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FGAX3249400MANAA

100701

Version 1 Issue 2

0.1

Operation &

Installation

Manual

© July 2001
Snell & Wilcox Ltd, Durford Mill, Petersfield, Hampshire, GU31 5AZ, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44(0) 1730 821188. Fax: +44(0) 1730 821199.

Supervisor LX

LED Display Processor

Summary of Contents for Supervisor LX

Page 1: ...701 Version 1 Issue 2 0 1 Operation Installation Manual July 2001 Snell Wilcox Ltd Durford Mill Petersfield Hampshire GU31 5AZ United Kingdom Tel 44 0 1730 821188 Fax 44 0 1730 821199 Supervisor LX LE...

Page 2: ...RAIN OR MOISTURE OBJECTS FILLED WITH LIQUIDS SUCH AS VASES MUST NOT BE PLACED ON THIS EQUIPMENT Always ensure that the unit is properly earthed and power connections correctly made This equipment mus...

Page 3: ...for professional use Part 1 Emission BS EN 55103 2 1997 Electromagnetic Compatibility Product family standard for audio video audio visual and entertainment lighting control apparatus for professiona...

Page 4: ...al digital video connections shall be made with high quality double screened coaxial cables such as Belden 8281 or BBC type PSF1 2M D TYPE CONNECTORS D type connectors shall have metal shells making g...

Page 5: ...out permission being granted in writing by the publishers or their authorized agents Packing List The unit is supplied in a dedicated packing carton provided by the manufacturer and should not be acce...

Page 6: ...repaid Snell Wilcox reserve the right to inspect or repair equipment on purchaser s premises 3 Snell Wilcox specifically excludes the following from warranty coverage and assumes no responsibility for...

Page 7: ...Shoebox Power Connections 3 7 Rear Panel Connections 3 7 System Interface Connections 3 8 Section 4 Operation SuperVisor LX Shoebox Powering Up 4 1 Display and Controls 4 2 RollCall Menu System 4 4 Bu...

Page 8: ...MANAA 100701 Version 1 Issue 2 0 8 Manual Revision Record Date Version No Issue No Change Comments 090501 1 1 First Issue 100701 1 2 Status display additions and GBR to RGB throughout Key Color added...

Page 9: ...trol front panel for the SuperVisor LX mainframe The two units are interconnected as described in Section 3 Installation Shoebox front panel view Shoebox rear panel view 115 230 VAC 60 50 Hz 0 2A MADE...

Page 10: ...cher for both serial 4 2 2 and 4fsc video signals SLX_IQD1ADC 11 The IQD1ADC converts analog component video in either YPbPr or RGB formats to serial 4 2 2 format at 270 Mbit s SLX_IQDMSD 14 The IQDMS...

Page 11: ...SuperVisor LX SECTION 2 FGAX3249400MANAA 100701 Version 1 Issue 2 2 1 Specifications Technical details are available on request please call your local Snell Wilcox sales office Dimensions...

Page 12: ...K DO NOT REMOVE COVERS NO USER SERVICEABLE PARTS REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED PERSONNEL ONLY Fuse Fuse STATUS ROLLCALL REMOTE 75 Ohm BNC through termination supplied with SuperVisor LX mainframe 75 Oh...

Page 13: ...he position marked MAIN The unit will operate correctly when power is connected to connector marked MAIN Fitting and powering up a second power supply module in the position marked SPARE will provide...

Page 14: ...Ground 2 Transmit A Tx 3 Receive B Rx 4 Receive Common 5 No connection 6 Transmit Common 7 Transmit B Tx 8 Receive A Rx 9 Frame Ground RollCall This single BNC connector will allow the unit to be conn...

Page 15: ...sources of separated Video signals The C IN Input should be used for C Chrominance signal and the Y COMPOSITE IN connector used for the Y Luminance signal Both connections are via BNC connectors and...

Page 16: ...connected to the IN connector The OUT connector provides a buffered version of the signal at the IN connector This input normally accepts a low level 0 3 V p p signal It can be configured to accept a...

Page 17: ...d Ground 6 Red Ground Pr Ground 7 Green Ground Y Ground 8 Blue Ground Pb Ground 9 Not Used Not Used 10 Ground Ground 11 Ground Ground 12 Not used Not used 13 H Sync Thru 14 V Sync Thru 15 Not used Not...

