Logitech F540 User manual

Getting started with
Première utilisation
Logitech® Wireless Headset F540

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Logitech®Wireless Headset F540
Languages
English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Español . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Français . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Português . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Contents
Package contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Powering up the wireless base station . . . . . . . . . . 5
Charging the headset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
F540 setup with PS3™. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Connecting PS3 game audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
If you use HDMI or digital optical for PS3 audio . . . . . . . . 7
If you use PS3 analog AV cable for audio . . . . . . . . . . 8
Alternative: If you want to use your audio out from your TV or AV receiver . . 9
Connecting PS3 voice chat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
F540 setup with Xbox 360®. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Connecting Xbox 360 game audio. . . . . . . . . . . . 11
If you use HDMI or digital optical for Xbox 360 audio . . . . . . . 12
If you use the red/white RCA connectors on the Xbox 360 AV cable for audio . 13
Alternative Xbox 360 wireless base station setup . . . . . . . . 14
Connecting Xbox 360 voice chat . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Using the headset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Turning on the headset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Using the input selector button . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Using the volume rollers and microphone mute button . . . . . . 19
Turning off the headset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Adjusting the headset fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
What do you think? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Logitech hardware product limited warranty . . . . . . . . 24
Logitech support telephone numbers . . . . . . . . . . 91

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Logitech®Wireless Headset F540
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1. Headset F540
2. Wireless base station
3. RCA-to-RCA passthrough cable
4. 2.5 mm Xbox 360 voice cable
5. Mini-USB PS3 voice cable
6. Micro-USB headset charging cable
7. Power cable
8. Getting started guide
Getting started with
Première utilisation
Logitech® Wireless Headset F540
Package contents Powering up the wireless base station
Using the included power cable, plug your wireless base station into an available AC outlet
to power up the unit.
Charging the headset
Your Logitech Wireless Headset F540 is rechargeable and should have some charge when
you take it out of the package. It’s recommended to charge the headset fully before use.
• To charge the headset, use the included headset charging cable. Plug the small
connector into the headset and the large connector into the port on the front of the
wireless base station. The LED above the charging port of the headset will turn orange
while charging and green when it’s fully charged.
• The headset will take approximately 3-4 hours to fully re-charge from a completely
drained state. If you use the headset while it’s being charged, the charging cycle will
take longer.
• When the headset rechargeable battery has only 30 minutes of charge left, you will
hear an audible warning through the headset speakers. This warning will repeat
intermittently until you plug in the headset for charging or when the battery is fully
drained. The LED above the charging port on the headset will also turn red when
the charge is low.
Wireless base station
Headset charging cable
Xbox 360
Power cable
Logitech wireless base
station

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If you use HDMI or digital optical for PS3 audio
If you are using an HDMI or digital optical cable to connect your PS3 to your primary
audio system, use the PS3 AV cable (recommended) setup below or the alternative shown
in Figure 3.
Recommended setup for the wireless base station (Fig. 1)
1. Connect the PS3 AV cable (typically included with the PS3) to the back of the PS3.
2. Connect the red and white RCA plugs of the PS3 AV cable to the PS3 ports on the back
of the wireless base station.
3. Adjust the audio settings using the PS3™ XMediaBar™. You need to enable multi-
output audio in the PS3 system (firmware 3.00 or later) settings for the PS3 to transmit
stereo audio to the Headset F540.
Within the XMediaBar, navigate to
•Settings
•Sound Settings
•Audio Multi-Output
In Audio Mulit-Output, select “On” to turn on the Audio Multi-Output feature.
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F540 setup with PS3™
To use all the features of the Headset F540, you’ll need to make two connections:
one for game audio and one for voice chat.
You make the game audio connection between the Logitech wireless base station and
the PS3. Or you can connect the wireless base station to your primary audio system
(television, home theater system, AV receiver, or audio switch).
You make the voice connection between the wireless base station and the PS3 using
the Logitech Mini-USB PS3 voice cable.
To make the connections described in this section, you may need the items shown below,
which are included with the Headset F540:
Connecting PS3 game audio
How you make this connection is dependent upon how you have connected your PS3
to your primary audio system. While every home gaming environment may be different,
there are two basic ways to hook up your PS3:
• A digital connection using an HDMI or digital optical cable
• An analog connection using the PS3 AV cable
RCA-to-RCA
passthrough cable
Mini-USB PS3 voice
cable
Wireless base station
Xbox 360
Xbox 360
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PS3
PS3 AV cable
Logitech wireless base station
Figure 1

