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USER MANUAL
6SRWOLJKW
Version 1.1
© Copyright
Keep this manual for future needs!
Reproduction prohibited!

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  • Page 1 USER MANUAL 6SRWOLJKW Version 1.1 © Copyright Keep this manual for future needs! Reproduction prohibited!
  • Page 2 Weitere Produkte aus dem FUTURELIGHT-Sortiment: Further products from the FUTURELIGHT-range: Autres produits de l’assortiment de FUTURELIGHT: Otros productos del surtido FUTURELIGHT: www.futurelight.com FUTURELIGHT LICHTEFFEKTE FUTURELIGHT LIGHTING EFFECTS FUTURELIGHT EFFETS LUMINEUX FUTURELIGHT EFECTOS LUMINOSOS FUTURELIGHT RT-240 lighting effect 51830510 FUTURELIGHT SPIDER centre-piece 51832065 FUTURELIGHT DF-250 lighting effect 51832085...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of contents Introduction ........................4 Features ..........................4 Description of the fixture ....................5 Safety instructions......................6 Operating determinations ....................6 Installation..........................7 Fitting/Exchanging the lamp ....................7 Beampath ........................10 Inserting/Exchanging gobos ..................10 DMX-512 connection / connection between fixtures ............15 DMX-Protocol ........................17 Function of the control channels - 16 bit protocol ............17 Function of the control channels - 8 bit protocol: ............20 DMX-controlled operation ....................20 Addressing........................20...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    CAUTION! Keep this device away from rain and moisture! Unplug mains lead before opening the housing! FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY, PLEASE READ THIS USER MANUAL CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU INITIAL START - UP! Introduction Thank you for having chosen a FUTURELIGHT MH-680. You acquired a versatile, powerful and intelligent lighting-effect.

  • Page 5: Description Of The Fixture

    Description of the fixture 1 - Projector-head 2 - Yoke 3 - Carrying handles 4 - Base 5 - Base - side panel 6 - Control Board Base - rear panel 7 - DMX-output 10 - Fuseholder 8 - DMX-input 11 - Power-switch 9 - Powercord Control Board:...

  • Page 6: Safety Instructions

    Safety instructions CAUTION! Be careful with your operations. With a dangerous voltage you can suffer a dangerous electric shock when touching the wires! This device has left our premises in absolutely perfect condition. In order to maintain this condition and to ensure a safe operation, it is absolutely necessary for the user to follow the safety instructions and warning notes written in this user manual.

  • Page 7: Installation

    When choosing the installation-spot, please make sure that the device is not exposed to extreme heat, moisture or dust. There should not be any cables lying around. You endanger your own and the safety of others! - - -m The symbol determines the minimum distance from lighted objects.
  • Page 8 Phillips screws Fastening screws Top cover Lamp cover Lamp To insert the lamp MSD/HSD 200 GY-9.5, MSD/HSD 250 GY-9.5 or MSD 250/2 GY-9.5 open the top cover of the projector head (see the drawing) by loosening the screws on the top cover. Then open the small lamp cover by loosening the fastening screws (see the drawing).
  • Page 9 Lamp adjustment CORRECT INCORRECT Optimum distance 1-1.5 mm Keep optimum distance to the lens! Rearpanel Moving-Head Screw "B" Screw "A" The MH-680 lampholder is aligned at the factory. Due to differences between lamps, fine adjustment may improve light performance. Strike the lamp and focus the light on a flat surface (wall). As the optimum distance of lamp from lens was adjusted during the installing or changing the lamp (by turning the screw "A"), it is necessary to adjust only the second position by turning the screw "B", in order to center the hot-spot (the brightest part of the beam).

