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  • Page 1 P3-100 System Controller Installation and Safety Manual User Guide...

  • Page 2: Dimensions

    The Martin logo, the Martin name and all other trademarks in this document pertaining to services or products by Martin Professional A/S or its affiliates and subsidiaries are trademarks owned or licensed by Martin Professional A/S or its affiliates or subsidiaries.

  • Page 3: Safety Information

    If you have questions about how to operate this product safely, please contact your Martin supplier or call the Martin 24-hour service hotline on +45 8740 0000, or in the USA on 1-888-tech-180.
  • Page 4 • Particular attention must be paid to cooling; under no circumstances should the airflow to the heat sinks be restricted. A rack fan cooling unit to maintain the correct ambient temperature should be considered when multiple units are stacked together. •...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Contents Dimensions ............... . 2 Safety Information .

  • Page 6: Introduction

    Warning! Read “Safety Information” on page 3 before installing, powering or operating the P3-100. Thank you for selecting the Martin P3-100, a video processor for the EC™ and LC Plus™ Series of modular LED-based IP65-rated video display panels from Martin Professional. This product features: •...

  • Page 7: Status Indicators And Front Panel

    Status indicators and front panel See Figure 1. The LED status indicators and Reset button on the P3-100 front panel have the following functions: Active flashes during startup and lights continuously during operation. Ethernet 1 and Ethernet 2 light when there is activity on these connectors on the rear panel.

  • Page 8: Connections Panel

    Connections panel A - Power input (male IEC socket) • Use the Y, C/Pb and Pr connectors for component video. Typical connector color Accepts AC mains power at 115 - 250 V, coding is Green to Y, Blue to Pb and Red to 47 - 63 Hz.

  • Page 9: Installation

    Installation The P3-100 System Controller is designed to be rack-mounted in a central control room for fixed installations or flight-cased for touring applications. The 2U enclosure and 19” rack mounting complies with IEC 60297. The unit has been qualified to operate in a dry environment within a temperature range of 0° C to 50° C (32°...
  • Page 10 Controller and LC Plus panels should be laid out and connected. For full details of panel installation – including important safety information – refer to the user documentation supplied with panels and available for download free of charge from www.martin.com P3-100 Controller...

  • Page 11: Connecting The P3-100 To Ac Mains Power

    AC mains power outlet as the video panel installation it is connected to. Alternatively, appropriate steps must be taken to eliminate differences in potential at different points in the installation. Martin Professional cannot be held responsible for any damage caused if devices are not connected to AC mains power and ground/earth as specified in this guide.

  • Page 12: Setup

    Setup Before operating the P3-100, read “Safety Information” on page 3 of this guide. Setting up an installation of Martin video panels to display video using a Martin P3-100 System Controller involves the following steps. 1. Opening or creating a P3-100 configuration file. You can use either a PC running Windows XP and the P3-100 Offline Editor (see “Offline Editor”...

  • Page 13: Opening Or Creating A P3-100 Configuration File

    1. Opening or creating a P3-100 configuration file You can use either a P3-100 (with or without panels connected to it) or a PC running Windows XP and the P3-100 Offline Editor to open or create a configuration file. The explanation below refers to the P3-100, but it also applies to the Offline Editor.
  • Page 14 5. See Figure 6. Either select the finest pitch you will use in the installation in the Dot Pitch selection box, or select the panel with the finest pitch you will use in the Fixture selection box to set the dot pitch automatically: - The pixels in the panels with this pitch will be mapped 1:1 with the video input and give the best video...