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Alternative: If you want to use your audio out from your TV
or AV receiver
If the recommended steps are inconvenient or don’t work on your system setup, please
follow the steps below to connect the wireless base station to your primary audio system:
1. Using the Logitech RCA-to-RCA passthrough cable, connect one end to the PS3 ports
on the back of the wireless base station.
2. Connect the other end of the cable to the red and white stereo audio-out ports on
the back of your primary audio system.
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If you use PS3 analog AV cable for audio
If you are using the red and white stereo connectors of the PS3 AV cable to connect
your PS3 to your primary audio system, use the following wireless base station setup or
the alternative on page 9.
Recommended setup for the wireless base station (Fig. 2)
1. Unplug the red and white connectors of the PS3 AV cable from your primary
audio system.
2. Plug these red and white connectors directly into the Logitech RCA-to-RCA
passthrough cable connectors.
3. Plug the male connectors of the Logitech RCA-to-RCA passthrough cable to
your primary audio system (where the PS3 AV cable was previously connected).
4. On the other end of the Logitech RCA-to-RCA passthrough cable, plug the red
and white connectors into the PS3 ports on the back of the wireless base station.
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Xbox 360
Xbox 360
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Logitech RCA-to-RCA passthrough cable
Logitech wireless base station
Primary audio system
Figure 3
Figure 2
Xbox 360
Xbox 360
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Logitech wireless base station
Primary audio system
Logitech RCA-to-RCA
passthrough cable
PS3 PS3 AV cable

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F540 setup with Xbox 360®
To use all the features of the Headset F540, you’ll need to make two connections:
one for game audio and one for voice chat.
You make the game audio connection between the Logitech® Headset F540 and the
Xbox 360. Or you can connect the wireless base station to your primary audio system
(television, home theater system, AV receiver, or audio switch).
You make the voice connection between the wireless base station and an Xbox 360
game controller using the Logitech 2.5 mm Xbox 360 voice cable.
To make the connections described in this section, you may need the items shown below,
which are included with the Headset F540:
Connecting Xbox 360 game audio
How you make this connection is dependent upon how you have connected your
Xbox 360 to your primary audio system. While every home gaming environment may be
different, there are two basic ways to hook up your Xbox 360:
• A digital connection using an HDMI or digital optical cable
• An analog connection using the red and white RCA connectors of the Xbox 360
component HD AV cable
Connecting PS3 voice chat
1. To experience voice chat in PS3 games, first use the Logitech Mini-USB PS3 voice cable
to connect the wireless base station to the PS3, as shown in the picture below.
2. Select the microphone as the active audio input device on PS3. In the PS3 system
XMediaBar™, navigate to
•Settings
•Accessory Settings
•Audio Device Settings
In the Input device and Output device fields, select Logitech Wireless Headset as
the active device.
Optional: You can also adjust the microphone sensitivity in this PS3 system pane.
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RCA-to-RCA passthrough cable 2.5 mm Xbox 360 voice cable
Wireless base station
Xbox 360
Logitech wireless base station
PS3
Logitech mini-USB PS3 voice cable

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If you use the red/white RCA connectors on the Xbox 360 AV cable
for audio
If you are using the red and white RCA analog connectors of the Xbox 360 component
HD AV cable to connect your Xbox 360 to your primary audio system, use one of the
following wireless base station setups in this section.
Recommended setup for the wireless base station (Fig. 5)
1. Unplug the red and white connectors of the Xbox 360 component HD AV cable from
your primary audio system.
2. Plug these red and white connectors directly into the Logitech RCA-to-RCA
passthrough cable connectors.
3. Plug the male connectors of the Logitech RCA-to-RCA passthrough cable to your
primary audio system (where the Xbox 360 component HD AV cable was previously
connected).
4. On the other end of the Logitech RCA-to-RCA passthrough cable, plug the red and
white connectors into the Xbox 360 ports on the back of the wireless base station.
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If you use HDMI or digital optical for Xbox 360 audio
If you are using an HDMI or digital optical cable to connect your Xbox 360 to your primary
audio system, use the Xbox 360 component HD AV cable (recommended) to connect
the wireless base station to your Xbox 360/primary audio system, or the alternative setup
on page 14.
Recommended wireless base station setup (Fig.4)
1. Connect the Xbox 360 component HD AV cable (typically included with the Xbox 360)
to the back of the Xbox 360. Note that with some Xbox 360 models, you cannot
connect both an HDMI cable and the Xbox 360 component HD AV cable.
(If you experience this issue, please use the alternative wireless base station setup
shown in Fig. 6)
2. Connect the red and white stereo RCA plugs to the Xbox 360 ports on the Logitech
wireless base station.
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Xbox 360
Xbox 360
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Logitech wireless base station
Primary audio system
Logitech RCA-to-RCA
passthrough cable
Xbox 360 component
HD AV cable
Xbox 360
Figure 5
Xbox 360
Xbox 360
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Logitech wireless base station
Xbox 360
Xbox 360 component HD AV cable
Figure 4