Page 18: ...he Power On Off switch is an integral part of this connector assembly Press I to switch ON press O to switch OFF Power ON will be indicated by the illumination of the LED on the front panel NETWORK CO...

Page 19: ...SuperVisor LX SECTION 3 FGAX3249400MANAA 100701 Version 1 Issue 2 3 8 SYSTEM INTERFACE CONNECTIONS...

Page 20: ...ShoeBox controller will attempt to re establish a connection This process should be fully automatic Note that there may be rare occasions when the ShoeBox controller does not complete the initializin...

Page 21: ...enu level press the return pushbutton It may be used to progress back up the menu tree To return to the status display press the button labeled home The prev button returns you to the last item or val...

Page 22: ...can be one of the following Composite Component on systems using the old ADC card RGB RGB S separate syncs YpbPr YpbPr S separate syncs Digital 1 Digital 2 For details of Input Channel selection see...

Page 23: ...combination of Vertical Size and Zoom that reduces the picture to less than a third of its height at 1024x768 or less than half of its height at 640x480 will cause line dropping This can produce unwa...

Page 24: ...SuperVisor LX SECTION 4 FGAX3249400MANAA 100701 Version 1 Issue 2 4 5...

Page 25: ...eep Chroma Sweep 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Memory The SuperVisor LX has 8 on board user memories By default they are named Memory1 to Memory8 but can be renamed Up to 15 characters may be used for the memory na...

Page 26: ...uration menu Composite This selects the input from the decoder section of the SuperVisor LX COMPOSITE INPUTS Y COMPOSITE IN C IN YC This selects the input from the decoder section of the SuperVisor LX...

Page 27: ...to 0 Contrast This function allows the contrast of the display picture to be adjusted The Video Pluge test pattern may be used to set the contrast The contrast is adjusted to determine the white leve...

Page 28: ...ed Preset 3 Applies a medium increase of vertical resolution 6 Applies the maximum increase of vertical resolution The softer settings are useful for reducing the effects of overdone vertical aperture...

Page 29: ...166 7 Horz VertSize The image size may be changed horizontally and vertically using these functions The range of control is from 50 to 200 and preset is to 100 Pan Tilt The Horizontal and Vertical pos...

Page 30: ...Bottom The amount may be adjusted using the spinwheel and the value will be shown in the display window The range of control for Left and Right is from 0 to 360 samples and preset is to 0 The range of...

Page 31: ...menu allows the inputs to be normalized with respect to each other such that for example the peak white value of all input signals produces the same peak white level at the output The entries availab...

Page 32: ...function will optimize the synchronizing abilities of the SuperVisor LX for signals derived directly from VHS or similar VCR s VHS Flutter Applies to Composite and YC NTSC inputs only This function w...

Page 33: ...allows the red green and blue gain peak level and red green and blue bias black level to be individually set This menu allows the color temperature of the video signal to be adjusted Col Temp Red Low...

Page 34: ...location highlight the desired memory location and select the Recall function Note that when the Recall item is selected it will become highlighted for a short time and then return to normal Rename R...

Page 35: ...antly longer to load than any of the other groups The factory shipped condition is that all groups are assigned to each memory Note that group assignments do not affect a memory save A save always sto...

Page 36: ...nverted Select to suit the requirements of the display device 0V 4V TTL Normal TTL Inverted 0V 4V Default is to Inverted Process Mode This function allows the selection of two different processing mod...

Page 37: ...cklight The backlight illumination of the front panel is controlled using this function Backlight On Off Auto On Off The backlight may be turned On or Off Auto In this mode the backlight will automati...

Page 38: ...nal Thus if the VGA signal is 1024x768 at 72 Hz then the video output rate will be 1024x768 at 72 Hz Note that this overrides whatever is currently selected in the output rate menu Secondly if the key...

Page 39: ...accurately single out the nominated key color The range of adjustment is from 128 to 127 Given the number of PC and graphic card combinations it will always be necessary to optimize keying The followi...

Page 40: ...s that part of the active area not occupied by the video signal When the picture is properly calibrated then there will be no shift in picture position or loss of information when switching between vi...

Page 41: ...to calibration is a process whereby the Supervisor LX is instructed to compute the active area of the PC signal and reposition the video accordingly IMPORTANT NOTE Before attempting an Auto Calibrate...

Page 42: ...n in keying operation the Supervisor LX expects a video signal to be present on one or more of its input channels and a VGA signal to be present on its computer video input The sync polarity of the ou...

