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E Spot Led
Elation Professional
6122 S Eastern Ave
Los Angeles, Ca 90040
www.elationlighting.com
Rev. 3/11/2010 – visage Version 1.0
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E SPOT LED™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 2 www.ElationLighting.com
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E SPOT LED™ CONTENTS 1. General Information……………………………………………………………………… 4 a. Introduction………………………………………………………………………. 4 b. Unpacking………………………………………………………..…………..….. 4 c. Customer Support…………………………………………….………………… 4 d. Warranty Registration……………………………………………………..……. 5 2. Safety Instructions………………………………………………………........…………. 6 3. Features…………………………………………………………………………………… 7 4. General Guidelines………………………………………………………………………. 8 5. Fixture Overview…………………………………………………………………………. 9 6. Mounting
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E SPOT LED™ 1. GENERAL INFORMATION INTRODUCTION: Congratulations, you have just purchased one of the most innovative and ™ reliable lighting fixtures on the market today! The E Spot Led, has been designed to perform reliably for years when the guidelines in this booklet are followed. Please read and understand the instructions in this manual carefully and thoroughly before attempting to operate this unit. These instructions contain important information regarding safety during use and
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E SPOT LED™ rain or moisture. Caution! There are no user serviceable parts inside this unit. Do not attempt any repairs yourself, doing so will void your manufactures warranty. Please do not discard the shipping carton in the trash. Please save for return shipping in the event service is ever needed or recycle the container whenever possible. ™ WARRANTY REGISTRATION: The E Spot Led carries a two year (730 days) limited warranty. Please fill out the enclosed warranty card to va
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E SPOT LED™ 2. SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS ™ The E Spot Led is an extremely sophisticated piece of electronic equipment. To guarantee a trouble free operation, it is important to follow the guidelines in this manual. Elation will not accept responsibility for damages resulting from the misuse of this fixture due to the disregard of the information printed in this manual. 1. Always be sure that the fan and the air inlets remain clean and are never blocked. Allow about 6” (15cm) betw
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E SPOT LED™ 3. FEATURES • Pan 540° or 630˚ (User selectable) / Tilt 270° • 15˚ Beam Angle • Low Power Consumption • 60 WATT White LED Source (Over 2,200 lumens from a single chip) • 60,000 hours rated LED life • Color Wheel: 8 colors plus white, with rainbow effect • Rotating gobo wheel with 7 rotating gobos plus open, all gobos can be easily replaceable and gobo indexing • Prism and Prism Rotation, with 16 prism macros (Indexable) • Flicker-free operation for television and film
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E SPOT LED™ 4. GENERAL GUIDELINES This fixture is a professional lighting effect designed for use on stage, in nightclubs, in theatres, etc. Do not attempt operation or installation without a proper knowledge on how to do so. This fixture was designed for indoor use only. Consistent operational breaks may ensure that the fixture will function properly for many years to come. Do not shake the fixture around. Avoid brute force when installing or operating the device. While
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E SPOT LED™ 5. FIXTURE OVERVIEW 1. LED Assembly 2. LCD Menu Display 3. Mode/Esc Button 4. Up Button 5. Down Button 6. Enter Button 7. Microphone 8. Carrying Handle 9. 3-Pin DMX Output 10. 3-Pin DMX Input 11. 5-Pin DMX Output 12. 5-Pin DMX Input 13. Power Switch 15. Fuse Holder 16. Power Cord ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 9 www.ElationLighting.com
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E SPOT LED™ 1. LED–Extremely high optical LED output, Over 2,200 lumens from a sin-gle chip (White) 2. LED Menu Display - 4-segment menu display. Used to display the DMX address as well as all other menu functions. 3. Mode/Esc Button - This button is used to access the menu functions. 4. Up Button – The up button is used to toggle forward through the menu functions and settings. 5. Down Button – The down button is used to toggle backwards through the menu functions and settin
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E SPOT LED™ 13. Power Switch – Controls main power to the unit. 14. Fuse Holder Assembly – This assembly houses the 4amp GMA safety fuse. Always replace the fuse with an exact match unless otherwise specified by an authorized Elation Service Technician. Using a fuse other than that specified could seriously damage the unit and will void your manufactures warranty. 15. Power Cord – Plug into an appropriate power outlet to provide main power to the fixture. ©Elation Professiona
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E SPOT LED™ 6. MOUNTING AND INSTALLATION Cautions: For added protection mount the fixtures in areas outside walking paths, seating areas, or in areas were the fixture might be reached by unauthorized personal. Before mounting the fixture to any surface, make sure that the installation area can hold a minimum point load of 10 times the device’s weight. Fixture installation must always be secured with a secondary safety attachment, such as an appropriate safety cable. Never s
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E SPOT LED™ Mounting points Overhead mounting requires extensive experience, including amongst others calculating working load limits, a fine knowledge of the installation material being used, and periodic safety inspection of all installation material and the fixture. If you lack these qualifications, do not attempt the installation yourself. Improper installation can result in bodily injury. CAUTION! Be sure a qualified electrician performs all electrical connections.
