Meteor C240 F Controller - Manual (Page 2)

2 FUNCTIONS / Buttons: Front Control Panel
1) Scanners: to select any or all of the 12 units
2) Scenes: To store or run scenes
3) Page Select: To select Page A for Channel
1 to 8, or B for channels 9-16.
4) LCD Display: 4 digit showing numeric
value of DMX channel / Level
5) Bank ( up / down) : 30 banks are available
for use in selecting
6) Chases: To Select 1 – 6 Chases
7) Blackout – Disables all active channel
outputs without going into a DMX
reset
8) Program: to activate the program mode.
Display flashes when activated
9) Midi / Add: To control MIDI operations of
activates save functions.
10) Auto/Del: to Select Auto Run in Chase
mode or delete scenes and / or
chases
11) Music / Bank Copy: to trigger the Sound
Activation in Chase mode or to copy a
bank of scenes from one to another in
program mode
12) Tap SYNC/ Display: In Auto Chase mode
used to change the Rate of Chase
and in Program Mode to change LCD
display value.
13) Fade Time Slider: To adjust the Fade Time
– fade time is the time takes the C-240 to
completely cross fade from one scene to
another scene.
14) 2- Speed Slider: to adjust the chase rate
in Auto Mode
15) Faders ( 1 – 8 ): to adjust the output level
from 0 – 255 or the intensity from 0% -
100% of each channel
(2)
2 REAR CONTROL PANEL:
16) Midi In: to receive MIDI data.
17) DMX Polarity Select: make sure Polarity
of your fixture and set the SCENEMASTER
C-240 to the proper polarity.
18) DMX Output: to send All DMX signals to
fixture or powerpacks / dimmers.
19)
DC Input: to supply a DC 9 – 12v power,
300 mA minimum
20) ON / OFF switch
3 - OPERATION INSTRUCTION:
Standard DMX 512 Addressing
Dip Switch Setting: Each Dip Switch has an address based on
Binary code
Dip Switch number: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
DMX Value:
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256
Select the address wanted: by adding the total of Dip Switches
on.
(note) Dip switch # 10 is not used with DMX normally for
selectable functions, i.e. master/slave or sound
activation etc.
Each of the 12 fixtures is assigned 16 Channels (whether you
are using all those channels or not . The dip switches on
your fixtures are set as per the diagram on next page.
(3)
2 3
3
2
1 4
4
6 7 8 1 5
5
7
8
9
10
11
12
MIDI
METEOR-KLS
C-240
Program
Music
Bank-Copy
0.i /Sec.
10 Min
SPEED FADE TIME
30 sec.
0
Scenes
PAN(9-19)
TILT(10-20)
RECORD
FINE MODE
DELETE
AUTO
TAP DISPLAY
BANK
BLACKOUT
CHASE 1
CHASE 4
CHASE2
CHASE 5 CHASE 6
HEATING ELEMENT
FOG
MACHINE
PAGES
A
PAGE
SELECT
B