User manual MARTIN MAC 550 PROFILE

[. . . ] MAC 550 Profile user manual 255 120° 120° 645 365 636 515 390 143 14° 30° 450 270° 270° 505 Figure 1: Dimensions in mm © 2003 Martin Professional A/S, Denmark. No part of this manual may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from Martin Professional A/S, Denmark. 38 INTRODUCTION Thank you for selecting the Martin MAC 550 Profile. This 400 watt moving head spotlight provides a full-range mechanical dimmer/shutter, 16 color filters on two overlapping wheels, six rotating gobos with 16-bit position indexing, nine static gobos, interchangeable gobo animation wheel, three-facet rotating prism, iris, variable focus and zoom, 540° of pan, 246° of tilt, and an electronic "flicker-free" ballast. [. . . ] The protocol provides commands for random and continuous gobo scrolling at different speeds. Gobo macros Channel 12 (9 in basic mode) provides 6 preprogrammed variable-speed macros that use different combinations of color and gobos. Gobo animation The gobo animation system is designed to create animated effects such as rising flames or windswept clouds when combined with overlapping gobos. Channel 13 (10 in basic mode) sets the animation wheel's rotation mode (indexed or continuous), and direction of movement. Channel 14 sets the wheel's index angle if indexed rotation is selected, or its rotation speed and direction if continuous rotation is selected. Prism and iris The prism may be inserted and rotated clockwise and counterclockwise at varying speeds. The iris channel controls the diameter of the iris opening and provides variable speed pulsing effects. Fine control of the iris is provided in extended mode. Focus and zoom The focus lens focusses the beam from approximately 2 meters (6. 5 feet) to infinity. The separate zoom lens varies the focused beam angle from 14° to 30°. Fine control of focus and zoom is provided in extended mode. Effects 15 Pan and tilt Pan and tilt are controlled on channels 22 to 25 (16 to 19 in basic mode). The coarse control channels set the first 8 bits (the most significant byte or MSB), and the fine channels set the second 8 bits (the least significant byte or LSB) of the 16-bit control byte. In other words, the fine channel works within the position set by the coarse channel. Speed channels Tracking versus vector control Important!Effect movement may be rough and unpredictable if controller fade times are combined with vector speed values. The speed channels provide two methods for controlling speed that are known as "tracking" and "vector". With tracking control, the speed at which effects move is determined by a cross-fade time programmed on the controller. With this method, the controller divides a movement into tiny steps that the fixture "tracks". Tracking control is enabled by setting the speed channels to one of the tracking values listed in the DMX protocol. With vector control, speed is set with a DMX value on the speed channel. This provides a way to control speed on controllers without cross-faders. Vector control can also provide smoother movement, particularly at slow speeds, with controllers that send slow or irregular tracking updates. When using vector control, the controller's cross-fade time, if available, must be 0. Blackout When "blackout while moving" is selected on a speed channel, the shutter closes when an effect moves to make the transition invisible. This function is available for pan, tilt, color, gobo, and prism change. Personality overrides The pan/tilt speed channel provides tracking values that allow you to override the pan/tilt speed setting from the controller. The effects speed channel provides values for overriding the shortcuts setting for the color and gobo wheels. 16 MAC 550 Profile OPTICAL Color wheels CONFIGURATION The MAC 550 Profile provides two overlapping color wheels with 8 interchangeable color filters and an open position. Color wheel 1 is closer to the lamp and color wheel 2 is closer to the lens. Refer to the DMX protocol for filter names. 2 1 3 4 5 7 8 6 5 4 8 7 1 6 2 3 Figure 6: Filter positions, wheel 1 (left) and wheel 2 (right), seen from lens To replace a color f ilt er Note: Use only genuine MAC 550 color filters. Press the filter forwards slightly to release it and then grasp it by the edges and remove. [. . . ] Table 4: Display messages Contact Martin service personnel for assistance. Contact Martin service personnel for assistance. L1ER THER 34 MAC 550 Profile TROUBLESHOOTING Problem Probable cause(s) No power to fixture. Fixtures reset correctly but respond erratically or not at all to the controller. One of the fixtures is defective and disturbs data transmission on the link. [. . . ]