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E SPOT LED™ ™ The E Spot Led provides a unique mounting bracket assembly that integrates the bottom of the base, the included “Omega Bracket,” and the safety cable rigging point in one unit (see the illustration below). When mounting this fixture to truss be sure to secure an appropriately rated clamp to the included omega bracket using a M10 screw fitted through the center hole of the “omega bracket”. As an added safety measure be sure to attached at least one properly rated safety ca
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E SPOT LED™ 7. UNDERSTANDING DMX DMX-512: DMX is short for Digital Multiplex. This is a universal protocol used by most lighting and controller manufactures as a form of communication between intelligent fixtures and controllers. DMX allows all makes and models of different manufactures to be linked together and operate from a single controller. This is possible as long as all the fixtures and the controller are DMX compliant. A DMX controller sends the DMX data instructions to the
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E SPOT LED™ the Elation Opto Branch 4™ or DMX Branch/4™. Be sure to follow the above figure when making your own cables. Do not use the ground lug on the XLR connector. Do not connect the cable’s shield conductor to the ground lug or allow the shield conductor to come in contact with the XLR’s outer casing. Grounding the shield could cause a short circuit and erratic behavior. DMX-512 control connection Connect the provided XLR cable to the female 3-pin XLR output of
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E SPOT LED™ DMX-512 connection with DMX terminator A DMX terminator should be used in all DMX lines especially in longer runs. The use of a terminator may avoid erratic behavior in your DMX line. A terminator is a 120 ohm 1/4 watt resistor that is connected between pins 2 and 3 of a male XLR connector (DATA + and DATA -). This fixture is inserted in the female XLR connector of the last fixture in your daisy chain to terminate the line. Using a line terminator (Elation part: DMX T PACK)
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E SPOT LED™ out from the DMX controller. The allocation of this starting DMX address is achieved by setting the correct DMX address on the digital display located on the base of the fixture. You can set the same starting address for all fixtures or a group of fixtures, or set different address for each individual fixture. Be advised that setting all you fixtures to the same DMX address will subsequently control all fixtures in the same fashion, in other words, changing the settings o
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E SPOT LED™ 8. FIXTURE MENU ™ On-Board System Menu: The E Spot Led comes with an easy to navigate system menu. This next section will detail the functions of each command in the system menu. LCD Control Panel: The control panel located on the base of the fixture allows you to access the main menu and make all necessary adjustments to the E Spot Led™. During normal operation, tapping the “Mode/Esc” key once will access the fixture’s main menu. Once in the main menu you can navigate
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E SPOT LED™ Reset only motors for gobo and GOBO rotation OTHR Reset other motors LIFE 0000~9999 Displays the total fixture running time 4 TIME CLMP Clear lamp running time 5 RPAN ON/OFF Reverses the pan movements 6 RTLT ON/OFF Reverses the tilt movements 7 FINE ON/OFF Switch 16 bit/8 bit 8 DEGR 540/630 Pan degree select 9 MIC M-XX M-70 Mic sensitivity Display the DMX512 value of each VALU D–XX D-00 (DXXX) channel 10 DISP D ON ON/OFF Display turn off after 2mins T
