Gilderfluke&Co Sd-50 User Manual
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Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40
Audio & Show Control Systems
The Sd-50/0 is a complete, stand alone .Mp3/.wav player system. Just add a power supply and your
speakers, and it will play audio from the Sd/MMC flash card.
The Sd-50/8 & Sd-50/40 add up to forty digital Show Control outputs, DMX-512, MIDI in or Net Serial
RS-422 serial port input, DMX-512 output and scheduling to a Sd-50/0 player. The Sd-50/8 & Sd-50/40
are complete audio and Show Control solutions.
The Sd-50/GPS8 & Sd-50/GPS40 adds a GPS receiver for triggering by time or location. The Sd-50/
WWV8 & Sd-50/WWV40 adds WWV synchronized scheduling. This gives you ‘Atomic’ clock accuracy for
carillons, schools, churches, bell towers & industrial annunciator systems.
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Gilderfluke & Company equipment may involve potential
risks of death, personal injury, or severe property, or en-
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authorized, or warranted to be suitable in life support
applications, devices, or systems, or other critical appli-
cations. Inclusion of Gilderfluke & Company products in
such applications is understood to be fully at the risk of
the customer. In order to minimize risks associated with
the customer's applications, adequate design and oper-
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minimize inherent or procedural hazards.
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......................................................................Getting Started (quickly)! 9
.............................................Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Overview! 12
.......................................................................Features of the Sd-50/0 include:! 12
......................................Features the Sd-50/8 and Sd-50/40 adds includes...! 14
..................................................................Differences between Sd-50s and Mp3-50s! 17
.............................................Sd-50/0 Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Indicators! 19
....................................................................Right (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 20
...........................................................Sd Access (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 20
...........................................................Audio Run (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 20
........................................................Board Error (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 20
..........................................................................Show Run (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 20
................................................................DMX/MIDI/Serial (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 20
....................................................................Heart (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 21
......................................................................Left (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 21
..............................................Fuses (1 LED on Sd-50/8, 5 LEDs on Sd-50/40)! 21
......................................J8 ʻAʼ, ʻBʼ, ʻCʼ, & ʻDʼ Input LEDs (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 21
..............................Output LEDs (8 LEDs on Sd-50/8, 40 LEDs on Sd-50/40)! 21
.........................................................................................Input Open (Sd-50/0)! 22
.........................................................................................Input Close (Sd-50/0)! 22
.......................................Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Connections! 23
..............................................RS-232 Serial Port (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 24
..................................................Sd/MMC Socket (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 24
........................................................Optional Clock Input (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 25
......................................Card Cage Connection (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 26
.....................................................Power Supply (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 26
..............................................DMX-512/MIDI/Net Serial In (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 26
DMX-512 Input! 26
MIDI Notes Input! 27
Net Serial Input! 28
IR Input Mode! 29
IR MultiLingual Mode! 30
None! 32
................................................................DMX-512 Output (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 32
..........................................Left Speaker Output (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 33
........................................Right Speaker Output (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40) ! 33
.................................................Left Line Output (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 33
..............................................Right Line Output (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40) ! 33
........................................ʻ¼ J6ʼ Inputs/Outputs (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 33
Outputs via the ‘" J6’ port! 34
Inputs via the ‘" J6’ port! 35
ServoMotor PWM via the ‘" J6’ port! 35
................................................J8 ʻAʼ, ʻBʼ, ʻCʼ & ʻDʼ inputs (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! 37
J8 ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ & ‘D’ Binary:! 38
.............................................................ʻJ6ʼ Show Control Outputs (Sd-50/40)! 39
................................Defaults for Sd-50/0s, Sd-50/8s and Sd-50/40s! 43
Sd-50/0 (audio only) Defaults! 43
Sd-50/8 Defaults! 44
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Sd-50/40 Defaults! 45
Sd-50/WWV8 Defaults (w/ ‘atomic’ clock)! 45
Sd-50/WWV40 Defaults (w/ ‘atomic’ clock)! 45
...............................................What You Should And Shouldn’t See! 46
................................Shows Capacities for Sd-50/8s and Sd-50/40s! 48
..................................What To Do With A New Sd/MMC Flash Card! 51
...............................Preparing Animation Data for AutoDownloads! 53
..............................................................................Locking Your Data! 55
..............................Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Serial Commands! 56
..............................................................................................Echo Commands:! 57
Echo On: “a” [nn] (card address)! 57
Echo Off: “b”! 57
................................................................Card Status: “i” [nn] (card address)! 57
........................................................Card Reset: “j5AA5” [nn] (card address)! 59
................................................................................................Start Commands! 59
Start Track: “t” [nn] (card address)! 59
Start Global: “u”! 59
................................................................................................Stop Commands! 60
Stop Track: “x” [nn] (card address)! 60
Stop Global: “y”! 60
...............................................................................................Loop Commands! 60
Loop Track: “!” [nn] (card address)! 60
Loop Global: ““”! 60
....................................................................................Stop at End Commands! 60
Stop at End Track: “%” [nn] (card address)! 60
Stop at End Global: “&”! 60
...................................................................................Select Show Commands! 60
Select Show Track: “)” [nn] (Card Address) [nn] (show#)! 60
Select Show Global: “*” [nn] (show#)! 60
.....................................................................Select & Play Sound Commands! 61
Select Sound Track: “^t” [nn] (Card Address) [nn] (sound#)! 61
Select Sound Global: “^u” [nn] (sound#)! 61
.........................Volume Command: “^v” [nn] (Card Address) [vv] (Volume)! 61
...................................................................................Show Pause Commands! 61
Pause Show: “<” [nn] (card address)! 61
Continue Show: “>” [nn] (card address)! 61
.................................................AutoDownload: “sA5A5” [nn] (card address)! 62
........................................................................................RealTime Update: “~”! 62
...........................................................................................Serial Command Summary! 63
...............................Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Hardware Config.! 64
..........................................................................ʻ¼ J6ʼ Internal/External Power! 64
..........................................................................................RS-422/Optoisolated! 64
........................................................................................Right Volume Control! 64
...........................................................................................Left Volume Control! 64
..........................Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Serial Configuration! 65
...........................................................................Entering Serial Configuration! 66
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......................................................................................................Play a Sound! 69
.........................................................................................................Stop Sound! 69
......................................................................................Daylight Savings Time! 70
.........................................................................................................Stop at End! 70
..............................................................................................................Set Time! 71
...........................................................................................................Show Info! 71
.......................................................................................................Loop a Show! 71
..........................................................................Display Config. from Sd/MMC! 72
..................................................................................................Reload Defaults! 72
........................................................................................................Play a Show! 72
..........................................................................................................Stop Show! 72
................................................................................Set ServoMotor Endpoints! 72
......................................................................................................Verify Shows! 74
......................................................................................................................Exit! 74
....................................................................................................Set Time Zone! 74
...................................................................................Secondary Configuration Menu! 75
....................................................................................................Serial Address! 75
.......................................................................................................MIDI channel! 76
......................................................................................................MIDI 1st Note! 76
........................................................................................MCU Control Channel! 76
..............................................................................................Left Level Control! 76
............................................................................................Right Level Control! 76
.................................................................First Show Control Output Channel! 76
.................................................................................First ServoMotor Channel! 76
