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User Instruction & Installation Manual
LX300 Remote Control
150-watt Xenon Searchlight
Product Reference Number:
A7144 – LX300RC Explorer 150w 240v
A7148 – LX300RC Explorer 150w 115v
Manufacturer's details:
Francis Searchlights Ltd
Union Road, Bolton
Lancashire, BL2 2HJ, UK
Tel:
+44 (0) 1204 558960
Fax:
+44 (0) 1204 558979
http://www.francis.co.uk
E-mail: sales@francis.co.uk
Manual Part Number: C27743
Issue:10
Distributor details:
19.5.21
EC1900

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  • Page 1 User Instruction & Installation Manual LX300 Remote Control 150-watt Xenon Searchlight Product Reference Number: A7144 – LX300RC Explorer 150w 240v A7148 – LX300RC Explorer 150w 115v Manufacturer’s details: Distributor details: Francis Searchlights Ltd Union Road, Bolton Lancashire, BL2 2HJ, UK...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS - Introduction - Safety Precautions - Technical Information - Unpacking and Installation Instructions - Electrical Installation - Operating Instructions - Fault Finding - Maintenance and Servicing - Wiring Diagram & General Assembly Drawing - Spare Parts List...

  • Page 3: Introduction

    For your future reference please keep this manual in a safe place. Thank you for specifying a product from the Francis Searchlights range. All Francis products are designed to give complete customer satisfaction and are manufactured to the highest engineering standards to ensure optimum performance and service life.

  • Page 4: Safety Precautions

    2 - Safety Precautions The following instructions must be adhered to, to ensure a safe working environment and the safety of the user. Note: When unpacking or manoeuvring the searchlight into its fixing position, suitable lifting points must be used to prevent damage to the equipment or personal injury. ◼...

  • Page 5: Technical Information

    3 – Technical Information This product has been designed to operate in accordance with the product specification. The LX300RC 150watt searchlight has the following features: ◼ Constructed from stainless steel. ◼ Parabolic glass reflector. ◼ Powder Coated & stove enamel paint finish.

  • Page 6: Unpacking And Installation Instructions

    4 - Unpacking and Installation Instructions The following instructions should be read and fully understood prior to installing the equipment to ensure that the correct procedures are followed, and all safety precautions are observed. Note: If the equipment has been in storage for a considerable amount of time, it is advisable to conduct a routine maintenance check on all parts before installation.

  • Page 7: Electrical Installation

    5 - Electrical Installation Note: ~ When the main power is first applied to the searchlight, the searchlight will carry out a self-test, it will Pan to the left limit and Tilt down to the limit, once this is complete, the searchlight will then move to the centre and horizontal, during this please do not try and operate the searchlight while this test is being carried out.
  • Page 8 Installation Guidelines A typical installation and connection routine for the LX300RC searchlight is as follows: Referring to wiring diagram C27463, a supply is fed to the power supply unit, which then provides a common feed to the motor gearbox, searchlight, and joystick panel.

