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Rainbow RCC 100 Manual

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  • Page 1 RCC 100 – Manual...
  • Page 2 The surface of the device may heat up due to the luminaire used. Please let the scroller cool down before touching it. Rainbow Colour Changers GmbH disclaims all liability for damage to the fitting or to other property or persons deriving from installation, use and maintenance that have not been carried out in conformity with this instructions manual, which must always accompany the fitting.

  • Page 3: System Introduction

    Calibrating Contrary to most other scrollers on the market, Rainbow scrollers will remain in position at loss of power. They will not require any form of startup process (Most other scrollers will ” learn” the Gel string at startup by running through all colours and ” remembering” the tabs.
  • Page 4 Rigging a Rainbow scroller system The units are mounted on the lighting instruments of your choice. You can mount the splitterbox and the power unit (1 per 24 units) in the truss with G-clamps.
  • Page 5 Cutting and mounting a gel string Drawing: Step 1 Use cutting templates provided by us or make your own as described above. Use a razor or a sharp knife to cut the filters. Step 2 Align filters correctly, no overlapping. Step 3 Tape only on one side.
  • Page 6 Mounting gels on rolls Drawing: Step 1: Attach the start and end colours to the midpart of the rolls with the heat resistant tape (100 mm). Make sure trat the joining tape is on the outside of the gels when you wind up the roll as described in Step 2.
  • Page 7 Mounting gel rolls in scroller To trim the zero position of the gel roll in the scroller, the scroller has to be connected to a control desk. Step 1: Make sure trat the signal from the control desk to the scroller is at zero level. The yellow LED indicating input to the scroller should be off.
  • Page 8 Calibrating The scrollers are factory calibrated for a gel string of 11 colours. If your gel string has other than 11 colours, or your control desk doesn´t give exact values you now will have to calibrate your scroller. Drawing: Step 1: Use a small screwdriver at the trimpot.

  • Page 9: Analog System

    24 unit power supplies in parallel. As any analogically controlled moving unit, the Rainbow Colour Changer analog system requires a stable analog control signal. Any variations in the signal will be noticed more or less in the positioning of the scroller.

  • Page 10: Dmx System

    DMX System Drawing: General: The DMX signal from a control desk is fed into the splitterbox together with the 24V DC from the power supply unit. The power/control signal link is distributed from the splitterbox in 4 paralell outputs. Each output can support up to 12 individual scrollers. This makes a possible total of 48 scrollers/splitterbox.
  • Page 11 Power Cable 24 V Cable lengths: Use ordinary 3 core rubber sheathed AC cable. Cable size Cable lengths Voltage drop at full load* 1,5 mm² /16AWG 5 meters/15 feet 15 meters/45 feet 2,5 mm² /12AWG 8 meters/24 feet 25 meters/75 feet 4,0 mm²...
  • Page 12 Power supply for 12 or 24 units The power supplies come in two sizes; for 12 or for 24 units. They can be fitted with a G- clamp to be mounted in the truss. PSU 24 units PSU 12 units Heigth: 85mm/3,5”...
  • Page 13 DMX 512 digital splitter box: The DMX splitter box is fully buffered and re-amplifies the signal. Always connect a return cable from the last scroller from each output to the return sockets. This improves current feeding and DMX transmission, see page 10. Signal Connectors: DMX 512 Connector Power/Control cable...
  • Page 14 DMX spiltterbox Earth selector: Variations in the signal earth may cause problems in a system. Therefore we have incorporated an earth selector in the DMX splitterbox, so you can seperate the earth in the scroller system from the rest of your DMX line and the equipment connected to it. We recommend trat you always try to seperate the signal earth of the scrollers from any other equipment by selective use of this selector switch as described below.
  • Page 15 Analog splitterboxes 12 or 24: The analog splitterbox comes in two sizes: 12 channels and 24 channels. The amount of scrollers trat can be linked to a box depends on the capacity of the power supply. 12 channels 24 channels Heigth: 165mm/6,5”...
  • Page 16 PAR scroller: The PAR scroller can operate in analog or DMX mode. The three LED´s on the bottom of each unit will indicate power and running status according to the text figure below. DMX address: Each unit in a DMX system has to be given an address. If several units have the same address, they will respond simultaneously to incoming signals.
  • Page 17 General: It is essential that all custom made cables confirm to our specifications. The gauge must be at least the rated one. Cables should be screened and must not be connected to the case of the connectors. A screen touching the case of the connector is always hazadous to the function of both analog or digital scroller systems, because it creates an unwanted earthloop.
  • Page 18 Safety in the system: We have incorporated several safety features in each RCC. The following can be good to know. Internal fuse: An internal reversible fuse in each scroller will protect the rest of your system from breaking down in case of major problems in a single unit. This fuse will automatically be reset at no overload.
  • Page 19 Troubleshooting a system: Here are some hints on troubleshooting a RCC scroller system. Remember trat the guarantee will be void if unauthorized personell opens housing of the equipment. All systems: Scrollers will not move at all If motors receive less than 18V, they will automatically be shut off. •...

  • Page 20: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting: Digital system: Speed diffrence between first and last scrollers: • Connect the return cable from the last scroller instead of using a terminator plug. Digital system: Scrollers stay in position but will not move: • If DMX data is faulty or missing, the RCC will stay in it´s position until new DMX data is received.
  • Page 21 Appendix: Using the PAR TWO-16 with fresnel luminaires: There are mounting plates to mount the units on diffrent luminaires, of course you can also mount the PAR TWO-16 on fresnel luminairs. However, when mounted on fresnel luminairs with adjustable beam angles, keep in mind, that the maximum aperture is still 192 mm.
  • Page 22 © 2007 Rainbow Colour Changers GmbH Rainbow is a registered trademark of Rainbow Colour Changers GmbH This manual is valid from the 1 of July 2007. All previous manuals are herewith not valid any longer. All technical specifications are subject to change without notification.