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TLC2100SHD Operating Instructions

Document 900.0060 Rev 1.01

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About This Document

This document describes the TLC2100SHD timelapse recorder and provides the 
procedures for installing the timelapse recorder system. This document also describes 
the menus you use to configure and operate the timelapse recorder.

Overview of Contents

This document contains the following chapters and appendixes:

Chapter 1, Getting Started

, introduces the TLC2100SHD timelapse recorder, gives a 

functional overview of its components, and explains what you need to get started.

Chapter 2, Controls

, lists the different controls available with the TLC2100SHD and 

their functions. This chapter also explains how to use those controls to perform 
tasks such as installation and record checks.

Chapter 3, Menus

, describes the Main Menu and submenus involved in using the 

TLC2100SHD.

Appendix A, External Interface

, presents a detailed description of the 15-pin D 

connector and the functions of each pin.

Appendix B, Remote Control Feature

, explains how to use the TLC2100SHD remote 

control feature.

Appendix C, Warning Codes

, describes warning codes that may appear and what they 

mean.

Appendix D, Periodic Maintenance

, lists suggested periodic maintenance steps to 

ensure maximum performance of the TLC2100SHD.

Appendix E, Troubleshooting

, lists common operational problems that may be 

encountered from time to time and provides possible solutions.

Appendix F, Specifications

, lists the TLC2100SHD specifications.

Summary of Contents for TLC2100SHD

Page 1: ...TLC2100SHD RS 232 Optional Feature Operating Instructions...

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Page 3: ...TLC2100SHD RS 232 Optional Feature Operating Instructions...

Page 4: ...nt Witness Technical Communications in Surrey B C Canada Every precaution has been taken to ensure its accuracy but if you do find an error please contact us Silent Witness Enterprises Ltd assumes no...

Page 5: ...SET tool is supplied with this unit This unit is also equipped with a SYSTEM RESET function The SYSTEM RESET function will NOT change any of the menu settings See Tape Adjustment Controls System Reset...

Page 6: ...June 10 2003 vi...

Page 7: ...nd Alarm Controls 9 Timer and Miscellaneous Controls 10 Digital Display 11 Rear Panel Functions 14 Video Installation 16 Audio Installation 17 Record Check Function 18 Alarm Index Operation 19 3 Menus...

Page 8: ...d Commands 42 Set Date Command 42 Read Date Command 43 Set Time Command 43 Read Time Command 43 Set System Code Command 43 Read System Code Command 44 Set Timer Program Command 44 System Data Submenu...

Page 9: ...6 Figure 2 4 Tape and Picture Adjustment Controls 6 Figure 2 5 Play Record Operation Controls 7 Figure 2 6 Play Stop Operation Controls 8 Figure 2 7 Programming Operation Controls 9 Figure 2 8 Positi...

Page 10: ...and their functions This chapter also explains how to use those controls to perform tasks such as installation and record checks Chapter 3 Menus describes the Main Menu and submenus involved in using...

Page 11: ...K DO NOT OPEN The lightning flash with the arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated dangerous voltage within the product s enclosure...

Page 12: ...ty to operate the equipment Note This digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES 003 Important Safeguards In addition to the careful attention devoted to quality standards in the manufacture of you...

Page 13: ...e plug Power Sources This video product should be operated only from the type of power source indicated on the marking label If you are not sure of the type of power you are using consult your video d...

Page 14: ...SA certification mark on the accessory itself and should not have been modified so as to defeat the safety features This will help avoid any potential hazard from electric shock or fire If in doubt co...

Page 15: ...r the following conditions When the power cord or plug is damaged If liquid has been spilled into the video product If the video product has been exposed to rain or water If the video product does not...

Page 16: ...ersonnel and should conform to all local codes In order to provide this product with protection against risk of unintentional operation by employees customers janitors and cleaners working on the prem...

Page 17: ...e of equipment to a power source make the following connections Connect the camera to the VCRs Video In connector Connect the monitor to the VCRs Video Out connector Plug in all of your equipment to t...

Page 18: ...n with the Play Record Operation Controls Information about these controls is found in Play Record Operation Controls on page 7 These controls are somewhat similar in operation to those of a home VCR...

