Fanny Pack: switch on, connect and wash

Which guide you need depends on the controller in your Fanny Pack. Its label tells you which one it is.

Switch on

1. Open the zip inside. You’ll find the USB plug there.
2. Connect a standard USB power bank to it.
3. Nothing lights up? The light was switched off before. Switch it back on with the remote or in the app.

To switch off, unplug the power bank or press OFF on the remote or in the app.

Your controller

• Fanny Pack 4: Basic Controller 5
• Fanny Pack 3 and 2+: Basic Controller 4
• Fanny Pack 2: Basic Controller 3
• Fanny Pack 1: an older Basic Controller with remote, or NEBULITE Smart

Replacement remotes: for Fanny Pack 4, for Fanny Pack 3, for Fanny Pack 1.

If something isn’t working

The lights go off after a short time

Most likely the power bank has switched itself off. Some power banks turn off after about a minute when the bag draws little power. Blinking uses the least power and steady light the most, so choose an animation that is lit more often than dark, or use a NEBULITE power bank with a very low auto-off limit.

Fanny Pack 2 and 2+: parts no longer light up

Usually just a plug has slipped out. Carefully open the zip at the back and the white one behind it, so nothing gets caught. Check that all plugs are in. There are usually two free sockets: try them until it lights up again. You can’t break anything.

The inside light shows only fabric

In a few early Fanny Packs, the hook-and-loop strip is stuck to the wrong side of the LED strip, so the inside light shines into the lining instead of the pocket. You can fix it in a minute:

1. Detach the LED strip inside at its hook-and-loop fastening.
2. Peel the hook-and-loop strip off the LED strip, without kinking the LED strip.
3. Stick it onto the other side of the LED strip and press it on firmly.
4. Fasten the LED strip back inside, with the lights facing into the pocket. Diagonal works well.

Washing

Fanny Pack 3 and 4

1. Carefully open the zip at the back and the white one behind it, without catching the fibres.
2. Take out the controller, the black box, by disconnecting it on both sides. Pull the USB cable out through the front.
3. Empty all the pockets, including the remote.
4. Fanny Pack 3 and Classic: carefully by hand in cool or lukewarm water. Fanny Pack 4 in Wavy: in the machine at no more than 30 °C and 400 rpm, in a laundry bag.
5. Don’t bend the bag across the fibres; it bends far more easily lengthways. Let it dry fully, not in a tumble dryer, then reconnect everything.

Fanny Pack 2 and 2+

1. Carefully open the zip at the back and the white one behind it.
2. Separate the fibre optic bundles from the LEDs.
3. Unplug the round plug and take out all the electronics.
4. Wash the bag in a laundry bag at no more than 30 °C on the hand-wash programme, or better, simply by hand.

Instructions to print

• Fanny Pack 4Instructions in English PDF, 1.1 MB · in German PDF, 1.1 MB
• Fanny Pack 3Instructions in English PDF, 0.8 MB · in German PDF, 0.8 MB
• Fanny Pack 2+Instructions in English PDF, 0.9 MB · in German PDF, 0.9 MB
• Fanny Pack 2Instructions in English PDF, 0.5 MB · in German PDF, 0.5 MB