(LEE) Colortran SceneMaster 60

[TomyN]

Well, today I got an used SceneMaster 60 on e**y, it was realy cheap, but it will come without manual.
Could anybody give me a hint where to search for a manual, or just describe the basic principles (building scens and recalling them).

Be blessed

Tomy

[gafftaper]

First off talk to your buddy Phillip... you must know this guy because there's no way two people from Germany are posting requests for a Scenemaster 60 manual on the same day. Anyway, check out the other thread from a few hours ago, someone posted an e-mail address to try.

[TomyN]

well, that's realy strange. But Phillip isn't me and vice versa. It seems to be because the desk was in the german e**y auction. I'd dropped a mail to the company mentioned in the other thread yesterday (found them via g****e, but was not sure if they are the right ones) but got no answer jet.

But I've to blame me for not looking on older headers.

Be blessed

Tomy

[gafftaper]

Well good luck. Be sure to get in contact with Phillip so you can work together at finding it. It's really weird that two guys from Germany posted on this board in less than 3 hours apart looking for the same old manual. Pretty crazy stuff.

[Van]

What's with the asteriks ? just wondering.

[TomyN]

Hi,

well I know some forums where they are 'not amused' if you write the full names of the auctionportal and the internet search portal in full. Don't ask me why this is so, but I'm used to it.
If this is a problem, I try to write google and ebay without any ** in this forum.

Tomy

[Van]

Oh Ok I get it. It's not a problem for me I just couldn't figure out what g****e was and I wasn't sure if there was something blocking the writing of certain words.

[TomyN]

Well,

now it arrived. It seems to be in great shape.
But that's all I can check at the moment.
Can anybody help me with two questions:

- The desk has a 9 pin sub-D monitor output. Is that 'hercules', 'ega' , 'vga' or an special format?
- The desk has a 5 pin xlr connector, labeld with 'to dimmers'. Is this DMX, CMX or something else?

Any help or hint would be nice.

Tomy

[avkid]

9 Pin VGA connector
5 pin DMX or Colortran protocol

PM me about the manual if you want it.

[church]

I got a manual in a zipped file for one of these from Cinequipwhite in Toronto - I wanted the Prestige 2000 so I deleted it and they sent me the correct one.

I have a Scenemaster Prestige and the monitor is not VGA the 9pin D type connector will either be a TTL monitor (used on commodores from the late 1980s or an EGA monitor. Depends on model. Both are obsolete and can be hard to find and expensive. A used one can be bought from an internet supplier and some carry new ones but you can pay more for one of these than a SVGA monitor. A VGA or SVGA monitor uses 15 pins in the same size shell as a 9 pin D connector. You cannot adjust by changing cables - different scan rates etc.

The 5pin is DMX but the 4 pin is an analogue multiplex output.

If yours has the 3.5 inch diskette you may find it is a 720kByte drive and not a 1.5 Mbyte. If so you will need to find the lower density disks or you may be lucky and it may format to 720k - doesn't always work. Later units have a hard drive.

I have found these units sensitive to supply voltage and spikes so I use a supply filter for them. If you find it randomly resets from time to time this is the problem. Swapping the PSU supply filter capacitors for new ones also helps - they breakdown with age.

There is a lot of capability in these consoles - so have fun