Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product Spot 250 Elation Professional
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Rev . 12/16/05 Design Spot 250 Elation Professional 4295 Charter Street Los Angeles, Ca 90058 www.elationlighting.com.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 2 Design Spot 250™ Contents 1. General Information……………………………………………………………………… 3 a. Introduction……………………………………………………………………….
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 3 Design Spot 250™ 1. General Information INTRODUCTION : Congratulations, you have just purchased one of the most innovative and reliable lighting fixtures on the market today! The Design Spot 250,™ has been designed to perform reliably for years when the guidelines in this booklet are followed.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 4 Design Spot 250™ yourself, doing so will void your manufactures warranty . Please do not discard the shipping carton in the trash. Please recycle whenever possible. W ARRANTY REGISTRA TION : The Design Spot 250™ carries a two year (730 days) limited warranty .
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 5 Design Spot 250™ with the construction of the lamp, the lamp may explode during prolonged extensive use. This risk is increased with age; added care is encouraged when dealing with older lamps. Thus, lamp should always be replaced at the end of their recommended duty cycle.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 6 Design Spot 250™ 2. Safety Instructions The Design Spot 250™ is an extremely sophisticated piece of electronic equipment. To guarantee a smooth operation, it is important to follow the guidelines in this manual.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 7 Design Spot 250™ may increase the risk of damage and/or personal injury. 10. To reduce the risk of fire or shock, do not expose this fixture to rain or moisture. 11. Do not attempt to operate this fixture if the power cord has become damaged or frayed.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 8 Design Spot 250™ 3. Features • Pan 630° or 540˚ (User selectable) / Tilt 265° • 3 operation mode: DMX controlled, stand alone or sound activated .
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 9 Design Spot 250™ 4. GENERAL GUIDELINES This fixture is a professional lighting ef fect designed for use on stage, in nightclubs, in theatres, etc. Do not attempt operation or installation without a proper knowledge on how to so.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 10 Design Spot 250™ 5. LAMP INST ALLA TION INSTRUCTIONS Installing or replacing the lamp Only install the lamp with the device unplugged from the mains. The lamp has to be replaced when it is damaged or deformed.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 1 1 Design Spot 250™ 2. Gently pull out the lamp/socket assembly to access the lamp. 3. Gently remove the old lamp by grasping it by the ceramic base. 4. Carefully insert the new lamp into the socket (Only use a MSD 250/2 GY9.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 12 Design Spot 250™ at a time until the light is evenly distributed. 4. If the light is brighter around the edge than it is in the center, or if light output is low, the lamp is too far back in the reflector.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 13 Design Spot 250™ 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.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 14 Design Spot 250™ 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.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 15 Design Spot 250™ The Design Spot 250™ provides a unique mounting bracket assembly that integrates the hanging yoke as well as the safety cable rigging point in one unit (see the illustration below).
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 16 Design Spot 250™ 7. Understanding DMX Data Cable (DMX Cable) Requirements (For DMX and Master/Slave Operation): Your fixture and your DMX controller require a standard 3-pin XLR connector for data input and data output (see figure below).
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 17 Design Spot 250™ DMX-512 control connection Connect the provided XLR cable to the female 3-pin XLR output of your controller and the other side to the male 3-pin XLR input of the moving head (Please refer to the diagram below .
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 18 Design Spot 250™ details a proper cable conversion. Fixture DMX addressing; All fixtures should be given a DMX starting address when using a DMX controller , so the correct fixture responds to the correct control signal.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 19 Design Spot 250™ signal is being received or not. If DMX data signal is being received, the display will show "A.XXX" (XXX representing the actual DMX address). If the fixture is not receiving a DMX signal the display will flash "A.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 20 Design Spot 250™ 8. Display LED Indicators. The Design Spot 250™ has two LED indicators on the display . These indicators are designed to give a quick visual indication of the fixtures’ status. The illustration below details the functionality of the LED indicators.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 21 Design Spot 250™ 9. FIXTURE MENU On-Board System Menu: The DESIGN SPOT 250™ comes with an easy to navigate system menu.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 22 Design Spot 250™ 4 LAMP ON/OFF Manually switches lamp “on” and “off” ALL Reset all motors and returns the fixture to the home position. SCAN Resets only the pan and tilt motors. COLR Resets only color wheel motors .
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 23 Design Spot 250™ CEDT ON/OFF Edit program via controller REC. RE.XX Auto Save RUN ON/OFF Program test Main Menu Functions 1. ADDRESS MENU - AOO1 - A51 1 (V alue) - This is where you set the fixtures DMX address.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 24 Design Spot 250™ 2. T ap the UP button until “TEST” is displayed, press ENTER. 3. The display will show T -01.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 25 Design Spot 250™ 2. T ap the UP or DOWN button until “PLA Y” is displayed, press ENTER. 3. T ap the UP or DOWN button until “AUT O” is displayed, press ENTER. 4. T ap the UP or DOWN button to select “ OFF”, “RUN” or “ AUDI” and press ENTER to confirm.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 26 Design Spot 250™ color motor . 5. Press ENTER to confirm 6. Press MODE/ESC to return to the main menu. SCAN - When you activate this reset function, the fixture will only reset the Pan and T ilt mirror motor .
