Heden Carat Manual

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Table of contents
Important informaon ....................................................................................................... 2
Included in Carat case ........................................................................................................ 2
Carat transmier overview................................................................................................. 3
Carat receiver overview...................................................................................................... 4
Motor type conguraon................................................................................................... 5
Connecng ......................................................................................................................... 5
Pairing................................................................................................................................. 5
Auto calibraon.................................................................................................................. 5
Manual calibraon ............................................................................................................. 5
Fujinon/Canon FIZ .............................................................................................................. 5
Installing graphical user interface (GUI) ............................................................................. 6
GUI parameters .................................................................................................................. 7
Calibrang potenometer/adjust resistance in knb........................................................... 8

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Heden Carat system is fully compliant with european CE, United States FCC and bluetooth standards.
Included in carat case
CARAT Transmier unit ....................................1x
CARAT Receiver unit .........................................1x
HEDÉN motor ...................................................1x
Rod mount........................................................1x
Reducon insert (15mm as standard) ..............1x
0.8 gear (complete gear set is oponal)...........1x
Motor cable......................................................1x
Receiever power cable .....................................1x
HEDÉN neck strap.............................................1x
Scale ring ..........................................................2x
• Avoid using Carat system near water or in rainy condions. It is not water proofed. Water intru-
sion may lead to permanent damage.
• The CARAT transmier control knob is sensive to impacts. Impacts may cause damage to the
internal potenometer.
• Carat receiver thread on the backplate is sensive to over torque (max 5 Nm). Internal electric
and/or mechanical damage may occur.
• Carat kits are congured for the motor included, should you want to use your carat with
another Heden motor make sure it is the same motortype, encoder and resistor ID. If not use
Heden GUI to change motor type.
• All electronics is sensive to over voltage and ESD, only connect and disconnect the motor
when the receiver is not powered up.
• Make sure all cables are original Heden cables and inspect for damage before use. Using faulty
cables may cause serious damage to internal electronics.
• We recommend using rechargeable 9V Lithium baeries for longest run me.
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Green - Power on
Green blinking - Sleep mode
Yellow - Baery below 50%
Red - Baery low
Red blinking - Baery empty
Blue:
Slow blinking - Not paired with receiver
Fast blinking - Searching for reciever
Steady light - Paired
Blinking 3 mes, pause, blinking 3 mes - Interferance/bad bluteooth connecon
No light - Hardware connecon to bluteooth not acve/failed
Short press - power on/o
Long press - reset
Short press - Camera run
Long press - Pair
Short press - Acvate knob limits. See page 5.
Long press - Motor direcon
Green light - Motor running
Red blinking - Camera run acve
Short press - Acvate lens limits. See page 5.
Long press - Manual calibraon. See page 5.
Short press - Toggle between Hedén motor/
AUX FIZ. See page 5.
Both LEDs
Orange slow ash – Motor calibraon pending
Red slow ash – Calibraon error
Le LED
Orange fast ash – Motor is calibrang
Green light – Motor calibrated
Green fast ash – Waing for knob limit input
Green slow ash – Knob limit acve
Blue ash – Waing for knob to be turned to center to “pick up” AUX FIZ motor
Blue – AUX/FIZ acve
Right LED
Green fast ash – Waing for lens limit input
Green slow ash – Lens limit acve
Orange – Waing for wheel to be turned to center to begin manual calibraon. See page 5.
Orange ash – Waing for 1st and 2nd posion of manual calibraon
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Blue LED
Slow blinking - Not paired
Fast blinking - Searching for transmier
Steady light - Paired
Camera run/stop connecon
See our website for cables
Motor connecon Canon/Fujinon connecon
See our website for cables
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Power connecon PTAP (14.4V 2.5A)
Long press to start
pairing process
1/4” thread
MAX 5Nm. Damage to internal electronics
may accur if over torqued.

