Head connected to pan bars via Ethernet
Power
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Ethernet hub
Ethernet Mimic Box
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Surface Pro
Pan Bars Quick Start Guide
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Pan Bars — With Microsoft Surface Pro
Page 1: ...CRANES AND RIGS BROADCAST HEADS DSLR PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPHY RENTALS Pan Bars Quick Start Guide QSG Product code MRMC 1465 05 Product covered MRMC 1512 00...
Page 2: ...ormation in this document is accurate and up to date Mark Roberts Motion Control continuously strives to improve their products and may make changes to the hardware firmware and software described in...
Page 3: ...ing the cables 2 Enable button 3 Pan Bars With Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Connecting the cables 5 Your first session 5 Turning off the system 6 Chapter 2 Setting up the Pan Bars unit as a mimic device in...
Page 4: ...Pan Bars Quick Start Guide iv...
Page 5: ...e of camera axes pan and tilt and camera control zoom or focus or both Pan Bars are designed to work well with both Flair motion control and MHC software systems by MRMC Pan Bars can have the followin...
Page 6: ...controller Power 24VDC ETHERNET Enable button Pan Bars Quick Start Guide 2 Pan Bars With Ethernet Connectivity Connecting the cables 1 Connect the Focus controller cable to the FOCUS port in the Pan B...
Page 7: ...C via Ethernet which need not be connected to a PC 4 Add the Pan Bars as a device in MHC Admin login if applicable For more information on this refer to the MHC Quick Start Guide You can now use the P...
Page 8: ...to pan bars via Ethernet Power E T H E R N E T E T H E R N E T ETHERNET FOCUS EXPANSION ZOOM Ethernet hub Ethernet Mimic Box Network port Surface Pro Pan Bars Quick Start Guide 4 Pan Bars With Microso...
Page 9: ...n port on the Ethernet Mimic box 4 Connect Surface Pro the Ethernet Mimic box and the MRMC head with the Ethernet hub using network cables 5 Connect the power cable to the POWER socket in the control...
Page 10: ...ro before booting up the PC To do this fully rotate the Focus knob anticlockwise on the joystick to zero the focus axis 3 Press the POWER button on Surface Pro 4 Set up the head using MHC software ins...
Page 11: ...Pan Bars Quick Start Guide 7 Notes...
Page 12: ...e previous section except for the Pan Bars power cable You must start these procedures with the Pan Bars switched off 2 Edit the file C Flair Flairx Flair ini This file is a text file that you can edi...
Page 13: ...t is not already used by another board In this example nodes 1 to 2 are already used by other boards so MimicBoard1 is assigned to node 3 There is only one mimic device installed so MimicBoard2 is com...
Page 14: ...ing data from the encoders in the Pan Bars by using Flair menu option Setups Test Mimic Inputs and making sure that the relevant mimic axes numbers change when you move the Pan Bars Hint The IP addres...
Page 15: ...p up then click on Save Apply and Exit 15 In the Flair window right click on one of the axes buttons along the top of the windows such as Pan and in the pop up menu choose Mimic Setup You can also acc...
Page 16: ...lair mode 4 Start Flair 5 Enable the mimic controls in Flair either by right clicking on the relevant axes buttons at the top of the Flair window and choosing Mimic Setup in the pop up menu or by usin...
Page 17: ...Pan Bars Quick Start Guide 15 Notes...
Page 18: ...users Only that user can then use the Pan Bars to control a selected head in MHC As of MHC v2 3 you can add only one Pan Bars for each MHC system in other words one per MHC Server installation The pr...
Page 19: ...ck ADD for the IP address of the Pan Bars and click DONE 5 For uniboard Pan Bars Note that the rig Type is auto selected as Pan Bars For Pan Bars with external quad box Select the Rig Type as Pan Bars...
Page 20: ...7 Log out and log in as the user that you assigned the Pan Bars to You should now be able to control the active head with Pan Bars Note If you have assigned the Pan Bars to a user without assigning an...
Page 21: ...nd the other for roll you can change Axis 3 to zoom type that mimics the robot roll axis To do so 1 Double click the rig Type box 2 Select the axis tab that you want to change Pan Bars have four mimic...
Page 22: ...Pan Bars Quick Start Guide 20 3 Change the Axis Controller Type to Zoom and Robot Axis to Mimic to ROLL...
Page 23: ...Pan Bars Quick Start Guide 21 Notes...
Page 24: ...Mark Roberts Motion Control Ltd Unit 3 South East Studios Blindley Heath Surrey RH7 6JP United Kingdom Telephone 44 0 1342 838000 info mrmoco com www mrmoco com...
