Complex Plants And Addresses Management - Artemide NODO-MASTER DALI Funciones Y Utilización

6.3 - COMPLEX PLANTS AND ADDRESSES MANAGEMENT

Suppose to have two sections, each connected to a NODO-MASTER DALI, and that is necessary to synchronize the colours of both
sections. If the two sections are far between them, and so it's difficult to use a "master-slave" layout, it's necessary to group DALI
addresses by means of "group controllers" into "groups" (max 16), as previewed by DALI standard.
For example, under the simple case only RGB fixtures, we could have (please note that the address number can be seen only using a
DALI-PC interface or on some DALI Control Panel):
NODO-MASTER DALI N. 1:
R = address n. 1
G = address n. 2
B = address n. 3
NODO-MASTER DALI N. 2:
R = address n. 4
G = address n. 5
B = address n. 6.
Following the specific Group Controller (or Control Panel) procedure, add each address to the proper DALI group:
Group 1 (RED): address n. 1, address n. 4
Group 2 (GREEN): address n. 2, address n. 5
Group 3 (BLUE): address n. 3, address n. 6.
The 3 groups will be managed by means of sceneries (max 16) as per DALI standard, using "sceneries controllers". Several sceneries
can be recalled from "sequences", if previewed by used DALI Control Panel.
Due to the fact that DALI protocol assigns addresses in random mode to the devices found along the bus (including NODO-MASTER),
could happen that addresses assigned to a NODO-MASTER are not contiguous and/or in desired order.
In such a case, we could find, having the same previous example:
NODO-MASTER DALI N. 1:
R = address n. 6
G = address n. 2
B = address n. 3
NODO-MASTER DALI N. 2:
R = address n. 1
G = address n. 4
B = address n. 5.
In this case, add DALI addresses to DALI groups as follows:
Group 1 (RED): address n. 6, address n. 1
Group 2 (GREEN): address n. 2, address n. 4
Group 3 (BLUE): address n. 3, address n. 5
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Fig. 6: Settings of dip-switches S2 in "Dali" mode,
See also Table 2 in chapter 6.2 for other fixtures combinations