...............................................................................................................eeFlag0! 77
......................................................................................................Play a Sound! 77
.........................................................................................................Stop Sound! 77
...............................................................................................................eeFlag1! 77
...............................................................................................................eeFlag2! 77
.........................................................................................................Stop at End! 77
...............................................................................................................eeFlag3! 78
...............................................................................................................eeFlag4! 78
...............................................................................................................eeFlag5! 78
...........................................................................................................Show Info! 78
.......................................................................................................Loop a Show! 78
..........................................................................Display Config. from Sd/MMC! 79
..................................................................................................Reload Defaults! 79
........................................................................................................Play a Show! 79
..........................................................................................................Stop Show! 79
......................................................................................................Verify Shows! 79
......................................................................................................................Exit! 79
....................................................................................................Set Time Zone! 79
..........................Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Software Installation! 81
........................................................................................Software/Firmware Versions! 82
...............................................Updating Firmware on a Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40! 83
.................................................................................‘Mp3 Config.exe’! 84
....................................................................................................................Track Setup! 86
..............................................................................................................Move Up! 86
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.........................................................................................................Move Down! 86
....................................................................Reload Track List From Directory! 86
.................................................................................................................At End! 86
Stop! 87
Play Next Higher Selection! 87
Play Random Selection! 87
Play Same Selection Again! 87
Play Specific SoundFile! 87
...................................................Can Step On Track with a new Play request! 87
..................................................................................Track to Play at PowerUp! 88
................................................................................................................PlayList Setup! 89
...................................................................................................................Audio Setup! 90
.............................................................................................Main Volume Level! 90
.............................................................................................................Half Mute! 90
.....................................................................................RealTime Level Control! 91
........................................................................................................EQ Settings! 91
.....................................................................................Enable Power Amplifier! 91
..........................................................................................................‘" J6’ Input Setup! 92
...................................................................................................Playback Level! 93
Do not change Playback Level! 94
Fade to Full In! 94
Fade to Zero In! 94
Fade to ‘Half Mute’ In! 94
.......................................................................................................Start Playing! 94
Whatever is Next! 95
Next Higher Show or SoundFile! 95
The Same Show or SoundFile Again! 95
A Random Show or SoundFile! 95
Specific Show or SoundFile! 95
.......................................................................................................Stop Playing! 95
Stop Now! 96
Stop at End! 96
...............................................................................................Pause or Resume! 96
..........................................................................Do not Start or Stop Anything! 96
............................................................Animation ‘Virtual’ Audio Trigger Input Setup! 97
...................................................................................................Playback Level! 98
Do not change Playback Level! 98
Fade to Full In! 98
Fade to Zero In! 99
Fade to ‘Half Mute’ In! 99
.......................................................................................................Start Playing! 99
Whatever is Next! 99
Next Higher SoundFile! 99
The Same SoundFile Again! 99
A Random SoundFile! 99
Specific SoundFile! 100
.....................................................................................................Stop Playing! 100
Stop Now! 100
Stop at End! 100
............................................................................................Pause or Resume! 100
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........................................................................Do not Start or Stop Anything! 100
.............................................................................................Animation Control Setup! 101
............................................................................DMX/MIDI/Serial Port Setup! 101
Disable Serial Reception! 101
Enable DMX-512 Reception! 101
Enable DMX-512 Checksums! 102
Enable MIDI Reception! 102
MIDI Notes Trigger Animation Playback! 102
MIDI Channel Number! 103
MIDI First Note Number! 103
Net Serial Mode! 103
IR Trigger Mode! 104
..................................................................................................Brick Address! 105
.....................................................................Repeater MPU Control Channel! 105
.................................................................................First Animation Channel! 105
......................................................................................................Flash Setup! 105
Enable Animation From Flash! 106
Disable Outputs When Stopped! 106
Write Protect Flash Memory! 106
............................................................................................................Schedule Setup! 107
Disable Schedule Starts on ‘D’/White Input! 110
Reset Clock on ‘RTC’ Input! 110
....................................Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, and Sd-50/40 Installation! 111
.............................Battery Replacement on a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40! 112
...............................................Care & Feeding of an GPS Receiver! 113
..............................................Care & Feeding of an ‘Atomic’ Clock! 114
.....................................................C-50Trans Transition Connector! 116
...................................................................Sd-50/CC-10 Card Cage! 117
FCC and CE Compliance:! 119
EC DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY! 119
.....................................................HEXadecimal to Decimal to ASCII to Percentage! 120
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A note about this manual:
This manual covers the specifics of the Sd-50/0, Sd-
50/8, Sd-50/40. To program the Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8,
Sd-50/40 you will also want to refer to the PC•MACs
manual sections that cover the PC•MACs software.
The Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40 is typically pro-
grammed in ‘Software-only’ or ‘Hardwareless RealTime’
mode. If you are using the PC•MACs MACs-USB for
programming your Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40 through
the DMX-512 inputs, please refer to the PC•MACs ‘Unlim-
ited’ mode.
The full PC•MACs manual can be downloaded from our
web site at:
http://www.gilderfluke.com
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Getting Started (quickly)
The following instructions describe how to quickly set up a Sd-50/xx to run using the default settings.
The default settings can be used in most applications.
1)! Insert the Sd/MMC flash card into you computer, or a USB card adapter.
2)! Check that the card is formatted for ‘FAT32’. Reformat if needed. (What to do with a new
Sd/MMC Flash card)
3)! Drag and drop all of your SoundFiles into the card.
4)! Open the ‘Mp3 Config.exe’ program.
5)! It will probably tell you that there are no files in the directory. Do a ‘save as’ and point it at
the Sd/MMC flash card where your sounds reside. (No files in Directory Warning)
6)! Select the appropriate player type under the ‘Player Type’ pulldown.
7)! Select ‘Reset Everything to Defaults’ under the ‘Edit’ pulldown.
8)! On the ‘Track Setup’ tab, press the ‘Reload Track List From Player Directory’ button.
! If you are setting up an installation where the Sd-50/0 will simply be playing on power-up
(instead of being triggered), set the ‘Track to play at Startup’ and the chain of sounds
that will play after each SoundFile. You can set one file to play ‘whatever is next’ (or a
random track) at its end, and the ‘All’ button will apply this setting to all the SoundFiles.
All the sounds will then play round-robin (or randomly).
9)! If you are setting up a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40, make a note of the first sound in the list.
10)! On the ‘Audio Setup’ tab, disable the amplifier if you will not be using the onboard amplifier.
(Enable Power Amplifier)
11)! Save and quit the ‘Mp3 Config.exe’ program.
12)! Tell Windows to ‘Eject’ the Sd/MMC flash card and Move the Sd/MMC flash card to the Sd-
50. If you do not ‘Eject’ the Sd/MMC flash card properly, Windows may damage the files you
just put on the card.
If you just configured a Sd-50/0, it is now ready to run. Connect speakers and a power supply. If you
set a startup sound and chain of SoundFiles to play after, It will start playing when it is powered up. Otherwise, it will now accept inputs on the ‘" J6’ inputs to the player to trigger and play sounds. Depending
on the number of SoundFiles, the ‘Mp3 Config.exe’ program will have set the inputs to directly select the
SoundFiles, or use a binary pattern to select them. Some of the upper input bits may have been set to
stop, mute, unmute or half mute the audio.
If you are using a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40, you will also need to connect whatever you are controlling,
speakers and a power supply. You can then program a show to go along with your sound. The following
instructions cover setting up a show, but not the actual programming of the show. A primer on programming the show can be found in the PC•MACs manual. Connections for the Show Control outputs can be
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found elsewhere in this manual. If you just want to watch the LED indicators for the Show Control Outputs
on the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 blink, you can skip connecting to your show for now.
1)! Open the ‘PC•MACs’ program.
2)! Select the ‘New’ command from under the ‘File’ pulldown.
3)! Set the length for your show.
4)! Select ‘Audio’ for your sync type.
