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Page 1: ...r A7145 LX300RC Explorer 300w 240v A7146 LX300RC Explorer 300w 115v Manufacturer s details Distributor details Manual Part Number C27614 2 11 17 Issue 2 Francis Searchlights Ltd Union Road Bolton Lancashire BL2 2HJ UK Tel 44 0 1204 558960 Fax 44 0 1204 558979 http www francis co uk E mail sales francis co uk ...

Page 2: ...Precautions 3 Technical Information 4 Unpacking and Installation Instructions 5 Electrical Installation 6 Operating Instructions 7 Fault Finding 8 Maintenance and Servicing 9 Wiring Diagram General Assembly Drawing 10 Spare Parts List ...

Page 3: ...timum performance and service life The Francis Xenon range combines features proven over many years service in the most hazardous conditions in both marine and land installations In order to prolong the life and performance of your product we recommend that you only specify Francis Searchlights spare parts This will also ensure that any warranties on your equipment will not be invalidated Informat...

Page 4: ...l removed always use a protective shield and wear goggles to ensure a safe working environment Searchlights get hot Never touch the unit when lit and always allow 15 to 20 minutes for cooling down after turning the searchlight off Never place anything on or cover the searchlight when in use Ensure the lamp has cooled sufficiently before removal If undue force appears necessary to remove the lamp t...

Page 5: ...regulating heater Toughened front glass Luminous flux 7600 Colour temperature 6000K Sealing to IP66 Gearbox IP56 Searchlight IP56 PSU The searchlight also performs to the following optical data Xenon light source Lamp Wattage 300 Watts Supply voltage 110v 240v AC 1Ph 50 60 Hz Peak Beam Candlepower 12 1 million lux Range 3487 metres Adjustable lamp focus 1 spot to 10 flood Temperature range 50 C In...

Page 6: ... being installed Installation procedures should be adhered to in order to ensure a safe working environment and reduce the risk of damage or personal injury Preparing the Mounting Position Mark out and drill the fixing holes through the deck refer to drawing C23290 If anti vibration mounts are to be fitted the fixing holes for the mounts should also be marked out and drilled Prior to manoeuvring t...

Page 7: ...e size in order to overcome the voltage drop The following table below indicates the maximum length of cable to be used for the supply cable to the power supply unit Searchlight 115v 300w 240v 300w Cable Size mm Distance Max Distance Max 1 5 57 MTRS 247 MTRS 2 5 93 MTRS 404 MTRS 4 0 147 MTRS 640 MTRS 6 0 229 MTRS 997 MTRS 10 0 384 MTRS 1869 MTRS 4 Whenever possible cable terminations should be mad...

Page 8: ... be connected by the customer 2 pair twisted 0 22mm 100 ohm screened cable from the joystick panel to the junction box 5 core 1 5mm cable from the PSU to the junction box 3 core 2 5mm cable from the PSU to the junction box Supply cable to the PSU When the light is in operation the output from the PSU should be 20v at 15 amps Basic Operation When the searchlight is turned on an 115v 240v supply is ...

Page 9: ...ny particular application The beam will move continuously through spot to flood In order to fix the beam type simply release the focus button at the desired position To return the searchlight to Factory set auto home position forward and horizontal simply switch off the joystick panel using the panel button 1 and then press the lamp button 2 the searchlight will then move to the per programed home...

Page 10: ...voided When inserting or removing a lamp always hold it securely by its base in order to prevent breakage between base and bulb The lampholder must not exercise mechanical tensions on the lamp neither during insertion or operation Contacts must not discolour during use For safety reasons the lamp should be replaced once it has reached its average life and not later than 1 25 times the stated life ...

Page 11: ...ack Wire ER Pan Encoder Red Wire 5V EG Pan Encoder Green Wire Phase A Output EW Pan Encoder White Wire Phase B Output 0V Pan Encoder Black Pan Limit Switch Common CL Pan Clockwise Limit Switch Orange Wire As viewed looking down on lamp AL Pan Anticlockwise Limit Switch As viewed looking down on lamp HEAD CONNECTOR 0 0V Common for Heater Focus If Searchlight has an igniter terminal is not used H He...

