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WeCan Programming...Phase Control?


 
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NPPD629RAM
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PostPosted: Thu 23-Oct-2008 12:08    Post subject: WeCan Programming...Phase Control? Reply with quote
Does anyone know if on the newest WeCan software what Phase Control does. Does this control the speed of the pattern?
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rescue_oz
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PostPosted: Thu 23-Oct-2008 13:32    Post subject: Reply with quote
No there are 4 phases 0 90 180 and 270. If you set the pattern to single flash for example and then head 1 to 0, head 2 to 90 head 3 to 180 and head 4 to 270 you would get a rotating pattern. Hope that explains it
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NPPD629RAM
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PostPosted: Thu 23-Oct-2008 13:45    Post subject: Reply with quote
Okay, well what I am trying to achieve is a very fast Zig Zag pattern. Maybe you could help me with this?
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Andy L.
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PostPosted: Thu 23-Oct-2008 14:24    Post subject: Reply with quote
Have you tried ZigZag and ZigZag Blast under the Bar Patterns section of WeCan?
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Robert W.
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PostPosted: Thu 23-Oct-2008 15:24    Post subject: Reply with quote
There isn't enough \"phases\" to be able to do a ZigZag, so do as Andy suggests
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NPPD629RAM
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PostPosted: Fri 24-Oct-2008 02:00    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes I have tried ZigZag, but its slow. I would like to speed up the pattern. I know with the serial control bars you can speed the pattern up but I haven't found a way to do it on the WeCan. Any help is appreciated.
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Pj
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PostPosted: Fri 24-Oct-2008 22:58    Post subject: Reply with quote
The older WeCan software allowed inbetween phases in the advanced mode. I hear that \"advanced\" was taken out, but I don't have the current release.

It allowed 45 or better (don't have the software on this laptop) phase control.

It was good enough that if you did each light head off by one setting, it would look like the bar was spinning...as the two lightheads would be spinning around the bar on opposite sides.

When it comes to some of the flash patterns, you just have to get very creative to get them to look just right. Even though its point/click, you really have to sit and play for awhile.
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PTR-Jason
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PostPosted: Sun 26-Oct-2008 06:43    Post subject: Reply with quote
I emailed Whelen and asked for a current version to be sent to me and it is a LOT better then the older ones, a LOT more easier to work.

And there are 8 Phases now, 0, 45, 90, 135, 180, 225, 270, and 315.



What the phase pattern is, is pretty much the delay on when the next light head will fire, so if one is set to 0 and the other to 180, that is alternating.

Kinda hrd to explain but it is made so you can set it to maybe just be off of being alternating for a more random, yet synced looked between 4 light heads, when it is all the same patten, soooo kinda like,

Head A - Head B - Head C - Head D

Head A alternates with Head D
And Head B alternates with Head C
All on the SAME flash pattern but maybe half a second off so it looks like one light head is flashing right into the next one, instead of off-on-off-on.

It is like onnoffffffoooonnnnoooonffff.
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rescue_oz
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PostPosted: Sun 26-Oct-2008 14:07    Post subject: Reply with quote
So who did you email?????
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PTR-Jason
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PostPosted: Sun 26-Oct-2008 21:15    Post subject: Re: Reply with quote
[quote:6fd74f78fe=\"rescue_oz\"]So who did you email?????


The Customer Service link on the website. Explained to them that I needed a replacement CD and asked how much it would be to get one of if there is a spot to download it. Left my contact info in it and they emailed me back saying they were sending me one. Now THAT IS customer service.
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Robert W.
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PostPosted: Mon 27-Oct-2008 11:13    Post subject: Reply with quote
Good to hear about the customer service..

I still wish you could modify it so the speed between phases varies each time it cycles through.. that way you could put the traffic advisor moduflash in a bar.
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