  • Page 10: Beampath

    Beampath 15° radiation angle 18° radiation angle Distance (m) Distance (m) Diameter (m) Diameter (m) 24° radiation angle 21° radiation angle Distance (m) Diameter (m) Distance (m) Diameter (m) 26° radiation angle Distance (m) Diameter (m) Inserting/Exchanging gobos DANGER! Install the gobos with the device switched off only. Unplug from mains before! To insert the gobos open the top cover of the head by loosening the screws on the front and rear sides of the top cover.
  • Page 11 Gobo holder Gobo Gobo holder Fixation ring Pressing snap Rotating gobo-wheel: CAUTION! Never unscrew the screws of the rotating gobo as the ball bearing will otherwise be opened! Remove the fixation-ring with an appropriate tool. Remove the gobo and insert the new gobo. Press the fixation-ring together and insert it in front of the gobo.
  • Page 12 Rigging DANGER TO LIFE! Please consider the EN 60598-2-17 and the respective national norms during the installation! The installation must only be carried out by an authorized dealer! The installation of the projector has to be built and constructed in a way that it can hold 10 times the weight for 1 hour without any harming deformation.
  • Page 13 The Moving-Head can be placed directly on the stage floor or rigged in any orientation on a truss without altering its operation characteristics (see the drawing). The fixture’s base enables to be mounted in two ways: via the Omega-holders or via the adapter plate.
  • Page 14 Screw one clamp each via a M12 screw and nut onto the Omega holders. Insert the quick-lock fasteners of the first Omega holder into the respective holes on the bottom of the device. Tighten the quick-lock fasteners fully clockwise. Install the second Omega holder. Pull the safety-rope through the holes on the bottom of the base and over the trussing system or a safe fixation spot.

  • Page 15: Dmx-512 Connection / Connection Between Fixtures

    Connection with the mains Connect the device to the mains with the power-plug. The occupation of the connection-cables is as follows: Cable International Brown Live Blue Neutral Yellow/Green Earth The earth has to be connected! In general, lighting effects should not be connected to dimming-packs. DANGER TO LIFE! Before taking into operation for the first time, the installation has to be approved by an expert! DMX-512 connection / connection between fixtures...
  • Page 16 If you are using the recommended FUTURELIGHT-controllers, you can connect the DMX-output of the controller directly with the DMX-input of the first fixture in the DMX-chain. If you wish to connect DMX- controllers with other XLR-outputs, you need to use adapter-cables. Building a serial DMX-chain: Connect the DMX-output of the first fixture in the DMX-chain with the DMX-input of the next fixture.

  • Page 17: Dmx-Protocol

    DMX-Protocol Function of the control channels - 16 bit protocol Channel 1 - Horizontal movement (Pan) Push slider up in order to move head horizontally (PAN). Gradual head adjustment from one end of the slider to the other (0-255, 128-center). The head can be turned by 530° and stopped at any position you wish.
  • Page 18 Channel 7 - Colour-wheel 1 Linear colour change following the movement of the slider. In this way you can stop the colour-wheel in any position - also between two colours creating double-coloured beams. Between 128 and 189 and between 194 and 255, the colour-wheel rotates continuously the so-called "Rainbow"...
  • Page 19 Channel 11 - Rotating gobo-wheel 0 - 31 Open 32 - 63 Rot. gobo 1 (glass) 64 - 95 Rot. gobo 2 (metal) 96 - 127 Rot. gobo 3 (metal) 128 - 159 Rot. gobo 4 (metal) 160 - 223 Rot.

  • Page 20: Function Of The Control Channels - 8 Bit Protocol

    Function of the control channels - 8 bit protocol: DMX-controlled operation You can control the projectors individually via your DMX-controller. Every DMX-channel has a different occupation with different features. In order to call up the different features, you first have to ignite the lamp (control channel 6, DMX-value 128-139).

  • Page 21: Colour-Wheel 2/Static Gobo-Wheel

    open. The wheel can be positioned between two adjacent colors in any position. It is also possible to rotate the color-wheel continuously at different speeds - the so-called "Rainbow effect“ is created. Via the colour macro function, 32 different colours can be produced in following order: white, pink, magenta, red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue.