Page 12: ...FBUS Speed Control Board ...

Page 13: ...0 OV Supply Input T Line Terminate Connect to for terminate FBUS RS485 Data In Out FBUS RS485 Data In Out 24 24V Supply Input JOYSTICK CONNECTOR BK Joystick Black Wire Y Joystick Yellow Wire BL Joystick Blue Wire R Joystick Red Wire FBUS JOYSTICK CONTROL BOARD ...

Page 14: ... the lowest value to the right The values for each switch are listed below SPEED CONTROL CARD LAMP ADDRESS SWITCH NUMBER VALUE SWITCH 4 16 SWITCH 5 8 SWITCH 6 4 SWITCH 7 2 SWITCH 8 1 STANDARD CONTROL PANEL LAMP ADDRESS SWITCH NUMBER VALUE SWITCH 1 16 SWITCH 2 8 SWITCH 3 4 SWITCH 4 2 SWITCH 5 1 STANDARD CONTROL PANEL PANEL ADDRESS SWITCH NUMBER VALUE SWITCH 1 8 SWITCH 2 4 SWITCH 3 2 SWITCH 4 1 Swit...

Page 15: ...should be set to 0 1 and 2 Control panel panel addresses use the same system being sequential and start from zero It is essential that all lamp have a unique address with no duplication It is essential that all panels have a unique address with no duplication however note that lamps and panels can be the same address For example on a system with two panels and two lamps the panel addresses will be...

Page 16: ... ranges with panels being addresses 0 15 and lamp addresses starting at 16 and going up to 56 A lamp whose address was set to 0 on the address switches will actually be address 16 and would be transmitted as hex 110 or binary 100010000 If lamp 0 is active this becomes the bus master and sequentially transmits the full address range No other units will transmit until they receive their address Each...

Page 17: ...ockwise Increasing the value will make the lamp move faster A value of 126 will make the lamp rotate slowly anticlockwise Decreasing the value will make the lamp move faster Transmitting values 01 then C0 would make the lamp pan clockwise at full speed DATA_TILT_JOYSTICK Hex 02 This is a two byte command and must be immediately followed by another byte whose value determines the lamps direction an...

Page 18: ...P Hex 0F This is a single byte command which activates when the home button is pressed and held for 5 seconds Home Long Press This is used to store a new home position A lamp receiving this command will store the current position as the value to move to when the home button is pressed normally Note that a lamp can only receive up to 10 bytes at a time A panels transmit sequence is the modified rec...

Page 19: ...ust transmit its first data byte pan position within 1mS of receiving its standard address and the gaps between successive bytes must be less than 1mS Lamp TX Byte 1 Pan position LSB Lamp TX Byte 2 Pan position MSB Lamp TX Byte 3 Tilt position LSB Lamp TX Byte 4 Tilt position MSB Lamp TX Byte 5 Lamp status Lamp TX Byte 6 CRC Each byte is described below Pan Position This is a 12 bit value with lam...

Page 20: ...e next six bytes which will comprise the lamps transmitted data as described above A detailed description of transmitting and receiving is described below TRANSMITTING TO A LAMP Basically any sending device mimics a control panel The full range of panel transmit commands as described above can be employed Data can be sent to any lamp on the system Two transmit examples are listed below EXAMPLE 1 S...

Page 21: ...tion Overview The FBUS motor control card has a status LED near the centre of the card labelled STATUS This has a number of functions as detailed below SOFTWARE VERSION When power is applied to the speed control card the status LED will flash green The number of flashes corresponds to the software version FBUS NORMAL OPERATION When the system is operating from FBUS the status LED will illuminate s...

Page 22: ...disabled for a period when this occurs Fault indication will remain until power is removed 6 FBUS interface over current The speed control card supplies 24VDC to the remote control panels This fault indicates the 24VDC output is taking excessive current The FBUS supply output will switch off To restore this output remove the supply from the speed control card for a period 7 Anti condensation heate...

