Question about Radion Pro fixtures

[SanmanReefer]

I bought two of these about a week ago, set them up and everything seems great so far. I noticed when going into the connection manager and looking at the current program that each individual color has a percentage and also the brightness has a percentage. I'm running my brightness at 20%. Is the brightness the actual intensity? What does every color percentage means? Can someone care to explain? Thanks.

 

[Bigkahuna]

The % is intensity of that particular channel. The software lets you customize what "look" you want, there is an option to looks at the color breakdown on the graph to visualize how much each color channel is outputting. If you go with a preset like 20k the fixture tries to approximate the color "look" of a 20k halide for example and moving the slider for the entire fixture mixes the colors automatically to get that color. Simply put if you have your royal blue output to 50% and the reds to 25% that only means you are setting the royal blues half their maximum output and the reds to one quarter of theirs. This doesn't mean however that your blues are putting out twice the light of those reds, there are far more royal blue LEDs in the fixture so it only means the % output of that discreet channel.

 

[SanmanReefer]

Ok thanks, I figure that's what it meant. I went with the shallow reef preset for now until I figure out what program to create. I was looking at the program and the UV and the blues were at 100%, the white was at 45% and the brightness was at 20% which was the intensity I set on the initial programming. I guess you can set the color palette if you will with the sliders and then set the intensity at the brightness setting, correct? Thanks for your help.

 

[Bigkahuna]

Yeah once you have the color you're happy with the main slider just controls the combined intensities of all the channels combines and keeps the ratio intact.

 

[SanmanReefer]

Thanks, sounds easy enough. I'll work on a program tomorrow. Thanks again for the help. Appreciate it.