User's Manual

FIREMASTER IV " MillenniumThree " radio shooting system User’s manual
- “Name” : the user is allowed to give any name up to 24 characters to identify
the show. This field is OPTIONAL and can be left BLANK
- “Date” and “Time” specify the time and date of creation of the show. These
fields are also OPTIONAL and can be left BLANK.
The following fields, separated by a SEMICOLON (;) are MANDATORY:
they must be typed exactly as shown (the first character is a capital). The
ORDER of the 6 fields can be different (provided the following data will respect
the order).
- “Cue” is a progressive number indicating the sequence of fire inside the
show. It will start with “1” and will increase progressively. If two or
more lines have the same CUE number, they will be fired AT THE
SAME TIME.
- “Seq” normally follows the same sequence of “Cue”. It will differ only
when a particular line, already fired, must be FIRED again (this happens
when the line drives not a squib but an automatic sequencer or similar
device).
- “Delay” represent the time spacing between the shots of a RAPID
SEQUENCE (less than one second). Data format is: mm.ss,00
- “Group” allows to specify a particular section of the show that can be
enabled/disabled during the execution. Up to 9 different groups can be
specified, if “0” is specified, then the line cannot be DISABLED during
the show execution.
- “Address” represents the number of the physical line addressed. It can
range from 1 to 9999
- “Start” specifies the absolute time of firing of that line inside the show.
The data format is: hh.mm.ss,00
In the given example the FIRST FIRE command (Cue and Seq 1) will fire three
lines (265, 241, 1) at the same time (00.00.00,00). The same is repeated for Cue
and Seq 2,3 and 4 with an absolute time of 10, 20 and 30 seconds respectively.
Cue and Seq 5 starts a RAPID sequence of 5 shots spaced apart by 00,50
seconds and beginning at the absolute time 40 seconds (note as the “Start” value
remains fixed at 40,00 seconds while the “Dealy” increases linearly in steps of
00,50 seconds). Being the “Group” specified as “0” for all Cues, it will be NOT
possible to disable any line during the show execution.
No other data is necessary to build a valid file to be downloaded into the
memory of the TX5000 unit. Any show can be thus created up to 9999
successive Cues.
2.4.2 How to download the show file to the TX5000 unit
The following steps are required to obtain your show data to be loaded and
stored inside the permanent memory of the TX5000 Unit, ready to be executed:
1) Create first a TEXT file containing the show data. The file can be
created following the instructions given in the previous chapter. Any
method is valid: import the file from a third-party program of show
management, create the file with NOTEPAD, EXCEL, WORD or any
available TEXT EDITOR program. The file must be always saved as
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