Features the sd-50/8 and sd-50/40 adds includes – Gilderfluke&Co Sd-50 Audio & Show Controllers User Manual
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Features the Sd-50/8 and Sd-50/40 adds includes...
• Eight (Sd-50/8) or forty (Sd-50/40) digital (on/off)
to a Sd-50/0. These
can be used to drive solenoid valves, relays, LEDs and other typical loads directly.
•
for programming or controlling the .Mp3/.wav player and show control outputs.
The Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 can be operated as a ‘slave’ following whatever DMX-512 data it
receives from the DMX-512 network.
•
from onboard Show Control memory or when running from RealTime up-
dates through the RS-232 serial port. The Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 can be operated as a ‘master’,
sending DMX-512 to control other Sd-50/8s or Sd-50/40s, light dimmers, wiggle lights, strobe
lights, or any other DMX-512 controlled devices. The DMX-512 output is also an easy way to
add additional Show Control outputs to Sd-50/8s or Sd-50/40s.
• Up to eight of the ‘
’ Show Control outputs can be used to control model airplane-style
.
• Automatic ‘program in place’ download through the serial port on your PC or through the Sd/
MMC flash card. The amount of time it takes to download shows the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 de-
pends on the length of the show(s) and the number of channels used. Short shows take only
seconds. Shows that fill the entire Sd-50/8s or Sd-50/40s memory will take longer to down-
load. It is much quicker to move the completed shows to the Sd/MMC flash card, and let the
Sd-50/8s or Sd-50/40s load them from there. Show audio and animation data can be distrib-
uted to clients by sending out preloaded Sd/MMC flash cards.
• Four MBytes of nonvolatile
. Using all forty Sd-50/40 Show Control out-
puts (and the audio control channel), this gives a show capacity of about six hour at thirty up-
dates per second! About eighteen hours for the Sd-50/8 using all eight of its outputs (and the
audio control channel)! Once downloaded, show data is retained for approximately forty
years, with or without power applied. Up to 255 individual shows can be loaded onto a Sd-50/
8 or Sd-50/40 at one time.
•
Real Time Clock. The Clock is factory trimmed for an accuracy of 50 parts per
million (PPM). Using the
, you can set when shows and sounds will be
played up to a year in advance. You can set it to play a specific schedule on a specific day, or
you can select a schedule by the day of the week. As an example, you can set a special
schedule to be used on the Fourth of July each year, or set a different schedule to be used
only on Sundays only through an entire month. In school and factory bell systems, different
schedules can be used on weekdays, and different schedules (or no schedule at all) for the
weekends. As long as the rules for the Gregorian calendar and leap years don’t change, the
Real Time Clock will be accurate until the year 10,000. The centuries will not automatically
advance, and will need to be adjusted manually each 100 years.
• Optional radio controlled
can be used to accurately synchronize the clock in-
side the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 to the national time standards broadcast over short wave radio
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