Instruction manual

Monitor Displays
The Frog series of lighting desks have
a video output socket fitted which is
used for displaying various data and
information on a monitor screen.
The monitor display is text only and
has a resolution of 80 characters wide
by 50 lines high.
The monitor is for the display of
information only; the desk software is
driven and controlled by the controls
on the front panel.
Selection and Navigation
In normal operation the monitor display
will “follow” the Main LCD on the front
panel and display the corresponding
screen or popup window.
Locking Monitor Screens
The FUNCTION button F1 is used as
the “Monitor Functions” button.
The main monitor screens can be
selected and locked by holding down
the F1 button and then pressing a front
panel button as shown below:
MEMORIES - Memories Screen
SUBMASTERS -Submasters Screen
OUTPUTS - Outputs Screen
FIXTURE SEL- Fixture O/P Screen
COLOUR* - Palette Screen (Col)
BEAMSHAPE* - Palette Screen (B/S)
POSITION* - Palette Screen (Pos)
GROUP - Fixture Groups Screen
When the monitor screen is locked, the
red light in the F1 button is lit, and
“SCR LOCKED” is displayed in the
PSI section of the monitor screen.
Pressing the F1 button again unlocks
the monitor screen.
* Locking any of the palette screens on
the monitor also locks the CHANNEL
FLASH buttons to operate as palette
selection buttons.
Status and Information
The bottom section of the monitor
screen always shows the following
Playback Status and Information (PSI).
Playback X - The current and next
memory numbers, fade times, dwell
time and trigger for the next memory.
Submasters - Current page number,
and indication of status of each
physical submaster.The colour of the
page number indicates its status:
Level = 0 Grey
Level Fading Up/Down Red
Level > 0 (current page) Green
Level > 0 (overlaid) Orange
Fixture “Virtual” Presets - The
current level of the “virtual” preset
fader for each of the fixtures.
Fixture Edit Modes - The current
fixture edit modes for the attributes.
Grand Master - The current level of
the GRAND MASTER fader (in %).
Blackout - When blackout is active,
the text “BLACKOUT” is displayed
flashing in the Grand Master field.
Monitor Screen Lock - When the
monitor screen is locked, the text
“SCR LOCKED” is displayed.
Clock - The current time and date in
the format HH:MM:SS DD/MM/YYYY.
Frog Series 73-750-00 Issue 6 7 - 9
Other Features
Figure 7 - 4 : Playback Status and Information (Monitor)