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BS-DMX-Tx & BS-Serial Smart Bricks

Printed March 24, 2000

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 BS-Serial as a Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) ........................................................................ 7 BS-DMX-Tx or BS-Serial as a Smart Brick .......................................................................... 7 Front of the BS-DMX-Tx or BS-Serial Smart Bricks ......................................... 9 RS-422 Serial Port .....................................................
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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 Sequencer Enabled ........................................................................................................ 28 Frame Rate /2 ................................................................................................................. 28 Numbering System .........................................................................................................
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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 Data Dump ..................................................................................................................... 42 Using Z-Bricks with a BS-DMX-Tx or BS-Serial Smart Bricks ........................... 43 Output Capacity ....................................................................................................... 44 Decimal to HEXadecimal to ASCII to Percentage .........
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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 BS-DMX-Tx and BS-Serial are two different Smart Bricks that are built on the same chasis. They are both used to store animation and lighting data which is transmitted as a DMX-512 or serial data stream. The BS-Serial is an upgraded version of the BS-DMX-Tx that has a second serial port.
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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 outputs that any Brick card will need. Several different styles of output connectors are available on the one and two slot card cages. The sixteen slot card cage mounts in seven inches of standard 19Ó rack space (4-1/2 Ò of space behind the panel). Power requirements for each BS-DMX-Tx or BS-Serial Smart Bricks are 9 to 24 VDC.
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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 BS-DMX-Tx or BS-Serial Smart Bricks: A) RS-422 Serial Port: This is used to configure the BS-DMX-Tx or BS-Serial Smart Bricks. It is compatible with all of the RS-422 Serial Ports used on Gilderfluke & Company products. The serial data signals from the BS-DMX-Tx or BS-Serial Smart Bricks are brought out on a six position RJ-11 (modular telephone style 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 tomatically reset 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 BS-DMX-Tx or BS-Serial Smart 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. The first ten positions are used for the Smart Brick network and RS-422 serial port used by other cards in the system.
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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 Animation Data Eproms: The Eproms used for all all of the 'Brick' products manufactured by Gilderfluke & Company have traditionally each contained one channel (eight bits) worth of data. The Eproms used on the BS-DMX-Tx or BSSerial Smart Bricks, BS-ANA, EFB Smart Brick and RTU/FSK Units for storing animation data each carry a number of channel's worth of data.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ Eprom type 27C010 27C020 27C040 27C080 FAX 818/840-9485 Total number of bytes 131,072 262,144 524,288 1,048,576 Note that at least one show must be loaded starting at a 'Brick Start' of 0, even if it is only a frame or two long. PC¥MACs will use this first show to set the frame rate and number of channels stored in the multiple channel Eprom.
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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 BS-DMX-Tx or BS-Serial Smart Bricks Configuration: To communicate with the BS-DMX-Tx or BS-Serial Smart Bricks through the serial port, you can use just about any computer or terminal which has a serial port on it.
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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 some keyboards) or ape key after all of the characters have been erased or before any have been entered. If you want to keep a hard copy printout of the current configuration of the BS-DMX-Tx or BS-Serial Smart Bricks, you should use the ape key to redraw the screen while saving the print in the modem program running on your computer. This file can then be printed out at any time.
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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 BS-DMX-Tx For a BS-DMX-Tx, the menu will appear as follows. There are no serial commands available on the BSDMX-Tx. The menu just allows you to see what sized Eprom (if any) is installed. If no Eprom is found, the Ônot foundÕ will appear in the place of the Eprom size. -Gilderfluke & Company - DMX Output Smart Brick - ver 1.
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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 BS-Serial in MIDI Mode For a BS-Serial in MIDI mode, the menu will appear as follows. If an Eprom is found, the size of the first show is displayed at the top of the screen. If no Eprom is found, the Ônot foundÕ will appear in the place of the show size: -Gilderfluke & Company - Serial Output Smart Brick - v1.
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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 DMX-512 data received doesnÕt have the checksum in it, both the DMX LED and the ÔBoard ErrorÕ LED will be ON. d) Sequencer Enabled: This toggle enables and disables the BS-Serial Smart Brick to use the Animation Data Eprom. When it is OFF, nothing will be output even when the Smart Brick Network is active.
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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 sent from the animation data. The disadvantage of this feature is that it takes as one frame of time for each entry ion the string to be buffered in before it can be sent. A 200 character long string will take 202 frames of data to build up and send out. This translates to almost seven seconds at 30 FPS. Data for these strings is typically hand entered using PC¥MACsÕ OffLine editing tools.
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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 sent to, and the ÔspeedÕ that is used for the MIDI Ôkey downÕ and Ôkey upÕ commands. The default MIDI ÔspeedÕ is 64. A value of one is the slowest possible key up or down speed. A value of 127 gives the fastest possible key speed. A ÔspeedÕ value of zero will turn off a note, even on a MIDI Ôkey downÕ message.
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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 +) Data Dump: This command (which doesn't appear on the menu) dumps out the DMX output buffer and the configuration memory onto the screen. This started as some developmental routines, and there was plenty of space available, so what the hell.
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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 BS-Serial in Intelix Mode For a BS-Serial in Intelix mode, the menu will appear as follows. If an Eprom is found, the size of the first show is displayed at the top of the screen. If no Eprom is found, the Ônot foundÕ will appear in the place of the show size: -Gilderfluke & Company - Serial Output Smart Brick - v1.
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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 DMX-512 data received doesnÕt have the checksum in it, both the DMX LED and the ÔBoard ErrorÕ LED will be ON. d) Sequencer Enabled: This toggle enables and disables the BS-Serial Smart Brick to use the Animation Data Eprom. When it is OFF, nothing will be output even when the Smart Brick Network is active.
