PROAIM PT-SPN User manual

Spin Pan Tilt Head
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Instruction Manual

PROAIM SPIN PAN TILT HEAD 2
At Proaim, our goal is to ensure 100% Customer Sasfacon in all that we do.
We back our sales with a 1 year warranty from the date of purchase and work hard
to resolve any problems in the unlikely event one should arise.
With our commitment to connuous improvement and your Feedback, building on
our reputaon of providing aordable, quality products is
PRIORITY #1.
Table of Contents
Subject Page
Foreword 3
Introducon 4
What’s In The Box 4
Assembling 5-10
Warranty 10

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Welcome To Proaim!
Dear Client,
On behalf of all the people that work so hard to provide you with the most
up-to-date, exible and cost-ecient producon gear, we would like to welcome
you into the Proaim family.
By purchasing your Proaim SPIN Pan Tilt Head, you have just joined a host of
designers, engineers, machinists, assembly, customer service and oce sta that
take great pride in all that they do. Our mantra of connuous improvement has
been the guiding principle of how we conduct our business since day one.
Once you have the opportunity to experience your new SPIN Pan Tilt Head, we
hope you will agree that we cra quality products at a compeve price.
Products designed to meet and exceed the standards of today’s real producon
world.
Standards set by our valued clients and standards we strive to maintain.
With Best Wishes,
Proaim Team

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Our unique, industry exclusive 2-Axis – 360 degree Spin Pan Tilt Head in crane
conguraon, gives operators an incredible range of shot selecon and picture
composion capability. You can now roll your camera 360 degrees and sll achieve
360 degree, pan & lt moves at the same me. No other system gives you this
range of movement with the same uid moon.
Contents Of Shipping Box:
 SPIN Pan Tilt head
 Joysck control box and Joy sck cover
 Jib to head connector
 Alen keys
 Universal power adapter
 12V AC adapter
 10 meter long cable
 1.5 meter cable
Introducon
Please inspect the contents of your shipped package to ensure you have received
everything that is listed below.
What’s In The Box

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 Install the jib-head connector on the Jib
arm with the 4x ¼”x1” screws, washers
and nuts.
 Then, aach the SPIN Pan-Tilt Head with the jib to head connector. Align the screw holes
in the mounng extension and insert the screws to ghten the head.
INSTALLING THE HEAD & ACCESSORIES
 Install your cable starng at the camera end making sure to leave enough slack for full
pan & lt movements. Adding a Velcro strap (not supplied) to loop the cable around the
jib arm, helps prevent cable snags and tangles.
 Aach & secure your camera on the
camera plaorm of Head with the
help of provided chuck nut.

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CAUTION: DO NOT USE AN UNREGULATED POWER SUPPLY! IF USING A REGULATED POWER
SUPPLY IT MUST PRODUCE LESS THAN 12 VOLTS. MORE THAN 24 VOLTS MAY CAUSE
PERMANENT DAMAGE.
HEAD CABLE
PROAIM™ SPIN PAN TILT HEAD Digital only
JOYSTICK
 The joysck may be operated hand held, from a at surface like a table top or aached to
the boom arm of the jib.
CABLES & CONTROL BOX
 Install the 12 volt DC power (4 pin XLR)
in rear of joysck box.
Note: Any 12 volt baery may operate the PROAIM™ SPIN PAN TILT HEAD as long as the
connector mates and is #1 pin Negave and #4 pin Posive.
 Aach the 4-pin power cord to rear of
joysck box.

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 Aach the cables of the motors with
the long cable.
BALANCING
 Find the horizontal balance point of your camera by using 2 ngers of one hand while hold-
ing the handle.
 Mark this point on the side of the camera with chalk or tape.
 Turn the unit on and move the lt control unl the camera plate is vercal.
 Loosen the two screws holding lt motor. (DO NOT REMOVE).
 Grasp the motor and turn slightly to disengage gears.
 Mount the camera to the camera plate with the screw provided.
 Tighten by threading the nut up to the boom of the camera plate securely.
 Make sure your balance point previously marked with chalk or tape is in the middle of the
plate.
 Loosen the knob below the camera plate and slide the camera and plate up or down unl
the center line of your camera is about in the middle of the large gear. Now ghten knob.
 If the camera is perfectly balanced it will stay in any posion while motor gear is sll un-
aached.
 Grasp the motor and turn it back unl the gears mesh.
 Gently ghten motor screws.
 Secure the camera.

