Data Display GB-64*120-UBR, User Manual

Page 1: ... of the application or use of the information or products described herein Moreover Data Display Ltd reserves the right to alter specifications or procedures without notice This document may contain or refer to information or products protected by copyright or patents and does not convey any license under the patent rights of Data Display Ltd nor the rights of others All products referred herein a...

Page 2: ...yout and Symbols 12 3 7 1 The Caption Bar 12 3 7 2 The Speed Bar 13 3 7 3 The Menu Bar 13 3 7 4 The Canvas 13 3 7 5 The Status Line 13 3 8 The Menu Bar 14 4 Examples 35 4 1 How to Setup a Graphics Frame 35 4 2 How to create a simple animation with effects 35 4 3 Adding text to a Graphics frame 35 4 4 Displaying the Date Time or Temperature 36 4 5 Notes on importing Clipart and Fonts 37 5 Trouble S...

Page 3: ...nt of the Display Each Display has four cable entries two Mains 120V AC power cables an RS232 serial data cable and a Temperature Probe serial cable The two Mains power cables provide power for the top and bottom half of the Display and terminate at Filters inside the Display Two Control Boxes are supplied that contain the Wireless Modems and the RS485 Card for remote communication The serial and ...

Page 4: ...r Figure 2 1 System Configuration Wireless Modem TX TX Control Box Graphic Board Display 64 x 120 Pixels RX Control Box Warning Do NOT power up the Display Board until all cabling is connected Power Consumption per Display 2500W Two 120V AC Mains required per Display Control PC with GRAFIT software RS232 Serial Cable 9 way to 5 Pin Maplin 9 way wiring at PC Pin 5 GND Black Pin 3 Rx Red Pin 2 Tx Wh...

Page 5: ... of the Boxes are cable glands through which the incoming 120V AC power and Serial Cables for the Modems are routed The two Temp Signal cables and two RS232 Serial Cables to the each Displays Logic Board are also routed out of the RX Control Box Figure 2 3 Control Boxes TX Control Box 1 INSTRUCTIONS 1 Unscrew the 3 screws at the right hand side and remove Side Profile Put all hardware in a safe pl...

Page 6: ...Board The Interface Board PAS186 provides buffering of the LED Display multiplexing signals which form part of the Display interface The source of these interfaces is the PAS145 V53 Logic Board via 14 way ribbon cable headers at PL1 PL8 Figure 2 4 Interface Board ...

Page 7: ...n the display driver circuitry which generates the multiplexing signals for illuminating the LEDs Data enters the Board via the Buffer Board PAS186 on a 14 way screened Horizontal ribbon cable via an IDC socket The 4 way Molex connector supplies 5 Volt Display Logic power and 15 Volt LED power to the Board The Display Boards are fixed to stand offs attached to the Display chassis using 4 off M6 sc...

Page 8: ...itate connection with the Display Boards one for each side of a double sided Display largest Display requirement Serial EEPROM 4 Kbytes for reset determination purposes and in house usage where required Flash memory This device provides for 512KB of non volatile memory but has the facility to be erased and reprogrammed on board Figure 2 6 Logic Board Incoming RS232 signal wires from the Wireless M...

Page 9: ...hic frames for the display The minimum hardware and software requirements to run the GRAFIT software are as follows Processor Pentium 1 or higher Memory 16MB Display VGA 15 inch or larger recommended 256 colors 16 bit color Software Microsoft Windows 95or later Disk Space 10MB minimum free space for GRAFIT plus space for database and event log storage Bitmaps Gifs Tiffs etc Comms Standard Communic...

Page 10: ... CD ROM Installation 3 Click on the Next button to begin the installation and follow the on screen instructions 4 When the process is complete all files are stored in the C GRAFIT folder unless the destination folder has been changed If the Autorun feature on your PC is disabled or you are installing the software from a floppy disk click the Start button then select Settings Control Panel Double c...

Page 11: ...are 1 Use the normal menu command Click on Frame Exit and click on the Yes button of the dialog box 2 Click on the Close button in the top right hand corner of the screen and click on the Yes button of the dialog box 3 Press the ALT and F4 keys together and click on the Yes button of the dialog box 3 6 Accessing Help Help is available in the GRAFIT application and may be accessed in the following ...

Page 12: ...e main area of the window and the Status Line at the bottom of the screen When selected many of the main menu items open Dialog Boxes Note For single color Displays red is used as the default color Figure 4 1 The Main GRAFIT User Interface 3 7 1 The Caption Bar The Caption Bar contains the name of the software application GRAFIT followed by the current view title and the resolution Caption Bar Spe...

Page 13: ...d is followed by an ellipsis choosing the command opens a dialog box If the command is followed by an arrowhead the command leads to another menu selection If the command has neither an ellipsis nor an arrowhead then the action occurs as the command is chosen or For further information on the use of windows icons mouse and menus refer to the Microsoft Windows User Manual 3 7 4 The Canvas The Map i...

