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BR-MultiShow Bricks

Printed July 21, 1999

GILDERFLUKE & C

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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 Overview .............................................................................................. 1 Front of the BR-MultiShow Bricks ............................................................... 3 RS-422 Serial Port ............................................................................................................ 3 PC and Compatible Connections ...................................
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 Overview: The BR-MultiShow Brick is a unique product in the Gilderfluke & Company lines. It is neither a Smart Brick nor a Dumb Brick. It is a stand-alone DMX-512 output show controller. The BRMultiShow Brick can have up to 265 shows loaded on it. Up to eight of these shows can be played back at the same time, completely independently of the others.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 MultiShow Bricks can use this to verify that the data received from PC¥MACs has no transmission errors in it. If you address a light dimmer or other DMX-512 device to addresses 256 or 257, you will see this verification data displayed as a flickering pattern.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 On the Front of the BR-MultiShow Bricks: A) RS-422 Serial Port: This is used to configure the BR-MultiShow Bricks. It is compatible with all the RS-422 Serial Ports used on Gilderfluke & Company products. This serial port connection is also connected to the backplane of the BR-MultiShow.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 the CPU. While performing an Ease-In, the heart rate will double. F) Z-Brick: This twenty pin IDS connector is used to connect to one or more Z-Bricks. When enabled, the BR-MultiShow Bricks puts out data from the DMX-512 input or onboard Eprom to this connector.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 BackPlane Connections: The BackPlane connection is through a sixty position double sided edge connector (thirty connections on each side on .1Ó centers). This normally is plugged into a card cage, but can also be used with an IDS or other discrete edge connector. We recommend an Insulation Displacement (IDE) connector for the latter.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 Show Programming & Animation Data Eproms: The only frame rate supported by the BR-MultiShow is 30 frames per second. All shows used with the BR-MultiShow must be programmed at this frame rate.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 An Eprom file set are generated on a PC¥MACs system by: 2 1) Selecting the 'Save as AutoDownload...' command from the 'File' pulldown. 2) Set the 'start' and 'end' boxes to set the number channels you want to go into this AutoDownload Eprom file. PC¥MACs will default these values to include every channel that has been defined in your site file.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 Serial Port Commands: The following commands are used to communicate with BR-MultiShows and just about any other piece of equipment manufactured by Gilderfluke & Company. Just by attaching the serial port of your PC, PLC or terminal to the serial port of the Smart Brick, you can access these commands. To enter the configuration mode: Type the following.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 BR-MultiShow Configuration: To communicate with the BR-MultiShow through the serial port, you can use just about any computer or terminal that has a serial port on it. Some newer computer designs, like the Apple Macintosh, come with serial ports which are directly compatible with the RS-422 / RS-485 signal levels the BR-MultiShow wants to see.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 Configuration Screen: The menu will appear as follows. Decimal values have been selected for the numbers. At the top of the screen the size of the Animation Data Eprom installed (if any) is shown. If the Animation Data Eprom isn't found, then 'not found' will appear in this space. -Gilderfluke & Company - DMX-512 MultiShow Brick - ver1.02 - copyright 1999 DCMAll memory writes are disabled.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 ceived through the DMX-512 data input. Without it, the BR-MultiShow won't be able to recognize errors in the incoming data, and may update the outputs with this bad data. It should be left ON whenever running from a PC¥MACs or other DMX-512 source that supports this checksum.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 Ease-In will be needed. You can specify which sequencer(s) are to be affected by this command. Continuing a sequencer which has not been paused will have no effect. h) E-Stop Sequencer: This command will: 1) Immediately stop the affected sequencer(s). 2) Load the shows that have been selected for the ÔPowerUp/E-Stop ShowsÕ. Show data will be output from the first frame of these shows.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 a) Any show is started on a sequencer that already has a show running on it. Because the sequencer is in the midst of a show, the analog values probably arenÕt at the default positions for the sequencer. b) A show is started on a sequencer which had the last show stopped before it reached its end.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 the BR-MultiShow to redraw the screen. x) eXit: This exits the configuration mode and returns the BR-MultiShow to the command mode. When exiting you must enter a ÔyÕ or ÔnÕ, to preserve compatibility with some other Gilderfluke & Company cards. s) Upload configuration: This command (which doesn't appear on the menu) is the compliment of the Download Configuration command.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 Using Z-Bricks with a BR-MultiShow: A Z-Brick is a card that can be used with any BR-MultiShow to add thirty-two digital outputs to it. The data for the Z-Brick comes either from the DMX-512 that is being received by the BR-MultiShow or from the Eprom on-board the BR-MultiShow. With proper buffering, any number of Z-Bricks can be added to a BRMultiShow.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 Edge Connector: All of the connections to and from Z-Brick Cards are available on the 60 position edge connector.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ FAX 818/840-9485 - Decimal to HEXadecimal to ASCII to Percentage The following chart shows decimal, HEXadecimal, ASCII and a few percentage equivalents to aid you when you need to convert between numbering bases. Also shown are the 'special' characters used by PC¥MACs and Smart Brick Animation Control Systems and RTU/FSK units.