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Connecting Xbox 360 voice chat
To experience voice chat in Xbox 360 games, connect the Headset F540 directly to an
Xbox 360 game controller using the Logitech 2.5 mm Xbox 360 voice cable, as shown
in the picture below.
To get the best voice chat performance, including using the voice audio volume roller
on the headset, we recommend you adjust your Xbox 360 system settings as described:
1. Press the Xbox Guide button on the game controller, then navigate to Settings >
Preferences > Voice
2. At the top of the screen, set the volume to level 10
3. Select “Play Through Headset” under Voice Output
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Alternative Xbox 360 wireless base station setup
If the previous recommended connections are inconvenient or don’t work for your system
setup, please follow the steps below to connect the wireless base station to your primary
audio system:
1. Using the Logitech RCA-to-RCA passthrough cable, connect one end to the Xbox 360
ports on the back of the wireless base station.
2. Connect the other end of the cable to the red and white stereo audio-out ports on
the back of your primary audio system.
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Xbox 360
Xbox 360
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Logitech 2.5 mm Xbox 360 voice cable
Logitech Wireless
Headset F540
Xbox 360 game
controller
Logitech RCA-to-RCA
passthrough cable
Logitech wireless
base station
Primary audio system
Figure 6

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Using the headset
After setting up the wireless base station, you are now ready to use the Headset F540.
This section tells you how by covering headset features, controls, and adjustments.
Features
1. Noise-canceling microphone
2. Microphone mute light
3. Flexible, rotating microphone boom
4. Precision headband adjustment
5. Comfort headband pad
6. Plush ear pads
7. Closed-back, noise-isolating ear cups
8. Microphone mute button
9. Voice audio volume roller
10. Game audio volume roller
11. Power button
12. Wireless connection status light
13. Input selector
14. Xbox 360 voice connection port
15. Headset charging port
Connecting other AV sources
You can use the Headset F540 to listen to a variety of audio-video sources, including TVs,
DVD players, MP3 players, and more. To listen to any of these devices, use standard RCA
or 3.5 mm cables (not included) to connect these devices to the back of the wireless
base station.
For example, if you have connected the wireless base station to a PS3 game console,
(leaving the Xbox 360 ports open), you could connect a DVD player to the wireless base
station. To make this connection, use RCA cables to connect the audio-out ports on
the DVD player to the open Xbox 360 ports on the back of the wireless base station.
If you also have an MP3 player, you could connect it using a 3.5 mm cable, which you
would plug into the AUX IN port on the back of the wireless base station.
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AUX INXbox 360
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PS3
Wireless base station
Stereo AV devices can be connected here using RCA cables
AV devices (e.g., MP3 player) using a 3.5 mm cable can
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Using the volume rollers and microphone mute button
• Use the two rollers on the left ear cup to independently control the volume of
the game and voice chat audio.
• You can mute your microphone by pressing the microphone mute button,
or by rotating the microphone boom all the way closed (up).
• When your microphone is muted, an LED located at the tip of the microphone will
illuminate red.
Turning off the headset
• Press and hold the power button for approximately one second.
• When powering off the headset, the LEDs on the wireless base station will blink briefly
and then turn off.
Turning on the headset
• Press the power button on the headset to turn it on.
• The headset will wirelessly connect with the wireless base station.
• You will see the three LEDs on the wireless base station turn on, blink briefly,
and then one of the LEDs will turn solid.
Using the input selector button
• If you have multiple audio devices connected to the wireless base station,
you can press the INPUT button on the headset to toggle through them.
• Press the button to change the audio source. On the front of the wireless base station,
the next LED will illuminate, representing the active audio source. (If there is only
one audio device connected to the back of the wireless base station, that input will
remain active).
Power button
Input selector
Wireless base station LEDs
Chat volume roller Sound volume
roller
Microphone
mute button
Power button