Rako RAH07 User Manual

General

The Rako RAH07 controllers are designed
for convenient hand-held control of a Rako
lighting system. They have all the
operating and programming functions
available associated with Rako RCP07
control panels and can be used either on
their own or in conjunction with the wall
panels.

Scene buttons

Fig. 1

Front View

Fixing

Rear

Fig.2

Rear View

Rako RAH07 Hand-Held Controllers, Programming and Operating Instructions

or neighbouring houses is avoided. It
should be remembered that with a booster
unit a Rako transmitter may have a range
of over 100m.
Your Rako control panel comes set with a
default address of House 1 Room 4 and
whilst the unit will function with this
address it is strongly advised

to select your
own house address and logical room
addresses. Once set, any receiver modules
need to ‘learn’ the address of the control
panel/panels that they need to respond to.
To address a receiver module see the
module’s instruction manual.

Setting the address switches.

Each Rako transmitter has two, 8 way
banks of switches for setting its address.
The two sets of switches allow the user to
choose from 256 house addresses and 256
room addresses. To set the address,
remove the rear cover whereupon the
banks of switches will be now become
visible. To set an address, use a small
terminal screwdriver or similar device and
carefully move some of the switches into
the ‘ON’ position. Addressing uses binary
encoding and the value of the switches is
shown below.

Note: Any control panels set with the same
address will act as two or multi way
controls.

128

64
32
16

8
4

BINARY VALUE

2

1

House address
= 128+16=144

ON

HOUSE

128

64
32
16

8
4

BINARY VALUE

2
1

Room address

= 32+4=36.

Fig 5.

Addressing Switches

ROOM

ON

Indication
LED

Master raise
lower

Important

This section be read and followed before
using your Rako handset.

Checking for correct operation

Rako hand-held transmitters are supplied
with a pullout tab to prevent inadvertent
operation and battery deterioration during
transit. To remove this, first remove the
rear cover by removing the four fixing
screws and pull the tab out. Care should be
taken not to touch or otherwise damage
any of the other electronic components.
The Rako hand-held should now be
operational. To check this press one of the
front buttons and the indicating LED
should illuminate briefly for a single flash.
If the LED does not flash or it flashes
repeatedly for a short burst (low battery
warning) then you should contact Rako
controls on the number given below.

Batteries

Addressing
switches

Rear View with cover removed

Fig.3

Addressing

Before using a Rako hand-held the address
switches on the rear need to be set to an
appropriate House and Room address.
Setting an address is the way in which
interference between other Rako systems,
either with other rooms within your house

Battery
retaining clip

Protective

Rako hand-helds are powered by batteries.
The designed battery life is better than 3
years (based on 30 button presses daily)
but the batteries will eventually need
replacing. In normal use the Led on the
front panel illuminates momentarily when a
button is pressed to indicate that a (radio)
transmission has been made. When the
batteries are approaching the end of their
useful life the Led will continue to blink
after a button has been pressed. When this
starts to happen the batteries should be
replaced as soon as possible.

To replace the batteries remove the rear
cover and carefully slide out the batteries.
Replace with new batteries ensuring that
the positive (+) terminal makes contact
with the battery clip and the negative (-)
terminal with the pad on the circuit board.
To ensure reliable operation always ensure
that battery contacts and battery surfaces
are kept clean of any grease, moisture or
other contamination.

Lithium batteries may explode if handled
incorrectly. Always dispose of used
batteries in accordance with manufacturer’s
recommendations.

Rako thanks you for having purchased a
Rako product and hopes that you are
pleased with your system. Should for any
reason you need to contact us please
contact us via our website

www.rakocontrols.com

customer help line on 01634 226666.

Battery replacement

Always use two CR2016

Warning

General

or by phoning our

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Continue

10

14

11

12

13

increm enting

channels with button 1

to reach 0 or retur n u sing button 2

Step 5

Press Off button

to exit controller

from programming

mode.

To r e-program anot her

scene repeat process

fr om Step 1

8

7

Action

6

9

5

Scrol l up and ident

Scroll down and ident

Ident only

Save chan ges

Exit programming

4

1

234

Button

Off

3

Scrolling

circ ui t i n tur n

flashes each existing

2

1

15

0

See details for scrolling

Programming a Scene

TIP

Press the

scene button first

Step 1

LED starts to f lash

after 5 seconds, panel

is now in programming

mode. Use buttons 1 & 2

to scroll through channels

one at a time.

and

Chose the scene to be

re-programmed.

Put controller into

programming mode

by pr essing and hold ing

the selected scene

button both

raise and lower buttons

programming

buttons have the

Button 2 scrolls

down through

When in

follo w ing funct io ns

mode

Step 3

As each circ uit flahes

in tur n, use th e rai se

and lower buttons

to ad jus t li ghtin g

to the desired levels

toget her

Button 1 scrolls up

through channels

1-15

All circuits flash

to in d icat e ch an nel 0

Tip

If at any point it

channels15-1

is n ot clea r whi ch

is the current

circuit address

butt on 3 will

flash that circuit

without scrolling

on.

Step 4

Once levels are

set correc tly for the

chosen scene. Save

any changes by

pr essing but to n 4.

Circ uits will all fl ash

to con fi rm.

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