KUUMIC OY
NETWORK CONTROL
MIMIC BOARD
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1. INTRODUCTION
The RKU5 is a mimic board Control Unit. One board can hold up to
7616 separate status indicators:
-3808 Bi-color LEDs or
-224 seven segment displays
The state of the status indicators can be written to or read from the
RKU5 Control Unit.
Data communication between the RKU5 Control Unit is carried out
via asynchronous (RS-232) serial links by using ANSI X3.28 protocol.
2. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION
2.1 HARDWARE
The RKU5 mimic system (see Figure 1) consists of the following parts:
- a Control Unit
- a communication cable between the Control Unit COM2 and
Control Centre
- up to 16 IDC ribbon bus cables between the Control Unit and display
modules. In one cable can be connected either 14 LCMs (LED Control
Modules) or 14 DCMs (Display Control Modules).
- up to 224 (16*14) LCM depending on the number of LED's, one LCM
can drive34 LEDs.
-up to 7616 LED's
-a led power supply
-a plastic overlay or a chart membrane surface
-a network map (formed using adhesive tape)