Simaudio P-7 owner manual Software Setup

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MOON P-7 Dual-Mono Preamplifier

Software Setup (continued)

The MOON P-7is equipped with two 12 Volt trigger outputs. When an input is assigned to a 12 Volt trigger, the device connected to the trigger will automatically start-up whenever you switch to that input. The default setting for all seven inputs is on. When you set the IR input to “Y”, all inputs previously set to “Y” for that trigger will automatically be set to “N”. Then the trigger will be controlled exclusively by an external IR signal. The following example shows how to configure one of them:

1You may either continue where we left off in the previous example by pressing “Setup” twice to return to the main menu and the turn the volume control until “TRIG 1” appears in the display OR enter into the “Setup” mode from the beginning by pressing the “Setup” button and rotating the volume control until “TRIG 1” appears in the display.

2Press “OK” and “B1 : Y” will appear in the display.

3To disable the 12 Volt trigger, press “OK” and “B1 ? Y” appears in the display; rotate the volume control to alternate from “Y” to “N” .

4Press “OK” and “SAVED” will appear brielfy in the display followed by “B1 : N”.

5To configure another input, rotate the volume control until that input appears in the display, then press “OK”.

6Repeat steps 3 and 4.

7When you have finished with all of the inputs for the “TRIG 1” press the “Setup” button and “TRIG 1” will appear in the display. From this point you may go to four different locations in the Setup menu:

To configure the second 12 Volt trigger output, rotate the volume control until “TRIG 2” appears in the display then press “OK” and repeat the above process beginning with step 3.

To exit from the Setup procedure, press the “Setup” button again and “EXITING” will appear in the display.

To reset the software settings back to their factory defaults, rotate the volume control until “RESET” appears in the display (see the next example).

To configure the inputs (previous example) rotate the volume control until “INPUT” appears in the display.

Reset the MOON P-7software settings back to their factory defaults:

1You may either continue were we left off in the previous example by turning the volume control until “RESET” appears in the display OR enter into the “Setup” mode from the beginning by pressing the “Setup” button and then rotating the volume control until “RESET” appears in the display.

2Press “OK” and “RESET N” will appear in the display.

3Rotate the volume control until “RESET Y” appears in the display.

4Press “OK” and “SURE ? N” will appear in the display.

5Rotate the volume control until “SURE ? Y” appears in the display.

6Press “OK” and “SAVED” will briefly appear in the display followed by “RESET”.

7Press the “Setup” button again and “EXITING” will appear in the display.

Assigning a custom label to an input:

1Using the example from the previous page for configuring an input, repeat steps 1 through 5.

2When “CUSTOM” appears in the display press the “OK” button. The display will show “……………………………” .

3Rotate the volume control clockwise to scroll through the 26 letters of the English alphabet, first in uppercase and then lowercase, followed by the numbers 0 through 9, and finally several miscellaneous symbols including the space character. When you see the letter/number/symbol you wish to use, press “OK” to select it and then repeat this step for the next character.

4You must assign all 8 characters when creating a custom input label; In the event that your label requires only 5 characters, you will need to input a blank space for the remaining 3 characters.

5Once you’ve filled the last position, press”OK” and “SAVED” will briefly appear in the display followed by “INPUTS”.

6Press the “SETUP” button to exit from the Setup menu.

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P-7 specifications

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