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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 sent from the animation data. The disadvantage of this feature is that it takes as one frame of time for each entry ion the string to be buffered in before it can be sent. A 200 character long string will take 202 frames of data to build up and send out. This translates to almost seven seconds at 30 FPS. Data for these strings is typically hand entered using PC¥MACsÕ OffLine editing tools.
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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 string on the falling edge. This feature is typically used to send strings that need to be sent too regularly for using the ÔMonitor ChannelÕ feature. m) Edit Strings.....: This command brings up the following menu. It is used to enter the strings that are sent when using the ÔString TriggerÕ feature. There are sixteen possible strings. Each string can be up to eighteen characters long.
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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 BS-Serial in Rexroth Quick Write Mode For a BS-Serial in Rexroth Quick Write mode, the menu will appear as follows. If an Eprom is found, the size of the first show is displayed at the top of the screen. If no Eprom is found, the Ônot foundÕ will appear in the place of the show size: -Gilderfluke & Company - Serial Output Smart Brick - v1.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) FAX 818/840-9485 2400 baud 4800 baud 9600 baud 19.2 KBaud 38.4 KBaud 57.6 KBaud 115.2 KBaud The baud rate must be set to match the device you are trying to talk to. The highest speed supported by the Rexroth DCC Cards is 38.4 KBaud. This is the speed that should be used when in Rexroth mode. No matter what baud rate you select here, the configuration mode will always run at 9600 baud.
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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 7) Moog / length mode: One of two modes to support serial control of Moog electric motion bases i) Monitor Channel: This command is used to select a channel that is used to build up a serial string byte-by-byte from the animation data, and then send it out at the appropriate time.
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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 -Gilderfluke & Company - Serial Output Smart Brick - v1.
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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 -Gilderfluke & Company - Serial Output Smart Brick - v1.
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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 BS-Serial in Orpan Modes For a BS-Serial in Orpan (LSB first) mode, the menu will appear as follows. If an Eprom is found, the size of the first show is displayed at the top of the screen. If no Eprom is found, the Ônot foundÕ will appear in the place of the show size. -Gilderfluke & Company - Serial Output Smart Brick - v1.
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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) First Addressed in Eprom: Any DMX-512 data that is sent to the BS-Serial will be passed through at the same address at which it was received. This command is used to offset the data from the on-board Eproms to match the addresses that were used when you were programming.
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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 data, just leave the card in MIDI mode and donÕt set up any of the MIDI-Specific commands.
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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 -Gilderfluke & Company - Serial Output Smart Brick - v1.
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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 BS-Serial in Moog Modes For a BS-Serial that is in Moog DOF mode, the menu will appear as follows. If an Eprom is found, the size of the first show is displayed at the top of the screen. If no Eprom is found, the Ônot foundÕ will appear in the place of the show size: -Gilderfluke & Company - Serial Output Smart Brick - v1.
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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 Moog Motion bases have two operating modes. In ÔDOFÕ mode, the data is stored in ÔDegrees of FreedomÕ. The PC that is located under the motion base translates these values to the actual leg lengths that are needed to get the motion base to the desired position.
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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 sending any legal position commands to the motion base and issuing this command. During the time after this command is issued until the motion base enters the ÔEngagedÕ mode it is in what is called ÔStandbyÕ mode. During Standby mode the positions must not change until the motion base has entered the ÔEngagedÕ mode.
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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 rest of the show. This is done by programming the show as normal, saving a duplicate, and then using the ÔShow InformationÕ dialog to drop the frame rate by half. If this feature is ever used with a Moog motion base, you will need to increase the ÔOversamplingÕ rate to compensate for the lower frame rates.
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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 ÔPreferencesÕ pulldown). If it is defined as eight digital channels, you can just draw in the binary data as needed. q) Moog Status on DMX: This is a Moog Mode specific command. The outgoing stream of DMX512 data from the BS-Serial always contains the same data as is in the Eproms or is being received via the DMX-512 input.
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O GILDERFLUKE & C .¥ 205 S. FLOWER S T. ¥ BURBANK, CA 91502 ¥ 818/840-9484 ¥ 800/776-5972 ¥ Bit Bit Bit Bit Bit 4: 3: 2: 1: 0: FAX 818/840-9485 encoded axis (thermal fault) {4,3,2}: 001=a, 010=b, -11=c, 100=d, 101=e, 110=f command range error (length command >23,142) invalid frame (got 17 bytes but sync is not rig j) Min/Max Limits: This is a Moog Mode specific command. This command is used to set up the movement limits for commands sent to the Moog Motion Base.
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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 In the example above, the strings have been set to send out strings that display the bit number and the word ÔRisingÕ or ÔFallingÕ. t) Oversampling: This is a Moog Mode specific command. The Moog Motion bases must be updated through their serial ports at sixty times per second. Animation systems typically are updated at thirty times per second.
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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 BS-DMX-Tx or BS-Serial Smart Bricks: A Z-Brick is a card that can be used with BS-DMX-Tx or BS-Serial Smart Bricks to add thirty-two digital outputs to them. The data for the Z-Brick comes either from the DMX-512 that is being received by the BSDMX-Tx or BS-Serial Smart Bricks or from the Eprom on-board the BS-DMX-Tx or BS-Serial Smart Bricks.
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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 Peak Collector Current as a function of Output Duty Cycle 600ma. Allowable Peak Collector Current @ 70ºC 500ma. 2 400ma. 3 4 300ma. 5 6 7 8 200ma. Number of outputs conducting simultaneously 100ma.
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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.