User's Manual

FIREMASTER III "Millennium" radio shooting system User’s manual

remaining units NOT connected by cable, will continue to operate

using the RADIO link.

"CABLE" MODE: only the data relative to the FIRE

COMMANDS, will be sent to the remote units using THE CABLE

CONNECTION ONLY (RS-485 port). The RADIO transmitter of

the Base Station will be completely DISABLED during this

operation mode and thus ALL REMOTE UNITS must be connected

together and with the Base Station, using a two-wire line and the RS-

485 ports present on all units for this purpose.

One should use this operating mode only if the radio propagation

conditions are really poor (due to the particular ground

configuration or to the presence of natural or artificial obstacles)

and the received signal strength should be below 20dBµV, or

when special security dispositions or local laws should forbid

THE USE OF RADIO TRANSMISSIONS.

WARNING!: the "CABLE" operating mode can be used ONLY

to issue the FIRE commands (show execution). For any other

TEST or PROGRAMMING operation (key switch on "TEST-

SAFE" position), the "RADIO" mode MUST be used instead!

1.8 "OLD UNITS SETUP"Icon

The FIREMASTER III SYSTEM has been designed in order to

easily implement the system expansion for all customers already

using a previous-generation FIREMASTER SYSTEM

(FIREMASTER II and FIREMASTER II-T). It will be then possible

to use a mixed system composed by "new" and "old" units.

Three different cases exist:

1- TX2000 BASE UNIT and RX24-B Remote Units

(FIREMASTER III): the whole system is of "new generation"

type, all new features are normally available and the present icon

can be completely disregarded (all data will remain at ZERO)

2- TX1000 Base Unit and RX24-B Remote Units (FIREMASTER

III): the whole system will operate correctly but, due to use an

"old generation" Base Station, all new functions will be NOT

AVAILABLE. The whole system will operate exactly as being

composed by "old generation" Remote Units (RX24-A

FIREMASTER II). Because all new commands and functions

cannot be activated from the "old" transmitter, even in the

present case, the icon can be ignored and all data will remain at

zero

3- TX2000 Base Unit and mixed Remote Units (partly RX24 and

partly RX24-B) or all Remote Units RX24 ("old" type

FIREMASTER II). In the latter case, in order to avoid errors due

to the reception of "new" commands (executable only by the