Ganging lighting devices
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Tool |
Tool set |
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Ganging
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Lighting |
Two-fers gang two or more lighting devices together on one circuit, dimmer, channel, or dimmer and channel.
The ganging field parameter values should match. If not, the values from the first selected lighting device are used.
To gang two or more lighting devices:
Click the tool.
Click Preferences to open the object properties dialog box and specify the tool’s default parameters. The parameters can be edited later from the Object Info palette.
Click the first, and then the second, lighting device to be ganged together. If more than two devices are to be ganged together, continue clicking on each lighting device in succession.
Click to set the offset distance of the two-fer label.
If the field values of the lighting devices do not match, confirm that this is acceptable in the Notice dialog box.
The properties of a two-fer are displayed, and can be edited, from the Object Info palette.
Click to show/hide the parameters.Click to show/hide the parameters.
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Parameter |
Description |
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Rotation |
Specifies the number of degrees to rotate the object (0.00 is horizontal) |
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Text Style |
Select a text style from a library or the current file. To use the style defined for the object’s class, select <Class Text Style>. To format the text using options on the Text menu, select <Un-Styled>. See Using text styles and Formatting text. |
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Update Insts |
Updates the ganged lighting devices. Changes to one lighting device are updated for the other ganged lighting device. Also updates two-fer counts in the position summary inventory report. |
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Corner Style |
Select the corner style for the two-fer object (Square, Arc, or Bézier) |
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Gang By |
Indicate whether to gang by Channel, Dimmer, Circuit (name and number), or Dimmer and Channel |
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Field Value |
Enter the value for the two-fer label. (For example, if ganging by channel number, enter a channel number of 80.) This new value updates the former value for dimmer or channel in the lighting device record. If ganging by circuit or channel and dimmer, enter the two values separated by a comma. |
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Show Label |
Displays the two-fer label or labels with the ganged values |
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Use Container |
Places the label or labels in a container; if ganged by dimmer and channel, the same container is used for both labels. By default, the label legend container from the first selected lighting device is used, but this can be overridden by specifying the Container Name. |
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Container Name |
The container name must exactly match one of the container symbol names displayed in the Resource Manager (normally, these are in the Containers folder) |
