Safety
Instruction Manual WISKA
Edition 1.6
–
09/2020
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Article-No.:
300
78457001
Required protective clothing
Never open the searchlight when not wearing appropriate protective clothing. Always wear
protective clothing while near to an uncovered xenon lamp or while moving a xenon lamp without
its protective shroud.
The required protective clothing consists of:
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Safety goggles to protect eyes
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Face mask with throat protection
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Safety gloves with wrist protection
Operating the lamp
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Never touch the bare lamp bulb with your bare hands. Before screwing
in the lamp, remove any fingerprint smudges using a non-abrasive, lint-
free cloth and alcohol solution.
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Check the lamp for any scratches, cracks, or other signs of damage. Do
not use damaged lamps.
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Be sure to observe the correct polarity. Installing the lamp with the wrong
polarity renders the lamp useless.
Service life
Xenon lamps have an average life of about 1,500 operating hours. Replace the lamps at the
latest when this level of service life has been reached.
Disposal
Xenon lamps must be fractured to depressurise them before
disposal.
Danger of explosion!
Depressurise the lamp bulbs in a suitably safe place. Be sure
that there are no other people in the immediate vicinity.
Wear protective eyewear and clothing!
2.3
Protective measures
Temperature
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The installed xenon lamp becomes very hot during operation. A
thermostat controlled blower circulates air in the housing to reduce the
temperature by conducting heat to the outside.
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To avoid moisture accumulation and facilitate ignition, a minimum
temperature of 6 °C inside the lamp housing is required. To ensure that
the minimum temperature is maintained, the searchlight housing is
equipped with a thermostat- controlled heater. The heater also protects
the searchlight from freezing.
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The optional FL52 pan and tilt unit can additionally be equipped with an
optional thermostat-controlled heating unit (Option: ICE-version).
Attention!
To ensure that the minimum temperature is maintained during cold
weather conditions:
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Keep the searchlight ready for operation by leaving the main switch S8
in ON condition. Turn on the searchlight only through the switch S1,