Panasonic AJ-D230HP Power switch, Cassette slot, Eject button, REC/REC INH lamp, Remote lamp

Controls and Their Functions

Front panel

POWER switch

When the ON side is pressed, the power is turned on, and the counter display area lights.

Cassette slot

Anews gathering cassette, general-purpose cassette or consumer-use cassette with an adaptor is loaded through this slot. Consumer-use cassettes can be played back only.

EJECT button

When this is pressed, the tape is unloaded, and several seconds later the cassette is automatically ejected.

When the counter display area shows the CTL display, the display is now reset.

REC/REC INH lamp

REC: This lights during recording.

REC INH: This lights when the cassette has been set to the accidental erasure prevention status.

It also lights when REC INHIBIT has been set to ON on the setup menu.

In this status, recording is not possible.

REMOTE lamp

This lights when the LOCAL/MENU/REMOTE switch has been set to the REMOTE position.

WIDE lamp

This lights in the 16:9 wide screen mode.

“Consumer-use cassette loaded” display lamp This lights when a cassette recorded on a consumer-use DV unit has been loaded.

REPEAT lamp

This lights during repeat playback.

SERVO lamp

This lights when the drum servo and capstan servo are locked.

Channel condition lamps	blue	red) in
One of these lamps lights (green
accordance with the status of the error rates.

Green: This lights when the error rates for the video and audio playback signals are both satisfactory.

Blue: This lights when the error rate for either the video or audio playback signals has deteriorated. The playback picture is still normal even while this lamp is lighted.

Red: This lights when either the video or audio playback signals are corrected or interpolated.

Level meter

This displays the audio signal levels.

The input audio signal levels are displayed during recording and E-E selection; the output audio signal levels are displayed during playback.

“Cassette loaded” display lamp

This lights when a cassette has been loaded into the unit.

Counter display area

The TC and CTL counts, on-screen information and messages appear in this area.

LOCAL/MENU/REMOTE switch

This is operated when menu settings are to be performed or when the unit is to be controlled from a remote location.

LOCAL: For controlling the unit using the controls on the unit’s operation panel.

MENU: For setting the on-screen menu.

REMOTE: For controlling the unit with an RS-232C or other external control unit.

INPUT SELECT switch

This is used to select the input signals.

LINE: For recording signals which have been supplied to the video signal input connector.

S-VIDEO:For recording signals which have been supplied to the S-VIDEO input connector.

OPTION: For supplying video and audio signals from an optional board and recording them.

BEGIN button

This sets the repeat playback start point, and it displays the currently entered start point.

END button

This sets the repeat playback end point, and it displays the currently entered end point.

CH3/CH4 lamp

This lights during DV format playback when the audio signals have been set in CH3 and CH4.

AUDIO OUT SELECT button

This selects the audio signals which are to be output.

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