Page 19: ...igure 1 1 Typical Security Installation With ATM or ECR IN OUT Y C VIDEO IN VIDEO OUT IN OUT AUDIO Video Camera Monitor RS 232 Text Inserter Electronic Cash Register Automated Teller Machine EZ Bank A...

Page 20: ...Monitor Camera Multiplexer ATM RS 232 Text Inserter Video Out Video Cameras 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 FREEZE DISPLAY SELECT TIME LAPSE MENU PREVIOUS VIEW NEXT ENLARGE RECORD PLAY DIGISCAN III 16 15 14 13 12 11...

Page 21: ...KING VLOCK PREV DOWN V POS H POS ALARM INDEX ALARM RESET COUNTER RESET REC PLAY HOURS TIMER DAYLIGHT SAVINGS S PROG NEXT UP EJECT REC FIELD REV STILL FIELD FWD REVERSE PLAY REW SEARCH F FWD SEARCH STO...

Page 22: ...Controls 3 See STOP Insert Card at Front of the Manual 4 System Reset Insert a reset tool into this hole marked S to reset unit without changing menu settings This function will reset the unit for wa...

Page 23: ...to reverse the tape by one field in the STILL playback mode 10 Still Press to temporarily stop tape motion in the PLAY mode 11 Field Forward Press to advance the tape one field in the STILL playback...

Page 24: ...Search speeds are variable and selectable See System Options Submenu for more information Figure 2 6 Play Stop Operation Controls 15 Stop Press to stop the tape This button must be pressed to end the...

Page 25: ...utton Press to go to the next position 21 Down Button Press to change to a lower value or to move to the next line in a menu 22 Up Button Press to change to a higher value or to move to the previous l...

Page 26: ...st Timer and Miscellaneous Controls Figure 2 9 Timer and Miscellaneous Controls 27 Counter Reset Press to set the digital counter to 00000 See Digital Display on page 11 for more information 28 Rec Pl...

Page 27: ...es by one hour 32 A B C Spares not currently in use Digital Display Figure 2 10 Digital Display 33 Digital Display The Digital Display annunciates the following features Mode Indicators TAB TAPE END I...

Page 28: ...nt INDEX Lights when the Alarm Index button is pressed and the Index Mode is on See Alarm Index Operation page 19 and Alarm Search Index Button on page 10 for more information TAPE END Lights when the...

Page 29: ...he tape time counter Each digit incremented represents one second of time in 2 hour or 6 hour speed If the counter is reset to 0000 at beginning of tape a T 120 cassette increments the counter to appr...

Page 30: ...pts line level audio signal from external sound equipment or another recorder 39 Audio Out Provides a line level audio output for a monitor or another recorder 40 Power Cord Clip Wind up power cord an...

Page 31: ...7 for more information The supported pins are as follows 2 TXD 3 RXD 7 GND 43 External Interface 15 PIN Jack Connect an alarm switch door sensor and so on using the 15 pin adapter provided See Appendi...

Page 32: ...ted in the above diagram Alarm devices such as alarm switches panels door sensors and so forth may be connected to the 15 pin connector if so desired See Rear Panel Functions on page 14 for a pinout d...

Page 33: ...n the HD mode However audio may be recorded at 18 or 24 hour speeds Installation diagram is shown above To record audio choose audio recording speed with RECORD HOURS 28 or 29 button s Then press REC...

Page 34: ...e tape rate pictures second for applications where the record rate is required The table depicts both the HD mode and the normal mode REC time hours Norm mode fields second Norm mode second fields HD...

Page 35: ...r Check your device s operating instructions for additional information Alarm Index Operation The Alarm Index allows the user to search the video tape for the next occurrence of an alarm on the tape T...

Page 36: ...ne 10 2003 Controls 20 Figure 2 14 Digital Display and Alarm Index Button V POS H POS ALARM INDEX ALARM RESET 25 TAB TAPE END INDEX ALARM TIMER B R SPEED LOCK REC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 HD Y C Index Annunciato...

Page 37: ...o Move and Edit in the menus Press PROG 18 to display Main Menu Press DOWN 21 or UP 22 to move the cursor from one menu line to another Main Menu Display Options System Options Alarm Memory Timer Prog...