5)! Press the ‘Load Media File’ button. Navigate to the first SoundFile from the ‘Tracks’ list in
the ‘Mp3 Config.exe’ program and select it (you were supposed to make a note of which
sound if ‘first’ in step #9 above).
6)! Set the ‘.Mp3/.wav player’ Offset to one second (00:00:01.00). This delays the start of the
sound to one second after the show starts.
7)! Popup the ‘Site File’ menu, and select ‘New’ from the top of the list. Give the new site file a
name. Click ‘OK’.
8)! Close the ‘Show Information’ dialog.
9)! Select the ‘Show List’ command from under the ‘Channels’ pulldown.
10)! Select the ‘Create Multiple’ command from under the ‘Channels’ pulldown. Select zero ana-
logs and eight digitals (Sd-50/8) or forty digitals (Sd-50/40). These are your ‘Show Control’
Outputs. Click ‘OK’.
11)! Select the ‘Create Figure...’ command from under the ‘Channels’ pulldown. Name the figure
‘Sound Triggers’. Click ‘OK’.
12)! Select the figure you just created so that it is highlighted. Now select the ‘Create Multiple’
command from under the ‘Channels’ pulldown again.
13)! Select the ‘Create Multiple’ command from under the ‘Channels’ pulldown. Select zero ana-
logs and eight digitals. These are your ‘Audio Trigger’ Outputs. Click ‘OK’.
14)Select the ‘Move to OffLine’ command from under the ‘OffLine’ pulldown. You will see a two
column dialog where all the channels you created are shown in the left column, and any
channels you are editing are shown in the right column. Select the ‘Sound Triggers’ figure
from the left column, and press the ‘>>>’ button to move the ‘Sound Triggers’ to the ‘Editing’
column. Click ‘OK’.
15)! The eight possible audio triggers are shown at the bottom of the window. Use the Right
mouse button to draw a line on the bottom most channel from one second to two seconds.
This will start your first SoundFile playing at one second after your show starts. Lines drawn
of different outputs will trigger different SoundFiles in other shows.
At this point you can program the rest of your show.
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If you have a PC•MACs RealTime license, you can assign the Show Control channels to the Soft Console and program that way.
Without a PC•MACs RealTime license, programming can be as simple as:
1)! Press the ‘Selected Channels’ button at the bottom middle of the OffLine Editing Window.
This opens the ‘Move to OffLine’ dialog we used before.
2)! Move the ‘Audio Triggers’ from the right ‘Editing’ column to the left ‘Not Editing’.
3)! Select all of the other Show Control channels you created and move them from the left ‘Not
Editing’ column to the right ‘Editing’ column. Click OK.
4)! Draw ‘lines’ all over the Show Control channels using the right mouse button.
Once completed, you save this and other shows to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 using the ‘Save as Auto-
Download…’ dialog under the ‘File’ pulldown. An ‘AutoDownload Quick Start’, as well as full instructions
on AutoDownloading shows is found in the PC•MACs manual.
If it is small, you can serially download your AutoDownload file to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. For larger
files, just save the AutoDownload file to your hard disk using the ‘Build Brick’ button on the ‘Save As
AutoDownload’ dialog (found under the ‘File’ pulldown). Then take the AutoDownload file that you created,
and drag and drop it onto your Sd/MMC flash card. Next time this card is inserted into your Sd-50/8 or Sd-
50/40, it will load your show into the onboard flash memory. If set to do so, the file will start playing. Otherwise, it will wait for a trigger input to tell it to start playing.
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Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Overview
The Sd-50/xx family consists of three members:
The Sd-50/0 is a complete .Mp3/.wav player system. It uses a standard Sd/MMC flash card to hold
audio files stored in .mp3 or .wav formats. It includes an amazingly efficient 100 Watt Class-D stereo amplifier which has the output power of many 500 Watt linear amplifiers. With no moving parts to wear out,
the Sd-50/0 should well outlast the speakers it is attached to. The Sd-50/0 can be used singly, or in combination with additional Sd-50/xx’s, BR-SmartMedia cards or any Gilderfluke & Co. equipment. It can
provide the audio for animated shows and displays, fountains, fireworks, safety announcements, advertising, alarm systems, window displays special effects, signs, clocks and carillons, or anything else that
needs a sound to be played back.
Audio is loaded onto the Sd-50/0s by first converting it to an .mp3 or .wav format files. There are a
number of commercial, freeware and shareware programs for doing this. All audio editing programs now
include .mp3 encoders*. You can even use Apple’s iTunes!
SoundFiles are moved to the Sd-50’s by temporarily moving the Sd/MMC flash card to an appropriate
slot or reader attached to your computer. The Sd/MMC flash card will appear as a ‘removable disk drive’
on your computer. You can then ‘drag and drop’ your audio and show files onto to the Sd/MMC flash card.
This works identically when using either a Macintosh or Windows-based computer.
The Sd-50/8 and Sd-50/40 add Show Control features to the Sd-50/0s. The Sd-50/8s or Sd-50/40s
can be used singly, or in combination with additional Sd-50/xx’s, BR-SmartMedia cards or any
Gilderfluke & Co. equipment. It can be used to control animated shows and displays, fountains, fireworks,
lighting, sound systems, simulators, slide and movie projectors, fiber optics, window displays, motors,
pneumatic and hydraulic systems, neon special effects, signs, machines and machine tools in process
control, or anything else that can be controlled by an electrical signal.
The Show Control side of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is programmed using our PC•MACs Show Control
software. While programming, data can be sent to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 through its DMX-512 input,
‘Net Serial’ RS-422 port, or RS-232 serial port. Once programed, data is sent to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40
through the PC’s serial port or loaded onto the Sd/MMC flash card for permanent storage. The Sd-50/8 or
Sd-50/40 can then be disconnected from the PC and it will run all by itself.
When used with a ‘Hardwareless RealTime’ licensed copy of PC•MACs software, Sd-50/8s or Sd-50/
40s can have their outputs programmed and updated in real time with just a PC and a serial connection.
When used with the PC•MACs hardware (MACs-SMP or MACs-USB Smpte Card), up to sixty-four Sd-50/
8s or Sd-50/40s can be updated in RealTime through the DMX-512 port.
Features of the Sd-50/0 include:
Stand alone stereo playback of standard .mp3 and .wav audio files. The Sd-50s support all
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standard .mp3 encoding rates, including ‘variable’. Sixteen bit .wav files with sample rates up
* Contact our sales staff for current .mp3/.wav file converter recommendations.
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to 48K per second are supported.
Amazingly powerful 100 Watt Stereo Class-D Amplifier (fifty watts/channel). This amplifier has
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the output power of a typical 400 to 500 Watt linear amplifier, but without the high current
draw and waste heat. In most applications, this amplifier means that all you need to add are
appropriate speakers, a Sd/MMC flash card and a power supply to get up and running.
Up to 255 different SoundFiles can be selected and played.
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Sound capacity is only limited by the size of the Sd/MMC flash card installed. As of this writ-
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ing, Sd cards of up to four GBytes have been tested with the Sd-50/xxʼs. Using typical
.mp3 data rates, you can put about two full day’s worth of sound (yes, 48 hours!) on a single
four GByte Sd card. Larger capacity Sd cards are on the way, and should work just as well,
and hold even more sound.
Audio data is stored in standard Sd/MMC flash cards. You move the Sd/MMC flash card to
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your computer for high speed ‘drag-n-drop’ downloading. Some computers have Sd/MMC
slots built in. Others will need to use a USB-to-Sd/MMC adapter. In either case, your Macintosh or Windows-based computer will mount the Sd/MMC flash card as a ‘removable Drive’.
