Hi,
New to the forum and new to ML's in general. Luck would have it our community theatre received a donation of 14 Trackspots along with a bunch of other Clay Paky Golden scans, Super scans and traditional lighting fixtures. I will be selling a bunch for the theatre if you wish to contact me off list....
Here's my problem...
I have been attempting to clean up and test the Trackspots.
Have applied power to 5 units and the results are all the same..
I have done this without the lamps installed just to verify what the Self Test sequence might look like...
Power.. OK..
Enable LED OK
FAN LED OK
Self Test sequence starts with Mirror Homing to stops if the mirror is positioned away from home. The motors appear to work ...
But the self test loops.. never completes and the it does not appear that the DIP switches for Personality work as I cannot set the Focus Sequence...
After reading the other forum entries... it seems that that Large Humming after the Mirror home... Is really an Self test failure alarm...
(BTW.. where is a copy of a tech manual online.. I have some experience as a Field eng..(read...old fart:D) )
So after trying to think through what might be the issue... I looked at a few units all lined up together.. and finally realized that ALL the GOBO wheels have been removed... :aargh4:
So it seems that these are not cheap.. Lightparts seems to have it...
Is this this the correct PN.. 80200003
There is also in the TS manual a "Modular Gobo wheel with tabs"
Is this a Gobo Wheel with all empty slots that you can place your own M size gobos in?
Anyone have ideas as to where to pickup used Gobo Wheels for these units.. the theatre I volunteer for cannot spring for new wheels for these...
What I really wish to do at this point is to finish testing these... I cannot since the ST fails... due to Gobo Wheel missiing...
I had a thought that maybe I could rob one of the other units of a Color Wheel and place it into the Gobo Wheel spot just to get past the Self Test calibration homing test....
Question is: will this work? Can i damage the unit or the second Dichroic wheel by having to much heat generated by passing thru 2 filters...
Is the Sync Pulse tab on the Gobo wheel the same as the Color Wheel... ie: will this idea work???
Thanks to any and all responses..
I am a it frustrated since I had hoped to work on these units to get them ready for use.. and possibly sell some of the units to raise funds for the theatre for much needed fire proofing of the curtains....