Page 23: ... unit transmit connections The RS232 connector is configured as a DCE and has all handshake lines looped No flow control is required The connections are listed below 1 Line signal detect linked to pins 4 and 6 2 TX out 3 RX in 4 DTE linked to pins 1 and 6 5 0V 6 DCE Ready linked to pin 1 and 4 7 CTS linked to 8 8 RTS linked to 7 9 No Connection OPERATOR INTERFACE The operator interface is very sim...

Page 24: ...ET DATA RATE This item selects the data rate for the external interface SET DATA CHECKING This is used to enable or disable received data checking for the external interface Switching data checking off can be useful during external interface development Note that this does not affect data checking transmitted to the external interface from the interface unit and does not affect FBUS data checking ...

Page 25: ...f the command sent is not valid FBUS SUPPLY This just indicates the FBUS supply voltage FBUS operates at 24V Values above 30 or below 18 indicate something is wrong EXTERNAL DATA INTERFACE RECEIVED COMMANDS The external data interface uses command data packets with between four and six bytes including the CRC The system uses standard 8 bit data transfer with 1 start bit and 1 stop bit Data is sent...

Page 26: ...ress command speed CRC The speed value is between 0 and 127 Value 0 stops tilt motion Increasing values make the lamp move progressively faster Transmitting codes Hex 0xFF 0x92 0x16 0x7F would make lamp 2 move down at full speed DATA_TILT_UP 0x17 This is a five byte command Sync Lamp address command speed CRC The speed value is between 0 and 127 Value 0 stops tilt motion Increasing values make the...

Page 27: ...dress command CRC The lamp will switch on when this code is received DATA_LAMP_OFF 0x1B This is a four byte command Sync Lamp address command CRC The lamp will switch off when this code is received DATA_RECORD 0x0D This is a four byte command Sync Lamp address command CRC The lamp will start recording motion and lamp on off data when this code is received DATA_PLAY 0x0E This is a four byte command...

Page 28: ... the transmitted data would be 0xFF 0x90 0x0B The addition of these values gives 0x19A The CRC would therefore be this value radix to 7 bits to give a value of 0x1A this value is the CRC and would be sent as the last byte of the packet DATA TIMING Data packets can be sent up to 10 times per second Each packet starts with the lamp address which is the only value with bit 8 set The remaining bytes s...

Page 29: ...sary Arc unsteady Lamp operated outside current control range Magnetic stabilisation for horizontal operation defective Correct current setting Check magnetic stabilisation Bulb draws in air Crack in graded seal caused by overheated cap Maximum cap temperature 230 C Check terminals tighten or renew Glass erosion on fused quartz bulb Lamp operated outside current control range Lamp service life exc...

Page 30: ...ot be carried out in an explosive atmosphere 3 Before a xenon lamp will ignite the electrically insulated gas between the electrodes must be ionised This is done by the ignitor which produces a high frequency voltage up to 14 000 volts or higher Switching the lamp on activates the ignitor A cracking or hissing noise should be heard The ignitor is housed within the rear of the searchlight If found ...

Page 31: ...vacuum forming within the barrel Upon completing all maintenance requirements the searchlight should be tested for full working order approximately 20 minutes If in any doubt as to the correct servicing procedures to adopt please contact your distributor agent or the manufacturer who will be able to advise the best course of action for your product Notes for Lamp Fitting Removal for LX300RC 300w X...

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Page 33: ...iagram General Assembly Drawing Drawing Number Description A7145 A7146 LX300RC 300w Xenon G A C27465 Wiring Diagram C27312 Joystick Panel Assembly C26731 C26732 PSU Enclosure Assembly C26724 Junction Box Assembly ...

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Page 39: ...tor Assembly C27306 01 Tilt Motor Assembly C22380 00 Micro switch no lever C22382 00 Micro switch with lever C23234 00 Pedestal Sealing Gasket C27188 01 Speed Controller PCB C27556 00 PSU C27288 00 Heater Joystick Panel Spares C26537 00 Joystick C27268 00 Joystick Controller PCB In order to prolong the life and performance of your product we recommend that you only specify Francis Searchlights spa...

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