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Micro Character Generator

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LBUQUERQUE

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Manual Version 2.01

The MCG-2

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Страница 1: ...0159 FAX burstelectronics com Made in USA Manual Version 2 01 The MCG 2 Hardware software and manual copyright by Burst Electronics All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced o...

Страница 2: ...ness Part Two Remote Control Tutorial Waking up the MCG 2 Networking Notes on Cables Command Reference Part Three Technical Lithium Battery 3V Notes on Master Reset Troubleshooting and Flashing Lights...

Страница 3: ...4 heights for a total of 16 character sizes The character set includes upper case letters A Z numerals 0 9 and various punctuation marks and symbols as shown in the ASCII to MCG 2 Display Convert tabl...

Страница 4: ...describing how to use each of the two letter remote control commands Section Three has information on specifications troubleshooting etc When reading the next section the Tutorial it is best to have t...

Страница 5: ...s not blank or if the green Power LED is flashing see the section on troubleshooting The MCG 2 may be controlled either by front panel controls or via an RS232 link to a PC This section will discuss f...

Страница 6: ...subsequent characters set will flash To exit flash mode hold down the SHIFT key and press the MINUS key The cursor now returns to the normal block character Individual characters that are already set...

Страница 7: ...Y Y Y Y Y P P P P PAG AG AG AG AGE E E E E Move the arrow to S S S S SET H ET H ET H ET H ET HO O O O OR R R R RZ S Z S Z S Z S Z SI I I I IZ Z Z Z ZE E E E E or S S S S SET V ET V ET V ET V ET VE E E...

Страница 8: ...ne with caution D D D D DI I I I IS S S S SP P P P PLA LA LA LA LAY I Y I Y I Y I Y ID O D O D O D O D ON S N S N S N S N SC C C C CR R R R RE E E E EE E E E EN N N N N Pressing the MENU key will disp...

Страница 9: ...lts of the tests will be either P P P P PA A A A AS S S S SS S S S SE E E E ED D D D D or F F F F FA A A A AI I I I ILE LE LE LE LED D D D D Pressing the MENU key runs the tests To exit press the MENU...

Страница 10: ...C C C C CLEA LEA LEA LEA LEAR A R A R A R A R ALL P LL P LL P LL P LL PAG AG AG AG AGE E E E ES S S S S on the Screen Control Menu V V V V VE E E E ER R R R RS S S S SI I I I IO O O O ON N N N N N N N...

Страница 11: ...ation on commands We provide 1 RJ11 cable 1 DB9 to RJ11 adapter You will need the following 1 PC computer with a RS232 Serial Port 1 terminal emulation program such as Procomm ANSI SYS compatible or W...

Страница 12: ...0 baud Unless you changed it in the Utility Menu Utility Menu Utility Menu Utility Menu Utility Menu Stop bits 1 Data bits 8 Parity None Echo Off or Set Duplex to Full Note that other combinations may...

Страница 13: ...er is used to wake up an MCG 2 so you can send it commands Waking Up the MCG 2 When first powered up the MCG 2 will be asleep meaning that it will ignore any data sent to it except for a W W W W WA A...

Страница 14: ...d uses four conductor RJ11 connectors The connectors should be attached so as to have the locking snap tab facing the same way on both ends of the cable Use the sample cable that came with your MCG 2...

Страница 15: ...les to the MCG 2 units are the same as for connecting several monitors without loop through to one video source The MCG 2 VIDEO OUT connector is connected to a video monitor The monitor should be term...

Страница 16: ...E LI E LI E LI E LI E LIN N N N NE E E E E will write a line of text to the MCG 2 memory W W W W WL 8 3 T L 8 3 T L 8 3 T L 8 3 T L 8 3 TH H H H HI I I I IS I S I S I S I S IS A T S A T S A T S A T S...

Страница 17: ...M ME E E E E D D D D DO O O O OC C C C C file on the floppy disk for more information The description of each command is formatted as follows PURPOSE Tells what the command does FORMAT Shows the corr...

Страница 18: ...M PC Type P P P P PC C C C C Sets Control for IBM Type PC Page Position P P P P PP P P P P Sets position of page on screen Run Diagnostics R R R R RD D D D D Runs diagnostic tests Read Line R R R R RL...

Страница 19: ...N N ND D D D D PURPOSE Set the background video for a page FORMAT B B B B BG p G p G p G p G p p 1 for background ON p 0 for background OFF DESCRIPTION Sets the background status for the currently sel...

