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Handbook for the SX Midi Filter Wheel - Issue 1, January 2019
Handbook for the Starlight Xpress Midi Filter Wheel with OAG
Thank you for your purchase of the Starlight Xpress Midi Filter Wheel. We hope that
you will enjoy using this advanced SX unit, which offers many unique features. This
handbook will help you to put it into operation and to understand its capabilities.
Please register your product and warranty at
https://forms.gle/tmsHEJfQG2bLJjr57
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  • Page 1 Handbook for the SX Midi Filter Wheel - Issue 1, January 2019 Handbook for the Starlight Xpress Midi Filter Wheel with OAG Thank you for your purchase of the Starlight Xpress Midi Filter Wheel. We hope that you will enjoy using this advanced SX unit, which offers many unique features. This handbook will help you to put it into operation and to understand its capabilities.
  • Page 2 The SX Midi Wheel is especially designed for use with medium format CCD cameras and can use interchangeable carousels for 1.25 inch threaded. The SX Midi Filter Wheel has several important advantages over older and less sophisticated designs: 1) The wheel uses an internal sub-miniature DC motor drive to turn the filter plate.
  • Page 3 Handbook for the SX Midi Filter Wheel - Issue 1, January 2019 Loading the filters: Open the wheel by unscrewing the 6 small thumbscrews from around the periphery of the wheel chamber, lift off the cover and then remove the single large thumbscrew and washer from the internal central pillar and slide the OAG out of the way.
  • Page 4 Handbook for the SX Midi Filter Wheel - Issue 1, January 2019 wheel and operating it when the camera software does not support the SX wheel protocols. Connecting up the wheel: USB control: If you are using USB control, then the only connection required is that between the USB port on the wheel and a USB output on your computer.
  • Page 5 Handbook for the SX Midi Filter Wheel - Issue 1, January 2019 Starlight Xpress Midi Filter Wheel Communication Protocols Interfaces available: USB: 1.1 or 2.0 General parameters: Total Filters: This is the number of filters fitted on the wheel, and is 7 for the standard Midi Wheel.
  • Page 6 Handbook for the SX Midi Filter Wheel - Issue 1, January 2019 two complete rotations. During this period the Total Filters will be reported as zero. When this command is completed filter 1 is automatically selected. Serial Port Protocol: The SX filter wheel implements a four-character format, which has just three...
  • Page 7 Handbook for the SX Midi Filter Wheel - Issue 1, January 2019 Note: The ‘Get Filter Total’ command has a delay of several seconds before the response is sent back. This is the time taken for the wheel to complete between one and two rotations.

  • Page 8: Conditions Of Guarantee

    Handbook for the SX Midi Filter Wheel - Issue 1, January 2019 Dear Observer, Thank you for purchasing a Starlight Xpress Filter Wheel. We are confident that you will gain much satisfaction from this equipment, but please read carefully the accompanying instruction manual to ensure that you achieve the best performance that is capable of providing.
  • Page 9 Handbook for the SX Midi Filter Wheel - Issue 1, January 2019 - 9 -...