You copy your sound and animation files to the Sd/MMC flash card by just drag-n-dropping it,
just as you would copy any file from one folder to another.
Two line level outputs (RCA Jacks) for attaching external amplifiers.
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All configuration is done through a user friendly Windows-based ‘Mp3 Config.exe’ program.
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You can set the volume, EQ, and what each of the trigger inputs does. Eight of the inputs are
from the outside world through optoisolators, The other eight inputs come directly from the
Show Control side of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40, if these options are installed. Any of the
inputs can be used to ramp audio to preset levels, select and play specific SoundFiles or select SoundFiles from a preset list or randomizer. Shows can be selected directly by an input,
or using a binary pattern to allow access to all 255 different possible audio files.
Screwdriver-accessible volume controls. These make it easy to make final adjustments in the
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output level of the Sd-50s. Additional ‘software’ volume controls set up through the ‘Mp3
Config.exe’ program allow you to set ‘limits’, so the volume can not be turned too high using
these pots.
Mounts stand alone, in 2-3/4” Augat Snap Track, or up to ten in a Sd-50/CC10 cage (Sd-50/
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0 only). Using optional brackets, mounts on most flavors of DIN rails.
The Sd-50/xx will run from power supplies with output voltages between twelve to twenty-four
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volts DC. The Sd-50/xxʼs can even be run from batteries! For maximum output with the
onboard amplifier, use twenty-four volts, and add approximately 100 Watts (for amplifier) plus
your loads when selecting your power supply. Both screw terminal and 2.1 mm power connections are available.
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Features the Sd-50/8 and Sd-50/40 adds includes...
Eight (Sd-50/8) or forty (Sd-50/40) digital (on/off) Show Control outputs to a Sd-50/0. These
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can be used to drive solenoid valves, relays, LEDs and other typical loads directly.
DMX-512 input for programming or controlling the .Mp3/.wav player and show control outputs.
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The Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 can be operated as a ‘slave’ following whatever DMX-512 data it
receives from the DMX-512 network.
DMX-512 output from onboard Show Control memory or when running from RealTime up-
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dates through the RS-232 serial port. The Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 can be operated as a ‘master’,
sending DMX-512 to control other Sd-50/8s or Sd-50/40s, light dimmers, wiggle lights, strobe
lights, or any other DMX-512 controlled devices. The DMX-512 output is also an easy way to
add additional Show Control outputs to Sd-50/8s or Sd-50/40s.
Up to eight of the ‘" J6’ Show Control outputs can be used to control model airplane-style
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PWM ServoMotor outputs.
Automatic ‘program in place’ download through the serial port on your PC or through the Sd/
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MMC flash card. The amount of time it takes to download shows the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 de-
pends on the length of the show(s) and the number of channels used. Short shows take only
seconds. Shows that fill the entire Sd-50/8s or Sd-50/40s memory will take longer to down-
load. It is much quicker to move the completed shows to the Sd/MMC flash card, and let the
Sd-50/8s or Sd-50/40s load them from there. Show audio and animation data can be distrib-
uted to clients by sending out preloaded Sd/MMC flash cards.
Four MBytes of nonvolatile Show Control memory. Using all forty Sd-50/40 Show Control out-
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puts (and the audio control channel), this gives a show capacity of about six hour at thirty up-
dates per second! About eighteen hours for the Sd-50/8 using all eight of its outputs (and the
audio control channel)! Once downloaded, show data is retained for approximately forty
years, with or without power applied. Up to 255 individual shows can be loaded onto a Sd-50/
8 or Sd-50/40 at one time.
Battery-backed Real Time Clock. The Clock is factory trimmed for an accuracy of 50 parts per
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million (PPM). Using the 365 day schedule, you can set when shows and sounds will be
played up to a year in advance. You can set it to play a specific schedule on a specific day, or
you can select a schedule by the day of the week. As an example, you can set a special
schedule to be used on the Fourth of July each year, or set a different schedule to be used
only on Sundays only through an entire month. In school and factory bell systems, different
schedules can be used on weekdays, and different schedules (or no schedule at all) for the
weekends. As long as the rules for the Gregorian calendar and leap years don’t change, the
Real Time Clock will be accurate until the year 10,000. The centuries will not automatically
advance, and will need to be adjusted manually each 100 years.
Optional radio controlled ‘Atomic’ clock can be used to accurately synchronize the clock in-
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side the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 to the national time standards broadcast over short wave radio
from Frankfurt, Germany; Colorado, USA; Rugby, England; Fukushima, East-Japan; and Ky-
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sushu, West-Japan. The ‘Atomic’ Clock synchronizes the clock inside the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/
40 once each day. These radio signals are not available (or strong enough to be used) in all
parts of the world.
Optional GPS can be used to continuously synchronize the clock inside the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/
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40 to the world time standards broadcast from the GPS satellites orbiting over the earth. This
keeps the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 synchronized to UTC (also known as ‘Zulu’ or ‘Greenwich
Mean Time’ (‘GMT’)) to within .001 of a second. Multiple Sd-50/8s and Sd-50/40s located
anywhere on Earth can be scheduled to play the same shows and sounds at the same times,
and will play them with .001 second accuracy. A more down-to-earth application would be to
synchronize the sounds and animation on a series of parade floats so that they all play with
perfect synchronization. The GPS receivers will work anywhere a clear view of the sky is
available. They are sealed to IP67 standards for mounting outdoors or in wet locations, and
come with a 25 foot cord to allow them to be mounted where they can receive the best GPS
signals.
AudioFiles can be selected, played and audio levels controlled from the Show Control Sys-
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tem. Digital controls can be used to ramp levels between full, half and completely muted. The
rate of fades can be set up to 9.9 seconds. Left and Right audio outputs can also be assigned
to one or two analog channels, and the volume can be controlled individually, or assigned to
the same analog control channel and controlled together.
Two hundred fifty-five shows can be loaded onto a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 at one time. Shows
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can be accessed sequentially or directly using the four optoisolated ‘J8’ inputs or serial com-
mands sent through the RS-422 serial port. The ‘Next’ show can be set for the end of any
show, allowing you to loop a single show or build ‘chains’ of shows.
The Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 supports update rates from one frame per second to a maximum of
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one hundred frames per second. Different shows can each be programmed at different frame
rates. This allows you to program ‘delay’ shows that tick along at a low frame rate between
your main shows, and use very little memory.
Four optoisolated ‘J8’ inputs to synchronize Sd-50/8s or Sd-50/40s with pushbuttons or other
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real-time events. Multiple Sd-50/8s or Sd-50/40s can be triggered simultaneously or sequen-
tially. Each Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 input can be set to start, stop, pause, continue, or directly
select and play a specific show. Different actions can be requested on each inputs’ opening or
closing edges. If not used for anything else, the four optically isolated inputs can be used to
select and play up to fifteen shows at random through using a binary weighted pattern.
Shows can also be triggered via the RS-232 or RS-422 serial ports, MIDI in ‘notes’, or IR Trig-
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ger Mode.
Each of the eight (Sd-50/8) or forty (Sd-50/40) Show Control outputs is rated for a continuous
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load of 150 ma., or 500 ma. peak. This is enough to drive small solenoid valves, relays, LEDs
and similar loads. Relays can be used to control higher current or voltage loads (DRV-03, Pb-
DMX/08 through Pb-DMX/32, Pb-08 through Pb-32, LC-8SP, or SSR-FS). If more than forty
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outputs are needed, additional Sd-50/8s or Sd-50/40s can be added to give you as many
outputs as you need.