Страница 20: ...C CA A A A A DESCRIPTION Clears all 10 pages in the MCG 2 memory This command does not clear the MCG 2 screen See the CD C CD C CD C CD C CD CLEA LEA LEA LEA LEAR R R R R D D D D DI I I I IS S S S SP...

Страница 21: ...to turn OFF both time and date display DESCRIPTION This command sets the on off status for the date and time of day displays This display status is stored on a page by page basis If the RTC option is...

Страница 22: ...SCRIPTION This command will send back to the PC a C C C C CLEA LEA LEA LEA LEAR R R R R S S S S SC C C C CR R R R RE E E E EE E E E EN N N N N code to clear the PC s video screen This is useful when t...

Страница 23: ...CP p CP p CP p CP p p page number 1 through 10 DESCRIPTION Clears the page indicated Page is cleared in the MCG 2 memory only This command does not clear the MCG 2 screen See the CD C CD C CD C CD C...

Страница 24: ...4 horizontal 4 vertical Character size is stored on a page by page basis If there are more characters on a page in memory than will fit on the screen for the current character size as many characters...

Страница 25: ...V R V R V R VI I I I ID D D D DE E E E EO O O O O PURPOSE Clears the MCG 2 Video Display FORMAT CV CV CV CV CV DESCRIPTION This command clears the MCG 2 Video display screen but not any of the ten pag...

Страница 26: ...DESCRIPTION Sets the display position for date display maintained in the Real Time Clock option If this option is not installed issuing this command will produce a R R R R REA EA EA EA EAL T L T L T...

Страница 27: ...p P p p Page to be displayed 1 through 10 DESCRIPTION The MCG 2 holds 10 pages of text This command copies any one page to the screen The contents of the pages in memory are unaffected If the charact...

Страница 28: ...AT E E E E EP p P p P p P p P p p Page to be edited 1 through 10 DESCRIPTION This command displays on the PC a copy of the referenced page to the PC and allows editing of the page on a line by line ba...

Страница 29: ...different character sizes For example in the above figure for character size 3 horizontal 4 vertical only the word THIS would be displayed on the MCG 2 screen Similarly if the character size were 1 ho...

Страница 30: ...ns software used must be ANSI SYS compatible most are also you must have the statement DEVICE ANSI SYS in your config config config config config sys sys sys sys sys file See the documentation that ca...

Страница 31: ...HE E E E ELP LP LP LP LP DESCRIPTION This command displays on the PC a brief list of all of the remote control commands and their parameters This listing may be exited from at any time by pressing C o...

Страница 32: ...work ID code on the MCG 2 screen FORMAT I I I I ID D D D D DESCRIPTION The network ID code is the code used to access the MCG 2 with a W W W W WA A A A AK K K K KE E E E E command This command display...

Страница 33: ...xer On ONLINE x 0 for Mixer Off OFFLINE DESCRIPTION This command sets the ONLINE Mixer ON characters are present and OFFLINE Mixer OFF characters are NOT present status of the MCG 2 The looped though...

Страница 34: ...ine Draw characters FORMAT P P P P PC x C x C x C x C x x 1 for IBM PC x 0 for non IBM PC DESCRIPTION Sets whether or not the E E E E ED D D D DI I I I IT P T P T P T P T PAG AG AG AG AGE E E E E comm...

Страница 35: ...page position may need adjustment after changing a character size or you may want to position text over an object on the incoming video such as redoing a telephone number on a commercial The numbers...

Страница 36: ...space 1 space 123456 23456 23456 23456 234567 7 7 7 789 89 89 89 890 space abcdefghij 0 space abcdefghij 0 space abcdefghij 0 space abcdefghij 0 space abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx klmnopqrstuvwx klmnopqrs...

Страница 37: ...BG G G G G Background is On or is flashing the corresponding ANSI SYS codes will also be sent Codes are defined as follows Function ANSI code Bold on ESC 7m Flash on ESC 5m All attr off ESC 0m Note th...

Страница 38: ...in conjunction with commands that affect the current page This command allows the current page to be changed without affecting the video display so that undisplayed pages may be changed or edited whi...

Страница 39: ...ESCRIPTION This command sets the date maintained in the RTC option The Real Time Clock will automatically detect and adjust for leap year If the RTC option is not installed issuing this command will p...

Страница 40: ...m except for the W W W W WA A A A AK K K K KE E E E E command See the W W W W WA A A A AK K K K KE E E E E command The MCG 2 front panel controls are always active regardless if the MCG 2 is asleep or...

Страница 41: ...nds to more than one unit at a time see the example below This way the MCG 2 s on the network won t try to all talk at once Second if you want to send commands at high speed 9600 baud no wait between...