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Motor type conguraon
When a Carat is delivered the transmier unit is congured for the specic motor type included. If you connect the Carat
to another motor type than the one that was originally shipped with the system, the motor type needs to be changed in
the GUI (See page 7). The parameters are changed in the transmier unit. The receiver is interchangeable with no need to
change parameters in GUI. If you are you uncertain about what encoder your Hedén motor are congured with, just send an
email to “[email protected]” with the serial number and we will help you out.
Connecng
Slide the rod mount on to the motor housing. Put reducon insert into the mount. Aach the gear to the motor (gear can
be mounted from either side of the motor. Make sure the gear pin is inserted in the slot in the hub. Mount the motor to lens
and make sure gear is rmly connect to lens. Connect motor cable between the motor and receiver (DM connector). Connect
the power cable to receiver (14.4V 2.5A PTAP). We recommend connecng and disconnecng the motor cable only when
the receiver is not powered up. Slide scale ring on to knob. Note that there is a slot in scale ring and a pin on the knob that
should line up.
Pairing
When delivered as a complete kit the transmier and receiver is already paired.
Long press (2 seconds) the “Pair“ buons on the sender and receiver simultaneously or in short sequence will start the
pairing sequence. Blue LEDs will start ashing rapidly. Aer successful pairing the LEDs will show a steady blue light and if a
motor is connected the lower LEDs will start ashing orange.
Auto calibraon
The 2 lower LEDs will ash orange if the system is ready for calibraon. Use auto calibraon if your lens has xed end stops.
Long press “Auto cal.” buon to start the calibraon sequence. The torque used by the motor to calibrate can be tuned in
GUI if the lens is unusually s or sensive. If you have a lens with no xed ends/oang focus ring use manual calibraon.
Manual calibraon
When the lower LEDs are ashing orange, long press “Man cal.” buon. Lower right LED will show a steady orange light
waing for you to turn the knob into the center posion to do a “pick up” of the motor. The lower right LED will start blinking
orange when you nd the control knobs center, now the knob works as a speed controller rather than the normal posion
control. This means that turning the knob will move the motor incrementally faster depending on how far from center it
is turned. The motor will not stop running unl knob is returned to center again. Run the motor and stop it at its rst limit
and press “Man cal.“ buon. Run it in the other direcon to the next limit and press “Man cal.“ again. Manual calibraon is
nished.
Knob Limit
Knob limit lets you set 2 limits in the knob range and move the motor only between these points. Turning the control knob
beyond the assigned points will acvate the transmiers vibrator unless this is turned o in the GUI (see page 7). To enter
this mode move to desired start posion then short press center lower buon (“Knob limits”). Move to desired second posi-
on and press buon again. To exit mode press buon a third me.
Lens limit
Lens limits allows you to use a selected/limited range of the lens and use the whole range of the knob. This makes ne
increment adjustments easier. To enter this mode move to desired start posion then short press right lower buon (“Lens
limits”). Move control knob to second posion and press buon again. To exit mode press buon a third me.
Controlling Fujinon Cabrio or Canon lenses with internal motors (Addional cables needed - see our website)
Switching between controlling Canon or Fujinon is done in the GUI. As default the Carat is congured to work with Fujinon
lenses, indicated by blue LED on receiver. When congured for Canon the LED on the receiver will switch to magenta color.
Connect your lens’s remote/AUX port to the Carat receiver AUX port using a Hedén Fujinon or Canon adapter cable. Power
up the Carat receiver and sender unit. The lower le LED on the Carat transmier should now start ashing blue. This means
you need to turn the control knob unl it matches the posion of internal motor in lens. The vibrator will indicate that the
correct posion is found and you will be able to control the lens. If your lens has mulple motors for focus/zoom/iris you can
cycle trough the motors by short pressing lower le buon on sender unit. In the GUI it is possible to pre-determine which
lens motors you want to be able to control with the Carat transmier. It is also possible to have a Hedén motor connected
simultaneously with an external lens. Toggle between the modes using lower le buon short press.
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GUI installaon
Soware is only availible as windows applicaon(.exe).
Download le “Héden GUI” (40Mb) from our website www.heden.se/support/downloads
Installing:
Windows 10 users will proably be warned that the soware is from unknown source. Ignore this and proceed.
We recommend installing GUI in the default locaon.
In the rst window of installon it is important that the following boxes are cked:
If you get asked to update Zadig driver online press NO. In Zadig installer go to device/load preset device and pick the le
“UnjoFirmwareDevice”. “Press Install WCID Driver”. Close Zadig insataller.
Connue with the installon of “Virtual COM port“. Just press next unll installaon is nished.
Connect your Carat with Mini USB cable. Open up Héden GUI. Open “opons” menu. Open list “connecons“ and pick a
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Motor Type
Encoder seng
User parameters
Toggle buzzer on/o for knob limit mode
Switch between Canon/Fujinon FIZ
(only shown when Carat is connected)
Aer any changes to sengs press apply then save
Connecon status (blinking green when Carat is connected)
GUI overview
Connect the Carat transmier to usb and power it up before starng GUI.
Protected parameters (Password is”protected”)
Calibraon torque/current limit.
If using s lenses this value can be increased from default value
Max motor rpm, do not change
Acceleraon, do not change
Carat sender sleep meout
Carat transmier shutdown mer
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Adjustment of resistance in knob/end point calibraon
1. Remove scale ring.
2. Connect Carat transmier with mini USB cable.
3. Start GUI
4. Go to “potenometer calibraon”. To access enter
password “protected“. If carat is succesfully con-
nected, turning the contoll knob of the carat will
move the virtual knob in GUI.
5. Turn knob clockwise to its mechanical end stop.
6. Locate and loosen hex screw on the side of the
knob. See g. A. (1.5mm hex tool)
7. Use a small at screwdriver in the center hole on
top of knob. See g. B.
8. Klick start buon.
9. Gently turn the screw driver unl a value between
60-120 is reached. Value will be shown above
virtual knob. Make sure knob is sll in clockwise
posion.
10. Resistance of knob is determined by applying
force to the knob before ghtening hex screw.
More force means more resistance. See g .C.
11. Tighten hex screw and try resistance in knob. If
not sased loosen hex screw again and reapply
force.
12. Sll in counterclockwise posion, press “sample“
13. Move wheel all the way to counterclockwise posi-
on and press “sample again“
14. Knob calibraon procedure is now completed.
A B C
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