Martin Imager Series, Operator'S Manual

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40 DMX Controller operation
3 Scroll to r u n and press [enter].
4 Scroll to O f f and press [enter].
Lamp control
Important Avoid striking several lamps at once!
The lamp can be turned on and off from the controller using the lamp-on and
lamp-off commands on channel 1. To prevent accidental lamp-off
commands, lamp off can be partially disabled from the using the
P E r /
L O F menu on the control panel (see “Control menu structure” on page 66).
If the DMX Lamp-off personality is off, the lamp-off command on channel 1
executes only on an:
• Imager DMX Gobo Wheel, if gobo position 4 is selected (either in indexed or
continuous rotation) and the focus is set to the near position.
• Imager DMX Gobo, if DMX-channel 3 is set to a value of 60-79 or 140-159,
and the focus is set to the near position.
Strike lamps one at a time at 5 second intervals. Striking many lamps at
once may cause a voltage drop large enough to prevent lamps from striking,
damage electronics, and trip circuit breakers. To have the lamp strike
automatically at power-up, set the Automatic Lamp-on personality to on
(see “Personality menu (Per)” on page 21).
The lamp must be allowed to cool for at least 6 minutes after turning it off
before it can be re-struck. A 6-minute hot-restrike delay is programmed into
the Imager software from the time that the light is extinguished, or the power
is switched off, to ensure that this occurs. If you attempt to strike the lamp
and do not succeed the fixture will reattempt to strike itself after 6 minutes
(and a hot lamp warning/error will appear in the display), unless you issue
the lamp off command. If the fixture fails these two attempts to strike, the
lamp will be assumed to be defective and the LE (lamp error) message will
appear.
Effects
The mechanical effects reset to their home positions when the fixture is
powered on. Effects can also be reset from the controller on channel 1. If the
DMX Reset personality is off, the reset command on channel 1 will only
execute on an