Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Br-SDC8 & Br-SDC/09 Serial Device Controllers v4.nn ! The Br-SDC is a complete, stand-alone Serial Output Controller. It is used whenever you need to control any device that needs to be fed strings of RS-232 serial data (optionally RS-422) in response to a switch closure input.
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Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Br-SDC Overview.................................................................................. 7 Features of the Br-SDC/09, Br-SDC/422 or Br-SDC8 include:!............................... 7 Features exclusive to the Br-SDC8 include:!........................................................... 8 Br-SDC LEDs, Switches and Connections:........................................
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Start Timer (displayed as ʻtimerʼ):!......................................................................... 47 Rx Anything (displayed as ʻ__?__ʼ):!...................................................................... 47 End Of String (displayed as ʻ_end_ʼ):!....................................................................47 Eight Bit Binary value (displayed as ʻ_BIN_ʼ):!............
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Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 A note about this manual: This manual covers the specifics of the BrSDC. To configure the Br-SDC you will need a simple serial terminal program. We provide one called GilderTerm for free with our software. GilderTerm can be downloaded from our web site at: http://www.gilderfluke.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Br-SDC Overview The Br-SDCs are configured using the RS-232 serial port of any PC compatible computer. The only software you need on your PC is a simple ʻterminalʼ program. Typical of these is HyperTerm. We recommend GilderTerm, which is available free from Gilderfluke & Co..
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Typically mounted right on whatever it is controlling. Features exclusive to the Br-SDC8 include: • Adds eight downstream RS-232 serial ports for controlling multiple devices. • ʻConfig./Mux. RS-232 portʼ (female DE-09) or ʻMux./RS-422ʼ (female Rj-12) upstream ports. • Strings can be sent to one or more of the serial outputs simultaneously.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Br-SDC LEDs, Switches and Connections: There are only a small number of LEDs, connections and single configuration switch on each Br-SDC. Status LEDs: On the Br-SDC/09, Br-SDC/422: 1) Green ʻHeartʼ LED. This is used so you can see that the Br-SDC is alive.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 or more of these serial ports, you will see the adjacent LED flash. ʻConfigure/Runʼ Switch: This switch must be in the ʻDisabledʼ position for the Br-SDC to receive and send strings normally.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 POSITION WIRE # SIGNAL NAME: TOP-LEFT 1 n/c 2 RS-232 Tx from Br-SDC 3 RS-232 Rx to Br-SDC 4 n/c TOP-RIGHT 5 Ground BOTTOM-LEFT 6 n/c 7 n/c 8 n/c 9 n/c BOTTOM-RIGHT b) RS-422 (female Rj-12): The single port Br-SDC/422 replaces the RS-232 port with a RS244 serial port. On the eight port Br-SDC8, the RS-232 serial port is paralleled with the RS-244 serial port.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 c) DE-09 Nine Position Male: On the eight port Br-SDC8, these eight male connections are used to attach the devices that receive the strings that the Br-SDC8 generates or reroutes. A nine pin male to nine pin female serial cable with ʻstraight throughʼ wiring should be used to connect the Br-SDC to your controlled devices.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Any event can be triggered on either the ʻclosingʼ or ʻopeningʼ edge of any input. A ʻclosingʼ is when you ground an input. An ʻopeningʼ is when that grounding is removed. The inputs can be triggered on any voltage from 9 to 24 VDC. If you donʼt have an external source of power for these two inputs, you can ʻstealʼ some juice from the BrSDCʼs power supply.
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Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Br-SDC Software Configuration The Br-SDC can be accessed through the serial port from any computer running just about any modem or terminal program. We provide a free terminal program called GilderTerm that makes working with GilderGear through the serial port a little easier. The computer you are using doesnʼt even need to have any PC•MACs software installed on it. Most Gilderfluke & Co.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 data out and Rx data in pins on your USB-to-Serial converter. For an RS-232 port, this means temporarily shorting pins #2 and #3 together.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 set to the default 9600 baud, N, 8, 1, you will see the menu displayed on your computerʼs screen. There are two configuration screens in the Br-SDC: 1) Trigger Setup Screen: On this screen, you set which input sends out which string. 2) String Setup: This screen is used to set up which characters are sent and received in each string.
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Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Br-SDC Input Setup Menu The Trigger Setup menu will appear as follows (Br-SDC/09 shown): - Gilderfluke & Co. - Br-SDC Serial Device Controller - ver. 2.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 the input is currently closed, the small ʻcʼ will be printed as an upper case ʻCʼ. This allows you to see if the external connections to the Br-SDC are working properly. The screen will not be updated until it redraws. You can force the screen to redraw by hitting the or ape keys.
