Help a Dipstick understand dip switches.

[Maude]

Hello all, I just picked up a cheap LED par can secondhand, sometimes I get stuck in a corner and could do with a little ambient light to see between songs, not often but it's handy to have in case. I want to run it separately from our other lights and just have a dim wash of one colour, no fading or colour changing. 

My question is, do all lights use the same generic settings of the dip switches on the back or do I need to find some instructions for it somewhere? 

This light has a bank of four switches labelled 'Function' and another bank of ten labelled 'Pattern', and two knobs labelled 'speed' and 'music'. 

I had a play and it doesn't make sense to me, but I have absolutely no clue about these things. 

Can I just set the switches so it's on a dim green every time it's switched on, or does it not work like that? 

Thanks in advance for any help offered. 🙂

[CameronJ]

The only help I can offer is that I’m pretty sure the switch labelled “music” will enable a mode in which the light pulses to the beat of whatever ambient sound it senses - there’ll be a tiny mic built in somewhere on the back of the unit for this purpose. So you’ll likely want to keep that feature switched off.

[PaulWarning]

http://www.prolight.co.uk/ftp-in/LEDJ31_Manual.pdf

[la bam]

All par cans are different, but for yours if it's a ledj party- for green, set the following:

ALL dipswitches to OFF.

Dipswitch 2 to ON.

that way everytime you switch on it should be green.

 

[Maude]

Only just got round to looking into this again. Thanks @PaulWarning for the link, and @la bam for the advice.

My unit is a Pulse one and is different to that but I have found a link to a Pulse unit with the same controls, but it still makes no sense http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/577134.pdf

Through using that manual, trial and error and pure bloody luck I have found that setting switch 2 on the 'function' bank to on I can then use switches 1-9 on the 'pattern' bank for three intensities of red (1-3) green (4-6) and blue (7-9) or any mix of. That'll do for me as I only need a light wash of one colour.