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MAX® Home Cinema UPS
Owner’s Manual
M1500-UPS
1690 Corporate Circle, Petaluma, CA 94954 • www.panamax.com
TEST
POWER POWER ON
BATTERY LEVEL LINE FAULT LOAD LEVEL
Pure Sine Wave
UNSAFE VOLTAGE
Intelligent Critical Load Control
BATTERY MODE
AVR MODE
MAX® Home Cinema UPS
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Table of Contents Important Safety Instructions.............................................................pg. 1 Battery Features........................................................................pgs. 10, 11 Installing Your UPS.............................................................................pg. 2 Diagnostics.......................................................................................pg. 11 Basic Operation................................................................
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Important Safety Instructions This manual contains important instructions that should be followed during installation and maintenance of the UPS and batteries. Please read and follow all instructions carefully during installation and operation of the unit. Read this manual thoroughly before attempting to unpack, install, or operate. CAUTION! The UPS must be connected to an AC power outlet CAUTION! To reduce the risk of electric shock, do not remove with fuse or circuit breaker protection. the c
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Pure Sine Wave Intelligent Critical Load Control Installing Your UPS HARDWARE INSTALLATION GUIDE 1. Your new UPS may be used immediately upon receipt. 4. Plug the UPS into a 2 pole, 3 wire grounded receptacle (wall However, recharging the battery for at least four hours is rec- outlet). Make sure the wall branch outlet is protected by a fuse or ommended to insure that the battery’s maximum charge capacity circuit breaker and does not service equipment with large electri- is achieved. Charge los
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(continued) Basic Operation FRONT PANEL DISPLAY LED DESCRIPTIONS Line Fault Indicator Unsafe Voltage Indicator Power On Indicator This LED will illuminate to warn the user that a This LED will illuminate to inform the user that This LED is illuminated when wiring problem such as a bad/missing ground or an unsafe line voltage is present and that the the utility condition is normal UPS has switched to battery power. This could and the UPS outlets are pro- reversed wiring exists within the AC rec
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Advanced Operation Audio/Video components such as Digital Video Recorders, DLP IR LED Color & Status projectors and any component with volatile memory can benefit from connection to a UPS. The Panamax M1500-UPS takes this LED COLOR STATUS to the next level with a number of features designed specifically Off Idle for the home theater. Green, solid Waiting to receive IR signal Critical Load Function Green, flashing IR signal sampled One of the user programmable settings in the Home Cinema Red,
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(continued) Advanced Operation 5. If the learning process was successful, the controlled equip- software. Once the setup is completed, the notebook computer ment should accept the IR command and turn off or go into can be disconnected. All settings are stored in the UPS. standby mode. 2. Connection to a Home Theater Personal Computer (HTPC). 6. Reprogram the IR command if the controlled equipment does Functionality is very similar to a standard UPS with a PC. not respond. The UPS can provid
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(continued) Home Cinema Power Control Software 5. Windows will recognize your UPS as “New Hardware”. For Windows NT 4.0 1. Click on Start, point to Settings then click Control Panel. 6. Insert the software disk into the computer’s drive. The instal- lation program should start automatically. If the installation pro- 2. Double-click on the UPS Icon. gram does not start automatically, open it manually with the Window’s “Run” command. 3.. Remove the check mark from the box labeled UPS is install
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Home Cinema Power Control Software Instructions Overview Panamax’s Home Cinema Power Control software is designed for as a digital video recorder. It is also capable of saving open doc- use with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, uments and shutting down the HTPC during extended power fail- Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It works in conjunction with ures. This requires a permanent RS232 connection to the HTPC the UPS to provide full protection of home theater equipment and having t
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(continued) Home Cinema Power Control Software Instructions MAIN WINDOW DESCRIPTIONS 1. Battery Level: Displays the 2. Input Voltage: Shows the current input 4. Load Level: Shows the % of capacity 3. Output Voltage: Shows the current charge on the battery. The voltage. The input normally appears in green, but that is currently being used. If the load level output voltage of the UPS. indicator will display a red color will turn red if the input voltage is lower than 85v exceeds 90%, the indicato
