Martin VDO Face 5, User Manual

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14 VDO Face 5™ user manual
Installing single panels on a truss or structure
The VDO Face Panel
Clamps available from
Martin® (see
“Accessories” on page 51)
give enormous flexibility in
arranging panels in
creative video displays.
Each Panel Clamp lets you
fasten one single VDO
Face 5™ panel to a rigging
truss or similar structure. If
you want to create an array
consisting of two more
panels, see later in this
chapter.
See Figure 4. The VDO
Face Panel Clamp consists
of a large bracket
A with
four arms in an ‘X’ shape.
A half-coupler rigging
clamp
C is located at the
center of the ‘X’.
To install a VDO Face 5™
panel on a VDO Face
Panel Clamp:
1. Check that the
structure that you will
use to support the panel is capable of supporting ten times the weight of all the items that will be
installed on it.
2. Restrict access below the work area and work from a stable platform.
3. See Figure 4. Bolt a Panel Clamp bracket A to the back of the VDO Face 5™ panel using the four Allen
(hex) bolts B supplied with the Panel Clamp.
4. Loosen the handscrew and open the half-coupler clamp C , then fasten the clamp around a 50 mm
(2 inch) diameter chord on a rigging truss or similar bar. Use hand force only to tighten the handscrew:
do not apply force with a tool.
5. As soon as you have fastened the clamp, loop an approved safety cable around the chassis of the VDO
Face 5™ panel (at D for example) and around the supporting structure so that the safety cable will catch
the panel if the half-coupler clamp fails. Take up as much slack as possible by looping the safety cable
more than once around the supporting structure or panel chassis to reduce the size of the fall if the
half-coupler clamp fails.
6. Do not use the panel you have just installed to support the weight of any other panel. Each panel must
have its own VDO Face Panel Clamp.
Figure 4: VDO Face Panel Clamp
B
C
C
B B
B B
A
D