Gilderfluke&Co Mp3-50 Audio & Show Controllers - Manual (Page 32)

display, as well as the LED indicator for the ‘D’/White input to the
Mp3-50/8 or Mp3-50/40. This will also set the RTC inside the Mp3-
50/8 or Mp3-50/40 to the completely WRONG time, if the con-
nection is working. You must manually set the time within the
Mp3-50/8 or Mp3-50/40 after testing it in this way. If you don’t
want this to happen when testing this connection, power down
the Mp3-50/8 or Mp3-50/40 before doing this test. The LED will
light even with the Mp3-50/8 or Mp3-50/40 off. Power the Mp3-
50/8 or Mp3-50/40 back up when you are finished testing.
To permanently prevent such accidental clock 'miss' settings
after the ‘Atomic’ Clock is installed, you can open the battery
compartment and cut the wire which runs through it. This will dis-
able the ‘snooze’ button, and thereby prevent it being hit acci-
dentally in the future.
13) ‘J6’ Digital Outputs: Forty Position IDS Connector. Each Mp3-
50/40 has forty outputs. This connector is used for the first thirty-
two outputs. The last eight appear on the ‘1/4 J6’ connector on
the back of the Mp3-50/40.
These J6 Show Control outputs are just like the standard out-
puts used on all Gilderfluke & Company Show Control Systems.
Forty and ten position transition connectors are available for the
Mp3-50/8s or Mp3-50/40s to adapt the ribbon cables to screw
terminals.
The output connections for all Gilderfluke & Company Show
Control Systems are through ‘J-6’ output cables. These are forty
wire ribbon cables which are made up of four identical eight-bit
wide ‘channels’. A J-6 cable is often split up into four individual
channels. Each ‘1/4 J-6’ ribbon cable is made up of ten wires,
and can be used to control eight individual ‘digital’ (off/on) de-
vices, or one eight-bit wide ‘analog’ device. Each group of ten
wires also includes a common power supply and ground wire.
To simplify wiring to any Gilderfluke animation system, the
connectors used on the 1/4 J-6 cables are what are called ‘insu-
lation displacement’ (IDS) connectors. These simply snap on to an
entire cable, automatically ‘displacing’ the wire insulation and
making contact with the wires within. This means that an entire
ten wire cable can be terminated in seconds. All connectors are
polarized, to keep them from being plugged in backwards. Al-
though there are tools made specifically for installing these con-
nectors, the tool we find works best is a small bench vise.
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