Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Br-ANA Sixteen Output Analog Card v4.nn ! The Br-ANA is used when you need to control anything that needs a 0-10 vdc analog control voltage. These include animated shows, lighting, motion base simulators, pneumatic and hydraulic systems, special effects, signs, fountains, and more. A Digital device is either on or off, like a light switch.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Safety Disclaimer: Any electronic or mechanical system has a potential to fail. Certain applications using Gilderfluke & Company equipment may involve potential risks of death, personal injury, or severe property, or environmental damage (“Critical Application”).
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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 Br-ANA. To program the Br-ANA you will also want to refer to the PC•MACs manual sections that cover the PC•MACs software. The Br-ANA is typically programmed in ‘Software-only’ or ‘Hardwareless RealTime’ mode.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Br-ANA Overview The Br-ANA is an output card which has sixteen 0-10 volt analog outputs, DMX-512 input and output and a legacy port for attaching Z-Bricks 1. For storing up to 255 shows, it uses any standard Sd or SdHC flash card. For triggering those shows, there are four optically isolated inputs, or the RS-422 networkable serial port can be used.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Brick. There should never be both ʻSmartʼ and ʻDumbʼ Bricks in the same card cage. Damage may result if there are. A ʻSmartʼ Brick system is used when you need to synchronize any number of ʻBricksʼ together on a ʻSmartʼ Brick Network under the control of a single ʻSmartʼ Brick Brain.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 may choose to download your shows through the serial port. If your shows are large, it is generally much faster and easier to drag-n-drop the completed showsʼ AutoDownload file onto the Sd/SdHC flash card that is then plugged into the Br-ANA. On the Br-ANA, sixteen channels of data are converted to the individual 0-10 volt analog outputs.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 ing to the Br-ANA's edge connector with a mating connector. We usually recommend a sixty position insulation displacement connector for this type of installation. Power requirements for Br-ANAs are 15 to 24 VDC. This is needed to allow some ʻhead roomʼ for the circuitry to output the 0-10 volt levels.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Br-ANA Panel Indicators There are forty-six LED indicators on the front of the Br-ANA. They are used as follows: A) Output Fuse Indicators (Four Green LEDs) These four LEDs are lit unless one of the four PTC fuses has been tripped by an overload on the J6/A output cable.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 This LED turns on when the Br-ANA is writing to the Sd card. The Sd card, or power to the Br-ANA should not be removed if this LED is lit. During firmware updates, the Read LED and Busy LED flash back and forth. The first stage is comparing the BRANA400.FRM file on the Sd card. It then flashes a little slower as it reads the BRANA400.FRM file in from the Sd card.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 reprograms the microcontroller in the Br-ANA. Under no circumstances remove power from the Br-ANA while firmware is being updated. A partial firmware update may ʻbrickʼ the Br-ANA, and then it will need to be returned to the factory for reprogramming.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 I) Heartbeat LED (One Blue LED) a) This LED Flashes continuously while the CPU is running. If it ever stops for more than a fraction of a second, the 'Deadman' circuit in the Br-ANA will automatically reset the CPU. While performing an Ease-In, the heart rate will double.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Br-ANA Connectors A) Z-Brick 3 (One Twenty Pin IDS Header) This connector is used to control one or more Z-Bricks. When enabled, the Br-ANA outputs data from the DMX-512 input or onboard Flash Memory to this connector.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 B) Sd/SdHC Flash Memory Card Slot (One Sd/SdHC compatible socket) This socket is compatible with both standard Sd flash cards and SdHC flash cards. It will support flash cards up to 32 GBytes in size. It will not currently support SdXC cards (64 GBytes and larger, as these require licensing from Microsoft).
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Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 identical four channel wide cables of ten wire each. These split individual cables called 1/4 J6/A. Each 1/4 J6/A also includes a common power supply and ground wire which allow it to provide power for analog output accessories like Electronic FeedBack (EFB) controllers (these cards require a power supply of 18 volts be used for the Br-ANA).