  • Page 15: Configuring The Installation

    • C – Configured Devices: list of panels which are configured in the on-screen installation (orange button) or in the on-screen installation and physical installation (green button). • D – Discovered Devices: list of panels which have been detected by the P3-100 System Controller, but are not yet configured into the current configuration.
  • Page 16 The button allows you to enable / disable test pattern display on the panels. The pull-down menu allows you to select test pattern type. Activates the Tools submenu, which lets you jump into one of the Settings windows. Lets you shut down or reboot the P3-100 System Controller. P3-100 user manual...
  • Page 17 2.A Preparing a virtual installation offline, then linking it to a physical installation later You can use either a P3-100 with no need for panels connected to it at this stage or the Offline Editor application on a Windows PC to configure a virtual installation. Creating a complete virtual installation offline can allow you to familiarize yourself with the P3-100 system or prepare a video display in advance of an event.
  • Page 18 9. See Figure 12. If necessary, use the Magnification tools to adjust the magnification of the canvas on the right of your monitor screen until you have a comfortable size to work with. 10. When you have added the correct number and type of panels to Figure 12: Magnification tools your on-screen installation, click on the currently selected panel type in the Fixture Library to deselect it and stop adding panels.
  • Page 19 Figure 14: Panel rotation in Setup view Grouping panels You can group panels by selecting them, then right-clicking and choosing Group in the pop-up menu. See Figure 15. Grouped panels have a colored dotted line around them and are highlighted in that color when selected. If you select a group, the Group Properties window opens, where you can:...
  • Page 20 As soon as Martin video panels are connected to the P3-100 and powered on, the P3-100 auto-detects them, retrieves data from them, and lists each panel with its type, serial number and any existing display address under Discovered Devices on the lower left of the Setup window.
  • Page 21 4. When you click on the Quick Addressing Tool and have decided whether you want to address all panels or just the discovered panels that are not yet configured, the first physical panel to address will display a white pattern, and the panels to choose from in the on-screen installation will appear yellow. Click on the panel in your on-screen installation that corresponds to the white panel in the physical installation and repeat this operation until all panels have been given display address numbers.
  • Page 22 Go to “3. Setting up video display” on page 28. 2.B Using the Layout Wizard If you have a P3-100 with a rectangular array of Martin video panels connected to it and powered on, you can use the Layout Wizard to configure the installation automatically –...
  • Page 23 Starting Corner: You are asked to give the corner of the screen where the cable from the P3-100 System Controller or gigabit switch is connected (i.e. the point where the daisy-chain starts). Left and right are as seen from the front of the panels, i.e. as seen by the audience: - Top Left - Top Right - Bottom Left...
  • Page 24 2.C Manually adding panels and adjusting display address numbers The Quick Addressing Tool described on page 20 is fast and easy, but if you prefer to set display address numbers manually, or if you need to adjust address numbers at any point, you can follow this alternative procedure: 1.
  • Page 25 4. See Figure 23. Check that each panel has the correct display address for its position in the installation with reference to the panel numbers in your on-screen installation. If the panel’s display address is not correct, enter its correct display address in the Number box (arrowed) under Device Properties. The panel’s display address should now be correctly matched to its position in the physical installation.
  • Page 26 Panel status troubleshooting Below is a list of panel states and what you should do in each case. 1. Panel is configured in the virtual display and connected: The panels should be running normally. No intervention required. 2. Panel is connected and discovered but not included in current configuration: Drag panels onto the canvas or use one of the wizards to include them in the current configuration.
  • Page 27 6. Panel is configured in the virtual display and connected but running incompatible firmware: Go to the "Fixture & Firmware Library" (see “Updating and reloading P3-100 firmware” on page 46) and make sure the current panel firmware is set to a version which is compatible with the current P3-100 firmware (1.x.x panel firmware is compatible with 1.x.x P3-100 firmware and 2.x.x panel firmware is compatible with 2.x.x P3-100...