Page 38: ...0 to move from one parameter to the next Example in editing You may wish to edit Date in the Time Date submenu Date has three parameters month day year for this example we will assume that the format...

Page 39: ...Main Menu The Main Menu allows access to the submenus listed above Note The STD Remote Port menu appears only on units containing the RS 232 optional feature See STD Remote Port Submenu on page 36 for...

Page 40: ...m dd yy month day year The date format is covered in Display Options Submenu on page 26 1 Press PROG to display the Main Menu The cursor will be next to the Time Date submenu line 2 Press PROG to disp...

Page 41: ...ys 9 Press PROG to end editing for this line The cursor arrow displays again next to the Time line Note that the Day line will now display Thu The Day parameter is automatically entered after the Date...

Page 42: ...u choose date formats with a slash or a dash between the month day and year settings You may set this function to mm dd yy month day year for example 02 26 03 dd mm yy day month year for example 26 02...

Page 43: ...ate stamp is displayed as follows Figure 3 2 Half Time Date Display Note When an alarm is recorded the colons in the indicators change to asterisks Char Color lets you choose black or white characters...

Page 44: ...e 1 Using the UP or DOWN buttons move the cursor next to the System Code line Press the PROG button A cursor will be displayed 2 Press the UP or DOWN buttons to scroll through the character choices 3...

Page 45: ...is set to 06 the Time Line to 02 and the System Code Line to 12 they will appear on the monitor as follows Text Positions Exit Date Line Time Line System Code Line 01 02 03 08 20 44A 72 12 04 03 THU...

Page 46: ...rded in black and white with the B W setting This can be useful when you have a mix of black and white and color cameras in a switcher operation As there is a side effect of distortion during the firs...

Page 47: ...ording Contact factory for more information about brown and red heads Search Speed allows selection of the playback speed during Rewind Search and Fast Forward Search You may choose 3X 5X 7X or 9X See...

Page 48: ...vent stops at 7 00 AM as the next event begins the unit begins recording at a 24 hour speed with the output signal deactivated And so forth Note that the 4th event is a Stop event The unit will remain...

Page 49: ...t alarms recorded displaying the date and time of the alarm The ALARM RESET button 26 clears this menu The first line lists the amount of alarms recorded altogether A00 This menu is not user programma...

Page 50: ...et to Yes Alarm Out allows a choice of sending an alarm output for the duration of alarm recording when set to Duration or sending an output for duration of alarm recording followed by a continuous sq...

Page 51: ...though this menu allows you to record the number of fields recorded by a camera during an alarm the entire duration of the alarm recording is determined by the Duration line of the Alarm Record Menu I...

Page 52: ...in the Main Menu Pin out for RS 232 Port The following parameters are available with this menu Baud 300 600 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200 38400 Parity None Odd Even Mode 1 Stop 2 Stop Code 7 Bit ASCII 8 B...

Page 53: ...Set 3 VCR Extended Status Commands Tab Index Lock and so on Set 4 Program Control Function Commands Program Previous Up Down and so on Set 5 Tape Speed Commands Set 6 Extended Commands Date Set Timer...

Page 54: ...IN END OUT LOW WARNINGS NONE CYL MECH1 MECH2 REEL1 REEL2 HD hd On or hd Off Example response to the VCR Status Command RECORD 240 1500 T OFF 000 NORM NONE hd Off Explanation Unit is in RECORD mode at...

Page 55: ...VHS On or SVHS Off Power Loss PL On or PL Off Head Head dddddd dddddd 000000 to 999999 where d a digit Total Total dddddd dddddd 000000 to 999999 Warn Warn dd dd 00 to 99 number of warnings which occu...

Page 56: ...A A Program Control A B Previous Control A C Next Control A D Down Control A E Up Control A F Black White Control A G Vertical Position Control A H Horizontal Position Control A I Alarm Reset Control...

Page 57: ...6 hr mode Therefore you would need to send the following commands in this order Control A 5 Control A P Control S Note You can only switch between normal and HD modes when the VCR is in STOP mode Con...

Page 58: ...ter Set Date Command Command Syntax D Month Day Year Weekday Parameters Note You must enter a zero before a single digit for both month and day For example 3 must be entered as 03 Entry of the Weekda...

