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Page 3 - CONTENTS

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 3 www.ElationLighting.com CONTENTS 1. General Information……………………………………………………………………… 4 a. Introduction………………………………………………………………………. 4 b. Unpacking………………………………………………………..…………..….. 4 c. Customer Support…………………………………………….………………… 4 d. Warranty Regi...

Page 4 - GENERAL INFORMATION; INTRODUCTION

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 4 www.ElationLighting.com 1. GENERAL INFORMATION INTRODUCTION : Congratulations, you have just purchased one of the most innovative and reliable lighting fixtures on the market today! The Platinum Spot 5R™ has been designed to perform reliably...

Page 5 - WARRANTY REGISTRATION

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 5 www.ElationLighting.com Please do not discard the shipping carton in the trash. Please recycle whenever possible. WARRANTY REGISTRATION : The Platinum Spot 5R™ carries a two-year (730 days) limited warranty. Please fill out the enclosed warr...

Page 6 - life and intensity.; subject to warranty.

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 6 www.ElationLighting.com Avoid switching the fixture on and off repeatedly in short intervals, as this will reduce lamp life and intensity. To achieve the intensity associated with discharge lamps, these lamps use a gas sealed in a high-press...

Page 7 - SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS; injuries and/or damage to the fixture.

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 7 www.ElationLighting.com 2. SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS The Platinum Spot 5R™ is an extremely sophisticated piece of electronic equipment. To guarantee a smooth operation, it is important to follow the guidelines in this manual. Elation will not acce...

Page 8 - may increase the risk of damage and/or personal injury.; Never look directly into the light source,

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 8 www.ElationLighting.com may increase the risk of damage and/or personal injury. 10. To reduce the risk of fire or shock, do not expose this fixture to rain or moisture. 11. Do not attempt to operate this fixture if the power cord has become ...

Page 10 - GENERAL GUIDELINES; This fixture was designed for indoor use only.

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 10 www.ElationLighting.com 4. GENERAL GUIDELINES This fixture is a professional lighting effect designed for use on stage, in nightclubs, in theatres, etc. Do not attempt operation or installation without a proper knowledge on how to do so. Th...

Page 11 - Up Button

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 11 www.ElationLighting.com 5. FIXTURE OVERVIEW 1: Lens 2: Display 3: DC Switch 4: Microphone 5: Left Button 6: Down Button 7: Right Button 8: Mode/Esc Button 9: Up Button 10: Enter Button 11: Handle 12: Lamp Access Panel 13: 3-Pin DMX in 14: 3...

Page 14 - LAMP INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS; Installing or replacing the lamp

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 14 www.ElationLighting.com 6. LAMP INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS Installing or replacing the lamp For a proper and safe lamp change, please read this chapter carefully and follow all instructions. Lamp Protection Circuitry Because of the nature of...

Page 16 - Lamp Optimization

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 16 www.ElationLighting.com B. Once at “Information” tap the “Enter” button anduse the “Up” or “Down” buttons to toggle to “Time Information” C. Once at “Time Information” us either the “Up” or “Down” buttons to toggle to “L-Timer Password” and...

Page 17 - MOUNTING AND INSTALLATION; areas were the fixture might be reached by unauthorized personal.; When install the fixture be sure there is no highly inflammable; Mounting; qualified staff should attempt installation.

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 17 www.ElationLighting.com 7. MOUNTING AND INSTALLATION Cautions: For added protection mount the fixtures in areas outside walking paths, seating areas, or in areas were the fixture might be reached by unauthorized personal. Before mounting th...

Page 18 - Mounting points; Be sure a qualified electrician performs all electrical; power cord to the appropriate wall outlet.

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 18 www.ElationLighting.com Mounting points Overhead mounting requires extensive experience, including amongst others calculating working load limits, a fine knowledge of the installation material being used, and periodic safety inspection of a...

Page 19 - Clamp Mounting; integrated in the base assembly; Securing the Platinum Spot 5RTM

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 19 www.ElationLighting.com Clamp Mounting The Platinum Spot 5R™ provides a unique mounting bracket assembly that integrates the bottom of the base, the included “Omega Bracket,” and the safety cable rigging point in one unit (see the illustrat...

Page 20 - UNDERSTANDING DMX; controls on the LCD menu.

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 20 www.ElationLighting.com 8. UNDERSTANDING DMX DMX-512: DMX is short for Digital Multiplex. This is a universal protocol used by most lighting and controller manufactures as a form of communication between intelligent fixtures and controllers...

