Understand Your Van’s Controls and Lighting 7 Sections37 Lessons7 QuizzesLifetime
Curriculum
- 7 Sections
- 37 Lessons
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- 1 · What we want the van to do3 Items
- 2 · From a simple switch to coordinated control3 Items
- 3 · Why this architecture3 Items
- 4 · Meet the components6 Items
- 4.107 · Recognize the boxes, the software and the messages
- 4.208 · Meet Node-RED before writing a rule
- 4.309 · Meet DMX as a numbered list of lighting levels
- 4.410 · Meet Art-Net and look inside a lighting message
- 4.511 · What RGB plus CCT actually means
- 4.6Checkpoint 4 · Understand Node-RED, DMX and Art-Net5 Questions
- 5 · Follow one complete scene4 Items
- 6 · Build understanding through guided practice14 Items
- 6.115 · First guided flow: send a word and see it arrive
- 6.216 · Second guided flow: turn a scene request into settings
- 6.317 · Dimming, white mixing and honest colour labels
- 6.418 · DMX addresses are mailbox numbers
- 6.519 · Ethernet carries Art-Net; DMX carries the next step
- 6.620 · Why the DMX cable is a chain
- 6.721 · Volts, amps, watts and time
- 6.822 · Design for the way the van is used
- 6.923 · Size the shared positive as well as the channels
- 6.1024 · Fuses, terminals and heat are part of the design
- 6.1125 · One converter or separate supplies
- 6.1226 · Measure the circuit without changing it
- 6.1327 · Commission one small system before seven zones
- 6.14Checkpoint 6 · Apply the principles safely5 Questions
- 7 · Extend and troubleshoot11 Items
- 7.128 · Scenes, manual overrides and sensible priorities
- 7.229 · The owned Le Mans fan is the starting point
- 7.330 · Manual, off and auto must have definite meanings
- 7.431 · Sensors, hysteresis and stale information
- 7.532 · Fridge, pump and tank heat on the 12V schedule
- 7.633 · Add an assistant as another source of requests
- 7.734 · Manual lighting and the failures it survives
- 7.835 · Restart behavior and lost messages
- 7.936 · Troubleshoot by dividing the problem
- 7.1037 · Capstone: hand over a system someone can understand
- 7.11Checkpoint 7 · Troubleshoot and extend the system5 Questions