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User Guide and Technical Manual
IDU Local Operation
The
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IDU front panel provides monitoring and control of the entire system.
The Liquid Crystal Display [LCD] touchscreen provides menu screens for the set-up,
control and diagnostic status of both the IDU and ODU [see Figure 5 item A]. The LCD
also provides a preview monitor of the source video that is being transmitted by ENG,
SNG or CNG. If you are not in a sub-menu, the preview video is displayed. If there is
no video feed, the screen is blank. To change the control from Remote to Local, use the
Confi guration Mode
touchscreen, and example of which is shown in Figure 20.
In addition to the main control LCD there are presets and frequency displays where
current preset mode and operation frequency are presented. Dedicated Organic Light-
Emitting Diode [OLED] buttons, rocker switches and lighted Enter buttons allow for
modi
fi
cation of preset and frequency [see Figure 5 items E, F, G, H, I and J].
You can interact with the system via the touchscreen display or through function keys.
The front panel control display can be used for local control. The Web interface also
allows remote control of
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. Local control is preferred by operators who do not
want others to recon
fi
gure
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while
they are controlling it; the LCD provides a
means to set local control. You can always use the Web interface to access information
and to determine status of
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, even when the operator has the IDU in local
mode. The Web interface is available for control of
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only
when it has been set
to remote control by the local operator.
For quick system setup, dedicated controls exist on the front panel such as: preset
selection, operating frequency selection and ODU controls. When you press the On/
Off button on the front of
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[see Figure 5 item P],
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begins the
boot up process. This process starts with the On/Off button illuminating green and the
touchscreen displaying a Vislink logo. The start up time is approximately 40-45 seconds.
Once
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is fully booted up, the touchscreen displays the video preview, as well
as the status indicators. The OLED buttons and 16x2 Frequency and Preset indicators
[see Figure 5 items E and F] display the last state con
fi
gured, except for the buttons
that control RF power, which are automatically set to Off upon applying power to the
transmitter, and for any major operational change to the system including preset change,
frequency change, and band change.
Changing Presets
There are three factory installed presets that you can use to begin operating
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.
The 16x2 Preset display [see Figure 5 item F] allows you to scroll through the list of
loaded presets via the rocker switch [see Figure 5 item H]. The rocker switch always
increments the preset number. If you continue to press the switch to the end of the list in
one direction, the list wraps around and starts again as you continue pressing the rocker
switch. As you scroll through the preset list and select a valid preset, by pressing the
Set Preset [Enter] indicator button [see Figure 5 item J], the Enter button begins blinking
amber. If an invalid preset is selected due, for instance, to not having the proper modules
or license installed in
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, then the Set Preset Enter button is lit red.
