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S witching from FIU-005 systems to 932 systems
If you are already familiar with the FIU-005 (and earlier) interface units, these are some of the first differences that might
strike you when you start using the 932.
No more colored LEDs
The 932 has green LEDs for all the buttons, rather than colored ones, because the 2x5 array of LEDs is used for different
purposes in different modes.
No more BNC trigger input
The TTL trigger input is now on a smaller coaxial connector: its the gold one on the right hand side of the rear panel.
Electrically this input is the same as on the FIU-005, but we needed to use a smaller connector for space reasons.
(Note that there is also an optical trigger on the 932.)
Us ing old button boxes with a new (932) interface
The 932 supports older button boxes in several different ways. Once you've picked one of the following handheld device
types, all of the usual button box modes are available, and you can pick them from the list just as though you had a newer
HHSC device connected. But the choices handle differing cases:
FIU-005 Handheld Type
If you manually choose this handheld device type, the 932 will operate in a fixed-gain mode very much like the FIU-005 and
its predecessors did. This is the first thing to try if you're trying to use your older handheld devices with the 932. With most
button boxes, this choice will "just work", because the optical losses of most button boxes fall within a range that can be
accommodated with a fixed gain.
LEGACY HANDHELD
If you tried to select an FIU-005 handheld device type, but one or more of the buttons didn't work correctly, you probably
have a combination of button box and bundle optical losses that are too high for the fixed gain of the 932.
In this case, you can try selecting LEGACY HANDHELD instead. Now the 932 will use stored gain values for each channel
(button), so it can compensate for a wide range of optical losses on a channel-by-channel basis.
You'll need to calibrate the system for the handheld you intend to use. This is done using the "LEGACY HH CAL" mode,
described below.
At the end of the calibration process, you'll have the option to save the gain values, which will then be applied any time the
LEGACY HANDHELD choice is made. (So you don't need to calibrate things every time.)
Us ing LEGACY HH CAL
When this mode is selected, the 932 will scan the 8 possible channels of your HH series handheld device and attempt to find
gain values that will make the buttons work reliably.
To indicate this process is under way, the 8 left-most LEDs on the front panel are scanned in a counter-clockwise circular
fashion.
While the channels are scanned, the buttons on the button box should be pressed and released so that the electronics can
determine what the "off" and "on" optical losses are. We recommend doing this in a kind of rolling/tapping action, similar to
the classic finger-tapping on a desktop associated with impatience or nervousness.
As each button's correct gain value is found the corresponding LED is solidly lit. They should all be lit within 30 seconds or so.
At any time the knob can be pressed, and the gain values determined so far can be saved. So, if you have a 4 button device
connected you will notice that only the lower 4 LEDs go solid; that's normal, because there are only 4, after all. But, once
those 4 are solid you can go ahead and save these gains (and the upper 4 that are still being sought will just be disabled).
Once you have answered "YES" to "SAVE SETTINGS?", you can go on to select an output mode and you should be 'on the
air'.