Lamp On/Off; Shutter Open/Close - Hamamatsu Photonics LIGHTINGCURE LC8 Instruction Manual

The panel buttons (local operation) or external control signals (remote operation) can be used for operation.
■ Lamp On
Control Panel
(Local operation)
Pressing the [LAMP ON/OFF]
button makes the lamp light
up. When the lamp lights, the
indicator lamp goes on.
Also, the lamp ON indicator
turns, showing that the lamp
operation time is accumulated.
■ Lamp-Stable Signal
Control Panel
(Local operation)
The "STABLE" indicator comes
on about 5 minutes after the
lamp lights up.
■ Lamp Off
Control Panel
(Local operation)
Pressing the [LAMP ON/OFF]
button of the lamp once while
the lamp is lighted makes the
indicator lamp to flash (for ap-
proximately 5 seconds). If a
panel button is pressed while
the indicator lamp is flashing,
both the lamp and the indicator
lamp go out. (The lamp does
not go out unless the button is
pressed twice in succession.)
There are following two modes for operation of the shutter.
• Manual mode
• Auto mode
In either mode, it is possible to operate the shutter by using the panel buttons (Local) or external control signals (Remote).
■ Opening and Closing the Shutter in Manual Mode
Opening the shutter
Press the [MANUAL] button once to open the shutter.
When the shutter opens, the indicator lamp lights.
Closing the shutter
Press the [MANUAL] button once to close the shutter
in the open state. When the shutter closes, the indica-
tor lamp turns off.

Lamp ON/OFF

External Control Signal
(Remote operation)
Shorting Pins
instant (approximately 0.5 sec-
onds) makes the lamp light up.
When the lamp light up, Pin
outputs ON signal.
External Control Signal
(Remote operation)
P i n
r
about 5 minutes after the lamp
lights up.
External Control Signal
(Remote operation)
Shorting Pins
instant (approximately 0.5 sec-
onds) makes the lamp turn off.
When the lamp goes out, Pins
and
e r

Shutter OPEN/CLOSE

Only opening and closing of the shutter is done manually.
The shutter is operated according to nine types of the program setting for the shutter open/
close timing and the light intensity.
Control Panel (Local operation)
Caution
● If the lamp fails to come on after input-
!1 to !5 for an
e
Caution
● Initial lamp output is low and unstable.
o u t p u t s O N s i g n a l
!0 to !5 for an
output OFF signal.
External Control Signal (Remote operation)
Opening the shutter
Shorting Pins
When the shutter opens, Pin
Closing the shutter
Opening Pins
When the shutter closes, Pin
29
ting lamp-ON signal 3 times, abort the
operation. Refer to the Troubleshoot-
ing section (page 34) for information
about how to correct the problem.
Do not use the lamp until the unit out-
puts the STABLE signal, indicating
that lamp output has reached stability.
to makes the shutter open.
!3 !5
outputs ON signal.
t
!3 to !5 makes the shutter close.
t outputs OFF signal.