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OPERATION
 With the camera set up as previously described above, Power ON by pressing the RED
Switch on the top of the Joysck control box.
 For inverted use, disconnect the leads to the motors, rotate the control box 180 degrees
and re-install.
PROAIM™ 3 - AXIS DUTCH HEAD
The PROAIM™ SPIN Pan Tilt Head circuitry is built enrely into the joysck box. The only other
requirement is the AC power pack (provided) or baery power. The power pack can handle 90-
240 volts. Users will need the appropriate plug adapter for local use.
JOYSTICK
The joysck is a two-axis variable speed servo controller. The further you move in one direcon
the faster the output to that motor. This will be a lile tricky at rst, but lile pracce will
improve your success.
The joysck may be operated in a handheld posion or from a at surface such as a tabletop, or
aached to the boom arm of Jib.
Note: All reducon boxes have a small amount of backlash. The balancing of the camera will
reduce the backlash to a minimum making it felt at the top of the lt arc.
Aer plugging the power cord into a proper outlet, press ‘power on. The LED light on the
control box should illuminate and the head may jump slightly on start up or shut down. This is
normal. This can be controlled by Dead Spot. Adjust the joysck to ensure correct movement of
the head. It may be necessary to reconnect to the motors if required.
POWER CONTROL
To the right and above the joysck is a knob labeled "SPEED".
This is the power control knob. Turning to the right will be full power and back to the le will
decrease the available power to both pan and lt operaon. The advantage of power control is
to be able to limit power when only slow accurate movements are needed. With the power
control at half power (approx. 8 volts max. output) the full range of moon on the joysck will
be between 0 and 8 volts making ner adjustments possible. The power control will be usable
between a range of approximately 4 volts to 12 volts.
DEAD SPOT
The knob to the le is marked Dead Spot. Turned all the way to the le (counterclockwise) will
create the smallest dead spot. Meaning that the head will begin to move as soon as the
smallest deecon of the joysck is made. Moving to the right will increase the area where no
power is sent to the head motors. At half way, the dead spot will close again, this helps to avoid
crossing the lt when only pan movement is desired.
Note: With the dead spot all the way le the head may move in both axis on it’s own. The dead
spot should be set at approx. the 9:00 posion to insure that no unwanted movement
occurs.

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PAN DIRECTION SWITCH
When the Pan Tilt Head is used on a Tripod or on a Jib.
When the head is shied from a Jib to a tripod, it needs reversal of direcon as the locaon of
the head will be inverted. By switching “on” the pan direcon switch, we can immediately re-
verse the direcon. When the joysck is moved to the right it gives right rotaon as it gives
while mounted on the tripod directly.
Linear or Logarithmic taper joysck control
All joyscks are linear, meaning that each degree of movement of the sck correlates to the
output. On the 12 volt PROAIM™ SR.PAN TILT HEAD half deecon of the joysck means ap-
proximately 6 volts sent to the motors. But with the advent of Digital we can now control the
taper of the joysck, making in Logarithmic as well. Logarithmic taper being that the rst of joy-
sck movement only sends a small amount of power to the motors and the last of the deec-
on will send more power per degree of deecon. On Logarithmic taper 1/3 of joysck deec-
on might yield 2 volts output the next 1/3 will yield 4 volts output and the last 1/3 of yields 6
volts for a max. again of 12 volts. This mode gives the operator ne slow movements yet re-
tains the ability to go to max. speed if necessary.
DAMPING KNOB
Damping Knob is the ability to control the "damping" eect of the joysck interface with the pan/
lt acon of the head being controlled. It does not maer what head you are using; the damping
eect is a characterisc of the joysck output.
YOUR PROAIM SPIN PAN TILT HEADS
ALL DRESSED UP AND READY TO GO
(SHOWN WITH OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES)

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WARRANTY
We oer a one year warranty for our products from the date of purchase.
We will repair or replace your product, free of charge, in the event of a defect in materials or
crasmanship obtained during normal use or handling based on the user manual. Please note
that we will not cover any shipping costs for returning the product to us. If any VAT or import
dues are applied to the return, we will also charge these costs to the customer.
The warranty does not include, by the way of example, damage caused by products that we do
not supply or from mishandling in transit, accident, misuse, neglect, lack of care of the product ,
or service by anyone other than our company.
We are not liable for incidental or consequenal damages resulng from the use of the unit or
occurring due to any breach of this warranty.
Replacement parts of the product will be provided at nominal cost (covering the cost price of the
replacement parts only) to the customers aer the Warranty Period has expired. We will cover
the complete cost of sending replacement parts within the warranty period. Aer that, Nominal
cost of the product & Actual shipping cost will be charged.
Do not send the unit to us without rst geng a response and geng the approval to send back
the item.
In case of any kind of dissasfacon, we urge you to Contact us immediately and we shall do our
Best to help you out. For any other assistance you can reach us via email.
For any other assistance you can reach us via email.