Page 21 - shield could cause a short circuit and erratic behavior.

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 21 www.ElationLighting.com Be sure to follow the above figure when making your own cables. Do not use the ground lug on the XLR connector. Do not connect the cable’s shield conductor to the ground lug or allow the shield conductor to come in c...

Page 22 - DMX-512 connection with DMX terminator

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 22 www.ElationLighting.com DMX-512 connection with DMX terminator A DMX terminator should be used in all DMX lines especially in longer runs. The use of a terminator may avoid erratic behavior in your DMX line. A terminator is a 120 ohm 1/4 wa...

Page 23 - The DMX controller is switched off or defective.

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 23 www.ElationLighting.com channel number from which the fixture starts to “listen” to the digital control information sent out from the DMX controller. The allocation of this starting DMX address is achieved by setting the correct DMX address...

Page 25 - Default settings shaded.

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 25 www.ElationLighting.com Default settings shaded. Fu n ct io n Mo d e Set Dmx Address Value Display Set To Slave Auto Program Music Control A001~AXXX PAN…… Slave1,Slave2,Slave3 Master / Alone Master / Alone DMX address setting DMX value disp...

Page 27 - Scenes; This function is used to set or; “Value Display” - Display the DMX 512 value of each channel; this mode is selected in the; “Select program”; section of the control menu. You can set; “Edit program”; . You can edit the individual scenes under; “Edit scenes”

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 27 www.ElationLighting.com Rec. Controller XX~XX Scenes recorded from external source 9.1 Function Mode: 9.1.1 “Set DMX Address” - DMX address setting – This function is used to set or adjust the fixture’s starting DMX address. Every device co...

Page 28 - Current Time; destructive and will remain in the fixtures memory indefinitely.; Last Run Hours; should be reset after every lamp change.; Lamp Off Time

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 28 www.ElationLighting.com 9.1.5 Music control This function is similar to the “Auto Program” described in the previous section with the exception that this function will advance the built-in program via sound. 9.2 Information: 9.2.1 Time info...

Page 29 - Clear Last Run

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 29 www.ElationLighting.com Clear Last Run This function will allow the “Last Run Hours” function be cleared and reset. L-Timer Password Use this function to enter the “Clear Lamp Time” password. Password is “038” Clear Lamp Time This function ...

Page 31 - Pan Degree –

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 31 www.ElationLighting.com is turned off or begins receiving a new DMX signal. If the fixture is turned on without any DMX signal, the fixture will automatically go in to sound-active mode. Available settings are: “Close” – Shutter flags will ...

Page 32 - Mic Sensitivity –

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 32 www.ElationLighting.com Mic Sensitivity – This function makes the internal microphone more or less sensitive to sound. This function only works in conjunction with the sound active modes. The default setting is 70% and setting range from 0%...

Page 33 - LOCK

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 33 www.ElationLighting.com LOCK – This function allows you to lock the keys on the display to prevent menu tampering. With this function you can activate the automatic keylock function. If this function is activated, the keys will be automatic...

Page 34 - This menu function allows the user to select each individual

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 34 www.ElationLighting.com 9.6 Effect Adjust: 9.6.1 Test Channel – This menu function allows the user to select each individual fixture channel and test it’s function independently from the control board. 9.6.1 Lamp adjustment (manual control)...

Page 35 - This function allows the user to select one of ten of the user

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 35 www.ElationLighting.com Programs can be created and stored using the fixture’s control board or by using an external DMX controller. For detailed instructions on how to complete this task please see Section 12/ Page 39. 9.8.1 Select program...

Page 36 - Setting the DMX address -

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 36 www.ElationLighting.com 10. DMX ADDRESSING Setting the DMX address - After the fixture is turned “ON” it will immediately complete a reset process that test all the fixture’s functions. When the reset process concludes the LCD will display ...

Page 37 - Controller Settings

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 37 www.ElationLighting.com Controller Settings : 1. Set the DMX value of channel 1 to a value of 7. 2. Set the DMX value of channel 2 to a value of 7 or 8. When channel 2 is set to "7" you can adjust the starting address between 1 and ...

Page 38 - Operating Modes

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 38 www.ElationLighting.com 11. OPERATION Operating Modes : The Platinum Spot 5R™ can operate in six different modes. This next section will detail the differences in the operating modes. • Auto Program Mode (Master) - The fixture will chase th...