Page 59: ...le 18 58 36 03 06 03 Thu Set Time Command Command Syntax T Hours Minutes Seconds Parameters Read Time Command Command Syntax T Reply Time Space Date Space Weekday Example 18 58 36 03 06 03 Thu Set Sys...

Page 60: ...ter generator 0 through 9 all upper and lower case alphabet characters a space and semicolon comma period dash colon apostrophe beginning quote mark and Set Timer Program Command Command Syntax P Week...

Page 61: ...for periodic maintenance purposes Usage time is recorded in one hour periods Part refers to the Prom and its revision and version numbers in the microprocessors They are also non programmable Open th...

Page 62: ...tput is driven to 12V and can drive 10 mA when the alarm mode is activated Pin 3 One Shot Input Accepts a contact closure to Ground or a TTL level signal The contact closure or TTL LOW level Input act...

Page 63: ...the recorder is in the RECORD mode Pin 9 Timer Output Output follows the levels defined in the Timer menu See Timer Program Submenu on page 31 for more information When ON 0V can sink 10mA of current...

Page 64: ...on screen display and the Record Play buttons on the front panel It is intended to be connected to an external camera switcher and causes the switcher to cycle through the cameras connected to it Pin...

Page 65: ...following functions can be activated by using the remote pins STOP PLAY STILL REWIND FIELD FORWARD FAST FORWARD SPEED CHANGE and RECORD Figure B 1 Resistor Network Not active in LOCK mode The Resisto...

Page 66: ...ns display the date on which the warning occurred In the example above the date is September 12 2003 09 12 03 Moving to the right the next six columns display the time in a 24 hour format hours minute...

Page 67: ...rence number Number of times Time hours minutes seconds Codes Warning Data Status Speed Position CY Cylinder Lock M0 Mecha Lock 1 M1 Mecha Lock 2 Position FL M2 Mecha Lock 3 Position UNLOAD M3 Mecha L...

Page 68: ...During high speed REW RS REC Pause RD REC PS STILL PL PLAY RP REV PLAY FA FIELD ADVANCE FR FIELD REVERSE CU CUE RV REVIEW PF Power Off 0 02 or 06 1 18 2 A24 or A30 3 24 or 30 4 48 5 72 6 120 7 180 or...

Page 69: ...June 10 2003 Warning Codes 56 5 5 7 6 6 7 7 Near the tape beginning position...

Page 70: ...ee as possible Clean heads every 750 hours or once a month Head cleaning is a simple procedure that can be done using an approved video cassette cleaning tape The recorder should be inspected and serv...

Page 71: ...a Play back a tape recently recorded under normal conditions by the system to confirm picture quality b Manually trigger an alarm condition to check for proper alarm mode operation c Play back the ala...

Page 72: ...Display but video is present Check that Time Date is turned on and check settings in Time Date submenu Check the V POS control display may be positioned off screen If using a multiplexer quad or switc...

Page 73: ...ols Menus Picture on monitor jitters during playback Try one or combination of the following during timelapse playback Adjust Horizontal and Vertical Hold on monitor Adjust Tracking controls on front...

Page 74: ...or multiplexer set device to play view live or other setting to access VCR menu Getting Started Controls Menus Bad or distorted images in PLAY mode Adjust tracking controls Set 6 hour control to 12 o...

Page 75: ...shot 2 18 24 48 72 120 180 240 360 480 600 720 and 960 hrs HD Mode 00 one shot 6 18 30 48 72 120 175 240 360 480 600 720 and 960 hrs One Shot 2 4 6 or 8 fields 1x to 128x repeater High Speed Video Sca...

Page 76: ...e Month Day Year various formats Power Loss Weekday and Alarm Second Line Hour Minutes Seconds AM PM or 24 hour clock Record Speed Timer On and Security Lock Third Line System Code title line up to 24...

Page 77: ...ut 7 8 dBm 600 impedance unbalanced Frequency Response 3 dB 100 Hz to 10 kHz at 2 hr record Video In BNC and Y C Video Out BNC and Y C Audio In RCA phono jack Audio Out RCA phono jack Alarm In 15 pin...

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