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PXM PX125 Opera RedLine Instruction Manual

Professional console for theatre and stage lighting control.
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  • Page 1 PX125 Opera RedLine INSTRUCTION MANUAL...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    13. Connections couplings................ 14. Technical specification................ 15. Declaration of conformity..............Manufacturer reserves the right to make modifications in order to improve device operation. PXM s.c. tel.: (+48 12) 626 46 92 ul. Przemysłowa 12 fax: (+48 12) 626 46 94 30-701 Kraków...

  • Page 3: General Description

    1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION PX125 Opera Redline is a professional console for theatre and stage lighting control. In has a block of 100 programmable channels of adjustable brightness, divided into 10 ranges, consisting of 10 channels each. Opera can store in the memory 100 scenes, 100 chasers (24 steps each) and 10 sequences, 100 steps each.

  • Page 4: Front Panel View

    3. FRONT PANEL VIEW PUSH 100 channels are divided into 10 banks, 10 channels each. The digit, visible on the display, CHANNELS BANK represents the successive ten channels. The digit displayed under the key represents the SELECTION channel number within one bank. Control sliders for 10 channels of one bank.

  • Page 5: Controller And Dimmers Connection

    If its number is greater than displayed, we recommend you to update your software. The update process description and the software are available on the www.pxm.pl website. NOTICE: By pressing any key you can enter the standard operation mode.

  • Page 6: Operation Mode Selection

    5.1. OPERATION MODE SELECTION Opera RL controller can operate in one of the following modes: 1. NORMAL - basic operation mode, 2. PRESET - the "manual field" mode - the saving and rendering of the previously saved scenes, chasers and sequences is off, 3.
  • Page 7 3. In the CHANNEL block press the keys corresponding to these channels, where you want to make changes. If these channels are in a different range, with the "+" or "-" PAGE CHANNEL keys select the appropriate range and press the CHANNEL block keys. The channel selection is indicated by the shining LED.

  • Page 8: Scenes Copying

    6.1.1. Scenes copying You can copy the selected scene, when needed: 1. Press the SCENE key in the PROGRAMMING block. 2. In the MEMORY block press a key, corresponding with the scene you want to copy. You can switch between PAGE MEMORY ranges with the "+" and "-" keys, to reach the appropriate one, where your scene is saved.
  • Page 9 3. With the NEXT or PREV keys select different step number (24 maximum) or adjust the channels brightness for the first step. To do so, by pressing the appropriate CHANNEL keys select the channels, where you want to set the brightness. If the channels are in a different range, you can select the proper one with the PAGE CHANNEL "+"...
  • Page 10 10. To program the speed and change smoothnes for the chaser's steps, press the PLAY key. With the X-FADE slider adjust the step-to-step fading smoothness. On the X-FADE display the 0 value stands for the instant change, 99 - for an entirely smooth change. With the SPEED slider adjust the steps duration time, equal for all steps.

  • Page 11: Sequences Creation And Edition

    6.3. SEQUENCES CREATION AND EDITION 1. Press the SEQ key in the PROGRAMMING block, the LED above will light up, what shows the sequences programming has begun. 2. Select a number for your sequence. To do so, press and hold the SCENE/CHASER key and press one of the MEMORY keys.

  • Page 12: Scenes And Chasers Rendering

    7. SCENES AND CHASERS RENDERING The Opera RedLine controller allows to render 100 scenes and chasers concurrently. To render a scene or chaser, the controller must operate in a basic mode (on the SEQ, SCENE/CHASER and STEP displays the horizontal dashes are shown, on the channels range and memory displays any numbers are shown and the LED above the SCENE/CHASER key is lit up - when red, the controller is ready to render the chasers, when green - scenes).
  • Page 13 To launch a chaser, simply press the SCENE/CHASER key (the LED above will light up red) and move the appropriate slider. It will not affect any of the previously launched scenes. The chaser will be rendered with the previously defined speed and smoothness and its brightness will be propotional to the slider's position.

  • Page 14: Sequences Rendering

    8. SEQUENCES RENDERING Set the X-FADE and SPEED sliders to zero. Press the SEQ AUTO key and select the sequence you want to render. To do so, hold the SCENE/CHASER key and press one of the MEMORY keys. On the SEQ display the number of a selected sequence will appear, on the SCENE/CHASER display the number of scene ascribed to the first step of the rendered sequence and on the STEP display the number of scene ascribed to the second step.

  • Page 15: Preset Operation Mode

    ATTENTION! You must remember, that the MASTER slider has the superior control over all channels. 9. PRESET OPERATION MODE Switch the controller on in the PRESET mode. To do so, switch the controller off, press and hold the PRESET key, switch the controller on and release the PRESET key after a while. This operation mode is confirmed by the lit PRESET A/B LED.

  • Page 16: Monitor

    10. MONITOR A colour monitor can be connected to the Opera RedLine controller, where all the informations about controller's current operation status can be displayed. Below the exemplary screen of scenes and chasers rendering is shown. In the other operation modes these screens differ from each other in a small extent.

  • Page 17: Flash Card: Saving And Reading

    11. FLASH CARD: SAVING AND READING Use the CompactFlash memory cards only, formatted in the FAT16 file system. The sector size must equal 512 bytes (currently sandard). The partition size can be up to 10 GB. If a few primary partitions exist, only the first one with FAT16 file system will be used.

  • Page 18: Pc Communication

    To launch the PC connection mode: 1. Turn the controller off. 2. Connect both devices with the RS-232 cord. 3. While pressing the PC key, turn the controller on. 4. Launch the OperaRL.exe application on your PC (downloadable from www.pxm.pl site).

  • Page 19: Connections Couplings

    13. CONNECTION COUPLINGS CF memory card 230 V / 50 Hz DMX output socket power supply PUSH www.proxima.eu Power switch Monitor RS-232 I/O Audio signal input JACK stereo audio signal ground !!! not connected !!! female female CABLE FOR PC CONNECTION 1,4,6,8 close 1,4,6,8 close 14.

  • Page 20: Declaration Of Conformity

    Przemysłowa 12 tel: +48 12 626 46 92 http://www.pxm.pl 30-701 Kraków, Poland fax: +48 12 626 46 94 DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY according to guide lines 73/23/EWG and 89/336/EWG PXM s.c.

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