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12 Channel

INSTALLATION and OPERATION

Version 1.1

March 2009

L.S.C. Lighting Systems (Aust) Pty Ltd

A.B.N. 21 090 801 675

Building 3, 66-74 Micro Circuit, South Dandenong

Victoria 3175 Australia

Summary of Contents for Redback 12 Channel

Page 1: ...12 Channel INSTALLATION and OPERATION Version 1 1 March 2009 L S C Lighting Systems Aust Pty Ltd A B N 21 090 801 675 Building 3 66 74 Micro Circuit South Dandenong Victoria 3175 Australia ...

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Page 3: ...m 7 4 11 Menu Structure 8 5 Basic Menu 9 5 1 DMX Address Allocation ADDR 9 5 1 1 Direct DMX address 9 5 1 2 Bank address 9 5 2 MIDI Address Allocation MIDI 9 5 3 Scene Setting SCENE 9 5 3 1 SCENE Menu LED 10 5 4 Chase Mode CHASE 10 5 4 1 Chase effects patterns 10 5 4 2 CHASE Menu LED 11 6 Advanced Menu 12 6 1 Accessing the Advanced Menus ADV 12 6 2 Soft Patch 12 6 3 Fade Curve Selection 12 6 3 1 S...

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Page 6: ...k can be powered from Three phase supply of 208 415v at 50 60Hz of up to 40Amps per phase Single phase supply of 100 240v at 50 60Hz of up to 75Amps Safety Note Conversion between three phase and single phase operation should only be undertaken by a suitably trained and qualified electrical technician 1 3 Control Panel All control and configuration operations on Redback are accessed using the five...

Page 7: ...ly entry To facilitate the installation of permanent wiring or flexible cable suitable for your specific requirements Redback is supplied with a cable clamping grommet fitted to the supply entry point 1 10 MIDI input optional The standard 5 pin DIN MIDI IN Musical Instrument Digital Interface input socket allows any MIDI controller to set dimmer levels using note velocity values The indicator tria...

Page 8: ...o 75 Amps In single phase installations the supply wiring and overload protection should be suitable for the maximum rating of the fitted input cable but should not exceed 75 Amps 2 2 3 Load circuits Load circuits should be suitable for loads of up to 10 Amps per dimmer channel The minimum channel loading for reliable smooth fading is a resistive load incandescent lamp of 250 milliamps This is the...

Page 9: ...bution devices between the controller and the Redback must support bi directional DMX 512 data If the Redback dimmer is the last device on a DMX signal chain the DMX512 standard requires that a termination device must be plugged in to the DMX THRU socket Set the DMX512 address Use the red Menu Up S and Menu Down T keys to scroll to the Address ADDR menu function This menu provides two methods for ...

Page 10: ...estored or the Redback is powered down or re set 4 4 2 DMX ERR The DMX Error LED flashes to indicate errors in the DMX512 data arriving at the DMX INPUT connector The problems that cause error indication include a noisy DMX512 signal due to poor or damaged cables or connections particularly if the shielding is not continuous or one of the signal pair is broken damaged or incomplete data packets fr...

Page 11: ...en is a display of the current dimmer levels The levels displayed are the sum of all control functions including DMX input all scenes test levels MIDI input chase sequences dimmer curves highest and lowest level limits Outputs are combined on a highest takes precedence basis ie the levels from all sources are electronically combined so that only the highest level is controlling the dimmer 4 8 3 Ch...

Page 12: ...u SOFTP Soft Patch advanced DMX addressing CURVE Fade curve selection SNAP Snapshot DMX scene capture SCN LV Scene Levels scene level setting SCN TM Scene Times scene fade time setting SCN RN Scene Run triggering scene fades MIN LV Minimum Levels dimmer minimum level settings MAX LV Maximum Levels dimmer maximum level settings TEST Dimmer testing ABOUT Software revision information SETUP Channel S...

Page 13: ...In this screen The Left and Right arrow keys switch between the Direct DMX Address and Bank Address modes The Up and Down arrow keys increment and decrement the bank number DMX 512 start addresses for Redback 12 banks Bank 1 2 3 4 5 6 Start Addr 1 13 25 37 49 61 Bank 7 8 9 10 11 12 Start Addr 73 85 97 109 121 133 Bank 13 14 15 16 17 18 Start Addr 145 157 169 181 193 205 Bank 19 20 21 22 23 24 Star...

Page 14: ...ls the internal chase effects generator Redback has six inbuilt chase effects patterns c1 c6 that may be varied in replay speed between 10 and 900 beats steps per minute Levels generated in chase effects are combined on a highest takes precedence basis with levels from scene memories DMX512 control and the optional MIDI interface The Chase generator is useful where a repeated pattern of lights is ...

Page 15: ...5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Key to symbols Level Symbol 0 25 50 100 In chase patterns 1 to 5 the dimmer channels are either on or off In chase pattern 6 the smooth rolling wave is produced by fading the channels fade up and down at the same rate as the chase steps 5 4 2 CHASE Menu LED If the chase is active the CHASE W menu LED gives a short double flash when Redback is displaying the default status screen...

Page 16: ...nnel is faded up and down 6 3 1 S Law Curve SCU The S law curve is the standard dimming curve found on the majority of electronic dimmers in current use It is favoured in live applications because its S shape gives plenty of gentle adjustment at the bottom and top ends of the channel fader where subtle fades are important and a rapid rise in the middle of the fader This is the default curve for Re...

Page 17: ...activates the menu option and displays the current scene memory SCN3 In this screen The 3 Flip key switches between text and graphical modes on the LED display The Left and Right arrow keys step between displaying the current scene number SCN4 selecting each dimmer for setting C 1 L42 or selecting all dimmers for setting ALL CH or The Up and Down arrow keys step between selecting the current scene...

Page 18: ...ximum Setting this value to slightly less than full mains voltage has little impact on light output from most lamps but gives a significant increase in the operational life the lamp Setting the maximum to zero effectively locks the dimmer out of use But make a note so you won t be wondering why the dimmer isn t working next time you need to use it The Right arrow key activates the menu and display...

Page 19: ...1 System Reset SYSRST Shuts down and restarts reboots the Redback All levels and memories are retained and restored after system restart This is the equivalent of switching the power to Redback off then on again 6 14 2 Total Reset TOTRST Shuts down Redback and sets all parameters addresses curves scenes times minimum and maximum levels etc back to their default values then restarts This is the equ...

Page 20: ...res in length When several DMX feeds are required to feed different locations DMX512 splitters must be used These provides multiple isolated DMX512 feeds The Redback uses a high impedance DMX input circuit allowing you to loop the DMX signal from one Redback to the next The last Redback in the chain will automatically terminate the DMX line if no cable is plugged in to the Thru socket Note Do not ...

Page 21: ...mp Three phase current requirements per phase 40 Amps Minimum Resistive Load Incandescent 250 milliamps 60 Watts at 240 Volts or 27 5 Watts at 110 Volts Channel MCB type 1 Pole DIN style Electro magnetic Channel MCB breaking capacity 6000 Amps Dimmer curve selection per channel Yes Memory storage No future development Power switching component Triac Inductor rise time peak to peak 100µs Control pr...

Page 22: ...plays the new firmware release version before continuing with normal operations 10 Compliance Statements 10 1 C Tick Compliance Statement All LSC products with CE Compliance automatically comply with C Tick requirements as per Section 182 of the Radiocommunications Act 1992 LSC Company Registration number is N921 10 2 CE Compliance Statement The Redback Dimmer from LSC Lighting Systems Aust Pty Lt...

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