The digital Show Control outputs from a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 can be fed to Digital to Analog
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converters (like our single channel DAC-08 or four channel DAC-QUAD) wherever you need
0-10 volt analog control signals.
When programming, or when installed as a permanent part of a larger control system, the Sd-
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50/8 or Sd-50/40 accepts data through its DMX-512 and RS-422 serial port. This data is used
to update the outputs, and takes precedence over the on board Flash memory.
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Differences between Sd-50s and Mp3-50s
Many first-time users of the Sd-50/xx will be familiar with our Mp3-50/0, Mp3-50/8 or Mp3-50/40. The
Mp3-50/xx series of Audio Repeaters and Show Controllers are the direct ancestors of the Sd-50/xx se-
ries. At first glance, it may be hard to tell the two of them apart. Their cases, mounting holes, and connectors are almost identical.
Some of the differences are:
The Mp3-50s used SmartMedia Flash cards for audio storage, which were the most com-
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mon type of flash card available at the time the Mp3-50s were released. The Sd-50/xx
series use Sd/MMC flash cards. Sd flash cards are now the most common type of flash card
available. SmartMedia Flash cards topped out with capacities of 128 MBytes. Sd flash cards
are widely available with capacities to four and eight GBytes.
The Mp3-50 series required ‘blessing’ the flash card to load the firmware the player needed
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to run before it could be used. No ‘blessing’ is needed with the Sd-50/xx series.
The Mp3-50 series required drivers be loaded on your computer before it would work with
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them. The Sd-50s need no drivers.
The Mp3-50 series featured a USB port to download sounds and configurations to the
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SmartMedia card. This was also the only way to ‘bless’ a flash card before use. The Sd-50s
eliminate the USB port and ‘blessing’ altogether. Cards are loaded with sounds and configured by moving them to a computer with a suitable Sd/MMC slot or adapter.
The Mp3-50 series limited the number of DMX-512 output channels to sixteen. No such limi-
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tation exists on the Sd-50s.
DMX-512 is output on the Sd-50s, no matter what mode is selected for the DMX-512/MIDI
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serial input. On the Mp3-50s, the output port always followed what was set on the input
port.
The Mp3-50s could not use the ‘" J6’ port for triggering animation. The Sd-50s can. You
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can select shows directly using these eight inputs, or use a binary pattern to directly select
any of 255 different shows.
The Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 will allow you to take over pins used on the ‘" J6’ port for con-
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trolling up to eight model airplane-style PWM ServoMotors.
The amplifier used on the Sd-50/xx series is rated for 100 Watts of class-D power, which is
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equivalent to many 500 Watt linear amplifiers. The amplifier on the Mp3-50s was rated for
22 Watts stereo, or 11 watts per side.
The inputs and outputs on the Sd-50/xx series are better protected against transients.
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Onboard flash memory is eight times larger on the Sd-50/xx series than the Mp3-50 se-
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ries.
The RTC was installed on Mp3-50s only with the ‘Atomic’ Clock option. The Sd-50/8 or Sd-
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50/40 come with the Real Time Clock chip installed, so the 365 day scheduling of sounds
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and shows can be used, albeit with less accuracy than is available with either the GPS or
‘Atomic’ clock options.
Schedules can now be ‘named’, and the names are retained for display on the serial menus
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and for further editing.
Firmware upgrades only need the appropriate file be loaded onto an Sd flash card. On the
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next boot, the player will check to see whether the firmware is more up-to-date than it already
has, and load it if it is.
Show, schedule and GPS files are loaded at boot-up only if they are different (different name,
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date or time)from the files that are already loaded into the Sd-50. This means that there is
only a delay on boot-up if you have changed to a different flash card with a different show,
schedule or GPS files on it.
Real time updates on serial port menus. Shows sounds and shows playing, input status,
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schedules being used, and names of the shows and sounds that are started from the RTC
schedules.
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Sd-50/0 Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Indicators
There are only a small number of connections, indicators, and configuration switches on each Sd-50/0, Sd-50/
8, Sd-50/40.
Sd-50/0 (Audio Only):
Sd-50/8 (Audio & Eight Show Control Outputs):
Sd-50/40 (Audio & Forty Show Control Outputs):
There are up to fifty-seven Status LEDs on the Sd-50/xx:
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1) ! Right (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
! ! This LED flickers to give you a rough approximation of the audio being played out of the right side of
the audio player. It is downstream of the volume processing done on the Sd-50/0, and will dim to reflect
changes in volume level. It is upstream of the Right Volume Control Pot. Changes in the Right Volume
Control Pot will not affect the output level of this LED.
2) ! Sd Access (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
!!This LED glows to show accesses to the Sd-card. Even when idle, this led will be flickering slightly as
the audio processor makes sure its friend, the Sd card hasn’t left it stranded.
3) ! Audio Run (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
!!This LED will light to show that the Audio Player is currently playing back an .mp3 or .wav audio file.
4) ! Board Error (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
!!This LED will flash to show you that the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 has sensed one of the following errors:
a)! RealTime DMX-512 Update Error: The optional checksum in the DMX-512 RealTime update
didn’t agree with the data received.
b)! RealTime Serial Update Error: The checksum in the serial RealTime update didn’t agree with the
data received.
c)! Download Error: There was an error in the data being downloaded to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40.
d)! Download Timeout: If the data being downloaded to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 stops midstream,
this LED will flash as the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 returns itself to normal operating mode.
e)! Data Verification Failure: If you ask the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 to verify the data in its flash mem-
ory, and it finds an error, it will flash this LED as well as displaying an error message on your computer screen.
f)! Memory locked: If you try to clear the flash memory or send a show to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40
while the Write Protect is in the ‘locked’ position.
5) ! Show Run (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
!!This LED will light to show that the Show Control half of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is currently running a
preprogrammed show. This LED will also flash at half of the frame rate (usually 15 Hz) when the Sd-50/8 or
Sd-50/40 is receiving RealTime update data either through the DMX-512 or serial ports. During flash memory downloads, this LED will alternate on each 256 bytes of data received. At the normal 9600 baud serial
rate, this is about one Hz. This LED flashes at about the same rate when loading files from the Sd/MMC,
even though the data is being loaded much more quickly.
6) ! DMX/MIDI/Serial (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
! ! This LED will light to show that the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is receiving RealTime Update data through the
DMX-512, MIDI, RS-232 or RS-422 serial ports. If the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is receiving show starts from
MIDI input, then this led will flash for about 1/10th of a second each time a ‘start’ happens. During flash
memory downloads, this LED will flash alternately with the Show Control Heart LED at twice the normal
heartbeat rate.
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7) ! Heart (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
!!The ‘heartbeat’ will always flash so that you can see that the Sd-50/xx is alive. If this LED doesn’t flash
at least twice per second, you should power down the Sd-50/xx and check the power supply and connections to the Sd-50/xx. During flash memory downloads, this LED will flash alternately with the DMX/MIDI/
Serial LED at twice the normal heartbeat rate. During firmware upgrades, these two really go pitter-pat.
8) ! Left (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
! ! This LED flickers to give you a rough approximation of the audio being played out of the left side of the
audio player. It is downstream of the volume processing done on the Sd-50/0, and will dim to reflect
changes in volume level. It is upstream of the Left Volume Control Pot. Changes in the Left Volume Control
Pot will not affect the output level of this LED.
9) ! Fuses (1 LED on Sd-50/8, 5 LEDs on Sd-50/40)
! ! The eight inputs of a Sd-50/0 and the eight outputs of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 make one, eight-bit
wide ‘channel’. The forty outputs of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 are divided into five, eight-bit wide ‘channels’.