Page 14: ...me into a sequence Load Selecting Load under the Frame menu produces a dialog box from which the user may select any of the file types listed For example bmp gif pcx tga or tif FIELDS File Name To select a file click on a BMP file listed under File Name in the dialog box or type in the name of the required BMP file in the space given under File Name List Files of Type Clicking on this option with ...

Page 15: ...e provides the facility to save any changes to the bitmap or system e g pause rate of this application as a BMP file A BMP file is a single bitmap Send Send the current frame to the Display hardware as a single frame sequence Depending on communication settings several Pop Up windows will appear prompting that data is being transmitted to the display Refer to the insert Sending Information Procedu...

Page 16: ...hich the user can select an effect for the bitmap frame being worked on The ON effect is how the frame is drawn onto the Display page and the OFF effect is how the frame is drawn off the Display page Pause As yet the pause length of time is variable and depends on the size of the Display To define a pause rate click the left mouse button in the space to the right of pause and type in your required...

Page 17: ...es options for dealing with animations or sequences of frames All working frames are effected using options in this menu An Animation is a group of saved frames frm Clear Blanks clears the all frames Load Selecting Load under the Anim menu opens a dialog box from which the user may select a FRM file only A FRM file is a sequence of frames FIELDS File Name To select a file click with the left mouse...

Page 18: ...t their drives by clicking with the left mouse button on the required drive BUTTONS OK Accept configuration as entered and load file CANCEL Exit dialog without loading file Join This option works like load except the loaded animation frame sequence is joined at the current frame Save This option Save under Anim provides the facility to save any changes to the of sequence of bitmaps or the system e...

Page 19: ...o define a pause click the left mouse button in the space to the right of Pause and type in your required value BUTTONS OK Accept configuration as entered CANCEL Exit dialog without altering bitmap effect or pause file Frame Clicking with the left mouse button on Frame replaces the current bitmap frame with the previous bitmap frame for viewing This option is also available as the fifth button on ...

Page 20: ...e speed bar Stop Clicking with the left mouse button on Stop will stop the animation This option is also available as the eight button on the speed bar Schedule This menu provides options for dealing with schedules of animation sequences Load Load a schedule setup from a SCH file on disk into memory Save Save a schedule setup to a SCH file on disk Send Send the current schedule setup to the Displa...

Page 21: ...earch for and select the file BUTTONS SETTINGS This button pops up the Animation Settings dialog for the selected file in the list You select a file in the Animation list by left clicking on it This dialog allows you to set the following parameters Cycle Which cycles the animation is to appear in all cycles or every second or third cycle or whatever Repeat How many times will the animation be repe...

Page 22: ...mensions are of the form W x H x C where W LED columns H LED rows C colors including LED off Update Test mode This is a drop down list of the modes available on the chosen type of Display The modes available are as follows Normal update Default mode whereby the Display just runs as usual Device test page This mode forces the Display to show device information such as the firmware version communica...

Page 23: ...hen you must also choose the Options Display COMs button and set its address To switch to select a Panel select the Options Display List menu option and click on the Panel in question Set Time Date Set Dimmed Time This menu option sends the current PC time date to the Display s at the next initial Frame Anim This is useful if wanting to schedule frames as well as displaying Time and or Date This m...

Page 24: ...ettings etc Ports This dialog provides facilities for setting up testing and monitoring the system communications ports BUTTONS EXIT Exit this dialog SETTINGS This button pops up a port settings dialog from which you can select the baud rate data bits parity stop bits flow control state open closed RTS status high low and the Rx timeout and poll rate in milliseconds ...

Page 25: ...s the length of time the software will wait for device responses after polling sending on this port If this value is greater than 2000ms for the GRAFIT application then the software will popup an information dialog for each frame sent when sending one or more frames to a Display Poll rate This is the minimum time between each poll loop on this port A poll loop is when the software polls all device...

Page 26: ...Wait states The number of wait states between each consecutive poll during a poll loop ICONS Each of the icons represents a COMn port To select a port you just click on its icon A port is selected if its icon has a black rectangular border and you can only select one port at a time ...

Page 27: ...indows modem settings and the Attention String Protocol AT This option provides the facility to save any changes to the configuration or system of this application This option provides a dialog box to show the event log day by day By entering a particular date the first 1000 events occurring on that day will be listed To close the dialog box click on EXIT Click on PRINT to print the listed events ...

Page 28: ...tem Edit This menu provides the option for altering complete bitmaps or sections of bitmaps selected with the grab tool Undo This option allows the user erase his last action on the bitmap If Undo is clicked a second time the result is that what was undone will be unerased Cut Cut the frame or selected section to the Clipboard Copy Copy the selected frame or selection of it to the Clipboard Paste ...

Page 29: ...the text if the character does not appear where you want it to then delete it with the backspace key and reposition the cursor By referring to the Co ordinates box you will soon be able to position the text cursor exactly where you want it whenever you are entering text When you are happy with the text and its position you must fix it onto the frame image by left clicking anywhere on the frame If ...

