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Service and Installation Manual

Manual Revision Mar 2014

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Summary of Contents for C Plus I

Page 1: ...nual Manual Revision Mar 2014 Available for the following products 2013 Cimarron Technologies Corp Escondido CA USA All rights reserved No part of this manual may be reproduced in any way without the...

Page 2: ...ration is a licensee of the Motorola MDC 1200 Protocol technology MDC 1200 is a registered trademark of Motorola Inc GE Star is a registered trademark of General Electric Corporation Manual revision T...

Page 3: ...6 SECTION 3 INSTALLATION SINGLE ENDED 7 SECTION 4 BALANCED 8 SECTION 5 DATA INPUT DETAILS 10 SECTION 6 DATA OUTPUT DETAILS 12 SECTION 7 PROGRAMMING 13 SECTION 8 OPERATION 17 SECTION 9 SERIAL PORT 21...

Page 4: ...from reaching the console The Translator contains a Mute Relay to allow most of the incoming data burst to be silenced at the console speaker audio The effectiveness of the muting function is highly...

Page 5: ...dispatch console it is ignored and the MDC translation is displayed at the console Notes The RS 232 serial port is for initial set up only Can be implemented with a CPlus I II III or MCI C Plus serie...

Page 6: ...0 mS Ge Star 170 mS Mute Reaction FleetSync 55 mS GE Star 45 mS Sounder Yes Data Input Single ended 30mv to 12Vpp Balanced 600 30 to 10dBm Hi Z 36 to 4dBm Data Output Single ended 600 to 14Vpp Balance...

Page 7: ...Ended jumpers Jumper Purpose JP 7 Install References the data in common line to ground JP 25 Install References the Data Out common line to ground For a Single Ended 600 ohm installation please contac...

Page 8: ...8 JP 24 and JP 27 Install Configure input and outputs circuits for Balanced Hi Z JP 7 JP 11 and JP 25 Remove Configure input and outputs circuits for Balanced Hi Z P3 8 to station ground Add Required...

Page 9: ...B of attenuation to the Data In signal For use only in Balanced systems JP 11 In Adds 6 dB of attenuation to the Data In signal For use only in Single Ended systems JP 12 Out Adds 12 dB of attenuation...

Page 10: ...acitor coupled for DC blocking and is MOV protected When interfacing to a radio connection should be receive audio before de emphasis flat audio Data input should be jumped for high impedance and data...

Page 11: ...t 0 05 VPP 36 dB 0 2 VPP 24 dB 0 65 VPP 12 dB 1 6 VPP 0 dB If you experience a decode rate of less than 100 view the ANI signal waveform at TP10 Adjust the attenuation jumpers so that the waveform is...

Page 12: ...the rear panel P3 pin 8 or P2 pin 10 The output is capacitor coupled for DC blocking is MOV protected and is completely isolated by relays when not actively encoding If connected to a balanced line r...

Page 13: ...lus counts down for 10 seconds After the countdown the C Plus is ready To program the C Plus type CPlus The Cplus display will show the word When in program mode the C Plus suspends normal operation u...

Page 14: ...ONALITY PROGRAMMING 1 SELECT FORMAT TYPE 2 SELECT OUTPUT TYPE 3 SELECT DISPLAY TYPE 4 SELECT MUTE TYPE 5 DEFINE SERIAL PORT PARAMETERS 6 DEFINE RADIO INTERFACE 7 ASSIGN PORTS 8 ASSIGN CHANNEL NUMBER 9...

Page 15: ...appears SELECT FORMAT TYPE 1 GE STAR 2 GE STAR NYSP 3 MDC 1200 4 FLEETSYNC 5 DTMF Your current selection of format type is _3 Press back slash to go back Or enter 1 3 for a new selection of format ty...

Page 16: ...he string FVIEWGROUPS The table can be deleted by entering the following string FERACEGROUP If DTMF mode is selected the following programming options must be considered Unique Settings for GE Star Th...

Page 17: ...ion of the Mute relay DECODE Lights when the C Plus has successfully synchronized with incoming data and is decoding valid data Tx I O ACTIVE Lights when the C Plus is providing data to the RJ 11seria...

Page 18: ...Display Translation Comments FleetSync 123 6345 6345 A PTT ID has been received from radio whose fleet number is 123 and ID is 6345 GE Star 1234 1234 MDC 1200 A876 A876 MDC 1200 ID s are in hexadecim...

Page 19: ...ceived except the left most display shows the order in which the messages were received The most recent message will be labeled a Subsequent messages will be labeled b c and so forth To facilitate spe...

Page 20: ...y unit The main display and its features are the same as the C Plus II In addition to the main display there is a secondary smaller display capable of displaying 28 characters just above the two push...

Page 21: ...bits and odd even or no parity The C Plus can be connected directly to a serial printer The Cimarron Standard serial output format is the default format which contains time and date information The RS...

Page 22: ...isplay the decoded messages If an alias has been programmed for the test ID then the alias will be displayed Test ID s are as follows Data Format Test ID GE Star 8888 MDC 1200 8888 FleetSync 123 1234...

Page 23: ...ntrolled by jumper placement on JP5 Use an oscilloscope to view the ANI signal waveform at TP10 Adjust the appropriate jumpers in the attenuation circuitry so that your waveform is not clipped and max...

Page 24: ...Page 24 SECTION 11 Schematics Data Input and Output...

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Page 26: ...takes around 50 mS When the operator s speaker is passed through the Mute Relay a good portion of the incoming data will be silenced The operator will however hear the 50 mS of leading data burst If...

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Page 28: ...Warranty other than the one set forth above Such Warranty is in lieu of all other warranties express or implied including but not limited to any express or implied Warranty of merchantability or fitn...

Page 29: ...DTMF mode 16 DTMF timing 16 F Fleet ID s 16 Fleetsync group ID 16 Front Panel Displays and Controls 17 G GE Star 16 I Input Signal Amplification Jumpers 11 Input Signal Attenuation Jumpers 10 J Jumper...