! ! The eight inputs of a Sd-50/0, eight outputs of a Sd-50/8, and last channel of a Sd-50/40 are shared
with the eight optically isolated inputs to the audio half of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. This channel, and only
this channel can be switched between using ‘internal’ and ‘external’ power using the switch on the bottom
of the unit. This will be lit when there is an external voltage source present between pins #1 and #10 of the
‘" J6’ input, when the switch is in the ‘external’ position. If the fuse LED is off for this channel, check to
confirm that this switch is not in the ‘external’ position if you are not feeding this channel an external voltage
source.
! ! Each channel is fused for approximately one Amp of continuous current. These LEDs light to show if
the fuses are OK. If any are out, then a short circuit (or too heavy of a load) is dragging the outputs down
and causing the fuse to open. The fuses are actually ‘Polyswitch fuses’, which act more like circuit breakers. Once the overload is removed, they reset.
10)! J8 ʻAʼ, ʻBʼ, ʻCʼ, & ʻDʼ Input LEDs (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
!!These four LED will light to show current is flowing through the four ‘J8’ Show Control Trigger inputs.
These LEDs are on the output side of the optoisolators, so if they are glowing, the microcontroller in the unit
should be seeing the signal. These four trigger inputs are the only way to use a switch closure input to start
the animated sequence playing on a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. If not using the GPS, these LEDs will flash
slightly as the clock chip in the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is read.
11)! Output LEDs (8 LEDs on Sd-50/8, 40 LEDs on Sd-50/40)
! ! These LEDs show the current status of the Show Control digital outputs. If a LED is lit, then that output
is ‘ON’. Because the outputs of a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 are ‘Open Collector, Switch To Ground’, you can
ground out any output pin, and the appropriate LED will light. This can be useful when diagnosing output
wiring problems. If you are commanding ‘on’ an output and you don’t see a LED, then the output is probably drawing too much current and the output is ‘self protecting’. Disconnect the load and see whether the
LED now lights. If it does, then it definitely is an overload problem. If it does not, then try turning ‘on’ some
of the other outputs. If they light OK, then the output driver might be damaged. If they do not, then verify
your addressing and retest.
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! ! If any of the pins on the ‘" J6’ output from a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 are being used a ServoMotor PWM
outputs, the corresponding output LEDs will have a steady glow.
!!A Sd-50/0 has eight optically isolated trigger inputs which can be used to select, start shows and
SoundFiles and change the audio levels of the audio half of the Sd-50/0 player. The only output channel on
a Sd-50/8, and the last output channel on a Sd-50/40 are shared with these audio trigger inputs. Normally
these are not used to trigger the audio on a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. The ‘virtual’ MPU trigger inputs from the
Show Control half of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 are normally used instead. This leaves these eight outputs
free to be used as outputs on most Sd-50/8 and Sd-50/40 applications.
12)! Input Open (Sd-50/0)
!!This LED flashes briefly to show that an opening edge has occurred on any of the eight ‘" J6’ inputs.
13)! Input Close (Sd-50/0)
!!This LED flashes briefly to show that a closing edge has occurred on any of the eight ‘" J6’ inputs.
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Fuse
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Power
12–24 vdc
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Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Connections
Sd-50/0 (Audio Only):
Sd-50/8 (Audio & Eight Show Control Outputs):
Sd-50/40 (Audio & Forty Show Control Outputs):
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A) ! RS-232 Serial Port (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
! ! The serial command set is identical to, and compatible with all the RS-422 Serial Ports used on
Gilderfluke & Company products. One difference between the Sd-50/xx and most of our products is that
the serial port is the primary method used to configure it. A Sd-50/xx is normally configured through the
‘Mp3 Config.exe’ program. This configuration is downloaded to the Sd-50/xx each time the Sd-50/xx
is turned on, but only if there is a difference between what was already on it.
! ! The Sd-50/xx has a serial ‘configuration’ mode which will allow you to check and modify the status
and configuration of the Show Control half of the Sd-50/xx. This is used to configure the animation half of
a Sd-50/xx if the audio half is not yet, or never is going to be used.
! ! If a Sd/MMC flash card is inserted into the Sd-50/xx which has been configured using the ‘Mp3
Config.exe’ program, any changes you have made to the configuration through the serial port will be over-
ridden by what is on the Sd/MMC flash card.
! ! The serial data signals from the Sd-50/xxʼs are brought out on a 1/8” three conductor ‘stereo’ socket.
Its pin out and cross connect to the standard serial port on a PC is as follows:
! ! The mnemonic for remembering the connections are: Ring = Receive, and Tip = Transmit.
! ! The Sd-50/xx expects to see the serial data in the following format:
ONE START BIT
EIGHT DATA BITS
ONE STOP BIT
B) ! Sd/MMC Socket (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
!!This is where you plug in the flash card that is used to store the sound that is played back by the Sd-
50/xx.
! ! MMC (short for MultiMedia Card) was the original standard for flash cards of the size and shape used
in the Sd-50/xx. MMC flash cards have largely disappeared, replaced by the newer standard called Secure Digital (Sd). Sd flash cards are slightly thicker than MMC cards, have a ‘write protect’ switch on them,
and a few more pins than a MMC card.
! ! In addition to .mp3 and .wav SoundFiles, the Sd/MMC flash card usually contains the ‘Mp3 Config.exe’
program, the configuration files it creates (Sd-50.cfg, mp3-50.cfg, schedule.sch, etc.). Although not
needed by the Sd-50/xx, it is not unusual to store ‘back up’ copies of your shows and support files for
safe keeping. In this way, if you have to return to a job site years in the future, you will have the shows and
files needed to recreate and reprogram the installation.
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C) ! Optional Clock Input (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
!!This 2.5 mm stereo jack is used to connect either the radio controlled ‘Atomic’ clock or the GPS re-
ceiver to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. This input is optically isolated. A ‘Polyswitch fuse’ protected twenty-four
vdc from this jack is used to power the ‘atomic’ clock or GPS receiver.
! ! All of the Sd-50/8s or Sd-50/40s are made with the built in Real TIme Clock. This allows you to sched-
ule when sounds and shows will play using a 365 day schedule. Without the additional accuracy provided
by the ‘Atomic’ or GPS clock, the built in RTC has an accuracy which has been laser trimmed for +/- 50
Parts Per Million (PPM). This is about the same as most modern electronic watches. Variations in temperature will cause a certain amount of variation in the accuracy of the RTC.
! ! An external clock can be used with the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 to assure that the internal clock is always
insanely accurate. Either external clock option is locked to the atomic clocks that are used as the worldwide
time standards. The GPS uses the atomic clocks that are in a set of satellites orbiting the Earth. The ‘radio
controlled ‘Atomic’ clocks lock to radio signals broadcast from Frankfurt, Germany; Colorado, USA; Rugby,
England; Fukushima, East-Japan; and Kysushu, West-Japan.
! ! The GPS option will work anywhere on the planet. The receiver is mounted where where it has a view
of the sky. The GPS receivers are IPx7 rated for outdoor use, and are ‘bulkhead’ mounted using a single 5/
8” diameter hole. The fifteen foot long cable from the GPS receiver plugs into a small GPS power module
via a six pin mini-DIN connector. A three conductor cable with 2.5 mm stereo plugs at both ends is then
connected between the power module and the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. The input to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40
is optically isolated. You can stretch these wires for hundreds of feet, if needed.
! ! The GPS, once it acquires a lock on the satellites orbiting overhead, takes over for the on-board Real
Time Clock inside the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. Every 60 seconds, on the half minute, the GPS clock sets the
RTC chip inside the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. This assures you that even if the GPS loses lock, the internal
clock has been set accurately.