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 27 Design Spot 250™ SHTR - When you activate this reset function, the fixture will only reset the shutter/dimmer motor . 1. Access the main menu. 2. T ap the UP button until “RESE” is displayed, press ENTER.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 28 Design Spot 250™ 4. Press MODE/ESC to return to the main menu. LAMP - With this function you can display the running time of the lamp. 1. Access the main menu. 2. T ap the UP button until ”TIME” is displayed, press ENTER.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 29 Design Spot 250™ - This menu function will reverse the mirror TIL T movements. 1. Access the main menu. 2. T ap the UP button until “RTL T” is displayed, press ENTER. 3. The display will show “ON/OFF”.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 30 Design Spot 250™ 1 1. MIC MENU - This function allows for electronic control of the internal microphone’s sound sensitivity . 1. Access the main menu. 2. T ap the UP button until “MIC” is displayed and press ENTER.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 31 Design Spot 250™ 7. Press MODE/ESC to return to the main menu. FLIP – This function will reverse the display readout buy 180˚. 1. Access the main menu. 2. T ap the UP button until “DISP” is displayed.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 32 Design Spot 250™ 5. Press the UP button to display “ON” to activate this function, or “OFF” to deactivate this function. 6. Press ENTER to confirm. 7. Press MODE/ESC to return to the main menu. RDMX – This function allows the DMX address to remotely be adjusted from a DMX console.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 33 Design Spot 250™ reset function. DLOF – This feature allow you to control the lamp via DMX. 1. Access the main menu. 2. T ap the UP button until “SPEC” is displayed, press ENTER. 3. T ap the UP button until “DLOF” is displayed, press ENTER.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 34 Design Spot 250™ 6. Press ENTER to confirm. 7. Press MODE/ESC to return to the main menu. DFSE - With this function you can restore the factory default settings of the fixture. All settings will be set back to the default values.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 35 Design Spot 250™ 1. Access the main menu. 2. T ap the UP or DOWN button until “SPEC” is displayed, press ENTER. 3. T ap the UP or DOWN button until “F ANS” is displayed, press ENTER. 4. The display will show “HIGH/AUTO”.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 36 Design Spot 250™ 7. The display will then read “xxxx”, were “xxxx” stands for the calibrate values.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 37 Design Spot 250™ ENTER to confirm and lock the scene into the fixture’s memory . 7. Press MODE/ESC to return to the main menu. STEP - With this function you can program the number of steps in your individual Program.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 38 Design Spot 250™ 4. Press ENTER, the display will show “C-01,” this represents the channel number . If “C-01 ” is displayed, you will be editing the fixture’s channel 1 value of the selected scene, press ENTER.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 39 Design Spot 250™ 5. Select " CEDT " by pressing the UP or DOWN buttons. 6. Press MODE/ESC, the display shows "OFF". 7. Press UP , the display will read "ON". 8. Press MODE/ESC, the display shows "SC02".
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 40 Design Spot 250™ 10 . DMX Channel T raits: The chart below details the channel layout for 16 DMX channels (default). In 8bit mode the “Pan Fine” and “Tilt Fine” channels are not used, thus converting the fixture into a 14-channel DMX fixture.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 41 Design Spot 250™ DMX channel function and values: Channel 1 - P AN movement 8bit: Channel 2 – Pan fine 16bit: Channel 3 - TIL T movement 8bit: Channe.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 42 Design Spot 250™ 220-255 Rot. Gobo Wheel CW Rotation slow to fast Channel 7 - Rotating Gobo Index, Rotating Gobo Rotation : 0-127 Gobo Indexing 128-187.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 43 Design Spot 250™ 208-215 Macro 1 1 216-223 Macro 12 224-231 Macro 13 232-239 Macro 14 240-247 Macro 15 248-255 Macro 16 Channel 10 - Focus: 0-255 Conti.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 44 Design Spot 250™ Channel 16 - Lamp on/off, Reset, Internal Programs: 0-19 Color Change Normal (Solid Colors Only) 20-39 Enable Split Colors 40-59 Lamp .
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 45 Design Spot 250™ 1 1. ERROR CODES: When power is applied, the unit will automatically enter a “reset/test” mode.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 46 Design Spot 250™ (defective motor or a defective motor IC drive on the main PCB). 05Er - Color-wheel error: The color wheel is not located in the default position after start-up or after a reset command.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 47 Design Spot 250™ malfunctions (sensor failed or magnet missing) or the stepping-motor is defective (or its driver circuit on the main PCB). The focus motor is not located in the default position after the reset.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 48 Design Spot 250™ 12. CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE The following points have to be considered during the inspection: 1. Be sure all screws and fasteners are securely tightened at all times. Lose screws may fall out during normal operation resulting in damage or injury as larger parts could fall.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 49 Design Spot 250™ 13. 2-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY A. Elation Professional ® hereby warrants, to the original purchaser , Elation Professional ® products to be free of manufacturing defects in material and workmanship for a period of two years, (730 days) from the date of purchase.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 50 Design Spot 250™ identifying marks to that effect. E. Elation Professional ® reserves the right to make changes in design and/or improvements upon its products without any obligation to include these changes in any products theretofore manufactured.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 51 Design Spot 250™ 14. Photometric Data:.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 52 Design Spot 250™ 15. Gobos:.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 53 Design Spot 250™ 16. Dimensional Drawings:.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 54 Design Spot 250™ 17. Circuit Schematic.
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 55 Design Spot 250™ 18. TECHNICAL SPECIFICA TIONS Power supply Power consumption _98V AC, 50Hz; _ 120V AC, 50Hz; _ 208V AC, 50Hz; _ 220V AC, 50Hz; _ 230V .
Design Spot 250™ ©Elation Professional® 56 Design Spot 250™ Please Note: Specifications and improvements in the design of this unit and this manual are subject to change without any prior written notice. Elation Professional 4295 Charter Street Los Angeles, CA.
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