  • Page 9: Operating Instructions

    6 - Operating Instructions This equipment is designed for use out of doors, in free air. Never place anything on or cover the searchlight when in use as this may present a hazard. Switch On The panel is activated using the PANEL button. This will illuminate brightly when the panel is active.
  • Page 10 Switch panel on and drive lamp to desired tilt up limit position. Switch panel off. Press and hold the FOCUS button and hold joystick in the full up position for 4 seconds. Tilt up motion will now be inhibited above the current position. Clear Motion Limits Motion limits as set above can be cleared by switching the panel off then pressing and holding the focus button and lamp buttons together for 10 seconds.
  • Page 11 6. FBUS interface over current. – The speed control card supplies 24VDC to the remote-control panels. This fault indicates the 24VDC output is taking excessive current. The FBUS supply output will switch off. To restore this output, remove the supply from the speed control card for a period.
  • Page 12 Setting to Work Safe service in use necessitates the strict observance of the following precautions. ◼ Any article fabricated from quartz or glass is inherently fragile and care should therefore be taken, always, when handling lamps. ◼ Eye protection must be worn when handling lamps that have been removed from their packaging materials.
  • Page 13 FBUS SPEED CONTROL ASSEMBLY DETAILS MAINS CONNECTORS Live. Neutral Earth TILT CONNECTOR Tilt Motor Red Wire (+) Tilt Motor Black Wire (-) Tilt Encoder Red Wire (5V). (Voyager Brown Wire) Tilt Encoder Green Wire (Phase A Output) (Voyager Yellow Wire) Tilt Encoder White Wire (Phase B Output) Tilt Encoder Black Wire (Voyager Blue Wire) Tilt Limit Switch Common Black Wire...
  • Page 14 FBUS Speed Control Board...
  • Page 15 CONNECTIONS TO FBUS JOYSTICK CONTROL PANEL FBUS CONNECTOR OV Supply Input Line Terminate (Connect to + for terminate) FBUS + RS485 Data In/Out FBUS - RS485 Data In/Out +24V Supply Input JOYSTICK CONNECTOR Joystick Black Wire Joystick Yellow Wire Joystick Blue Wire Joystick Red Wire FBUS JOYSTICK CONTROL BOARD...
  • Page 16 FBUS ADDRESS SWITCHES OVERVIEW SETTING LAMP ADDRESS VALUE The lamp address is set with the address switches using simple binary input. Each switch has a binary value as details below; - SWITCH 10 = 1 SWITCH 9 = 2 SWITCH 8 = 4 SWITCH 7 = 8 SWITCH 6 = 16 The address value is the sum of the numbers above which are active when...
  • Page 17 EXAMPLES Standard control panel – panel address set to 5 Switch 1 = Off Switch 2 = On (Value 4 added to address) Switch 3 = Off Switch 4 = On (Value 1 added to address) 4 + 1 = 5 Speed control card - lamp address set to 11 Switch 6 = Off Switch 7 = On (Value 8 added to address)
  • Page 18 FBUS DATA PROTOCOL OVERVIEW The Francis bus (FBUS) is a custom communication protocol based on RS485 two wire bi-directional communication hardware. The system provides a simple bi-directional link between lamps and lamp control panels. The system allows given panels to communicate with different lamps and also allows a number of panels to communicate with the same lamp.
  • Page 19 A detailed description of panel and lamp data follows. PANEL TRANSMITTED DATA Panels only send data when there is data to be sent i.e., there has been activity at the panel which must be sent to a given lamp. If there is no data to be sent, a panel will not transmit.
  • Page 20 DATA_FOCUS_BUTTON (Hex 0B) This is a single byte command. When the lamp receives this, it will run the focus motor as long as the command remains. A panel will send this command so long as the focus button is pressed. DATA_HOME_BUTTON (Hex 0C) This is s single byte command.
  • Page 21 DATA_TILT_POSITION (Hex 19) This is a three-byte command. Following the DATA_TILT_POSITION command two data bytes specify the position to which the lamp must move. The bearing resolution is 0.1 degrees. The value is sent LSB first with the first byte representing the lower position command bits. The MSB (sent last) lower 4 bits represents the remaining value.
  • Page 22 The CRC is a simple data checking system. Basically, this is just the sum of the lamps address and bytes above. The value is radix to 8 bits. If the lamp address was 0 (bus address value 16) and the pan and tilt were both at centre and the lamp was switched on and all other status bits were 0 the values would be Hex 110, 80, 80, 01.
  • Page 23 4. Send pan value half speed = 128 + (64/2) = Hex A0 within 1mS. 5. Send CRC value, in this case Hex 116 + Hex 01 + Hex A0 = 1D7 after radix to 8 bits = B7. 6. This completes the transmission. RECEIVING FROM A LAMP Lamps broadcast data sequentially.
  • Page 24 DMX NORMAL OPERATION When the system is operating from DMX the status indicator will flash green slowly when DMX data is present. If no DMX data is present the LED will be static green. OPERATION DURING FAULTS During faults normal status LED operation is overridden. The status LED will flash red a number of times with the number of flashes corresponding to the specific fault.
  • Page 25 OVERVIEW FBUS Control facilitates control of up to 12 searchlights from a PC. The system communicates to Francis Searchlights FBUS data system using one or more FBUS Interface units. Communication between the PC and FBUS interface can be RS485, RS422, USB (VCP) or UDP.
  • Page 26 COMMUNICATION SETTINGS Settings must be configured to suit the application. For systems where FBUS Control communicates with the FBUS Interface via a serial link (RS422, RS485 or USB), the USE SERIAL PORT tick box should be checked. The desired com port can now be selected. To find the correct com port, set the FBUS interface to the correct communication protocol and set the data rate to 9600K.
  • Page 27 third lamp connected to a different FBUS interface (IP address of 000.000.000.002). To configure the system set LAMP BUTTON No to 1. Enter 000.000.000.001 for the IP address. Set FBUS LAMP No to 0. Change LAMP BUTTON No to 2 and set IP address to 000.000.000.001.
  • Page 28 For systems with more than one lamp, the desired lamp should be selected with the appropriate LAMP X button. The button will change colour indicating lamp selection. All subsequent commands will be directed to the selected lamp and all displayed information will pertain to the selected lamp. LAMP ON / OFF Buttons These switch the lamp on and off.
  • Page 29 VIRTUAL JOYSTICK The virtual joystick is the dark grey circle near the bottom left of the FBUS Control window. The virtual joystick facilitates lamp pan and tilt movement. To move the lamp up (Tilt up) move the mouse over the yellow dot at the centre of the virtual joystick.
  • Page 30 FBUS INTERFACE UNIT (if supplied) OVERVIEW Francis Searchlights FBUS data system facilitates control of up to 30 searchlights from multiple control stations. To provide the required control response whilst maintaining a low data rate for extended transmission distance, the FBUS data system involves precisely timed control signals.
  • Page 31 OPERATOR INTERFACE Four buttons control a simple menu system with a 2-line LCD display. A given menu item is selected with the SEL (select) button. If the menu item has an adjustable parameter this can be altered using the up and down arrow keys. The revised parameter is stored using the ENT (enter) button.
  • Page 32 SET PAN ANGLE For system development and testing, this command sends a move to pan position command to the currently selected lamp. The pan angle is set using the arrow keys. Pressing ENT will move the lamp to the displayed angle. SET TILT ANGLE For system development and testing, this command sends a move to tilt position command to the currently selected lamp.
  • Page 33 IP ADDR (UDP Only) This displays the interface units IP address. To change the IP address press ENT. Note that the system must use static IP addressing. GATEWAY ADDRESS (UDP Only) This is a diagnostic tool to display IP address of the gateway if applicable. EXTERNAL DATA INTERFACE –...
  • Page 34 DATA_LAMP2_BUTTON (0x12) Four-byte command (Sync, Lamp address, command, CRC). Switches the lamp second head state (if fitted) from on to off or off to on. DATA_FOCUS2 BUTTON (0x13) Four-byte command (Sync, Lamp address, command, CRC). operates the head 2 focus motor momentarily (if fitted). To keep the focus motor running the command must be sent repeatedly.
  • Page 35 DATA_MOVE_TO_PAN_POSITION (0x18) Six-byte command (Sync, Lamp address, command, Pan LSB, Pan MSB, CRC). Commands the selected lamp to move to a specified pan position. The position value is centred on a value of 2048. Values below 2048 represent negative angles, values above 2048 represent positive values. The resolution is 0.1 degrees.
  • Page 36 below 128 will cause the lamp to tilt down with the speed increasing as the value reduces to a minimum of 01. Note that these commands are maintained. Sending a command once will cause motion to start at the specified speed. This will continue until a command is sent with a zero (128) speed value.
  • Page 37 DATA_FOCUS_ON (0x35) Four-byte command (Sync, Lamp address, command, CRC). Sets the focus motor running. Focus will continue to operate until a DATA_FOCUS_OFF command is received. This command is included to allow systems which have a low refresh rate to control the focus motor. DATA_FOCUS_OFF (0x36) Four-byte command (Sync, Lamp address, command, CRC).

