | 1 | Optional |
The DMX channels used by the safety channel or pilot flame fixture types for Option 1 and Option 2 are shown in Table 2 and Table 3.
Table 2 – DMX channels of the “HANSOL [056/0000] Safety Channel AND Pilot Flame” (Option 1)
| DMX Channel | Meaning | Effect in Finale 3D that controls channel |
| Channel 1 (DMX Channel Base + 0) | Safety channel ON/OFF (0-101 = OFF; 102-140 = ON; 141-255 = OFF) | Part number HS11021 |
| Channel 2 (DMX Channel Base + 1) | Pilot flame ON/OFF (0-153 = OFF; 154-203 = ON; 204-255 = OFF) | Part number HS11021 |
Table 3 – DMX channels of the “HANSOL [058/0000] Pilot Flame” (Option 2)
| DMX Channel | Meaning | Effect in Finale 3D that controls channel |
| Channel 1 (DMX Channel Base + 0) | Pilot flame ON/OFF (0-153 = OFF; 154-203 = ON; 204-255 = OFF) | Part number HS12021 |
For Option 1, the pilot flame is the second channel of the “Safety Channel AND Pilot Flame” Fixture Type and the safety channel is the first. The safety channel must be at the fixed channel address 1, so set the “Pilot & Ignition Address” on your physical unit to be 2.
For Option 2, the pilot flame is the first and only channel of the “Pilot Flame” Fixture Type, so set the “Pilot & Ignition Address” on your physical unit to be the same as the DMX Channel Base of the position configured as the “Pilot Flame” fixture in Finale 3D.
Table 4 – DMX channels for the flame system fixtures themselves
| DMX Channel | Meaning | Effect in Finale 3D that controls channel |
| Channel 1 (DMX Channel Base + 0) | Head 1 ON/OFF (0-153 = OFF; 154-203 = ON; 204-255 = OFF) | Various part numbers in the range HS11000- HS12021 |
| Channel 2 (DMX Channel Base + 1) | Head 2 ON/OFF (0-153 = OFF; 154-203 = ON; 204-255 = OFF) | Various part numbers in the range HS11000- HS12021 |
| Channel 3 (DMX Channel Base + 2) | Head 3 ON/OFF (0-153 = OFF; 154-203 = ON; 204-255 = OFF) | Various part numbers in the range HS11000- HS12021 |
| Channel 4 (DMX Channel Base + 3) | Head 4 ON/OFF (0-153 = OFF; 154-203 = ON; 204-255 = OFF) | Various part numbers in the range HS11000- HS12021 |
| Channel 5 (DMX Channel Base + 4) | Head 5 ON/OFF (0-153 = OFF; 154-203 = ON; 204-255 = OFF) | Various part numbers in the range HS11000- HS12021 |
Instructions
To design a show for Hansol Sunshine 5 Head Flame System units, please follow these steps:
- Set up. (A) Follow the flame set up instructions in the Flame systems basic instructions and Exporting a firing system script for flame systems to configure positions in Finale 3D as your flame system fixtures and additionally to configure a position as a “safety channel or pilot” fixture, which can be shared by the flame system fixtures. (B) In the real world configure each physical unit’s “Machine Address / Start Address” to be the start of the 5-channel range you allocate for it. (C) In Finale 3D configure the “DMX Channel Base” of the positions representing flame system fixtures to match the Start Addresses exactly. (D) In the real world configure each physical unit’s “Pilot & Ignition Address” to be the number “2” if your flame system requires a safety channel (Option 1 in Table 1); or to be any free DMX channel address otherwise (Option 2 in Table 1). (E) In Finale 3D configure the “DMX Channel Base” of the safety channel or pilot fixture to be the number 1 if your flame system requires a safety channel (Option 1 in Table 1); or to be whatever channel address you chose for the pilot otherwise (Option 2 in Table 1); alternatively, Option 2 flame system fixtures can have their own safety channel or pilot fixtures instead of sharing one in common.
- Add the Assorted DMX supplier catalog to your Finale 3D account. Login to the finale3d.com website. At the top of the page, go to “My Account > Supplier Catalog Settings” (www.finale3d.com/supplier-catalogs-settings/). Find the Assorted DMX supplier catalog in the table, and turn the switch to ON. Then launch the Finale 3D application and synch to network. The Assorted DMX catalog will appear as one of the available collections in the effects window, which you can choose from the selector at the top of the window. This catalog contains effects for all types of Assorted fixtures currently supported in Finale 3D, together.
- Add flame effects to the show. (A) Right-click on the 5 Head Flame System positions to add compatible effects from the context menu or to filter the effects window to compatible effects.
Choosing the DMX channel ranges for fixtures
Each 5 Head Flame System fixture requires multiple channels, so if you are putting multiple fixtures in the same DMX Universe, you need to set the Start Address on the fixture in the real world and the corresponding DMX Channel Base on the fixture in Finale 3D to a range of channels that doesn’t overlap with others. A DMX universe has channels 1-512. If you want to pack as many fixtures into the 512 channels of a DMX universe as you can, back-to-back ranges are the most efficient. Table 5 shows an example for 5 Head Flame System fixtures. Some DMX firing systems only support 50 or 100 channels, so you may not have all 512 channels to work with.
The example of Table 5 shows fixtures that all share the same safety channel at DMX channel 1. The pilot flame is thus at channel 2, and the first fixture’s DMX Channel Base is channel 3. By contrast, the example of Table 6 shows fixtures that do not have safety channels. The pilot flame channel or channels in Table 6 could be anywhere in the 1-512 range; the fixtures could share the same pilot flame channel or they could each have their own channel. The example illustrates a shared pilot flame channel at DMX Channel Base 1.
Table 5 – Example channel ranges for flame systems with safety channels AND pilot flames
| Fixture | DMX Channel Base | Channels Used |
| “Safety Channel AND Pilot Flame” | 1 | 1-2 |
| 1 (first flame system fixture) | 3 | 3-7 |
| 2 | 8 | 8-12 |
| 3 | 13 | 13-17 |
| 4 | 18 | 18-22 |
| 5 | 23 | 23-27 |
| 6 | 28 | 28-32 |
| 7 | 33 | 33-37 |
| 8 | 38 | 38-42 |
| 9 | 43 | 43-47 |
| … | ||
| 52 | 508 | 508-512 |
Table 6 – Example channel ranges for flame systems with pilot flames ONLY
| Fixture | DMX Channel Base | Channels Used |
| “Pilot Flame ONLY” | 1 | 1 |
| 1 (first flame system fixture) | 2 | 2-6 |
| 2 | 7 | 7-11 |
| 3 | 12 | 12-16 |
| 4 | 17 | 17-21 |
| 5 | 22 | 22-26 |
| 6 | 27 | 27-31 |
| 7 | 32 | 32-36 |
| 8 | 37 | 37-41 |
| 9 | 42 | 42-46 |
| … | ||
| 52 | 507 | 507-511 |
Table 7 – Example files and downloads
| Download link | Explanation |
| Sunshine user manual.pdf | Hansol Sunshine 5 Head Flame System user manual |
| test-hansol-5-sunshine-head-flame-system01.fin | Example show file |
| test-hansol-5-sunshine-head-flame-system01.csv | Example exported script |