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Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 2400 baud 4800 baud 9600 baud (default) 19,200 baud 38,400 baud 57,600 baud 115,200 baud No matter the baud rate chosen, configuration will always take place at 9600 baud. The Br-SDC will only switch to another baud rate upon exiting configuration. c) Clear Configuration Memory: This command is used to reload the default configurations into the Br-SDC.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 a) Go to still mode. 4) For Sony LaserDisk players. This string is used to loop a single video sequence, with a delay between each iteration of the loop. This string will tell a Sony LaserDisk player to: a) b) c) d) e) Search for a frame number. Start the Player playing once it is found. Search for an ending frame number. Stop when it is found.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 - Gilderfluke & Co. - Br-SDC Serial Device Controller - ver. 2.13 (c) 2014 DCM - Set your computer to save a stream of text to a file. The file should be 4095 bytes long. To reload this card, just send this file back to this screen. Hit any key when ready. Stop saving text and hit any key when the data has finished.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 f) Frame Rate: The standard frame rate is always thirty Frames Per Second in the parts of the world that use NTSC video standards. In places where PAL video standards prevail, the standard frame rate is twenty-five Frames Per Second. This command allows you to select which frame rate will be used by the Br-SDC.
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Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 String Sent Multiplexer Selected AT+++6 Tx = #6, Rx = #6 AT+++7 Tx = #7, Rx = #7 AT+++8 Tx = #8, Rx = #8 If more numbers (1-8) are received before the (0x0D), then you can choose to route data to more than one of the multiplexed ports a the same time.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Note that when using the binary inputs, it is not possible to transmit through more than one multiplexer output at one time, unless you want to transmit to all of them simultaneously. You donʼt want to switch between multiplexers in the middle of a message. Make sure that the last serial message has completed transmission before you change the selected multiplexer.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 As with mode 2, mode 1 has the option of a ʻbinary modeʼ as described above for the Br-SDC/09 and Br-SDC/422. g) through z) Edit Input Actions: These commands are used to select and modify the twenty ʻshowsʼ that play when the level of an input changes. When you have selected an input/edge, this line will be displayed in UPPER CASE to make it easier to see.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 3) LaserDisk/DVD Start frame: This is the frame number that the Br-SDC will search for when a special ʻLaserSearchʼ (ʻserchʼ) command is found in the string that is being sent. The string will be paused until the LaserDisk/DVD has completed the search command. The string will then continue with the next character in the string.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 4) String/Show to play at End: This allows you to request that a specific show or string will be played at the successful completion of the string that is being sent. This allows you to jump to another show, or just send a different string when the main sequence has completed successfully.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Br-SDC String Menu Strings are the ASCII commands which you can tell the Br-SDC send. They are used primarily for turning on and off video displays and projectors. They can also be used with any other piece of show equipment that needs a serial input. Pressing the ʻeʼ command brings up the following screen (the default strings on a Br-SDC/09 are shown): - Gilderfluke & Co.
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Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 If the Br-SDC8 is also in a binary mode, then both the commands to embed the markers into the strings to send a binary, Hexadecimal or BCD values and the commands to select the multiplexed serial port have been added to the menu: - Gilderfluke & Co. - Br-SDC8 Multiport Serial Controller - v2.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 select whether it will be using a standard CAV (thirty minutes maximum length) disk, or an extended CLV (60 minutes maximum length) disk. DVDs all use frame references, and numbers from 1 to 9,999,999 are valid (assuming there are that many frames recorded on your disk!). CAV disks use frame number references between one and 54,000 frames. CLV disks use time references between 0:00:00.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 LaserDisk/DVD player to: a)!Search for a frame number. b)!Start the Player playing once it is found. c)! Search for an ending frame number. c)! Stop when it is found. d)!Delay for the amount of time entered in the ʻshow lengthʼ. Note that because of the length of this string, it will not show in its entirety on an eighty column wide display.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 1) Press the ʻdʼ key. This will bring up an explanation of what you need to do: - Gilderfluke & Co. - Br-SDC Serial Device Controller - ver. 2.13 (c) 2014 DCM - Set your computer to save a stream of text to a file. The file should be 4095 bytes long. To reload this card, just send this file back to this screen. Hit any key when ready.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 e) Edit Strings: This toggles you between the menu where serial strings are edited, and the menu where the trigger inputsʼ actions are configured. f) Frame Rate: The standard frame rate is always thirty Frames Per Second in the parts of the world that use NTSC video standards. In places where PAL video standards prevail, the standard frame rate is twenty-five Frames Per Second.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 When a Br-SDC8 is in mode0, the string menu is disabled, and the trigger menu is drawn with all but four commands disabled, with instructions for the multiplexer mode: - Gilderfluke & Co. - Br-SDC8 Multiport Serial Controller - v2.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 String Sent Multiplexer Selected AT+++4 Tx = #4, Rx = #4 AT+++5 Tx = #5, Rx = #5 AT+++6 Tx = #6, Rx = #6 AT+++7 Tx = #7, Rx = #7 AT+++8 Tx = #8, Rx = #8 If more numbers (1-8) are received before the (0x0D), then you can choose to route data to more than one of the multiplexed ports a the same time.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Binary Number Bit3 Pin #6 (+8) Bit2 Pin #7 (+4) Bit1 Pin #8 (+2) Bit0 Pin #9 (+1) Multiplexer Selected 8 On Off Off Off Tx = #8, Rx = #8 This mode is often used with a PLC or other controller, where GPIOs are available for making the binary selections.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 can be triggered by the optically isolated inputs as with mode 2, but the multiplexed serial ports to use for the strings can be selected either using the ʻAT+++ʼ commands of mode 0, or the commands embedded in the strings that are to sent from the internal memory of the Br-SDC8.
