Panther S-TYPE DOLLY Manuel utilisateur
S-TYPE DOLLY
USER MANUAL
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INTRODUCTION
Congratulations to your decision of purchasing or renting your Panther S-Type Dolly. We are
pleased that you made your decision in favor of equipment, which combines state-of-the-art
technology and many years of experience in manufacturing camera support equipment.
Selected materials and a great know-how ensures that in practice you have a wide variety of
possibilities, which you will appreciate during shooting. Your new Panther S-Type Dolly is a
high-quality and modern equipment giving the creative cameraman a new easy way to control
your movements and get more flexibility.
The Panther S-Type Dolly is a very useful Dolly, developed by specialists for specialists in order
to meet the expectations of every cameraman or grip.
To ensure that you will love working with your Panther S-Type Dolly and that all requirements
during shooting can be fulfilled considering utmost safety and reliability, please carefully read
this user manual.
With our best wishes
Andreas Fitz
CEO | Executive President
Panther GmbH
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TOPIC PAGE
Technical Data 5
Basic Knowledge 6
Initial Operation 12
Seat & Seatarm
Power Supply
General
7
9
13
Connect 15
Preparing 7
Wireless Handset 13
Manual Drive 16
Speed / Ramps Adjustment 17
Set Limits 18
Program Movements 19
Further Settings 22
Service Menu 23
Super Low Mode 25
Control Panel 26
Changing Wheels 27
Big Wheels 29
Wheels 27
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TOPIC PAGE
Steering 31
General 31
Crab & Round 32
Conventional Front / Rear 33
Narrow-Gauge 34
Steering Rod 35
Dolly on Tracks 36
Accessories 38
Push Bar 38
Platform Set 40
High Platform 46
Flex Arm 47
Counterweight 49
Camera Mount 51
Bumper 54
Transport 56
Remove the Scissors-Arm 56
Carrying the Dolly 59
Emergency Operation 60
Notes 61
5
TECHNICAL DATA
Length (Dolly)
Width (Dolly)
Height (Dolly)
Center Distance (Sciccors-Arm)
Standard Lift range (Low-Mode)
max. Lift range (Super Low-Mode)
96,5 cm / 38‘‘
64,5 cm / 25,4‘‘
39,5 cm / 15,55“ (front) | 48 cm / 18,9‘‘ (rear)
37 cm / 14,6‘‘
103 cm / 40,6‘‘
146 cm / 57,5‘‘
Transport weight (Dolly without wheels)
Transport weight (Scissors-Arm)
104 kg / 229 lbs
64 kg / 141 lbs
Track Width
Ground Clearance
62 cm (wide) | 48 cm (narrow)
21cm / 8,3‘‘
Payload (Dolly)
Payload (Scissors-Arm)
800 kg / 1764 lbs
100 kg / 220 lbs
Battery 2 x 24V
96,5 cm / 38“
64,5 cm / 25,4“
39,5 cm / 15,55“
48 cm / 18,9“
6
BASIC KNOWLEDGE
Electro-Mechanical Dolly
The Panther S-Type Dolly is a completely
electro-mechanical dolly. That means there
is no dripping oil, no pumping up etc. Do not
operate underwater or in very wet / humid
environments.
Only one integrated tool
We designed the S-Type Dolly to be used
almost tool-free in order to ensure a fast
and easy operating. If there is a tool needed
it is always the same: only one Allen Key (8)
which has its parking position directly on top
of the dolly. This gives you, the operator, the
possibility to work fast and easy, without
losing time for searching the right tool.
In fact: whenever you need a tool, it is the
one that you can see on the right picture.
Even by laying the dolly sideways, there is
nothing to worry about. The S-type has been
designed to be as flexible as possible to make
your work on set great!
7
PREPARING
SEAT & SEATARM
Seat & Seatarm
The seat arm can be mounted in 8 dierent
positions. Please check the picture on the
right.
Of course, you can also take a second seat arm
and use two at the same time.
Top View
Mounting the seat arm is done by easy plug
& play. Just plug it into the desired position.
You may have to fasten
the Seat Arm to prevent
unintentionally wiggling by
using the integrated Allen
Key and tighten the screws
on the side of the dolly
(depending on where you
positioned the Seat Arm).
Now you can mount the Eccentric Panther
Seat right into the seat arm.
8
PREPARING
SEAT & SEATARM
Height Adjustment
The height of the seat arm can be adjusted
tool free. Pull the black knob on the seat arm
tube and adjust the height. Push back the
black button to fix the position.
If you want to be very low, you can remove the seat arm tube by unlocking it with the blue lever
and removing the tube.
Now plug back the seat arm (without the
outer tube). Even now you can still readjust
the height of the arm.
Don‘t use the seat arm without the blocker
(with the black knob & blue lever). Otherwise
you would damage the dolly wheels.
X
9
PREPARING
POWER SUPPLY
Dolly Batteries
The S-Type Dolly is a fully electro-mechanical
dolly. You need 2 batteries to operate the
S-Type. Each pair of batteries lasts for one
shooting day. We recommend you to reload it
after every shooting day, even if they are still
not empty.
Charging via 230V Charger
To charge a single battery we oer 230V Charger (155559). Plug in one end into a wall socket
and the other end into the battery‘s cable connection slot. The Charger should now begin to
blink. If you battery if fully charged, the blinking light should change into a continuously light.
Charging via Combi Charger
To charge 2 batteries simultaneously we
oer a Combi Charger (155729). Plug in one
end into a wall socket and connect the two
1-Way Charge Cable (134643) - each for one
battery.
Now turn on the Combi Charger. The LEDs
will show you, when the batteries are fully
charged.
10
PREPARING
POWER SUPPLY
Combi Charger as Power Source
The Combi Charger has one additional
feature: you can use it to power the S-Type
Dolly directly via cable connection. You find
the connection socket at the bottom side of
the dolly.
Connection Socket
for Combi Charger
Open the protection cover of the connection
socket and plug in the Power Cable (155210).
Bottom View
Plug in the other end of the cable right into
the Combi Charger.
Now you can turn on the Combi Charger and
operate the dolly.
Batteries must be plugged in!
The Combi Charger only works, if you have plugged in the batteries into the
dolly. While operation via cable, the batteries are charged.
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