! ! The ‘Atomic’ Clock option can be used anywhere radio signals broadcast from Frankfurt, Germany;
Colorado, USA; Rugby, England; Fukushima, East-Japan; and Kysushu, West-Japan can be received.
! ! The ‘RTC input’ is used to resynchronize the internal Real Time Clock chip with the external ‘Atomic’
Clock once every 24 hours. The time which has been entered in the ‘Mp3 Config.exe’ must agree with the
time set for the alarm on the ‘Atomic’ Clock module.
! ! We are using 3:05:00 as the default resynchronization time. The external ‘Atomic’ Clock MUST be set
so that the alarm goes off at 03:05:00. It is at 3:05 AM so that when daylight savings starts and ends, there
will be no more than one hour before the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is resynchronized to the appropriate time.
Any earlier, and the daylight savings transition might be missed until the next resynchronization time.
! ! A single three conductor cable connects the ‘Atomic’ Clock module to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. 2.5
mm plugs are used to connect one end of the cable to the ‘Atomic’ Clock module, and the other end to the
‘Optional Clock Input’ jack on the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. The input to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is optically
isolated. You can stretch these wires for hundreds of feet, if needed.
! ! The link between the ‘Atomic’ Clock module and the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 can be tested by pressing
the ‘snooze’ button atop the ‘Atomic’ Clock. This will light the back light on the LCD display. This will also
set the RTC inside the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 to the completely WRONG time, if the connection is working.
You must manually set the time within the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 after testing it in this way. If you don’t want
this to happen when testing this connection, power down the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 before doing this test.
Power the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 back up when you are finished testing.
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! ! To permanently prevent such accidental clock 'miss' settings after the ‘Atomic’ Clock is installed, you
can open the battery compartment and cut the wire which runs through it. This will disable the ‘snooze’ button, and thereby prevent it being hit accidentally in the future.
D) ! Card Cage Connection (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
!!This female header connection is used to connect the power and secondary serial port to a Sd-50/CC-
10. It is not used for any other purpose.
E) ! Power Supply (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
!!The power supply connections to the Sd-50/xx are available on both a 2.1 mm power jack and two of
the screw terminal positions. For mobile, permanent or higher current applications, you may wish to use the
screw terminals instead of the 2.1 mm power jack. It is less prone to being accidentally unplugged or vibrating loose. The screw terminals are also a very convenient place to ‘steal’ a little ‘juice’ to power the four
optically isolated inputs.
! ! If you are not using the onboard amplifier, the Sd-50/xx can be run from any supply voltage from nine
vdc to twenty-four vdc. If you are using the onboard amplifier, the power supply should be between twelve
and twenty-four vdc. The amplifier will shut off at a hair below twelve vdc. If want to reach the maximum
possible power from the amplifier, you will need to run the Sd-50/xx from twenty-four vdc, and use 4Ω
speakers.
! ! The Show Control outputs are powered from this supply connection as well. If you are driving twenty-
four vdc loads, then run the Sd-50/xx on twenty-four vdc. If your loads require twelve vdc, then run the Sd-
50/xx on twelve vdc.
! ! The power supply connections are protected from reversed polarity. An idle Sd-50/xx draws only about
??? milliamperes. The onboard amplifier and loads which the Sd-50/xx is controlling will usually draw far
more current than the Sd-50/xx itself. If you are using the onboard amplifier at full volume, you should allow
at least 100 Watts for it, in addition to the current for controlling your animation loads (Sd-50/8 and Sd-50/
40). If you hear ‘clicks’ or clipping on your amplifier outputs, then your power supply capacity may need to
be increased.
F) ! DMX-512/MIDI/Net Serial In (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
!!Two position Screw Terminals. This input can be selected for RS-422 (high-z) or optoisolated (low-z)
input by a switch on the bottom of the unit. DMX-512 in, Net Serial or IR Trigger Mode are normally
used with the ‘RS-422’ position, but will also work in the optoisolated (low-z) mode. MIDI in will only work in
the ‘optoisolated’ position.
! ! DMX-512/MIDI Serial In connection has five possible modes of operation. These are selected through
the ‘Mp3 Config.exe’ program.
DMX-512 Input
! ! The Optoisolated/RS-422 switch on the bottom of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 can be in either
position. In most cases, or if feeding multiple Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40, then the ‘RS-422’ position
should be used.
! ! The DMX-512 standard was developed by the United States Institute for Theatrical Technology
(USITT) for a high speed (250 KBaud) asynchronous serial data link. Although it was originally designed for controlling light dimmers, it is now supported by hundreds of suppliers throughout the
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world for controlling all kinds of theatrical equipment (fans, strobes, chain winches, wiggle lights,
etc.).
!!You can address your Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 to respond to any address between 0 and 511. The
Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 will support all 512 possible DMX-512 channels.
! ! If you have NOT selected DMX-512 checksums, the ‘Mp3 Config.exe’ will allow you to set the
addresses for DMX-512 to any address from 1 through 512. Address ‘1’ is equivalent to address ‘0’
if you were using checksums.
! ! If you have enabled the DMX-512 checksum on PC•MACs, the 257th and 258th addresses are
used for transmitting a checksum. The Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 will automatically sense the presence
of the checksums and use them to verify that the data received from has no transmission errors in
it. Once the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 hear checksum data coming through, it will lock on this feature,
and not update the outputs on any frames of data that don’t have a valid checksum in them. If you
address a light dimmer or other DMX-512 device to addresses 257 or 258, you will see this verification data displayed as a flickering pattern.
! ! Even though the DMX-512 standard calls for 512 channels of data, the DMX-512 transmission
from PC•MACs is currently limited to 256 eight-bit wide channels. PC•MACs will be upgraded to
support more channels in the near future.
! ! The Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 will stop playing any shows from the onboard flash memory when a
valid DMX-512 signal is received.
! ! You can optically isolate a DMX-512 signal coming into one Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40, then feed
multiple Sd-50/8s, Sd-50/40s, or other DMX-512 equipment with the DMX-512 output from this
unit. In this way, the upstream DMX-512 is optically isolated from the downstream DMX-512. All of
the ‘downstream’ Sd-50/8s or Sd-50/40s should have their inputs set for RS-422. Note that the
DMX-512 will be delayed by a portion of a frame’s time while going through the first Sd-50/8 or Sd-
50/40. You don’t want to feed the DMX through too many units because of this delay.
MIDI Notes Input
! ! The switch on the bottom of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 must be in the optoisolated/Low-z posi-
tion to be used for MIDI in. The MIDI should be fed to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 as follows:
! ! MIDI pin #1 = no connection
! ! MIDI pin #2 = no connection
! ! MIDI pin #3 = no connection
! ! MIDI pin #4 into - DMX/MIDI In
! ! MIDI pin #5 into + DMX/MIDI In
! ! The Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 will respond to MIDI ‘Note On’, ‘Note Off’, ‘Reset’, ‘All Notes Off’ and
‘All Sounds Off’. Running commands for ‘Note On’ and ‘Note Off’ commands are also accepted. All
other defined MIDI commands will be received and promptly ignored. There are two ways the Sd-
50/8 or Sd-50/40 can be configured to respond to MIDI Note commands.
1)! When ‘MIDI Notes Trigger Animation’ checkbox is OFF, then MIDI is used to directly ac-
cess the Show Control Outputs and .mp3/.wav audio files:
a)! Any MIDI notes which are below the number you have set for the ‘MIDI Offset’ are
ignored.
b)! The next eight (Sd-50/8) or forty (Sd-50/40) MIDI notes are mapped directly to the
8/40 Show Control outputs. These can be used to ring mechanical bells or control
animation directly from MIDI notes.
