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LED Cube/C
Operation
Power Supply:
Before plugging your unit in, be sure the source volt-
age in your area matches the required voltage for your American
DJ® LED Cube/C. The American DJ® LED Cube/C are available in a
120v and 220v version. Because line voltage may vary from venue to
venue, be sure to plug your fixture into a wall outlet with a matching
power supply before attempting to operate.
Operating Modes and Set Up:
LED Cube/C Control:
This will allow you to control your LED Cubes
with the LED Cube/C. You can choose one of the 18 programs to run,
and control the speed and strobe effect of each program. In the “2
Color Chase” and “2 Color Flow” programs you can control the color
sort.
NOTE: The 5-pin cable is the LED Cube/C/DMX-512 signal
cable, and the 3-pin cable is the power supply cable. The first
LED Cube in a chain must be connected to a power source.
1. Start by daisy chaining the LED Cubes together. Attached to each
LED Cube is a Male 5-pin connector and a Female 5-pin connec-
tor. Use the attached 5-pin cables to link your units together.
Remember that the Male 5-pin connector is the input and the Fe-
male 5-pin connector is the output. The first unit in the chain will
use the female 5-pin connector only. The last unit in the chain will
use the male 5-pin connector only.
2. You will also have to link the 3-pin power cords to each other, as
you did with the 5-pin cables.
3. The LED Cubes connect to the LED Cube/C by the 3-pin cables
that are attached to the LED Cubes.
4. Connect the first LED Cube in your chain to the 3-pin Output con-
nection on the LED Cube/C.
Note: You should ONLY link up to 140 LED Cubes to one power
source. If more LED Cubes are being used you can continue to
link them by the 5-pin cables but you should use more then one
power source.
5. After you set up your complete system, switch on the power to the
LED Cube/C.
6. Press the UP or DOWN buttons until “SYSTEM MODE” is dis-
played, and press the ENTER button.
7. “FIXTURE AMOUNT” is displayed, press ENTER.
NOTE: When settting the “FIXTURE AMOUNT” each LED Cube
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counts as TWO tubes. Example if you have one LED Cube
attached, set the amount to TWO, if you have TWO LED Cubes
attached set the amount to FOUR, and so on...
8. Now you can press the UP or DOWN buttons to adjust the quantity
of LED Cubes that you have in the chain. Press the ENTER button
to lock the number into the controller, and press ESC.
NOTE: You must change the quantity when you add an LED
Cube or take away an LED Cube.
9. After you have set the quantity of LED Cubes, you can press the
UP of DOWN buttons to scroll through the different programs.
See page 7 for a list of the programs. Find you desired program
and press the ENTER button. To scroll through the adjustable fea-
tures press the UP or DOWN buttons.
10. Select the feature you would like to adjust and press the ENTER
button. Press the UP and DOWN buttons to adjust the feature.
When you are done adjusting the feature press ENTER. When
you are finished with all your adjustments press the ESC button.
NOTE: Programs 2-8 do not have adjustable features.
11.
Run Speed:
the adjustment can be 0 - 100, 0 is the slowest
speed and 100 being the fastest speed.
Flash:
(strobing) adjustment is 0 - 100, 0 is the slowest stobe
speed, and 100 being the fastest strobe speed.
Universal DMX Control:
This mode allows you to use a universal
DMX-512 controller such as the Elation® DMX Operator™ or Show
Designer™. Channel 1 controls the different programs, channel
two will control speed, channel three will control the strobe func-
tion, and channel 4 will control color sort when channel 1 is set to
“2 Color Chase” or “2 Color Flow”.
NOTE: Once a DMX signal is
established, the MODE button will not work. Only the ENTER, UP
and DOWN buttons will work, these buttons are used to set or
change the DMX address.
1. To control the LED Cubes in DMX mode, follow set-up procedures
1-4 under
LED Cube/C Control
, as well as the set-up procedures
included with your DMX controller.
2. Connect your DMX controller to the LED Cube/C XLR Input con-
nection.
3. Press the ENTER button to change the address, press UP or
DOWN buttons to find your desired address, then press the EN-
