THG TIM 2015, Technical Manual

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TIM 2015 Technical Manual v1 (February 2018) Page 47
Create five directories numbered 01, 02, 03, 04 and 05 on the microSD card. Remember, saving more than five voice files onto a card is not a
good idea.
Copy your newly created voice file onto the microSD card and when the data has ‘settled’, eject the card.
Now insert it in the Catalex player inside TIM 2015, or if you have taken our advice, in the external SD Card Flexible Extension Cable
Adapter that we mentioned under the heading Adding more voices to your TIM 2015 . This low-cost gadget makes changing microSD cards
so much easier. Select the voice wanted and see how it runs.
Perfectly if you are lucky and if so, leave it running for 24 hours and come back to it now and again. In some cases errors occur only at
certain times of day, usually when the ‘and 45 seconds’ is cut short in its prime and replaced by the next toneburst or pips. This indicates
that the sum total of elements in a 10-second sequence has exceeded the 9.8 seconds limit, meaning that you must trim a second or two off
one of the elements making up that sequence.
If the new voice fails to run properly, you may have bigger problems. Recording a minute of the audio output from TIM 2015 on your
computer and displaying a 10-second sequence as a screenshot may help you identify the problem. More simply you can make a table of
the elements of this sequence, based on Pat Simmons:
080 (pips) 3.0 seconds
012 (at the third stroke it will be 12) 3.1 seconds
117 (seventeen) 1.3 seconds
240 (and 40 seconds) 2.0 seconds
TOTAL 9.4 seconds
No problem here, though: 9.4 seconds is well within the 9.8 seconds limit.