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KITE-33 STARTER PACKAGE SET UP AND OPERATION MANUAL SHOWN WITH OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except as may be expressly permitted by the applicable copyright statutes or in...
The grey foam shipping /storage container has been especially designed to protect your purchase while in transit and is a good place to keep your Proaim Kite-33 Starter package contents when not in use. You will receive this package in 6 boxes.
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PROAIM KITE-33 STARTER PACKAGE Packaging Material of Jib Accessories Suitcase Box: 1. Spreader 8. Shank for weight section 2. Head Platform 9. Shank for Vertical Pivot Mounting 3. Weight rods 10. Clamps for attaching stress cables 4. Joystick unit fixing plate 11.
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PROAIM KITE-33 STARTER PACKAGE Take out the Jib Stand from its case, spread and extend its legs. Match the holes of the bottom leg section with the upper leg section to secure the tripod stand with the Steel locking Pins and tighten the knobs.
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PROAIM KITE-33 STARTER PACKAGE INSTALLING THE HUB ASSEMBLY Install the Hub Assembly by sliding the bottom of the hub assembly into the stand’s Mount opening. Note : The Hub Assembly has several mounting holes. You can mount LCD Monitor or Joystick box to this assembly if you want.
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PROAIM KITE-33 STARTER PACKAGE Slide Section 8 into Section 9 and join with ring pin (163mm). Install the pin at the first join holes of the sections and bolt, washers and nut from side at the second holes of section.
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PROAIM KITE-33 STARTER PACKAGE INSTALLING THE TAIL EXTENSION Insert the coupler to the end section that is attached with the stand’s central fork. Insert the front weight shank by leaving the one black tube at one end, slide it through to the other end, attach the other black tube with the shank rod and tighten the nut.
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PROAIM KITE-33 STARTER PACKAGE Attach the allen bolts by screwing in with hand and tighten with allen key at all the four points to secure properly. Align the threads of joystick plate with the threads of the 1mm rods and tighten the allen bolts with allen key.
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PROAIM KITE-33 STARTER PACKAGE Attach the rod with L-Brackets with the rectangular frame and tighten the top screw. Then screw-in the knobs at both ends. Attach the bigger weight rod with L-Brackets, for this insert the rod into one L-Bracket then add the black tube with white washers at both the sides, insert the rod into the other L-Bracket and then add the black tube.
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PROAIM KITE-33 STARTER PACKAGE INSTALLING THE HEAD PLATFORM Install the Head Platform assembly (leveling arm up) to the end of the smallest section with the . Tighten all the allen bolts and nuts to secure provided bolt, shaft collars, washers and nut properly.
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PROAIM KITE-33 STARTER PACKAGE Counterweights The Jib is setup with “plate weights” or bar bells” style weights. Plate weights come in several weights and diameters. They get smaller as the weights get lighter. The largest (25lbs) is about 11 inches in diameter.
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PROAIM KITE-33 STARTER PACKAGE 16’ Jib Weights required for balancing only Jib (without camera & Pan Tilt) is: 22,225 Kg (49 lbs) For balancing 7 Kg (15.4 lbs), we further need another 24.5 Kg (54 lbs), the formula is : (Weight of Camera + Pan Tilt) x 3.5 = Additional counter weight required to balance...
PROAIM KITE-33 STARTER PACKAGE Example: Move the pan & tilt head all the way to the left, zoom out w/ subject framed in foreground Now move your hands to the right (camera swings to the left) while panning the camera right, keeping your subject framed.
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