Compact FLASH III Digital Audio System
Copyright©1992-2010 by ACS, Sarasota, Florida
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q. The RED LED repeatedly flashes four times at power up?
Q. The RED LED flashes two times when I try to play a sound, and no sound plays? Why is my
CFSOUND.INI file not making the CFSound-III perform using the features I have specified ?:
This is by far our most commonly asked question. 99% of time, it is because your files have double
extensions. I.E. "01C.WAV.WAV" or "CFSOUND.INI.INI". Later versions of Windows hide the file
extensions in Explorer, so by putting ".WAV" or ".INI" in the filename, you are actually causing a duplicate
file extension.
To turn the hiding of file extensions off in Windows XP, do the following:
Click on Start
Then Click on Control Panel
Next, Click on Folder Options
Click on the View tab on the Folder Options Window
Scroll down to "Hide Extensions for Known File Types"
Click on the Check box to the left of it to remove the check mark
Click on the Apply Button
Now the complete file names will be displayed in Explorer, and any folder, and you can remove the duplicate
file extensions. Please see the videos on the
SUPPORT
page of the
CFSOUND.COM
website.
Q. What Inputs and outputs are available on the main CFSound board, without adding I/O Modules ?:
The CFSound main board has a single PTT(Push To Talk) Relay for an output and two contact inputs that
appears as Contact #25 & #26 for inputs. Additional Inputs and outputs are added by adding I/O Modules.
The CFSound-III revision 2 can accept one I/O module, the CFSound-III revision 3 can accept two I/O
modules.
Q. I have a motion sensor tied to an old industrial looping tape deck. The first time the sensor is broken
it will play the first of three tracks, the second time the same sensor is broken it plays the second track
on the tape and the third time it plays the third track. Can your machine duplicate this task ?:
Yes, the CFSound-III can function as you described. You make three entries into the [CONTACTS] section
of the CFSOUND.INI file that you place on the Compact Flash Card.
[Contacts]
SequenceContactNumber=dd
FirstSoundNumber=ff
LastSoundNumber=ll
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Setting the SequenceContactNumber to anything greater than zero, causes the input # dd to operate in a
sequencing mode.
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FirstSoundNumber sets the first wav file number to be played in the sequence as # ff.
-->
LastSoundNumber sets the last wav file number to be played in the sequence as # ll.
You would replace dd with the contact input you wanted to function this way, ff with the first sound that you
wanted it to play, and ll with the last sound you want it to play. Every time there is a contact closure on the
input specified in dd, it will play the files from ff to ll in sequence, then start over again at ff, and keep
repeating. See the Sequential Sound Playout section above for more information.
Q. Can I use a momentary contact closure to initiate a message, but the message needs to stop by using
another momentary closure (or open?). So, a momentary to initiate, and a momentary to stop any
