Animated Lighting

User Manuals

The following product user manuals and related technical documentation is available for download as PDF documents:

Product Manuals

Technical Overviews (includes troubleshooting information)

Useful Diagrams

Training Manuals

Appendices

Videos

Technical Documentation

  • Animated Lighting Quick Reference and Troubleshooting (564 KB)
    Look in here for information on a variety of summary and troubleshooting topics on Animation Director, the Visualizer, and hardware/network connections
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  • Description of Lighting Effects (81 KB)
    This document describes each of the lighting effects our light controllers can perform.  Each channel on a given controller can perform each lighting effect listed independently of other channels on the same controller.
     
  • How to Build Macros (70 KB)
    This document provides an overview of programming macros with Animation Director.
     
  • How to control landscape lighting (12VAC) with a Power Prism LD16 (41 KB)
    A schematic of how to wire a LD16-T to a landscape lighting transformer to control 12VAC lights.  Please note that this controller will not adjust the output voltage when a light goes out.
     
  • How to Synchronize Lights, Music, and Special Effects (501 KB)
    This quick-read document will supply you with the basics if you want to synchronize music to lights or other special effects in your display.
     
  • Macros and how to build them with Animation Director (70KB)
    A simple guide showing how to build and download to light controllers stand-alone macro programs
     
  • "Music Sync Made Easy" (3.56 MB)
    What hardware do you need to deliver music as part of a light show? How do you load music into Animated Lighting controllers? How should you hang your lights to match the pre-programmed shows? Find out the answers you need in this quick-read eight page document.
     
  • Power Load Calculation Worksheet  (160KB)
    Use this spreadsheet to quickly organize and calculate electrical loads for your display.  It can load your light channel configuration from any Animation Director v4 show file and create a worksheet tab for each light controller in your display. Created by Mike Mulvenna for fellow holiday display enthusiasts.  Download this Excel spreadsheet to your local computer and run it.  Macros need to be enabled (Tools/Macros/Security).
     
  • Pro Series Package Installation Guide (476 KB)
    Use this guide to learn how to install a plug-and-play PO16-MB or PO8-MB without any custom programming.
     
  • What to Know About Setting Up Your Show (2.98 MB)
    This document will present some of the issues you will want to consider before starting to build your show.
     
  • Wiring diagram for DMX to RJ45 adapter (137 KB)
    Pin out of an adapter cable that has a 3- or 5-pin XLR connector (used in DMX installations) on one end and a RJ45 connector on the other end.  The adapter is used to interface our Power Prism DMX controllers to a typical DMX data bus.

 

 


 

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