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24 Froggy’s Fog Hyperion D6 Fog Jet [064]

The Froggy’s Fog Hyperion D6 Fog Jet fixtures combine fog with RGBA LED lights.  It is available at www.froggysfog.com.  The Standard Fixture ID for this fixture in Finale 3D is 064.

 

Figure 1 – Froggy’s Fog Hyperion D6 Fog Jet

 

The fixtures have a 17-channel DMX personality, which provides RGB control over the LED lights.

 

Table 1 – DMX personality choices

DMX personality (“DMX Channel Mode”) Supported in Finale 3D
17CH YES

 

Instructions

To design a show for Froggy’s Fog Hyperion D6 Fog Jet fixtures, please follow the steps in DMX basic instructions and Light fixtures basic instructions.  If you don’t already have a compatible firing system or controller capable exporting a DMX script, please refer to Supported firing systems and controllers (DMX) for the list of available hardware options.

 

Choosing the DMX channel ranges for fixtures

Each 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 2 shows an example for 17-channel fixtures.  Some DMX firing systems and controllers only support 50 or 100 channels, so you may not have all 512 channels to work with.

 

Table 2 – Example channel ranges for 17-channel fixtures in a DMX universe

Fixture DMX Channel Base Channels Used
1 1 1-17
2 18 18-34
3 35 35-51
4 52 52-68
5 69 69-85
6 86 86-102
30 494 494-510

 

Technical details

The following tables show the technical specifications of the fixtures, as tested by the Finale support team.

 

Table 3 – DMX channels for 17 CH personality

DMX Channel Meaning
Channel 1 (DMX Channel Base + 0) Fog (0-10 = OFF; 11-255 = Volume, Low To High)
Channel 2 (DMX Channel Base + 1) Red
Channel 3 (DMX Channel Base + 2) Green
Channel 4 (DMX Channel Base + 3) Blue
Channel 5 (DMX Channel Base + 4) Amber
Channel 6 (DMX Channel Base + 5) White
Channel 7 (DMX Channel Base + 6) UV
Channel 8 (DMX Channel Base + 7) Outer Red
Channel 9 (DMX Channel Base + 8) Outer Green
Channel 10 (DMX Channel Base + 9) Outer Blue
Channel 11 (DMX Channel Base + 10) Outer Amber
Channel 12 (DMX Channel Base + 11) Outer White
Channel 13 (DMX Channel Base + 12) Outer UV
Channel 14 (DMX Channel Base + 13) Color Mixing (0-10 = OFF; 11-255 = Color Mixing)
Channel 15 (DMX Channel Base + 14) Auto-Color (0-10 = OFF; 11-255 = Color Rotating, Slow To Fast)
Channel 16 (DMX Channel Base + 15) Strobe (0-10 = OFF; 11-255 = Strobe, Slow To Fast)
Channel 17 (DMX Channel Base + 16) Master Dimmer

 

 

Table 4 – Example files and downloads

Download link Explanation
ffm-hyperion-d6-froggys-fog-fog-machine-user-manual.pdf Froggy’s Fog Hyperion D6 Fog Jet User Manual