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 as a ʻSmartʼ Brick. The ʻSmartʼ Brick Network normally found on a ʻSmartʼ Brick is brought out on the edge connector. When plugged into any Gilderfluke & Co. Brick card cage, this will be brought out on a RJ-12 (or RJ45 5) connector on the card cage. There should never be both ʻSmartʼ and ʻDumbʼ Bricks in the same card cage. They share the same pins on the edge connector and backplane.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 There are four optically isolated digital inputs which can be used to start, stop, pause or select specific show sequences to play.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 J8 with External Power If you donʼt have an external source of power for these two inputs, you can ʻstealʼ some juice from the Br-ANAʼs power supply connections by putting the ʻJ8 Powerʼ switch in the ʻInternalʼ position. J8 with Internal Power F) Power Supply (on Card Cage) (Two Position Screw Terminals and/or 2.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 G) RS-422 Serial Port (on Card Cage) (RJ-12 or RJ-45 Connector) This is used for configuration, uploading and downloading configurations, status enquiries, AutoDownloading show data to Flash memory, and serial port RealTime updates. It is compatible with all the RS-422 Serial Ports and protocols used on Gilderfluke & Company products.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 ONE START BIT EIGHT DATA BITS ONE STOP BIT Br-ANA responds appropriately to all commands which are used by other Gilderfluke & Co. serially controlled devices. These are used for configuration, uploading and downloading configurations, status enquiries, AutoDownloading show data to Flash memory, and serial port RealTime updates.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 A DMX-512 network can be as long as a mile, or as short as a few inches. The DMX-512 network needs to be one long line, with no long side branches. If the network is longer than a few feet, you may need to provide a terminating resistor at the two far ends of the network (120Ω, ½ Watt is typically used). The resistors suppress ʻechosʼ on the DMX-512 wires.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Recent revisions of the DMX-512 standards have included specifications for running raw DMX-512 signals through standard Cat-5 (or better) ethernet cables.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Br-ANA Hardware Configuration There are only a hand full of switches and a single trimpot which can be used to configure the Br-ANA. Once these are set, you will probably never need to adjust them again. Most of the configuration is done through the Software Configuration, which is described in the following section.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 tions. With the switch in the ʻWrite OKʼ position, reads and writes can take place normally. This switch must be in the ʻWrite OKʼ position for shows to be downloaded via the serial port to the Br-ANA. With the memory write protected, the Br-ANA should retain whatever has been programmed into it for at least forty years.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 E) Full Scale Adjust (Ten Turn Trimpot) The ten turn pot R1 is the one adjustment on the Br-ANA. It sets the gain for the Digital to Analog (D/A) converters on the board. It is set at the factory, and should never need any adjustment after that. To set it, pick any output and set the minimum and maximum scaling to their minimums and maximums through the configuration screen.
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Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Br-ANA Software Configuration The Br-ANA 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.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 each Carriage Return (CR) it receives. You should also tell it NOT to scroll automatically after the eightieth column is filled. If either of these are on, the screen will be displayed 'double spaced'. This won't cause any problem, but will make it hard to see the whole screen at one time.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Flash Memory installed (if any) is shown. If the Animation Data Flash Memory isn't found, then 'not found' will appear in this space at the top of the screen. Gilderfluke & Co., Inc. - BR-ANA Analog Card - version 4.10 - copyright 2012 DCM Shows: 8, Ch: 123 @___0, ADL: AutoDownload_Filename Serial Address- __0 __1 Show_FileName.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 can no longer make any changes. Configuration changes can be re-enabled at any time by moving the switch back to the ʻEnabledʼ position. If you want to keep a hard copy printout of the current configuration of the Br-ANA, you should use the ape key to redraw the screen while ʻsaving to fileʼ in the modem program running on your computer.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 (addresses 2, 5, 8, 11, etc.) will need to have the previous two addresses sent (or burnt into the Flash Memory) so that its lowest four bit nibble isnʼt lobbed off. C) Sequencer Enabled: This toggle enables and disables the Br-ANA to use the Animation Data Flash Memory. When it is OFF, nothing will be output from the AutoDownload file stored on the micro Sd/SdHC flash card.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 E) Auto Ease-In: If using a v1.1 AutoDownload file generated with Pc•MACs version 2.02.212.xxx or later, this will be set automatically for you from data in the AutoDownload file.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 You can tell when an Ease-In is being performed by the Heartbeat jumping to a speed twice normal. Once all outputs have dropped out of Ease-In mode, the heartbeat will return to its regular rate. Which outputs have been set to use the Ease-In Feature is shown under the column labeled ʻEIʼ. Outputs which will be Eased In are shown by the letter ʻYʼ.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 time is still about 5 seconds. The time the output dwells at each extreme is about one second. U) Set Minimum, Maximum and Forced using Keypad: This is the easiest way to adjust the endpoints of the analog outputs to prevent a mechanical movement from over traveling. The normal range of the outputs is 0 to 10 volts DC.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 This will automatically force the output to the ʻzeroʼ position 8 . For cylinders and electric actuators, this is usually the fully retracted position. You can adjust the analog output to anywhere between 0 and 10 volts. If you adjust the ʻminimumʼ to a voltage that is higher than the ʻmaximumʼ, this is perfectly acceptable, and is the easiest way to reverse the motion of an actuator.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 If you have console or other way of moving the channel you are adjusting, you will probably not use this feature and use the console instead.