4 Operation
WARNING To prevent damage to your eyes,
never look directly into the light
source for any length of time .
Please note that stroboscope ef-
fects and fast changes in lighting
may trigger epileptic seizures with
photo sensitive persons or persons
with epilepsy!
To switch on the unit, connect the mains cable to
a mains socket (230 V/ 50 Hz); to switch off, discon-
nect the unit from the mains .
Information relating to the fan: The internal fan will
start when the temperature inside the unit exceeds 58 °C
and will stop when the temperature has dropped to 45 °C .
4.1 Control of the menu
The settings are made via a menu to be controlled
via four buttons (
ture on page 15) . After the unit has been switched
on, the display will show the menu item most
recently selected (or its setting) . The display will
go out after 30 seconds, but it will be activated
again for 30 seconds when a button is pressed .
Select the desired operating mode (
or 4 .3) and set additional functions, if required
(
chapter 4 .4) .
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Buttons Functions
– in the highest menu level: to select menu
items (same function as button UP)
MENU
– to return to the previous menu level
– to select menu items
UP and
DOWN
– to change settings
– to call up menu items / submenus
– to save all of the settings
ENTER
(or to start the reset for the menu item
Locking / Unlocking the buttons:
To lock or unlock the buttons, keep the button
MENU pressed for 5 seconds . When the buttons
have been locked, it will not be possible to control
the menu, but the display can still be activated
when a button is pressed .
Attention: It is recommended not to lock the buttons
when a menu item of the highest menu level has been
selected: In this case, you will also go to the next menu
item when you press the button MENU .
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table below and menu struc-
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4.2 Operation with a DMX controller
The spotlight is set to DMX control when the menu
item
When the DMX channel mode and the DMX start
address have been set via these two menu items,
the spotlight can be operated via the DMX con-
troller .
1) Set the number of channels (5 or 10 channels)
via the menu item
channels depends on the functions required
(
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on the number of control channels available on
the controller .
2) Set the DMX start address via the menu item
units, each unit must have its own start address .
Example: If the first DMX channel of the unit
is to be controlled by the controller via DMX
address 5, set the start address on the unit to 5 .
All other DMX channels of the unit will be auto-
matically assigned to the subsequent addresses .
Example: In the 10-channel mode with start address 5,
the channels 1 to 10 are assigned to the addresses 5
to 14 . Address 15 is the next possible start address
available for the following DMX-controlled unit .
chapter 4 .2
4.2.1 DMX functions
5-channel mode
DMX value Function
Channel 1 Dimmer (total brightness)
0 – 255
Channel 2 Brightness of red
0 – 255
Channel 3 Brightness of green
0 – 255
Channel 4 Brightness of blue
0 – 255
Channel 5 Stroboscope
0
1– 255
or
has been selected or called up .
tables, chapter 4 .2 .1) and may also depend
. For separate control of all DMX-controlled
dark bright
dark bright
dark bright
dark bright
no stroboscope
stroboscope: slow fast
. The number of DMX