HE10 Port interface details
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 11:09 pm
Hi,
I maintain a large Pipe Organ in Mesa AZ and we are planing to move to LED lighting in the near future. We intend to get a SLESA-UE7 which will be running in a stand alone mode. There are 11 buttons currently on the console for controlling 10 scenes. With DMX we plan to add a lot more than what we have now. We also have other functions like Screen, black-out and flag buttons that will also require triggering new scenes. All of this under control of the Organist.
I have already looked at the http://www.nicolaudie.com/online_manual ... Js2LoL.htm but it doesn't give me enough information about designing an interface between the Organ and the Lights.
I will be using the HE10 port being driven by a special board. The CPU on this board will send a binary value from 1-255 to the HE10 port. Right now I plan on using about 45 to 50 possible scene changes.
1.) How long must I keep this value on the port (contacts closed) so it will be recognized as a scene change?
2.) If a scene change was just selected, now long do I have to wait before I try to output a new scene change? This will be done by opening up all the contacts, waiting for some time, then closing the contacts again to select the new scene. What should the wait time be to guarantee the new change?
I am asking these because there may will be cases where a scene would be automatically started because of a function being turned off and the organist wants to over-ride the default scene change with a different one using one of the manual select buttons.
Pete
I maintain a large Pipe Organ in Mesa AZ and we are planing to move to LED lighting in the near future. We intend to get a SLESA-UE7 which will be running in a stand alone mode. There are 11 buttons currently on the console for controlling 10 scenes. With DMX we plan to add a lot more than what we have now. We also have other functions like Screen, black-out and flag buttons that will also require triggering new scenes. All of this under control of the Organist.
I have already looked at the http://www.nicolaudie.com/online_manual ... Js2LoL.htm but it doesn't give me enough information about designing an interface between the Organ and the Lights.
I will be using the HE10 port being driven by a special board. The CPU on this board will send a binary value from 1-255 to the HE10 port. Right now I plan on using about 45 to 50 possible scene changes.
1.) How long must I keep this value on the port (contacts closed) so it will be recognized as a scene change?
2.) If a scene change was just selected, now long do I have to wait before I try to output a new scene change? This will be done by opening up all the contacts, waiting for some time, then closing the contacts again to select the new scene. What should the wait time be to guarantee the new change?
I am asking these because there may will be cases where a scene would be automatically started because of a function being turned off and the organist wants to over-ride the default scene change with a different one using one of the manual select buttons.
Pete