Страница 42: ...ses for unit 03 are OFF W W W W WL L L L L 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 T T T T TE E E E EST ST ST ST STI I I I IN N N N NG G G G G Write TESTING to all awake units S S S S SP P P P P Put all units to sleep W...

Страница 43: ...of day maintained in the RTC option The Real Time Clock can operate in military 24 hour or standard 12 hour formats To operate in military time use MT in place of xx above to operate in standard time...

Страница 44: ...day display format The time format is stored on a page by page basis If the RTC option is not installed issuing this command will produce a R R R R REA EA EA EA EAL T L T L T L T L TI I I I IM M M M...

Страница 45: ...osition 01 through 13 yy Two digit vertical position 00 through 10 DESCRIPTION Sets the display position for the time display maintained in the Real Time Clock option If this option is not installed i...

Страница 46: ...R R R R S S S S SI I I I IZ Z Z Z ZE E E E E command for more datails This command operates exactly the same as D D D D DP D P D P D P D P DI I I I IS S S S SP P P P PLA LA LA LA LAY P Y P Y P Y P Y P...

Страница 47: ...MB B B B BE E E E ER R R R R PURPOSE Displays the ROM firmware version number to the PC monitor FORMAT VN VN VN VN VN DESCRIPTION This command displays the version number of the ROM firmware and a co...

Страница 48: ...twork The W W W W WA A A A AK K K K KE E E E E command causes the referenced MCG 2 s to start accepting data after previously being asleep See the S S S S SLE LE LE LE LEE E E E EP P P P P command Als...

Страница 49: ...d one line of text to the MCG 2 memory To cause a character to flash embed an underline _ in the text portion of the command The first underline will turn the flash function ON the second underline tu...

Страница 50: ...54 6 6 55 7 7 56 8 8 57 9 9 58 59 60 left arrrow 61 62 right arrow 63 64 raised dot 65 A A 66 B B 67 C C 68 D D 69 E E ASCII ASCII Displayed Code Char Character 70 F F 71 G G 72 H H 73 I I 74 J J 75 K...

Страница 51: ...q Q 114 r R 115 s S 116 t T 117 u U 118 v V 119 w W 120 x X 121 y Y 122 z Z 123 124 down arrow 125 126 127 null transparent space Note Codes from 0 through 31 and 128 through 159 are not used Codes 1...

Страница 52: ...the inside of the MCG 2 Proceed as follows 1 Turn off the power to the MCG 2 2 Remove the two screws on the face of the unit 3 Gently pull the front cover plate forward 4 Slide the top cover forward a...

Страница 53: ...Y M Y ME E E E EN N N N NU U U U U and select S S S S SET C ET C ET C ET C ET CL L L L LO O O O OC C C C CK K K K K Using the PLUS or MINUS keys set A A A A AM M M M M P P P P PM M M M M or M M M M MT...

Страница 54: ...D for Date display only T D T D T D T D T D for both Time and Date display and O O O O OF F F F FF F F F F to turn off both the Time and Date display Note that T T T T TI I I I IM M M M ME P E P E P E...

Страница 55: ...econds display The M M M M MA A A A AST ST ST ST STE E E E ER R R R R R R R R RE E E E ES S S S SET ET ET ET ET can be used to recover from a FLASHING POWER LED condition and may be needed after repla...

Страница 56: ...M Y M Y ME E E E EN N N N NU U U U U The M M M M MA A A A AST ST ST ST STE E E E ER R R R R R R R R RE E E E ES S S S SET ET ET ET ET function is not available from remote control and a flashing POWER...

Страница 57: ...ives you a chance to see what exactly the MCG 2 does and or needs in your particular circumstance JUMPER SETTINGS The MCG 2 has two internal jumpers J11 and J9 J9 is the 75 ohm termination for VIDEO I...

Страница 58: ...e command in the Command Reference Section 3 Err 3 Err 3 Err 3 Err 3 Error R or R or R or R or Real time clock not installed eal time clock not installed eal time clock not installed eal time clock no...

Страница 59: ...laced This would be the case if a command wanted two digit parameters and was issued with single digit parameters Example The page position command P P P P PP P P P P needs two digit parameters The co...

Страница 60: ...one of the stored data will be lost To replace the battery proceed as follows 1 Remove the two screws on the face of the unit 2 Gently pull the front cover plate forward and down 3 Slide the top cover...

Страница 61: ...ght 3 84 scan lines Height 4 112 scan lines Width 1 20 characters per line Width 2 13 characters per line Width 3 9 characters per line Width 4 6 characters per line Selectable background and blink mo...

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