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Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 i) Edit Entry nn: This command displays the entry within the selected string (1-99) that will be changed by the next string altering command (value to get, value to send, etc.). When a new string is selected, this is reset back to the first entry in the selected string. Each time you make an entry in a string, this value is automatically incremented to the next entry.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 make multiple entries, which will be added to consecutive entries in the selected string. Enter an when you are finished making entries. q) Rx Text: (Command NOT available if in Mode 1) This command is an alternative way to enter data to get as ASCII text (instead of entering characters as hexadecimal values, as done in the ʻg) Value to Getʼ command).
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 m) LaserDisk/DVD End (displayed as ʻLdEndʼ): This command tells the Br-SDC to go into a mode where it polls the attached LaserDisk/DVD for the ʻLDP Endʼ frame that has been entered for the show that is playing. If the Br-SDC doesnʼt get a response from the LaserDisk/DVD within a second, it will try to query it again.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 If you are building a string to use with another piece of Gilderfluke equipment, this will probably be the way you will want to send it a binary value from the 1/4-J6 port. A typical string to select and loop a show looks like this: |_2Ah_|_HEX_|_22h_|_end_| The first character is the ʻ*ʼ (2Ah) that is used for the ʻglobal show selectʼ command.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 String Entry Multiplexer Selected Mux4 Tx = #4, Rx = #4 Mux5 Tx = #5, Rx = #5 Mux6 Tx = #6, Rx = #6 Mux7 Tx = #7, Rx = #7 Mux8 Tx = #8, Rx = #8 Note that when using the embedded ʻMuxʼ commands, it is not possible to transmit through more than one multiplexer output at one time, unless you want to transmit to all of them simultaneously (Mux0).
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Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Pioneer LaserDisk/DVD Commands The Pioneer LaserDisk and DVD players all share a common command format. A full description of the commands can be found in the technical publications available from Pioneer Communications of America. They can be reached at (408) 988-1702. You can also download their manuals from their web site.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 POSITION BOTTOM-LEFT WIRE # SIGNAL NAME: 12 n/c 13 n/c 14 n/c 15 n/c Pioneer LaserDisk/DVD DB-15 Female The ground connections to pins #11 and #15 may need to be disconnected when used with Pioneer DVD players. The usage of these pins are different from those of their LaserDisk counterparts.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 be sent out. Following this we tell the Br-SDC to wait until it gets first an ʻRʼ, and then a back from the LaserDisk/DVD player.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 command. The tells the LaserDisk/DVD player to start working on all of the commands it has received since the last was received. Please note that in many ways a LaserDisk/DVD player isnʼt very bright. If you send it a command to do something that is already done, it will return an error message.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 COMMAND! MNEMONIC! 3rd! 4th! OPEN DOOR! OP! 4Fh! 50h! Stops the player if it is running and opens the door. 0Dh! ! 52h! 0Dh REJECT! RJ! 52h! Stops the player motor if it is running. 0Dh! ! 52h! 0Dh PLAY! PL! 50h! 4Ch! 0Dh! ! Starts the LaserDisk/DVD playing from the current position on the disk.
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Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Sony LaserDisk Commands The Sony LaserDisk players all share a more or less common command format. A full description of the commands can be found in the technical publications available from Sony or your Sony dealer. You should confirm the usage of these commands for the specific player you are using. LaserDisks used with the Br-SDC can be recorded in either CAV or CLV format.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 POSITION WIRE # SIGNAL NAME: 12 n/c TOP-LEFT 13 n/c BOTTOM-RIGHT 14 n/c 15 n/c 16 n/c 17 n/c 18 n/c 19 n/c 20 DTR (connect to DSR pin 6) 21 n/c 22 n/c 23 n/c 24 n/c 25 n/c BOTTOM-LEFT Sony LaserDisk/DVD DB-25 Female In general, you send a command to the LaserDisk player as a single ASCII character.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 ! serch 3Ah (0Ah) Notice that after the LaserSearch command we have to then tell the LaserDisk to start playing, and that we tell the Br-SDC to wait until it gets an ʻACKʼ (0Ah) back from the LaserDisk player so we know that the command has been accepted.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 COMMAND! HEX CHARACTER SENT! AUDIO MUTE ON 4 ! 24h! ! Stops the audio output from the player. POSITIVE RESPONSE! (0Ah) AUDIO MUTE OFF 3 ! 25h! ! Enables the audio output from the player. (0Ah) CH-1 ON! 46h! (0Ah) ! Turns on audio output from channel one to ʻLeftʼ audio output connector. CH-1 OFF! 47h! (0Ah) ! Turns off audio output from channel one audio.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 MOTOR ON! 62h! (0Ah) (0Ah) ! Turns the motor on if it is stopped. Returns the first (0Ah) immediately, and the second after the motor is up to speed. Returns one NAK if the motor was already on. MOTOR OFF! 63h! (0Ah) (8Ah) ! Turns the motor off if it is running. Returns the first (0Ah) immediately, and the second after the motor has wound down.
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