  • Page 38: Fault Finding

    7- Fault Finding All fault finding must be conducted by a competent person or qualified Electrical Engineer. Please refer to the following table for the troubleshooting of Xenon lamps. Fault Cause Remedy ◼ Wrong Polarity. ◼ Lamp incorrectly fitted. ◼ Anode (large electrode) ◼...
  • Page 39 14,000 volts or higher). Switching the lamp on activates the ignitor. A cracking or hissing noise should be heard. The ignitor is housed within the rear of the searchlight. If found to be faulty return to Francis Searchlights Ltd for evaluation and repair. Failure of Remote Focus Facility The remote focus mechanism is controlled by a small electric motor situated on the rear bulkhead assembly within the searchlight barrel.

  • Page 40: Maintenance And Servicing

    If in any doubt as to the correct servicing procedures to adopt, please contact your distributor/agent or the manufacturer who will be able to advise the best course of action for your product. Notes for Lamp Fitting/Removal for LX300RC 150w Xenon To fit lamp: Remove lamp from packaging.

  • Page 42: Wiring Diagram & General Assembly Drawing

    9 - Wiring Diagram & General Assembly Drawing Drawing Number Description A7144 LX300RC 150w Xenon General Assembly C27463 Wiring Diagram C27312 Joystick Panel Assembly C28682 PSU Enclosure Assembly C28920 Junction Box Assembly...

  • Page 48: Spare Parts List

    Joystick Controller PCB To prolong the life and performance of your product, we recommend that you only specify Francis Searchlights spare parts. This will ensure that any warranties on your equipment will not be invalidated. When ordering spare parts please contact the Sales Department at Francis Searchlights Limited.

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