Page 30: ...n conduction with the Palette With this tool chosen you can fill a bounded area on the frame with the chosen color in the palette simply by clicking within the area on the frame RECTANGLE This square tool allows the user to draw outlines of squares or rectangles Click down on the mouse button on the frame when the mouse is at the required start position and then drag the mouse which has the effect...

Page 31: ...mark a rectangle on the frame as if you were drawing a rectangle with the left mouse button Then drag this rectangle over the area to which you wish to copy it by clicking on the rectangle with the left mouse button and moving the mouse arrow as you keep the left mouse button down To change the size and position of the drawing area on the frame with the Grab Size tool selected right click on the f...

Page 32: ...d or left mouse button color Clicking on a color within the color box with the left mouse button will have the effect of changing the foreground color and clicking on a color with the right mouse button will change the background color Drawing operations will always be performed with the selected color Co ordinates Clicking on this option creates a co ordinates indicator box which indicates the po...

Page 33: ...ample of the font will appear in the bottom right hand corner of the options box The scroll up keys adjacent to the font choice will give more font options for selection Font Style To change the font style click on the desired font type beneath the option font style in the box A sample of the font style will appear in the bottom right hand corner of the options box Font Size To change font size cl...

Page 34: ...t to leave a mark in it An example of how the text will appear in the sample box To undo the effect click on the box again to clear the mark which selected it Colors The color option for text is not available through the fonts option box The color can only be altered using the color bar BUTTONS OK Accept configuration as entered CANCEL Exit dialog without accepting configuration Help This menu con...

Page 35: ...of 10 3 Now you can create the frames by hand using the Tools and the Palette or load each one from an existing frame file BMP GIF etc are supported choose the Frame Load menu option 4 For starters just choose the RED Pen and scribble 1 on Frame 1 then click on the Anim Frame menu option or the equivalent speed bar button 5 Scribble 2 on Frame 2 and repeat the process for Frame 3 6 Next click on t...

Page 36: ...s the software so make sure that the time and date on the PC is correct To show the current time enter the following syntax or combination of h hour M minutes S seconds a am pm Note To show the proper time format type in a colon after the hour and leave a space between minutes and am pm Example h m a displays 4 18 pm To show the current date enter the following syntax m month d day of the month y ...

Page 37: ...es MS Paintbrush which is installed in most PCs is also an ideal graphics editor for GRAFIT When creating logos that have a specific type of font it is most likely easier to import that proper font file to the Windows System Fonts folder Thus eliminating the time wasted and confusion of trying to establish a specific logo by free hand The end user would have to crop text pixel for pixel trying to ...

Page 38: ... in DOS since it is not multi tasking iv If a serial mouse has ever been used on the computer or the computer is a lap top with a tracker ball then there is a possibility that there are software drivers loaded which may be conflicting with COMn v If you are unsure if a communications port is working or not then check it by running Windows HyperTerminal see Accessories select that port then short p...

Page 39: ...ame onto the Display in the direction relating to the WIPE effect selected i e Left or Down Use On and Off Command Close This command is the opposite to OPEN in that is closes the frame onto the Display screen from the edges to the center like a closing curtain Use On and Off Command Down This command is the opposite of VERTICAL in that it causes the next frame to be scrolled down vertically onto ...

Page 40: ...aintenance 7 1 Maintenance Instructions 7 1 1 Cleaning the Display Routine cleaning of the Display Board is at the discretion of the operator and subject to local conditions Use damp non abrasive materials such as a sponge or lint free cloth to clean the Display Remove difficult stains or marks with a suitable solvent DO NOT USE sharp or metal objects Do not use a pressurized hose 7 1 2 Preventati...

Page 41: ...el 4 Pixel Pitch 35mm LED Diameter 5mm LED Color Ultra Bright Red Communication EPROM GB64X120 Protocol MATIF Baud Rate 19200 Addressing Dip Switch default 21h Data Format 8 bit 1 stop bit no parity Character Set Modem RS485 Rs232 Extended ASCII set Wireless Modem Software Text Graphics GRAFIT Ver 1 18ß Electrical Main Power Supply 120 Volts AC Power Consumption Fuse 2500W per single Display Suppl...

Page 42: ...LDR Board Cable Entries Logic Board Light Sensor Replaceable Parts for Graphics Display Viewed from Front with Display Panels removed Filter for second Mains Supply T 40C PSU Interface Filter Fans 5V 150W PSUs 12V 100W PSUs NOTE Set the output to 11V ...

Page 43: ...bottom right hand Display Board via the Interface Board 3 Data is transmitted via 14 way Horizontal ribbon cables 4 When the Data reaches the last Header on the top Display Board it is routed back down to the bottom Display Board on the column 1 Column 3 RHS of Display 14 way Horizontal Ribbon Cables looped up to next Display Data Flow 14 way Horizontal Ribbon Cables looped to bottom line of next ...