Thank you for purchasing your Kvant laser projector, In this video we will do our best
to get you up and running with a console and your new projector as fast as possible.
First, open the case and pull the projector out.
Next remove all the cables and accessories.
You should have the projector, Trucon Power cable, Ethernet cable, 3 Pin XLR Cable, Estop
Button, Keys and the User interlock.
Start by using the 3 Pin XLR cable to connect into the Remote input on the laser projector,
then plug the other end into the Estop Button.
Grab the users interlock from the bag and plug that into the estop button as well.
From there grab the keys from the bag, putting one in the estop and one in the laser projector.
Next we will take the Trucon power cable and plug it into the projector, and plug the other
end into the mains.
Lastly we will pull up on the estop button to reveal the yellow stripe, and press the
start button until both LEDS turn on.
This will turn similar LEDs on, on the backside of the projector.
To be sure everything is set up correctly you should see the following LEDs, Power,
Start, and the FB4 controller should have the green LED static on.
Your projector is now powered and ready for control signal.
On all Kvant laser projectors you can daisy chain the Estop, and the ethernet cable, and
on lower power projectors you can also daisy chain the power
Now that our projector is on and running, lets get it ready to receive DMX or Artnet
from your console.
FB4 comes from factory with 1500 cues in our content pack on the projector, if for some
reason it didn’t, we have a video covering how to upload this content on YouTube called
“how to setup the FB4 Beam Content Pack” I will let you know at which step we know
if content is on the projector or not.
On your FB4, go to operational mode, and select Artnet or DMX, we will do DMX for simplicity.
Then under DMX settings you can set the address for the laser we will patch in the console,
I will leave it at one for simplicity here as well.
Last thing is the mode, we want to set it to the “FB4” profile and not the “FB3”
profile.
Then connect your DMX cable to your console, or through your data distribution.
Now lets patch the fixtures in the console and set them up.
We will use MA2 for demonstration as it is so widely used, but we have profiles for most
of the major consoles.
You can search for the profile in the console library, or download them from our website
at https://pangolin.com/pages/dmx-profiles.
We will want to use the 39 channel mode, which is broken up into two fixtures for easier
setup and control.
First, patch the setup profile that is 13 channels and give it a fixture id,
then patch the player profile which is 26 channels in a separate fixture id set.
These should be directly after each other in the patch, and look like this.
Now we will leave the setup.
Select your setup fixture for the laser, go to control, and set to setup, go to gobo,
select test pattern 1, and finally go to dimmer and slowly bring it up, this will show a test
pattern on the laser.
From there we can go to shapers and shape our laser zone into place, check our safety
video on how to do this safely and correctly.
Once we are happy with our zoning, we can go back to dimmer, set it to max, then go
to control and set to enabled.
Before we clear the programmer, we will park this fixture entirely, so the setup doesn’t
change and you wont have to worry about it being enabled or not.
Now you can select the player fixture, select a gobo, give it some dimmer and you have output!
If at this moment you do not have output, you may need to put the content on the projector,
check out our FB4 beam content pack video to upload to the projector as mentioned previously.
If you do have the content, then you have 1500 cues at your fingertips.
From here you can do all your normal console control stuff like position, color, and some
laser parameters like scanrate and visible points.
All controllable from the console and using whatever effects engine your console has.
We hope you enjoy using your new Kvant laser system with a console for control, if you
are having any issues feel free to contact our support line by emailing support@pangolin.com
and we will help you as soon as possible.
Thanks for watching!