Page 40 - DMX compliant controller.

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 40 www.ElationLighting.com 12. WORKING WITH BUILT-IN PROGRAMS The fixture comes equipped with a built-in DMX recorder that allows custom programs to be installed and recalled directly from the fixture’s control board. Programs can be created a...

Page 41 - Step 1B – Building Scenes from an External DMX Controller

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 41 www.ElationLighting.com - “PAN-Fine” – precision pan movement. - “TILT” – tilt movement. - “TILT-Fine” – precision tilt movement - “Move Speed” – adjust pan and tilt motor speed - “Gobo Wheel 1” – select gobos from gobo wheel 1 - “Gobo Rot....

Page 42 - Step 3 – Playing a Program

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 42 www.ElationLighting.com The control will store a maximum of 10 programs. A program can store one or a maximum of 64 scenes. Keep in mind that a scene can only be access when it is stored inside one of the 10 available programs. Follow the p...

Page 43 - DMX channel function and values:; DMX channel functions and their values (up to 24 DMX channels):

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 43 www.ElationLighting.com 13. DMX CHANNEL TRAITS: The chart below details the channel layout for 17 DMX channels (default). In 8bit mode the “Pan Fine” and “Tilt Fine” channels are not used, thus converting the fixture into a 15-channel DMX f...

Page 44 - Rotating gobo index, rotating gobo rotation:

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 44 www.ElationLighting.com 70-83 Color 5 84-97 Color 6 98-111 Color 7 112-127 Color 8 128-189 Forwards rainbow effect from fast to slow 190-193 No rotation 194-255 Backwards rainbow effect from slow to fast Color Wheel Fine: 6 0-255 Color Whee...

Page 45 - Fixed gobo indexing Fine

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 45 www.ElationLighting.com 32-39 Gobo 4 40-47 Gobo 5 48-55 Gobo 6 56-63 Gobo 7 64-71 Gobo 8 72-79 Gobo 9 80-87 Gobo 10 88-95 Gobo 11 96-103 Gobo 12 104-111 Gobo 13 112-119 Gobo 14 120-126 Gobo 1 shake slow to fast 127-133 Gobo 2 shake slow to ...

Page 46 - Rotating Prism indexing Fine

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 46 www.ElationLighting.com 200-207 Macro 10 208-215 Macro 11 216-223 Macro 12 224-231 Macro 13 232-239 Macro 14 240-247 Macro 15 248-255 Macro 16 Rotating prism, Prism / Gobo macros: 0-127 Prism indexing 128-189 Forwards prism rotation from fa...

Page 48 - after a second attempt a third attempt will be made.

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 48 www.ElationLighting.com 14. ERROR CODES: When power is applied, the unit will automatically enter a “reset/test” mode. This mode brings all the internal motors to a home position. If there is an internal problem with one or more of the moto...

Page 49 - defective motor IC drive on the main PCB).

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 49 www.ElationLighting.com defective motor IC drive on the main PCB). Color-wheel error: The color wheel is not located in the default position after start-up or after a reset command. This message will appear after a fixture reset if the colo...

Page 51 - CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE; The following points have to be considered during the inspection:

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 51 www.ElationLighting.com 15. CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE The following points have to be considered during the inspection: 1. Be sure all screws and fasteners are securely tightened at all times. Lose screws may fall out during normal operation...

Page 55 - CIRCUIT SCHEMATICS

Page 58 - TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS; glass

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 58 www.ElationLighting.com 21. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Power supply Power Requirements 120v/60Hz Fuse Protection 120V = 5A/250V, GMA (5x20mm fine-wire fuse) 220V = 3.15A/250V, GMA (5x20mm fine-wire fuse) Power Consumption 350 Watts Lamp Type ...

Page 59 - Length of the base

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 59 www.ElationLighting.com Tilt - movement 270° in max. 1.5 seconds, 16 bit resolution Weights and Measures Width of the base 18” / 46cm (Including Handles) Length of the base 13.75” / 35cm (Without Handles) Width of Head 18.5” / 47cm Height (...

Page 60 - Elation Professional

Platinum Spot 5R™ ©Elation Professional, Los Angeles Ca. 60 www.ElationLighting.com Elation Professional 6122 S. Eastern Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90040 323-582-3322 / 323-832-9142 fax www.ElationLighting.com / [email protected]