User manual

18 MAC 2000 Performance II
Gobo animation system
The gobo animation system is designed to create animated effects such as flames, sky and water imaging.
The MAC 2000 Performance II comes with 5 replaceable gobo animation wheels, which are magnetically
attached to the motor shaft, and which can be quickly changed. The gobo animation wheel pivots to allow
horizontal, vertical, and angled effects, such as rising flames or windswept clouds.
Via your DMX controller, you can control both the starting position of the animation disc and its rotation
direction and speed. The animation disc can be set to run continuously or to run in an indexing mode, which
will be of great use if you are using custom animation discs with text or company logos. You are also able to
choose the angle at which the disc has its starting position, be it horizontally aligned, vertically aligned, or
anywhere in between.
For information about:
• Using the gobo animation effects, see “Animation guide” on page 20
• Changing the installed gobo animation wheel, see “Gobo animation” on page 33
Dimming and strobe
The mechanical dimmer/shutter system provides smooth, high-resolution 100 percent dimming, instant
open and blackout, random and variable strobe effects up to 10 Hz, and random and variable pulses in
which the dimmer snaps open and slowly dims or snaps closed and slowly opens.
Color mixing
The color mixing system uses continuous dichroic cyan, magenta, and yellow (CMY) color filters. It is a
subtractive system that removes color from white light. Inserting all three filters results in loss of light: for
maximum brightness, mix 2 colors at a time.
Color temperature correction
The color temperature correction (CTC) system uses a continuous 0 - 178 mireds color filter that lowers the
color temperature from 6000 K to 2900 K.
Effect wheel
The effect wheel provides a variable frost filter and two slots that house a wide angle converter lens (beam
expander) and a nine-facet prism.
Iris
The iris closes down to 15 percent of its full-open diameter with high, 200-step resolution. The Iris Channel
also provides random and variable speed pulsating iris effects.
Focus and zoom
The focus lens focusses the beam from approximately 2 meters (6.5 feet) to infinity. The zoom lens widens
the beam from approximately 10° at full spot to 28° at full flood.