Bowens XMS Studio Flash User Manual page 19

XMSR Radio Remote & Trigger
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General
The built-in XMSR radio trigger and remote control system is designed to be secure
and interference tolerant. It allows the unit to be triggered and most functions to be
controlled remotely. Refer to the instructions for the XMSR Remote Control.
To enable an XMS and a remote control to communicate they need to be 'paired'
together. Each XMS may be 'paired' with more than one remote control (max 8), and
each remote control may be 'paired' with more than one XMS (max 128).
Pairing (Pr)
Pairing an XMS is quick and, if successful, only needs to be done once for each XMS
and master remote control used. Once 'paired' both the XMS and XMSR remote will
remember the association until it is deleted. An individual association can be deleted but
requires the original master remote that it was teamed with to carry this out. Alternatively,
ALL associations can be deleted from an XMS without requiring a remote.
In addition to being 'paired' the XMSR remote control has the capability of addressing
up to 16 radio channels, which are further sub-divided into 8 groups. The master remote
control can address either an individual XMS, XMS using the same group, or XMS with
different groups by using group 9 (all) on the remote. The XMS can only be set to one
group out of a possible eight.
After an XMS and XMSR remote have successfully 'paired', both the channel and group
may be changed. Any XMS that is on the same channel as the master remote, regardless
of group, can be flashed / triggered by the master remote. A master remote may be set
to trigger a single channel (1 to 8) or multiple channels (by using channel 9 / all). Only
XMS units on the same channel and group as the master remote will have full remote
control functionality.
If the XMS is not paired with any master remote control the right most decimal point of
the display will blink approximately every two seconds.
Refer to the XMSR remote control instructions on how to carry out 'pairing' at the master
end. Timeouts are provided on both the master remote and XMS so that if no appropriate
action is taken within a certain time, both the master remote and XMS will timeout and
revert to the previous settings.