Specifications
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Installation
- 3 Navigating the LCD Display Screens
- 3.1 Basic Operating Procedure
- 3.2 Starting Point: The Main LCD Touch Screen
- 3.3 LCD Display Flow Chart
- 3.4 Details of the Exciter Status Screens
- 3.4.1 System Status Screen
- 3.4.2 Transport Stream Status Screen
- 3.4.3 Adaptive Processing Board Status Screen
- 3.4.4 Digital Processing Screens
- 3.4.4.1 Modulator Board Status, Screen 1/2
- 3.4.4.2 ADC and DAC Boards Status, Screen 2/2
- 3.4.4.3 FLO FPGA Status, Summary, Screen 1/5
- 3.4.4.4 FLO FPGA, GPS & Clock Status, Screen 2/5
- 3.4.4.5 FLO FPGA, Transport Stream Status, Screen 3/5
- 3.4.4.6 FLO FPGA, SFN FIFO Status, Screen 4/5
- 3.4.4.7 FLO FPGA, MTI Status, Screen 5/5
- 3.4.5 IF & RF Processing Status Screens
- 3.4.6 System Control Status Screens
- 3.5 Built In Tests
- 3.6 Details of the System Setup Screens
- 3.7 RTAC Operating Procedures, Main Screen.
- 4 Theory of Operation
- 5 Maintenance and Troubleshooting
- 5.1 Exciter Maintenance
- 5.2 Loading Software
- 5.3 Default Settings For DIagnostics Screens
- 5.4 Typical Settings for the More Critical Exciter Setups
- 5.5 Exciter Troubleshooting Flow Charts
- 5.6 General Troubleshooting
- 5.7 System Troubleshooting
- 5.8 Exciter Troubleshooting
- 6 Parts List
- Appendix A Exciter GUI Screen Captures
APEX™ Exciter Incorporating FLO™ Technology
Loading Software Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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WARNING: Disconnect primary power prior to servicing.
5.2 Loading Software
The APEX exciter software must be occasionally reloaded to update the software to the
latest revision, or if the controller board has been changed and contains an incorrect
version.
The controller board contains the software, user setups, and the MAC address, all of which
will be lost if the controller board is changed. User setups and the MAC address are
programmed in the sub windows of the Home > Setup Screen.
APEX exciter software can be loaded by two methods. One is via the eCDi system, with
instructions found in the eDCi technical manual (manual part number 888-2517-001).
The other method of software loading is through the serial port on the front or rear panel of
the exciter (following the instructions provided with the software). The serial port used for
the software upgrade must be set up to use the Harris protocol. See Section 3.6.6.1, Serial
Setup Screen 1 of 3, RS-232, on page 3-45 for serial port programing instructions.
Four items are needed to load software into the Apex exciter, they are:
• The Harris ISP (In-System Programming) Revision 2.0 software (used to load soft-
ware into the exciter).
• The exciter upgrade software.
• The APEX software programming instructions (for the version of software to be load-
ed).
• A computer with an operating system specified in the software loading instructions
(at the time of this writing it specified windows NT 4.0, 2000 Professional, or XP).
The Harris ISP 2.0 program, upgrade software and software loading instructions can be
downloaded from the Harris Premier website or obtained by contacting Harris Technical
support.
Please note that Harris ISP 2.0 must be used. Harris ISP 1.10, which comes loaded on the
Diamond and Sigma transmitter GUI, is not compatible with APEX.
Proceed with the loading operation following the APEX software programming instruc-
tions mentioned above.