Gilderfluke&Co BR-SDC Serial Device Controller User Manual

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set to the default 9600 baud, N, 8, 1, you will see the menu displayed on your com-
puterʼs screen. There are two configuration screens in the Br-SDC:

1) Trigger Setup Screen: On this screen, you set which input sends out which string.

2) String Setup: This screen is used to set up which characters are sent and re-

ceived in each string.

To redraw any screen at any time, just press the ape key or bar.

All numeric values are entered in Decimal (0-9) or HEXadecimal (0-9, A-F) numbers.

Each number consist of one or more ASCII characters followed by a (TER> on some keyboards). If more characters have been entered before the TURN> than are allowed, then the characters already entered will scroll to the left to
make room for the new entries. Once a command has been invoked, characters can be
erased one-by-one by using the key ( on some keyboards).
An entire entry can be erased by hitting the ape key. A command can be can-
celed altogether by hitting the key ( on some keyboards) or
ape key after all the characters have been erased or before any have been en-
tered.

Once you have configured a Br-SDC, you can ʻlockʼ the configuration by moving the

ʻConfigure/Runʼ Switch

to the ʻrunʼ position. This should protect your configuration from

anything short of a lightning hit. The ʻHeartʼ LED will slow to the normal running rate,
and you can test your strings by triggering them through the 0-9 switch closure inputs.
Configuration changes can be re-enabled at any time by moving the switch back to the
ʻConfigureʼ position.

If you want to keep a hard copy printout of the current configuration of the Br-SDC,

you should use the ape key to redraw the screen while ʻsaving to fileʼ in the mo-
dem program running on your computer. This file can be printed out at any time, or
spliced into the documentation package for your project.

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