Dmx 512 Controller 240a Manual

[Perpetuo Carlson]

Ibought a used skutt 1227 back in the late 90s-part of a sell out and move away deal-got a lightly used 1227 manual kiln and a Brent wheel and a bunch of low fire stuff I gave away from a student I knew for $1,000 bucks That kiln still has the orginal elements in the bottom two sections . (its a 3 section kiln-48 amp model.I have used it only to occasionally bisque in averaging 10 fires a year as I do 99% of all bisques in my 35 cubic gas car kiln .The kiln is taking longer than it should to fire now.I live where electricity is at a high cost$$$$per kilowatt.

The bands have completly rusted over time as this was the era that Skutt used cheap low grade stainless and a few years ago the bottom floor band fell off. I put a new one on then as well as top elements. This kiln has rusted bands and old 1993 elements and the latches and side section handles are about to fall off due to rust.The bricks are in great condition .I have at least 300-400 fires on this kiln all cone o8.

I ordered all new elements and outer bands and new section side latches and all new side section handles as well as a some feeder wire and will replace all the rusted off junk. I may spray paint the red contol control boxes some new high heat color as they to have some rust as well. The kiln has a Dawson timer kiln sitter which works fine. (I replaced the tube in setter a decade ago)I wired this baby up decades ago to a Fire Right ramp controller ( long gone business) which turns up the kiln automatically to whatever set time I want. That is to say you can turn the control to say 5 and in approximately 5 hours the kiln will be on 100%. You set all three switches to full on and leave tham alone which I have for 25 years now.(they are set on high) The time you set up to 12 hours is when its 100% full on.

That means no relay or switches are wearing out as well. It all takes place in the fire right controller and a definite Purpose contactor (75amp) as I got tired of replacing burned out 60 amp ones).I bought a spare controller years ago on e-bay so when this one burns out I can still have a ramp controller. This non computer kiln is near bullet proof-no much to wear out and very simple to operate.For my use its ideal.

This order is from Skutt (took two persons to do the order as this is an older kiln and new folks did not know about old stuff,I have been dealing with Skutt since the early 70s) and including shipping and tax is $803.00 The kiln will be near new conditiuon after this upgrade.

My recommended cutoff point for my customers is $1000. If it needs more than that I tell them to consider getting a new kiln. When we reach the $1000 mark it's usually because it needs a lot of bricks and a good portion of the electrical system too, and it's at the point that it'll start nickel-and-diming them to death.

The DMX-240A is a universal intelligent lighting controller. It allows the control of 12 fixtures composed of 16 channels each and up to 240 programmable scenes. Six chase banks can contain up to 240 steps composed of the saved scenes and in any order. Programs can be triggered by music, midi,automatically or manually. All chases can be executed at the same time.

On the surface you will find various programming tools such as 8 universal channel sliders, a wheel and LED display indicators for easier navigation of controls and menu functions. You can control the pan and tilt of different intelligent lighting fixtures using the same wheel at the same time by means of a programmable wheel. This wheel allows the user to assign individual pan and tilt channels for every fixture.

WHEEL ASSIGNMENT

Because not all intelligent lighting fixtures are alike or share the same control attributes, the OMX-240A allows the user to assign the wheel the correct pan and tilt channel for every individual fixture including 16 bit channel assignments. It also allows the user to re-assign physical faders to fixture OMX channels so that the user can combine or unify control of similar or the same attributes across different types of fixtures.

Action:press and hold the PROGRAM button until the led blinks Press and hold FINE & MODE buttons together to access the channel assignment mode ,then press the SCANNER button Use the Bankup/Down buttons to select pan/tilt Press the TAP/DISPLAY button to switch between pagespress and hold MODE button, then press the SCENES buttons to select the DMX channel. AII LEDs will blink. Press and hold FINE & MODE buttons (2) times to exitNotes:You can permanently reverse the output of any given channel on the controller. Press AUTO/DEL&MODE buttons together to delete the reverse channel.FADE TIME ASSIGN

You can choose whether the boards fade time during scene execution is implemented broadly to all output channels or only to the Pan & Tilt movement channels. This is relevant because often you will want gobos and colors to change quickly while not affecting the movement of the light.

Action:

Action:Use BANK UP/DOWN buttons to change Program banks if necessary. Press the AUTO DEL button repeatedly until the AUTO LED turns on. Adjust the PROGRAM speed via the SPEED fader and the loop rate via the FADE TIME fader. Alternatively you can tap the TAP DISPLAY button twice. The time between two taps sets the time between SCENES (up to 10 minutes).Notes:

Deselect Blackout if LED is lit. Also called a Tap-Sync.

Action:Press and hold the PROGRAM button until the LED blinks.Use the BANK UP/DOWN buttons to select the PROGRAM bank to review.Press the SCENES buttons to review each scene individually.EDITING A PROGRAMAction: Press and hold the PROGRAM button until the LED blinks.Use BANK UP/DOWN buttons to change Program banks if necessary.Select the desired fixture via the SCANNERS button. Adjust and change fixture attributes using the channel faders and wheel. Press the MIDI/REC button to prepare the save. Select the desired SCENES button to save.Notes:

Deselect Blackout if LED is lit.

COPY A PROGRAM Action:Press and hold the PROGRAM button until the LED blinks.Use BANK UP/DOWN buttons to select the PROGRAM bank you will copy. Press the MIDI/REC button to prepare the copy.Use BANK UP/DOWN buttons to select the destination PROGRAM bank.Press the MUSIC BANK COPY button to execute the copy. All LEDs on the controller will blink.Notes:

All 8 scenes in a Program bank will be copied.

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