Page 9 – Blizzard Lighting The Puck Fab5 (Rev A) User Manual

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The Puck™ Fab5 User Manual Rev. A

Each wiCICLE

acts as both a transmitter and a receiver, depending on whether a DMX

source is applied to the integral XLR connector. This is an extremely powerful feature of

the system, however, it also requires 1 piece of due dilligence, and that is the removal of

extraneous DMX signals from your lighting rig BEFORE proceeding.

SO: BEFORE DOInG AnYTHInG ELSE, YOU SHOULD DISABLE AnY BUILT-In PRO-

GRAMS In THE FIXTURES YOU WISH TO COnnECT AnD/OR SET THEM AS SLAVES

PRIOR TO RETURNING THEM TO DMX MODE (IF APPLICABLE). Most fixtures

contain a built-in automatic, sound active or custom program which is designed

to operate with the fixture NOT connected to a DMX chain.

Some of these programs will automatically run unless the fixture is set to slave mode.

These fixtures typically sense DMX automatically and switch to DMX mode upon receiving

DMX signal (our Pucks do that!)

If you plug a wiCICLE

“receiver” into an autosensing fixture set as a “master, “chances are

good that the wiCICLE

“receiver” will begin transmitting the master program. Most times,

this is undesirable, and taking the two seconds to switch these programs off will solve a lot

of ails.

Got that done? Good! Then let’s proceed!

1. Plug the wiCICLE

Receiver into the “DMX IN” connector of the fixture and verify it is

receiving power (the STATUS LED should illuminate.)

2. Connect the AC/DC adaptor to the the wiCICLE

Transmitter and verify it is receiving

power (the STATUS LED should illuminate.)

3. Press the RECESSED SELECTOR BUTTOn on the Transmitter to select the operating

channel group. (The system will store this setting for future use)

The 7-Color Status LED will change color to indicate the current channel group:

4. Follow the same procedure on the Receiver to select the channel group.

5. Once both the transmitter and receiver(s) are both set to the same channel group,

connect the transmitter to the DMX controller or the DMX out of a fixture on your DMX

chain.

6. Once a DMX signal is provided to the transmitter, the status LED will blink

RED

slowly

until communication is established with the receiver. The status LED on the receiver(s)

will flash

GREEN

slowly until communication is established.

7. Once the clearest channel is auto-selected, the status LEDs will blink quickly on both

the transmitter and receiver. NOTE: The color of the LED DURING operation does not

indicate channel group, instead it indicates whether the unit is transmitting or receiving.

That’s It!

WE hAD ThIS SPACE, SO WE FIGURED WE’D DRAW

YOU A PICTURE:

Antenna Housing & 1/2-wave Antenna

Antenna ferrule & articulation joint

Stainless Steel Housing

Recessed Selector Button

3-Pin XLR Connector

(Male on transmitter, Female on receiver model)

· GROUP 1:

RED

· GROUP 2:

GREEn

· GROUP 3:

YELLOW

· GROUP 4:

BLUE

· GROUP 5:

VIOLET

· GROUP 6:

CYAn

· GROUP 7: WHITE

Status LED

nOTE: “GROUP”

number also

corresponds to the

“GROUP” setting on

our LightCaster™

wireless DMX

Transceiver.