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(continued) Home Cinema Power Control Software Instructions ADVANCED SETUP MENU 2. Low Battery NCL Shutoff: NCL stands for Non- 3. Cold Start: When this is 1. Low Battery HTPC Shutoff: For use with a Home Theater PC. Critical Load. Sets the % of battery capacity at which all enabled, the UPS can start in the Sets the low battery cutoff level. The user can slightly extend the UPS run time by adjusting this setting. This setting must be higher than the Critical remaining battery power is reserv
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(continued) Home Cinema Power Control Software Instructions LOG MENU 2. Event: When this option is 3. Closed Application 4. Data Record: When this selected, the log will display a list option is selected, the log will dis- Information: When this option of events such as power failure, play a record of the items that are is selected, the log will display the 1. Log Display: 5. OK: Closes the program start, and program end. shown in the main window. names and location of any files that This windo
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Pure Sine Wave Intelligent Critical Load Control MAX® Home Cinema UPS (continued) Battery Features Battery Replacement Procedure 1. Remove the right side front panel using 2. Remove the two retaining screws of the 3. Disconnect the black and red cable. pull-out handles. cable protection cover then remove the cover. 6. Slide a new battery pack into the unit. Assemble the screws, cover, cable and front panel in the reverse sequence of above steps. 7. Recharge the unit for 4-8 hours to ensure Batt
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Troubleshooting Problem Possible Cause Solution Circuit breaker is tripped due to overload Turn the UPS off and unplug at least one piece of equipment. Wait 10 seconds, reset the circuit breaker and then turn the UPS on. Outlets do not provide power to equipment. Batteries are discharged. Recharge the unit for at least 4 hours. Unit has been damaged by a surge or spike. Recharge the battery by leaving the UPS plugged in. The UPS does not perform Battery is not fully charged. Recharge the batte
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RS232 Communications Protocol & Command Set Communications Protocol DB9 Pinout Diagram 5 43 2 1 Stop bit:_______________1 bit Baud rate:_______2400 bps Parity:________________None Start bit: ____________1 bit 78 6 9 Flow control:____________one Data length:_________8 bits PIN NO. SIGNAL 1 - 2 TRANSMIT 3 RECEIVE Controller Commands 4 DTR 5 SIGNAL GROUND Commands and responses are in the form of ASCII character strings terminated with a carriage 6 - 7
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(continued) RS232 Communications Protocol & Command Set Non Critical Load Outlets On Enable Audible Alarm This command controls the relay that feeds power to the NCL Outlets. It is important that the UPS be as quiet as possible as it will be located Note that if the MAIN relay is off, the outlets will still be un-energized. in a home theater environment. It is desirable to control the warning beeper. The default setting for the alarm is OFF. Send to UPS: NCL_ON Send to UPS: BEEPON Ac
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(continued) RS232 Communications Protocol & Command Set Request Input Voltage Level Identify Equipment Transmit the input AC voltage status Transmit the model number, firmware number and revision. Send to UPS: ?INPUTVOLTS Send to UPS: ?ID Response from UPS: XXXVACIN Response from UPS: PANAMAX XXX is the input AC voltage represented M1500-UPS in ASCII. FWPARTNUMBER Request Output Voltage Status Transmit the output voltage state REVREVISION Send to U
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(continued) RS232 Communications Protocol & Command Set Responses and Warning Messages Power Status Messages A warning message is to be transmitted whenever the status of the fol- Whenever the power changes state the UPS sends a message to the lowing systems changes: controller: Outlet Bank Status Messages Response from UPS Condition Whenever an outlet bank switches state (ON or OFF) the UPS sends a message to the controller: NORMAL UPS is not in AVR or BATTERY mode Response from UPS Condit
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FCC Notice and Warranties FCC Notice This equipment has been tested and found to (1) Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. CAUTION: A shielded-type power cord is comply with the limits for a Class B Digital required in order to meet FCC emission limits Device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. (2) Increase the separation between the equip- and also to prevent interference to the nearby These limits are designed to provide reason- ment and receiver. radio and television reception. It i
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