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 c)! Entering a value as the default value for the currently selected output. The PowerOn value for all outputs is displayed in the 'PowerOn Default' column on the display. W)Set Analog Endpoints: This command is used to adjust the endpoints of the sixteen analog outputs. The ʻSet Min/Max/Forced using Keypadʼ is a much easier way of setting these values. Use it if you can.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 I) Card Status: This command displays information on the currently loaded AutoDownload file: a) FileName of this AutoDownload file (this is set during the AutoDownload process when you save the file to disk) b) Name of the Br-ANA card that this AutoDownload is intended for. This is set on the ʻDevice Settingsʼ dialog.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 1) Opening the Channels List, changing the ʻShow byʼ to ʻShow by Devicesʼ, and double clicking on the Br-ANA you will be downloading to 2) Clicking on the ʻDevice Settingsʼ button at the top of the AutoDownload dialog (next to where you select the target device) i) The name of each sequencer, along with the show that each loads at startup and if it waits or plays the show.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 1) Showʼs numeric position in the AutoDownload file 2) Showʼs ʻshortʼ (DOS 8.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 R) Save Configs: This command is used to save the current configuration of the Br-ANA through the serial port to a file on your computer. This file can then be reloaded into this, or any other Br-ANA. To use this command, you first invoke it, then following the instructions, you set your computer to receive a string of ASCII characters. Gilderfluke & Co., Inc.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 X) eXit: This exits the configuration mode and returns the Br-ANA to the command mode. When exiting you must enter a ʻyʼ or ʻnʼ, to preserve compatibility with some other Gilderfluke & Company cards.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Optically Isolated Trigger Input Actions The following Input Actions are used to start, stop, and generally control the Br-ANA through its four optically isolated trigger inputs. The optically isolated trigger inputs can be used as the sole method to control the Br-ANA, or as an adjunct to the Br-ANAʼs primary serial port.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 A) not used: This is the default setting for all inputs. Leave any unused inputs as ʻnot usedʼ B) Start Show: This is the most commonly used trigger input command. It tells the BrANA to start the selected show with the ʻloopingʼ flag set.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 F) Continue Show: The opposite of the ʻPauseʼ Input Action, this will allow a paused show to return to playing. On the LCD display and Br-ANAʼs menus, the show status will be shown as ʻloopingʼ or ʻplayingʼ, depending on what its status was before the ʼpauseʼ.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 I) Sequential From List: This input action can only be selected for the ʻClosingʼ edge on an input. It allows you to define a range of shows that will be played when the input closes. The range can be as short as two shows up to all the shows that are loaded on the Br-ANA.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 input has already played a show that is in a range that overlaps with another input or sequencer, that other input or sequencer will consider that show as ʻalready playedʼ too. You can tell the Br-ANA to reshuffle this list at any time by using the ʻReshuffle Listʼ input action. K) Reshuffle List: This input action can only be selected for the ʻClosingʼ edge on an input.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 You can define any of the inputs to any of the binary bits zero through seven. Each of the binary bits should only be used once. When any of the inputs that are assigned as a binary bit changes, the entire binary byte is scanned. If the result is non-zero, the binary value is used to select and play a show. Care must be taken that all the binary bits are switched simultaneously.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Serial Port Commands The following commands are used to start, stop, and generally control the Br-ANA through its primary serial port. The serial port commands can be used as the sole method to control the Br-ANA, or as an adjunct to the Br-ANAʼs four optically isolated trigger inputs.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 “0” through “9”, and “A” through “F”. The chart on the back page of this manual will help you translate decimal card addresses into hexadecimal card addresses. The “(show #)” is the desired showʼs position in the AutoDownload list when the AutoDownload file is saved. The ʻ(show #)ʼ represents a two digit ASCII hexadecimal number for the desired show.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 2) Card Reset: “j5AA5” (card address) This command will erase the AutoDownload file on the Sd Flash Card on the Br-ANA. Needless to say, this command is only rarely used in a completed installation. 3) Card Status: “i” (card address) The status screen is a snapshot image of the current status of the BrANA.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 c) address offset of the first channel in the AutoDownload file d) name of the AutoDownload file e) name of the AutoDownload target device f) serial address of the AutoDownload target device g) for the show which is loaded: a) show number the Br-ANA is playing b) name of the show c) playing status (looping, playing, stopped, paused, E-Stopped, etc.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 When shows are downloaded to the Br-ANA, they can be set to ignore additional start commands while they are playing. This allows individual shows to be ʻsteppedʼ upon or not. If the Br-ANA is already playing a show which has this option set, it will ignore this command.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 8) Select Show Commands: ! “)” (card address) (show#)!! “*” (show#)! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Select Show Track: Select Show Global: Up to two hundred fifty-five different animated shows can be stored on a single Br-ANA. These commands can be used to select an individual show on the selected Br-ANA(s). Individual shows can be requested with a range of 01 to FFH.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Br-ANA Firmware Updates The firmware in a Br-ANA can easily be upgraded at any time. To update the firmware: 1) Download the BRANA400.FRM file from the Gilderfluke & Co. website 2) Unzip the file (if needed) 3) Place the BRANA400.FRM file onto a formatted Sd/SdHC flash card 4) Power down (or disable) whatever the Br-ANA is controlling.
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