Patent ID: 8300302

Claim:
An lighting apparatus, comprising: a light housing; a light source, in said housing, creating a light beam of more than 5000 lumens of output light along an optical axis train; a first motorized optical element, in said housing, controlling modification of said light beam along said optical axis train; a plurality of sensors in said housing, sensing parameters in said housing, said parameters being changed by operation of said lighting apparatus; a first controller, monitoring said parameters, and determining if a parameter is outside a parameter limit, and for said parameter that is outside of the parameter limit, automatically saving information indicative of said parameter in a nonvolatile memory, automatically determining for said parameter whether said parameter represents a critical parameter error or a non-critical parameter error based on a value of the parameter, for first obtaining information on how to change an operation of said lighting apparatus for said critical error when the critical error is determined, and second obtaining information on how to change a operation of said lighting apparatus for a non-critical error when the non-critical error is determined, both for the same parameter, and automatically changing and operation of said lighting apparatus based on said first obtaining and said second obtaining to thereby change the operation differently for said first obtaining than for said second obtaining.