  • Page 28: Setting Up Video Display

    3. Setting up video display The P3-100 accepts digital (DVD-D) video at up to 1280 x 1024 resolution as well as analog composite, S-video and component video using PAL, NTSC and SECAM systems. To use the largest DVI-D resolutions, you may need to either crop the input using the Video Viewport settings or scale the input using the Video Scaling feature.
  • Page 29 Video source setup Open the Video Input view. Setting up the system for a digital video source 1. If you intend to use a digital video source, Select DVI-D under Source. You must now adjust video input resolution and EDID settings before powering up the media server or video source.
  • Page 30 Viewing and scaling video If no external video source is present or if the source is invalid, the video display area will remain black. If the video source is present and valid, you will see the video image on the canvas. You can now adjust how the video image is displayed.
  • Page 31 the installation. If you click on New and enter a name for any gamma curve you edit, it will be saved as a preset gamma curve when you click on the Close button. 5. If you open the Gamma Curve Edit window, with the Link RGB checkbox (arrowed) checked, you can adjust the gamma curve for all three colors together.

  • Page 32: Setting Up Remote Control Via Dmx

    2. Right-click on a preset button and select Properties to rename that preset and either select whether the system should snap to that preset immediately or select the number of seconds the system should take to fade to that preset. 3.
  • Page 33 When you patch each of these controls, you can choose the offset (or extent of variation) the DMX control can generate, and choose which panel or panels the control should be applied to. • Example 1: If you set the Negative Offset of a control to 100% and the Positive Offset to 0%, the DMX channel will range from the value set on the P3-100 GUI down to 0 (the DMX channel can take the control down to zero, but it will not take the control higher than the current value).
  • Page 34 3. If you made a selection of fixtures or fixture groups, you can see your selection if you use the Remote Control Wizard button in the Setup View: Figure 34: Remote Control Wizard in Setup view 4. The wizard will ask you which fixtures you want to assign DMX controls to. You can choose between: - All Fixtures: DMX controls are applied to all panels individually, so that each individual panel can be for example rotated.
  • Page 35 6. Select between 8-bit and 16-bit for each control (16-bit will require two DMX channels, one channel for normal control, and the channel above it for fine control). 7. Adjust the control offset (explained under “Segment Controls” on page 32) for each control. 8.
  • Page 36 • You can export the complete set of DMX controls in their current layout for reuse in another configuration or show by clicking the export button. See Figure 36. The layout can be stored in the internal memory of the P3-100 or on a USB memory device as an XML file. Choose a location, give a name to your DMX control set and press Create.

  • Page 37: Using Multiple P3-100S

    You can build a redundant P3-100 setup with an additional P3-100 and a DVI and/or Analog Video Splitter (plus a DMX Splitter such as the Martin™ Optosplitter™ if using DMX control). This protects your system from an accidental P3-100 powerdown or crash. The backup P3-100 will take over in only 5 seconds.
  • Page 38 A backup system can be connected following the principles shown in Figure 37. 1Gbit Ethernet Switch EC-20 EC-20 EC-20 EC-20 LC2140+ LC2140+ LC2140+ LC2140+ LC2140+ LC2140+ EC-20 EC-20 EC-20 EC-20 EC-20 EC-20 EC-20 EC-20 EC-20 EC-20 EC-20 EC-20 LC2140+ LC2140+ LC2140+ LC2140+ LC2140+...
  • Page 39 Multi-controller system You can use two (or more) P3-100s if you want to control installations that exceed the maximum number of pixels that can be controlled by a single P3-100 (typically 500 000). The P3-100s will receive the same video from a DVI and/or Analog Video Splitter, but will each control only a part of the total setup.

  • Page 40: Operation

    Operation Viewing live system information and the system log 1. See Figure 39. Open the Live view and select All under Log Level (arrowed). The P3-100 keeps a running log of system events that can be useful during troubleshooting. Figure 39: Live window 2.

  • Page 41: Color

    ‘show-safe’ environment. Shutting down the system To shut down the P3-100 System Controller safely: 1. Use Save Copy in the File window to create any backups you might want to store on the USB memory device.