  • Page 22: Control Board

    Restart Starting point Please note: Disconnect the master and slaves from the DMX-controller before you start master/slave- operation. Otherwise danger of data collisions. Caution: At the master-device and at the last slave-device, the DMX-cable has to be terminated with a terminator.
  • Page 23 2. Press [Enter] and select "dM.Ad." by pressing the [Up] and [Down] keys. 3. Press [Enter]. The letter "A" flashes. Use the [Up] and [down] keys to select required address (001 - 497) and press [Enter] to confirm or [Mode] to cancel and return to the main menu. 4.
  • Page 24 - Power On time - By this option you can read the total number of the operation hours since the MH-680 has been fabricated. Press [Enter] or [Mode] to return to the menu. - The number of the hours that the MH-680 has been powered On since the counter was last reset.
  • Page 25 - Pan reverse This function allows you to invert the Pan-movement. Use the [Up] and [Down] keys to select "On" if you wish this feature or "Off" if you don’t wish this feature and press [Enter] to confirm or [Mode] to cancel and return to the main menu.
  • Page 26 - Display-adjusting This function allows you to adjust the display settings: - Display intensity With this function, you can adjust the display-intensity from 20 % to 100 %. Use the [Up] and [Down] keys to select the level of the display-intensity and press [Enter] to confirm or [Mode] to cancel and return to the menu.
  • Page 27 This mode is similar to "Auto", but the initial level of the fan speed can be adjusted by the DMX. - low/high speed of the fan operating The fan keeps the adjusted low speed until the temperature exceeds max. inside temperature of the fixture, then the MH-680 automatically switches Off the lamp.
  • Page 28 "Mod1" or "Mod2" by [Up] and [Down] buttons and press [Enter] to confirm the choice.If the test program is running, message "run/test" flashes on the display. want pause runnnig program required position, press [Enter]- button(messages"PAUS"/"test" blink ).To continue the program running,press the [Enter]-button again. - Stand Alone-settings This menu offers options for stand-alone mode as a selection of playing program, programming and modifying current programs.

  • Page 29: Spec -Special Functions

    Editing program This menu item allows you to select a program to edit or create.The MH-680 has one built-in program ("tESt") and the 3 free programs,each up to 99 steps.Each program step has a dynamic part(fade time) and static part(step time). Fade time-the time,during which effects move to the programmed position.
  • Page 30 Lamp adjustment This function can be used when you make the fine adjustment of the lamp.If you select "LAAd" pressing by [Enter]-button ,all effects will be canceled,shutter will be opened and the dimmer intensity will be set onto 100%. By using the options "PAn, tilt, ZooM, Foc" you can focus the light on a flat surface (wall) and perform the fine lamp adjustment.

  • Page 31: Error And Information Messages

    After having calibrated required functions press [Enter] to confirm (or [Mode] to cancel and return to the menu without reset by the "ArES" function) and use the "ArES" function in order to write the calibration values to the memory (EEPROM) and to make a reset in order to check the new adjusted positions of the colour, effect and rot.

  • Page 32: Technical Specifications

    This message appears if the lamp lighting sensor is failed. Please contact your dealer. This message will appear if the fixture was shortly disconnect from the mains. (PAN-yoke movement error) This message will appear after the reset of the fixture if the yoke’s magnetic- indexing circuit malfunction (sensor failed or magnet missing) or the stepping-motor is defective (or its driving IC on the main PCB).

  • Page 33: Cleaning And Maintenance

    Channel 1: Horizontal mirror-movement 8 bit Channel 2: Vertical mirror-movement 8 bit Channel 3: Fine Horizontal mirror-movement 16 bit Channel 4: Fine Vertical mirror-movement 16 bit Channel 5: Pan/Tilt speed Channel 6: Fan speed, On/Off lamp, reset Channel 7: Colours 1 Channel 8: Colours 2/stat.gobos Channel 9: Prism-wheel Channel 10: Prism-rotation...
  • Page 34 The operator has to make sure that safety-relating and machine-technical installations are inspected by an expert after every four years in the course of an acceptance test. The operator has to make sure that safety-relating and machine-technical installations are inspected by a skilled person once a year.

  • Page 35: Appendix

    If the power supply cable of this device becomes damaged, it has to be replaced by authorized dealers only in order to avoid hazards. Should you have further questions, please contact your dealer. Appendix We hope you will enjoy your MH-680. We can assure you that you will enjoy this device for years if you follow the instructions given in this manual.

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