Page 43: ...ual calibration requires the adjustment of four controls Top and Left to adjust the start of the video active area Height and Width to adjust the height and width of the video active area If auto cali...

Page 44: ...e 2 Within the warranty period purchaser shall notify Snell Wilcox of any defect in material or workmanship If a part is defective Snell Wilcox may forward a new part to purchaser invoice for the part...

Page 45: ...NS ARE REQUIRED Early Versions of the IQD1ADC Card These instructions are only required under the following circumstances 1 It is required to change the Component input format from YPbPr to RGB and th...

Page 46: ...on the front of the power supply 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 012 3 4 D E F 012 3 4 D E F CARD RETAINING PLATE SLX_IQAMMB SLX_IQDMMB SLX_IQMMFAN SLX_IQDMX4 SLX_IQD1ADC SLX_IQDMSD AIR COOLOING C...

Page 47: ...power supply slot V1 V2 OFF ON Gateway 16 6 Identify the card marked IQD1ADC Carefully remove this card 7 Lay the card on the anti static work area component side up 8 To allow the card to accept an R...

Page 48: ...irmly Care should be taken to ensure that excess force is not used 12 Replace the card retaining plate and tighten the captive screw Note that it must be oriented correctly for the retaining screw to...

Page 49: ...SuperVisor LX SECTION 6 FGAX3249400MANAA 100701 Version 1 Issue 2 6 1 Operating the Supervisor LX Display Processor from a remote controller using the RS422 interface...

Page 50: ...pin configuration 9 way Connector FUNCTION 1 Frame Ground 2 Transmit A Tx 3 Receive B Rx 4 Receive Common 5 No connection 6 Transmit Common 7 Transmit B Tx 8 Receive A Rx 9 Frame Ground The default se...

Page 51: ...lue required in Packet Sequence of bytes to be sent 0x02 0x1B 0x82 0x03 0x1B 0x83 0x1B 0x1B 0x9B Rollcall Packet Types The packet types of interest for Supervisor LX control are SetParam SP_SETPARAM G...

Page 52: ...t address should be the value set on the hex switch that is located on the front of the gateway card of the Supervisor LX If you change this switch substitute the new value in all packets As shipped t...

Page 53: ...umeric Value Always present String Value if Data Mode 03 n bytes long 0x00 Null string terminator FUNCSTATUS_STR Checksum ignore 0x03 End Packet ETX GetParam 0x0B GetParam packet type 0 Extra Info ROL...

Page 54: ...00 01 00 00 00 80 03 Send a GetParam for Contrast Header 02 00 00 40 05 00 00 00 01 00 04 Body 0B 00 00 41 00 03 Receive a RetParam for Contrast Header 02 00 00 40 05 00 00 00 01 00 0A Body 0C 00 00 4...

Page 55: ...0 00 04 00 03 Receive a Wait this may or may not be received it depends on what is recalled Header 02 00 00 40 05 00 00 00 01 00 06 Body 19 00 w1 w2 00 00 03 w1 w2 wait time in seconds Receive a RetPa...

Page 56: ...n Cfg VHS Flutter Off 01 31 00 00 00 00 In Cfg VHS Flutter On 01 31 00 00 00 01 In Cfg External Syncs Off Input Sync on G Y 00 44 00 00 00 00 In Cfg External Syncs On Input Sync on external Syncs 2 00...

Page 57: ...FF FF FF 80 00 00 00 7F Contrast Contrast Master setting 00 41 FF FF FF 80 00 00 00 7F Color Color Master setting 01 0E FF FF FF 80 00 00 00 7F In Cfg Brightness per Channel 00 22 See Table 3 In Cfg C...

Page 58: ...2 FF FF FF 80 00 00 00 7F 00 00 00 00 Table 4 Input Contrast Channel Min Value Max Value Default Composite YC FF FF FF EC 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 00 Component FF FF FF C0 00 00 00 3F 00 00 00 00 Digital1...

Page 59: ...ons 4 3 Gamma 4 9 Horizontal Enhance 4 9 In Cfg 4 12 Input 4 7 Input Configuration 4 12 IO Lock 4 17 Keying 4 19 4 23 Memory 4 6 4 15 Monochrome 4 12 Mute 4 17 Operating Modes 4 23 Out Cfg 4 17 Output...

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