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Scene buttons
Fixing
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Rear
cover
Battery
retaining clip
Addressing
switches
Rako RAH07 Hand-Held Controllers, Programming and Operating Instructions
General
The Rako RAH07 controllers are designed
for convenient hand-held control of a Rako
lighting system. They have all the
operating and programming functions
available associated with Rako RCP07
control panels and can be used either on
their own or in conjunction with the wall
panels.
Fig. 1
Front View
Fig.2
Rear View
Important
This section be read and followed before
using your Rako handset.
Checking for correct operation
Rako hand-held transmitters are supplied
with a pullout tab to prevent inadvertent
operation and battery deterioration during
transit. To remove this, first remove the
rear cover by removing the four fixing
screws and pull the tab out. Care should be
taken not to touch or otherwise damage
any of the other electronic components.
The Rako hand-held should now be
operational. To check this press one of the
front buttons and the indicating LED
should illuminate briefly for a single flash.
If the LED does not flash or it flashes
repeatedly for a short burst (low battery
warning) then you should contact Rako
controls on the number given below.
Fig.3
Rear View with cover removed
Addressing
Before using a Rako hand-held the address
switches on the rear need to be set to an
appropriate House and Room address.
Setting an address is the way in which
interference between other Rako systems,
either with other rooms within your house
or neighbouring houses is avoided. It
should be remembered that with a booster
unit a Rako transmitter may have a range
of over 100m.
Your Rako control panel comes set with a
default address of House 1 Room 4 and
whilst the unit will function with this
address it is strongly advised to select your
own house address and logical room
addresses. Once set, any receiver modules
need to ‘learn’ the address of the control
panel/panels that they need to respond to.
To address a receiver module see the
module’s instruction manual.
Setting the address switches.
Each Rako transmitter has two, 8 way
banks of switches for setting its address.
The two sets of switches allow the user to
choose from 256 house addresses and 256
room addresses. To set the address,
remove the rear cover whereupon the
banks of switches will be now become
visible. To set an address, use a small
terminal screwdriver or similar device and
carefully move some of the switches into
the ‘ON’ position. Addressing uses binary
encoding and the value of the switches is
shown below.
Note: Any control panels set with the same
address will act as two or multi way
controls.
ON
128
64
32
16
8
4
2
1
BIN
A
RY
V
AL
U
E
ON
HOU
SE
RO
O
M
128
64
32
16
8
4
2
1
BIN
A
RY
V
AL
U
E
Fig 5.
Addressing Switches
Battery replacement
Rako hand-helds are powered by batteries.
The designed battery life is better than 3
years (based on 30 button presses daily)
but the batteries will eventually need
replacing. In normal use the Led on the
front panel illuminates momentarily when a
button is pressed to indicate that a (radio)
transmission has been made. When the
batteries are approaching the end of their
useful life the Led will continue to blink
after a button has been pressed. When this
starts to happen the batteries should be
replaced as soon as possible.
Always use two CR2016
To replace the batteries remove the rear
cover and carefully slide out the batteries.
Replace with new batteries ensuring that
the positive (+) terminal makes contact
with the battery clip and the negative (-)
terminal with the pad on the circuit board.
To ensure reliable operation always ensure
that battery contacts and battery surfaces
are kept clean of any grease, moisture or
other contamination.
Warning
Lithium batteries may explode if handled
incorrectly. Always dispose of used
batteries in accordance with manufacturer’s
recommendations.
General
Rako thanks you for having purchased a
Rako product and hopes that you are
pleased with your system. Should for any
reason you need to contact us please
contact us via our website
www.rakocontrols.com
or by phoning our
customer help line on 01634 226666.
Master raise
lower
Indication
LED
Batteries
Protective
tab
House address
= 128+16=144
Room address
= 32+4=36.