  • Page 42: Keyboard Shortcuts

    Keyboard shortcuts The following keyboard shortcuts are available when working with panel layout: Function Shortcut Undo Ctrl + Z Redo Ctrl + Y View hardware settings dialog box Ctrl + S Zoom in/out Ctrl +; Ctrl + <mouse wheel> Vertical scroll <mouse wheel>...
  • Page 43 Time & Date pane: Use this to configure the internal clock of the P3-100. Firmware pane: Use this to update / roll back the P3-100’s firmware from a USB stick. Important! The P3-100 will perform an integrity check on the firmware file on the USB stick before actually performing the update / rollback procedure, and refuse the file if it appears to be corrupted.

  • Page 44: Managing Panel Utilities From The P3-100

    Remote viewing via network The P3-100 also features a built-in webserver that allows remote access to status information via a network. To access status info over a network: 1. Plug a network cable into Ethernet port 1 on the P3-100’s rear panel to connect the P3-100 to the network.

  • Page 45: Service

    There are no user-serviceable parts inside the P3-100 System Controller. Do not open any cover or attempt to modify or repair the unit. Doing so will void the product warranty. Refer all service to Martin Professional or its authorized service agents.

  • Page 46: Updating And Reloading P3-100 Firmware

    The P3-100 System Controller firmware file includes the latest firmware for each panel type at the time of release. Install new firmware in the video panels each time a new version is released on the Martin website at www.martin.com or if you suspect that a panel has a software-related fault.
  • Page 47 The Current Fixture Firmware tab of the Fixture & Firmware Library window allows you to change the current fixture firmware for each of the available fixture series. You can set the series’ firmware to any of the firmware versions which are available in internal memory, or which have been uploaded to the User Library by the user.

  • Page 48: Updating The P3-100 Fixture & Firmware Library

    To do this: 1. Use a PC to open the Product Support pages on www.martin.com for each panel type used and find the latest firmware and personality files for each panel. Check that file versions are compatible with the P3-100 firmware you are running.
  • Page 49 5. See Figure 48. Click on the User Library tab of this window. To update the user library, drag files from the USB Key Browser pane on the left to the Library pane on the right. This will store them in the P3-100’s internal memory.

  • Page 50: Troubleshooting

    Check addressing setup in P3-100 System Incorrect panel addressing. One or more panels displays Controller. video incorrectly or does not Have faulty panel serviced by Martin service display video at all. Panel defective. technician. Other device (e.g. Ethernet switch) on P3 link Replace with a device known to be operating defective.

  • Page 51: Dmx Protocols

    DMX protocols P3-100 Global Control Fixture 8-bit 16-bit Mode Mode Value Function Screen control (snap) - Default value = 0 0-127 Live Input 128-135 Freeze 136-143 Blackout 144-151 Test pattern: Device Number 152-159 Test pattern: White 160-167 Test pattern: Red 168-175 Test pattern: Green 176-183...
  • Page 52 8-bit 16-bit Mode Mode Value Function Preset recall (snap) - Default value = 0 179-182 Preset 33 183-186 Preset 34 187-190 Preset 35 191-194 Preset 36 195-198 Preset 37 199-202 Preset 38 203-206 Preset 39 207-210 Preset 40 211-214 Preset 41 contd.

  • Page 53: P3-100 Segment Control Fixture

    P3-100 Segment Control Fixture 8-bit 16-bit 8-bit 16-bit Basic Basic Extd. Extd. Mode Mode Mode Mode Value Function Intensity MSB (fade) - Default value = 0 Zero → full 0-255 Intensity, fine LSB (fade) - Default value = 0 Lower → higher 0-255 Red MSB (fade) - Default value = 255 Zero →...

  • Page 54: Offline Editor

    Offline Editor The P3-100 Offline Editor is an application that can be downloaded free of charge from the Martin Professional website at www.martin.com. At the time of writing of this document, the P3-100 Offline Editor is only supported on Windows XP.

  • Page 55: Specifications

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