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c)! The next eight MIDI notes are sent to the ‘MPU Interface’ to select and trigger
audio files, mute, and otherwise control the .Mp3/.wav player.
d)! The remaining notes are used to directly select and play individual SoundFiles
stored on the .Mp3/.wav player. Only note ‘On’ MIDI commands will have any
effect on selecting and playing SoundFiles. The ‘velocity’ of the note will set the
playback level of the triggered SoundFile, if RealTime level control has been enabled on the .Mp3/.wav player.
! ! The DMX/MIDI/Serial LED will be lit once MIDI is received through this port. This LED
will remain on for approximately 10 seconds after the MIDI is removed from the Sd-50/8 or
Sd-50/40. The Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 will stop playing any shows from the onboard flash
when a valid MIDI signal is received. It will not restart automatically if the MIDI signal is
removed.
2)! When ‘MIDI Notes Trigger Animation’ checkbox is ON, then MIDI notes are used to directly
access Animation sequences stored in the flash on the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. These se-
quences in turn can access audio files on the .Mp3/.wav player, as well as controlling the
Show Control outputs. When operating in this mode:
a)! Any MIDI notes which are below the number you have set for the ‘MIDI Offset’ are
ignored.
b)! The remaining notes are used to directly select and play individual animation se-
quences stored on the Show Control half of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. These ani-
mation sequences can in turn select and play audio files and control audio levels
on the .Mp3/.wav player. Only ‘Note On’ commands are used to select and play
animated shows when operating in this mode.
! ! The DMX/MIDI/Serial LED will be flash for 1/10 second each time a prepro-
grammed show is started by a MIDI note. The Show Control side of the Sd-50/8 or
Sd-50/40 can still accept starts though the serial port and four trigger inputs while
operating in this mode.
Net Serial Input
! ! The Optoisolated/RS-422 switch on the bottom of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 can be in either
position. If feeding multiple Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40, then the ‘RS-422’ position should be used.
! ! One big disadvantage of the RS-232 serial port on the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is that only one
Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 can be attached to the same serial port at the same time. This is the unfortu-
nate nature of a RS-232 port. If you had a bunch of Sd-50s in the same system, this could quickly
chew up a lot of serial ports! Most of our other products use RS-422 serial ports. Along with being
able to run your wires up to a mile (RS-232 is limited to about 50 feet if the wind is blowing in the
right direction), RS-422 allows lots of devices to be attached to the same serial port at the same
time.
! ! Because it is not uncommon to access and control a large number of controllers on the same
serial line, the DMX-512/MIDI input can be selected to turn the DMX-512/MIDI port into a multidrop
Serial network. This mode parallels the data received on the DMX-512/MIDI input pins with the serial data received on the regular RS-232 serial port. The serial data is still output from the Sd-50/8
or Sd-50/40 still comes ONLY through the RS-232 serial port on the front to the unit.
! ! This serial port can be used to select and play shows or AutoDownload shows from any point
on the network. Since it is 100% compatible with the RS-422 serial ports on all other Gilderfluke &
Company equipment, a multidrop network can consist of up to 256 Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 and any
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NAME
COLOR
SIGNAL FUNCTION
LEFT
Ground
WHITE
Ground
n/c
BLACK
no connection
n/c
RED
no connection
- TxD
GREEN
- DMX-512/MIDI Input
+ TxD
YELLOW
+ DMX-512/MIDI Input
RIGHT
Ground
BLUE
Ground
Lower nibble
of Address
Switch #1
Switch #2
Switch #3
Switch #4
x0h
x1h
x2h
x3h
OFF
OFF
OFF
OFFONOFF
OFF
OFF
OFFONOFF
OFFONON
OFF
OFF
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! ! Since RS-422 is probably the most widely used of industrial data networks, a myriad of other
pieces of equipment are available which will also work with the Net Serial mode. These allow you
to do tricks like controlling the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 through a wireless modem using off-the-shelf
hardware.
! ! A typical application is to use a touch screen operator interface to access and play shows.
These generally use a user definable graphical interface. You pretty much draw a button, and then
attach a string to it. When this on-screen button is pushed, this string is sent out to control the
downstream equipment.
IR Input Mode
! ! The Optoisolated/RS-422 switch on the bottom of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 can be in either
position, but RS-422 is preferred. This turns on a special serial port mode on the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/
40 which allows it to be used with our InfraRed Transmitters and Receivers. The IR Remote mode
is typically used to trigger an animation or sound system mounted on a vehicle, turntable, or other
installation where wires can’t be used. The DMX-512/MIDI port is forced to 1200 baud and all serial
port commands are disabled on the DMX-512/MIDI port when this mode is ON. Any binary show
number received by the serial port for more than ten times will trigger the requested show. Typically the transmitters are placed along the path of the vehicle’s travel to trigger the appropriate
animation sequences at the appropriate times.
! ! The connections to the IR Remote Receiver are as follows (view is facing end of cable with
latch up):
! ! In addition to these connections, the IR Receiver requires a seven to twenty-four volt DC (Di-
rect Current) power supply connection. This is normally attached to the two pads marked “+” and
“-” on the receiver, or can be brought into the IR Receiver through the Black, Red or Blue Rj-12
wires. A jumper option allows you to bring this in through the blue wire on the RJ-11 connector.
! ! When in this mode the ‘Early Starts’ for all shows should be set to ‘NOT Steppable’. If this is
not done, then the same show will be re-triggered over and over again until the vehicle moves out
of the IR beam from the transmitter.
! ! The IR Transmitter has an eight position dipswitch which sets which show it selects. The lower
nibble of the address is set with the first four switches, and the upper nibble is set with the last four.
Valid show numbers are 01h through FFh:
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Lower nibble
of Address
Switch #1
Switch #2
Switch #3
Switch #4
x4h
x5h
x6h
x7h
x8h
x9h
xAh
xBh
xCh
xDh
xEh
xFh
OFF
OFFONOFFONOFFONOFF
OFFONON
OFFONONONOFF
OFF
OFF
OFFONON
OFF
OFFONOFFONOFFONONONOFFONOFF
OFFONONONOFFONON
OFFONONONONONON
ON
Upper nibble
of Address
Switch #5
Switch #6
Switch #7
Switch #8
0xh
1xh
2xh
3xh
4xh
5xh
6xh
7xh
8xh
9xh
Axh
Bxh
Cxh
Dxh
Exh
Fxh
OFF
OFF
OFF
OFFONOFF
OFF
OFF
OFFONOFF
OFFONON
OFF
OFF
OFF
OFFONOFFONOFFONOFF
OFFONON
OFFONONONOFF
OFF
OFF
OFFONON
OFF
OFFONOFFONOFFONONONOFFONOFF
OFFONONONOFFONON
OFFONONONONONON
ON
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IR MultiLingual Mode
! ! The Sd-50s feature a multilingual mode for installations where the same IR triggers need to
! ! To select the language, a switch is attached to the J8 input(s). If two languages are used, then
call up different Shows/SoundFIles. Most commonly, this is used to select among a bunch of different languages on an attraction. It works in conjunction with the IR receiver to modify the ShowFile
or SoundFile that the IR receiver triggers. Up to fifteen languages can be supported.
this switch is attached to just the 'A' input. If more languages are to be supported, then a 'binary'
pattern switch is attached to the J8 port to make the language selections using two, three or all four
of the J8 inputs (depending on the number of languages needed). This switch is usually set by the
ride operators or guests at the beginning of the show, but can be switched at any point in the show
if desired.
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