elektraLite MY 575w User Manual

MY 575w USER MANUAL

(V2.05)

[From Serial number ele632sp008]

For your own safety, please read this user manual carefully before installing MY575w.

Every person involved with the installation, operation and maintenance of MY575w has to:

-be qualified

-follow carefully the instructions of this manual

Introduction:

Thank you for choosing MY575w.
When you unpack MY575w, there should be in the box the fixture, a power cable, a DMX

XLR cable, a safety cable and a CD. Please check carefully that there is no damage caused in shipping. If you
notice any damage then immediately let your shipper know and the dealer from whom you purchased

MY575w.

Features:

9 Operation mode is by DMX 512 utilizing (16 channels) or stand alone or sound activation.
9 Pan and Tilt movement
9 8 bit and 16 bit resolution for smooth and precise motion
9 Pan : 630° rotation / Tilt : 265° rotation. (Pan can be selected for 540º if desired).
9 Speed of pan/tilt movement adjustable
9 Advance Color mixing system. Cyan, Magenta & Yellow. The colors range goes extremely deep giving

the Lighting Designer a large palette of colors

9 Additional color wheel with 5 dichroics plus white. Also included is 2 color temperature correction filters.

(1 = 3200ºK and 1 = 5600ºK filters).

9 Strobe/shutter : high speed dual-blade shutter, 0-15Hz or random strobe
9 Dimmer : mechanical adjustable from 0% to 100%
9 Auto-program: 8 preprograms can be selected
9 Display: can be inverted (180)° when MY575w is hung upside down.
9 Local or remote resetting
9 Lamp switches ON/OFF locally or remote, motor reset
9 Auto test for all functions
9 Value of each DMX-channel can be displayed
9 Editable program:

edit and save a program to the on board processor using either the controls on the front panel or using an

external controller like an Elektralite CP-20. A maximum 48 scenes/cues/looks can be saved on board. The

resultant saved program can be played back from the “run” menu accessed from the front display panel

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Safety Instructions.

This device has left the factory in 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. MY575w is a high voltage fixture. Be careful when dealing with high voltages.

Please read this manual. If you do not read this manual and damages occur to MY575w, then it could
void the warranty.

During shipping, MY575w may have been exposed to high temperature changes or humidity changes. So, as a
precaution, do not switch MY575w on immediately. Condensation can damage MY575w so leave MY575w

switched off until it has reached room temperature.

The electric connection must carry out by a qualified person and it is absolutely essential that MY575w be

grounded

Always disconnect MY575w from the power source, when the device is not in use or before cleaning it. Only
unplug MY575w from the power cord. Never pull out the plug out by pulling on the power cord.

Take care, MY575w will heat up when it is turned on and it will be very hot to touch.

Please keep MY575w away from children and the general public. Please be intelligent and use common sense
when operating MY575w.

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General Guidelines.

MY575w is a lighting fixture for professional use on stages, in clubs, theatres, etc.
MY575w should only be operated at 120 volts and only indoors.
MY575w should not be operated 24/7 (24 hours a day; 7 days a week). MY575w needs operation breaks to

ensure that it will work for a long time without problems. Please do not shake MY575w and avoid using brute

force when installing or operating it.

When choosing the location to install MY575w, please make sure that it is not exposed to extreme heat,
moisture or dust. The minimum distance between MY575w and the illuminated surface must be more than 3

feet.

Always mount MY575w with an appropriate safety cable. If you use the quick lock cam to hang MY575w,
please make sure the 4 quick lock fasteners are locked into position correctly.

Operate MY575w only when you are familiar with the features on the fixture. Do not permit operation by

persons not qualified for operating it.

All modifications to MY575w will invalidate the warranty. There are absolutely no exceptions.
If MY575w is operated in any way different to the one described in this manual, MY575w maybe damaged and

the guarantee will be void.

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Installation Instructions.

a) Installing or replacing the lamp

Only install the lamp when MY575w is unplugged from 120 volts.

The lamps must be replaced when it has reached the end of its lamp life or if it is damaged or deformed.

Before replacing the lamp let the lamp cool down. During operation, the lamp can
reach very high temperature.

During the installation of the lamp do not

the lamps during insertion and removal.

Do not install lamps with a higher wattage. They generate temperatures higher than MY575w operating
temperature.

