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Date: January 10, 2017
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Winch 50 Features
The Winch 50 is a wire winch for lifting and moving stage objects.
The winch is controlled from the lighting desk so that movements on and off the stage can be
controlled in interaction with the lighting, adding dynamics and diversity to the show.
Winch50 has an advanced positioning system witch is controlled with a 16 bit DMX channel. This
gives a very high accuracy.
The lifting speed is also controlled by DMX, and it is possible to limit the outer ranges of how high
or low the winch can move.
Before the Winch is powered down channel 4 should be set outside the enable area. When it is set
outside this area the current position is saved and when it is powered up no resetting of positions is
needed. If this isn’t done the top position has to be reset using channel 5.
When the winch is powered on it cannot run before DMX channel 4 has been out of the enable area
of 50-55 %.
It is very important that there is a minimum load on the wire, min 3.5 kg.
DMX channels used for controlling the winch
(For a more detailed description see page 6)
DMX channel 1 – Position. (16 bit DMX channel)
DMX channel 2 – Position fine. (16 bit DMX channel)
DMX channel 3 – Maximum speed
DMX channel 4 – Motor Enable – between 50 % and 55 %, to enable the motor output.
DMX channel 5 – Reset UP
DMX channel 6 – Manual DWN, (Sets the TAC RANGE)
Positioning with tacho feedback:
Manual up on channel 5 is active. It is also used for resetting.
Manual down on channel 6 is active.
Resetting the up position:
Run the motor to the top reset position, with channel 5.
Setting DMX channel 5 to 0% resets the position.