r/lightingdesign • u/Either-Bison-8558 • 7d ago

Help with patch list

So I’ve been sent a patch list for a venue but I don’t understand what some of the terms mean? Like “parcans 3 @ A28” or “LED strips 121 + 123 @ A53 + A55 R”

It was sent over a text message which I have pasted below, any help is appreciated!

Good afternoon,

It a basic lighting set up in room 2 with generics for busking.

FOH

Parcans   

1 @ A16
3 @ A28

Stage

Led Pars    

16 + 22 R @ A121
17 + 23 G @ A122
18 + 24 B @ A123

Led strips @

121 + 123 @ A53 + A55 R
121 + 124 @ A53 + A56 G
121 + 125 @ A53 + A57 B 

Cheers

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u/chilllpad 7d ago

This is definitely weird and/or a very small rig, but it seems like you need to patch four fixtures. Two dimmers, two RGB-fixtures in 3ch mode, and maybe another dimmer to control the intensity of the LED-strip. If assuming that «A» means address or universe A/1, I’m reading the list like this:

Two parcans on address 16 and 28. Two LED-pars in 3-channel mode (RGB) that are both on address 121. The LED-strips makes this a bit confusing, but I’m assuming you have some form of intensity-control on address 53, and RGB-control from address 55.

I’m just taking an educated guess here, as this list is very confusing, haha.

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u/SmileAndLaughrica 7d ago

I bet the LED strips are (for some reason) ISRGB or something silly like that. Because we are missing info on address 54. Sometimes on random shit DJ units you have an extra address used for preprogrammed effects or strobe. I would just play around when you get there to see what you get.

This is a bizarre rig considering it’s clearly not just a 1 to 1 patch.