Gilderfluke&Co 'Smart' Brick Animation Control System User Manual

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what you would expect for the show being played, with the
‘Hours’ showing the current show number. In LaserDisk shows, the
display shows the actual LaserDisk frame number right from the
LaserDisk player. While running shows, the ‘Hours’ always shows
the number of the show being played. The ‘Smart Brick frame
number’ shows the actual address being accessed in all of the
Smart Bricks.

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‘hours/minutes/seconds’ show the countdown time until the next
show is played. The ‘Frames’ aren’t used during countdowns.

General error and status conditions are displayed in the

‘Hours’ display in the front of the Heads Up Display. The meanings
of these Error Messages are as follows:

E1:Brick Overflow: This indicates that the frame number re-

quested is beyond the end of the memory installed in
the Smart Bricks attached to the system. Dipswitch num-
ber 5 must have been set to tell the Smart Brick Brain how
big the Smart Bricks are for this function to work properly.

E2:Smpte Time Code Error: This is displayed when the

Smart Brick Brain has started listening for a Smpte time
code, and the ‘Smpte Hour’ byte of the incoming time
code identified a show which wasn’t a Smpte time code
show.

E3:End Of Show: This is not really an error condition, it just

shows that the end of the show being played has been
found

E4:String Error: This error condition is displayed when the

string being sent requested a specific ASCII character to
be returned by whatever is connected to the serial port,
and a different character was returned.

E5:Invalid Frame Rate: This error condition is displayed

when the frame rate set in the system is not valid for the

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