For the installation, you need one MSR 575/2 lamp :

Procedure:

touch the glass bulbs with bare hands. Always use a cloth to handle

1) Unscrew the 3 screws (A, B, C) on the bottom of the housing, holding the plate under which the lamp is
located. Carefully remove the metal plate.

2) Carefully insert the lamp into the socket. Please remember the lamp is polarized. There is only one way to
insert the lamp. Gently slide the lamp and its lamp holder back into place.

3) On the access plate there are 3 screws marked 1, 2 and 3. They are used to adjust the lamp. You can
adjust the 3 screws to fine-tune the position of the lamp and get the maximum light output.

2

2

1

1

3

3

Please remember the lamp is not hot-restrike. You must wait approximately 10
minutes before you can restrike the lamp.

Do not ever operate MY575w with the cover open. The lamp is a discharge lamp. All discharge lamps,
irregardless of the manufacturer or type, are very volatile and can explode
when working with these lamps otherwise serious injury can happen.

. Great caution must be exercised

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b) Mounting MY575w

The installation of MY575w has to be built and constructed in a way that it can hold 10 times the weight for 1

hour without any deformation.
The installation must always be secured with a secondary

Never stand directly below MY575w when mounting, removing or servicing MY575w.
The installer should make sure that MY575w is installed correctly and that the installation is checked by an

expert on a regular basis.

If you are a rental house utilizing MY575w, then use the appropriate half couplers (½ cheeseboros) to secure

the fixture to the truss or pipe. Remember to tighten down the cheeseboros before raising the truss. Don’t
laugh! It has been done before now. Remember with yoke fixtures on a flown truss, when you move them the
truss can move too. It’s just obeying Newton’s third law of motion: “to every action there is an equal and

opposite reaction”. Please remember this when securing the MY575w fixture.

Cautions:
MY575w should be installed outside areas where people can reach it, walk by it or be seated underneath it

when being installed. Overhead mounting requires experience including, amongst other things, calculating the

working load limits and installation material being used. Periodic safety inspections should be done of MY575w

as the fixture does move. If you do not have the qualifications and experience, do not attempt the installation.
Improper installation can result in bodily injury to yourself or others.

Before mounting make sure that the installation area can hold a minimum point load of 10 times MY575w’s

weight.

Once installed then connect MY575w to the correct power source. 120 volts A.C.

Installation via the Omega U Brackets.

safety device (a safety cable).

Screw one clamp (the clamp is not provided with MY575w) onto each of the two Omega U brackets supplied
with MY575w.
Insert the quick-lock fasteners of the first Omega bracket into the respective holes on the bottom of MY575w.

Tighten the quick-lock fasteners fully clockwise. Install the second Omega U bracket. Please do not use pliers,
crest wrenches and the like to turn the quick-lock fastener. If you do, there is very real likelihood that you will
break the Omega bracket. (These can be replaced at a substantial cost to your boss!)
Pull the safety cable through the holes on the bottom of the base and over the trussing or any secondary
point. Do not clamp the cable to the U bracket or clamp. That is not

A secondary safety point is any point that will adequately hold MY575w if the U brackets, clamps or the fixtures

base breaks or fails. Then the safety cable would be the backup and stop the fixture from falling to the ground.

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a secondary safety point.

fixing

DMX-512 Control Connection

Connect the provided XLR cable to the female 3-pin XLR output of your Elektralite CP20 or other DMX
controller. The other end should be connected to the male 3-pin XLR input of MY575w. You then daisy-chain
out of the first MY575w to the next MY575w. Never “Y” split the DMX connection.

If you need more cable, then it should be two core, screened cable fitted with a 3 pin XLR input and output
connectors. Please refer to the diagram below.

DMX-512 connection with DMX terminator

For installations where the DMX cable has to run a long distance or is in an electrically “noisy” environment, it is
recommended that a DMX terminator is used. This helps prevent corruption of the digital control signal. The
DMX terminator is simply a 3 pin XLR plug (male) with a 120 Ω resistor connected between pins 2 and 3. It is
then plugged into the output XLR socket of the last

MY575w in the chain. Please see illustration below.

MY575 fitted with 5 pin XLRs

The MY575w can be fitted with 5 pin XLRs. The pin configuration is the same as the three pin connector.

So Pin 1 = ground, Pin 2 = Signal (-) and Pin 3 = Signal (+). Pins 4 and 5 are not used.

Projector DMX start address selection

All MY575w’s need be given a DMX starting address when using a DMX signal, so that the correct MY575w
responds to the correct control signals. This digital starting address is the channel number from which MY575w
starts to “listen” to the digital control information sent out from the Elektralite CP20 or other DMX controller.

