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5. Operation
Chapter 5 provides operating instructions for the NV9642 control panel. It presents these topics:
• Summary
• Operating Concepts
• Salvo Mode
• Menu Mode
• Setup Mode
This chapter is intended specifically for the NV9642 panel operator .
Summary
As an NV9642 operator, you will be confronted initially with a relatively small panel — 34 buttons
of various colors and a small alphanumeric display. Because the NV9642 is a “hierarchical” control
panel, you can view, at any one time, one button “page” of a potentially large number of pages in
the hierarchy of a button “tree.” Pressing certain buttons
— navigation buttons — causes the panel to
display different button “pages.”
The design of the user interface is entirely at the discretion of the configurer. You, the user, depend
on the configurer having designed a logical and usable tree structure.
The user interface of an NV9642 in one installation can be radically different from the user inter-
face of an NV9642 in another installation. It is impossible to describe operations in great detail
because there is no one interface. What we can do, however, is give you general advice and, of
course, specific information on the behavior of the different button types and operational modes.
Because some of the panel’s buttons can have arbitrary legends, a button’s legend might or might
not indicate its function. Operators and configurers will have to communicate about the meaning of
the buttons in the button tree.
The alphanumeric display (4 lines of 22 characters) shows the status of takes (pending or complete)
in X-Y mode or multi-destination mode under normal circumstances. The display presents informa-
tion or menu items as isolated cases warrant.
Physically, you will find
• Navigation buttons to go up or down in the button tree, or to a specific page in the tree.
• Function buttons (e.g., select a source or lock a destination).
• Lists of sources, destinations, source categories, destination categories, or salvos.
• Virtual level buttons (in X-Y mode) or MD destination buttons (in MD mode).
• Status of preset and current sources and the selected destination(s).
At any particular time, some of the buttons are enabled or disabled. Some are high-tally; some are
low-tally; and some might be off (undefined). The buttons have different colors, the choices of
which depend on the configurer’s intentions.