SHIMPO ST-5000 User Manual

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OPERATION

Button Functions
On/Off

Press to Turn On. While on, press and release

to activate backlight. Press and release again

to turn backlight off.

Press and hold two seconds to turn unit off.

Menu Button

MENU Press and hold for approx. 1 second to

switch between main menus: STROBE / TACH/

SET

Make a quick push and release to scroll

through each menu’s sub-menus.

Scroll Dial

Adjust the parameters in sub-menus by spin

ning.

In Strobe sub-menu, press inward twice

quickly to change the adjustment factor

between 1 and 10.

In X2/2 sub-menu, spin to adjust multiplication

(x) or division (÷) factor. Press inward once to

take new Base RPM directly into Strobe sub-

Under TACH menu in the Measure sub-menu,

press and hold inward to take tachometer’s

reading rate directly over to the stroboscope

mode. Press inward and release to reset the

MAX and MIN recordings.

In Graph sub-menu, press inward to reset the

graph.

Main Menus

Strobe Main Menu
STROBE Sub-Menu: Change the RPM or Hz rate of flash of the
LED lights spinning the scroll dial. Change the adjustment rate
by a value of 1 or 10 by pressing twice quickly the dial. Note:
Less than 1000, Change Scale 10 adjusts the rate by 1 (Ex. 999.0
to 998.0) while Change Scale 1 adjusts the rate by a tenth (Ex.
999.0 to 999.1) Above 1000, Change Scale 10 adjusts rate by 10
(Ex. 1980 to 1990) while Change Scale 1 adjusts by 1 (Ex. 1998
to 1999).

X2/2 Sub-Menu: Take the base rate from the STROBE sub-menu
and adjust it with scroll dial by a factor of 2 to 10 to quickly obtain
a new larger or smaller flash rate. Press wheel inward once to take
new adjusted rate directly back into STROBE sub-menu.

ROTATION Sub-Menu: This sub-menu provides the unique fea-
ture of taking your rate where the object has been frozen in the
STROBE or X2/2 sub-menus, and automatically adjusts that flash
rate to a new speed where the object will now turn slowly at ap-
proximately 1 turn every 2 seconds. This allows further visualiza-
tion and analysis of the object in slight motion versus it being
completely frozen. No adjustment can be made in this mode as
the new, slow motion rate is automatically calculated. This func-
tion will only work properly if the base rate is equal to the speed of
the process where the image is frozen.

Main

Menus

Strobe

Tach

Set

Sub

Menus

Strobe

Caution

FL DUR

X2/2

Measure

Hz RPM

Rotation

Graph

Y Scale

LCD

STROBE

TACH

SET

Change Scale

STROBE

RPM

15360

Base RPM: 15360

X03

X2/2

RPM

46080

STROBE

TACH

SET

Base RPM: 15360

1Turn at 2sec

ROTATION

RPM

15330

STROBE

TACH

SET