The allocation of this starting address is done by setting the correct number on the display located on the base

of MY575w.
You can set the same starting address for all fixtures or group of fixtures, like all the MY575w’s in your plot, or

you can make different address for each individual fixture.
If you set the same address, all the fixtures will start to “listen” to the same control signal from the same
channel number. In other words, changing the settings of one channel will affect all the fixtures simultaneously.
If you set a different address, each unit will start to “listen” to the channel number you have set, based on the
quantity of control channels of the fixture. That means changing the settings of one channel will affect only
selected fixture.

In the case of this MY575w, which is a 18 channel fixture, you should set the starting address of the first unit to
1, the second MY575w to 19 (18 + 1), the third to 37 (19 + 18), and so on.

Note:

After switching on, MY575w will automatically detect whether DMX 512 data is received or not. If the data is received, the display will show
"A.001" or whatever the address is set to, like “A.019” If there is no data received at the DMX-input, the display flashes "A001" with the

actually set address. This situation can occur if:

- the 3 PIN XLR plug (cable with DMX signal from the controller) is not connected to the input of MY575w.

or

- the controller is switched off or defective.

or

- if the cable or connector is defective

or

- if the signal wires are swap in the input connector. In others words, pins 1, 2 and/or 3 are not the same at both ends. Believe it or

not this is very easy to do if the person making the cable does not look at the pin numbers in the connector. The numbers of the
pins and the color of the cable need to match. Don’t just “look” at the cable and assume they are correct!

the

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The Display Panel:

The Display Panel offers several features: you can set the starting address, switch on and off the lamp, run the

pre-programmed program or make a reset. It has been updated so if you have earlier my575w beware of the

changes! These updates are a direct result of customer feedback.

Probably the most important changes are:-

1. To change DMX address you must enter the Mode menu. You cannot just press the up and

down buttons to change the address.

2. The default for the lamp striking is from the board channel 14. The fixture’s lamp will not just

start up when you turn on the fixture.

The main menu is accessed by pressing (and holding) the Enter-button for 3 seconds until the display starts
flashing. Browse through the menu by pressing the Up-button. Press the Enter-button in order to select the
desired menu. You can change the selection by pressing the Up-button. Confirm every selection by pressing
the Enter-button. You can leave every mode by pressing the Exit-button. The functions provided are described
in the following sections on the next page.

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Default settings shaded.

Main
menu

0 MODE

1 LAMP

Sub menu Extension Display Function

ADDR

RUN

DISP

OPEN

ONLI

DELA

VALU A001~A511 (AXXX)

SLAV

AUTO

SOUN

VALU

RDIS ON/OFF 180º Reverse display
CLDI

ON/OFF Lamp on/off
ON/OFF

D–00 ~ D-59,D-15 Delay lamp on

ON/OFF (SLAV) Slave setting
ALON (AU-A)

MAST (AU-M)

ALON (SO-A)

MAST (SO-M)
D–00 ~ D-30

(DXXX)

ON/OFF Shut off LED display

DMX address setting

Automatic Program Run

in Stand Alone mode

Automatic Program Run

as Master

Sound-controlled Program

Run in Stand Alone mode

Sound-controlled Program

Run as Master

Display the DMX 512 value

of each channel

Lamp on/off via controller

2 SET

3 ADJU

4 TIME

5 EDIT

RPAN

VER

LODA

REST

DEGRE

16BI

RTIL

LADJ

TEST

MATI

LATI

CLMT

CLLT

STEP

SC01

~

SC48

ON/OFF Pan Reverse

V1.0-V9.9 Software Version

ON/OFF Restore Default factory setting
ON/OFF Reset

540/630 540º or 630º Pan Degrees

8/16 8 or 16 Bit control

ON/OFF Tilt Reverse

ON/OFF Lamp adjustment

T–01 ~ T–30 Test function of each channel

0000~9999 (hours) Fixture running time
0000~9999 (hours) Lamp running time

ON/OFF Clear fixture time
ON/OFF Clear lamp time

S–01 ~ S–48 Steps of Program Run

C–01 ~ C–30

TIME (sec.) T – – X (1~9) Time for each scene/cue/look

CNIN

01XX (00~FFH)
30XX (00~FFH)

ON/OFF Edit program via controller

Edit the channels of each

scene/cue/look

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