TS-market EDIC-mini Led S 51 Operation Manual

Version: November, 2011

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OPERATION MANUAL

EDIC-mini

Led S 51

Digital Recorder

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Contents

Overlook ............................................................. 3

Specications ....................................................3

Recorder’s Appearance ....................................4

Software .............................................................5

Technical Characteristics .................................7

Operating the Recorder ....................................9

Getting Started ...................................................9

Clock Indication .................................................9

Recording .........................................................10

Playing back and deleting records ................ 11

Navigation in Playback Mode ......................... 11

Deleting Recordings .......................................12

Monitoring battery ..........................................12

Prole Selection .............................................13

Record Types ................................................... 14

Voice Activation System .................................14

Recording by Timer ......................................... 15

Circular Recording ..........................................16

Recorder Setup ................................................17

Prole Selection ..............................................17

Connecting to the PC ..................................... 18

Firmware Update ............................................19

Technical Support ...........................................19

Address: ........................................................... 20

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Overlook

Recorders of the Edic-mini Led family are
professional devices intended for making high

quality record of voice messages into a built-in ash

memory. The recordings can be further uploaded
onto the PC or played back with headphones.

Specications

• LED time display;

• Sampling rate while recording up to 40 kHz;

• Record duration 300 and 1200 hours;

• Extremely low current consumption;

• Wide frequency band;

• Wide dynamic range;

• Built-in clock and calendar and the option to
start recording at the preset time;

• Due to the absence of removable elements

the Recorder is operational under wide

temperature ranges when shaking or dusted;

• The option to record while charging and

the option to playback recordings with
headphones.

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Recorder’s Appearance

USB connector

6 o’clock position

K1

Microphone

Rec

Play

12 o’clock position

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Recorder’s Appearance for Edic-Mini-Led-S51

• The Recorder has 3 control buttons:

- the K1 button to turn on/off LED

time display;

• Time is indicated with the help of two LEDs;

• Position of the red LED is hours;

• Position of the green LED is minutes;

• The accuracy of the time is + 5 minutes;

- the “Rec” button to start/stop recording;

- the “Play” button to start/stop playback.
The indication of operation is performed by one
green LED and one yellow LED. There is a micro-

USB connector to connect the Recorder to the PC

and headphones for playback.

Via USB-SPI adapter (included into the delivery
set) the Recorder is connected to the USB port of

the PC.

Software

The software located on the supplied CD operating

under Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows

7 operating systems enables the user to save

recorded messages as sound les in wav format,
as well as to program Recorder’s parameters,
apply it as a ash drive to store and transmit les.

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The capacity of the les uploaded depends on
marking: 300h – up to 2 Gb, 1200h - up to 8 Gb.

The Recorder is equipped with VAS (Voice
Activation System) to compress pauses efciently

in messages therefore enhancing real record

duration. When applying this system the pauses
save memory, while time intervals are preserved.
When uploading records onto the PC the duration
of pauses can be restored (in the form of silence)
or omitted depending on the settings specied.

The Recorder enables it to perform recording by

timer: either daily (with record start and end time
specied) or once (date-and-start time and date­and-end time are specied).

To protect the Recorder’s information there is the
option to set password forbidding access to the
Recorder’s contents and settings without entering
the password. Each record performed by the
Recorder has a mark of time and date of start time
supplied with “digital signature” to identify the model
of the Recorder to have performed the recording
and the attempts to modify it. The software of the
Recorder provides multilingual support.

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Technical Characteristics

Analog-to-digital converter 16 bit
Control 3 buttons
Indication LEDs
Record Mode mono

Sampling rate 4000, 8000, 13300,

20000, 40000 Hz
(ADPCM up to 8kHz,
u-Law – up to 20kHz)

Sound compression types: without compres-

sion, u-Law (2/1),
ADPCM 4 bit (4/1),
ADPCM 2 bit(8/1)

Signal-to-noise ratio of

built-in microphone

60±2 dB

Signal-to-noise of ADC

audio codec

up to 80 dB

Voice Activation System (VAS)

Circular recording mode

Built-in real time clock

Recording by Timer once and daily

Record Proles 8 adjustable proles

Battery level monitoring
Interface with the PC HiSpeed USB-SPI

adapter

Maximum exchange rate
from ash memory

7700 kbs

Maximum exchange rate
into ash memory

2800 kbs

Rechargeable battery
capacity

120 mAh

The option to charge from solar element
Charging time no more than 3

hours

Battery life in Standby
Mode (under 20ºC)

9 months

Battery life (record mode:
without compression, 8000 Hz)

30 hours

Battery life in record mode
with VAS (without signal)

60 hours

Dimensions (case without

band)

42х32x7 mm

Operating temperature

range (in Sleep Mode

while charging from solar
element)

0+65ºC

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Operating the Recorder

Getting Started

Before starting make sure the rechargeable
battery is charged. When necessary charge the
rechargeable battery by connecting HiSpeed USB­SPI adapter to the USB port of the PC, and then to
the Recorder. Full charging takes 2,5 hours. While

charging yellow LED is in the 12 o’clock position

ashing with the interval of 1 second.

Clock Indication

Time is indicated with the help of two LEDs.
Position of the red LED is hours.
Position of the green LED is minutes.

The accuracy of the time is + 5 minutes
To start Clock mode press the K1 button – two
LEDs (red and green) start ashing. After several

seconds the LEDs go off.
To start/stop constant Clock mode keep “Rec” and

“Play” buttons pressed in Standby Mode for more
than 4 seconds while time indication is active.

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If constant Clock mode is on the clock will be
indicated until one of the following occurs:

• rechargeable battery is discharged up to 50%;

• constant Clock mode is off;

• the Recorder is charging;

• the Recorder quits Standby Mode.

Recording

The Recorder is in Standby Mode. Press the Rec
button twice. After a short ash of the blue-and­yellow LED (the 12 o’clock position) recording
starts. Green LED will be ashing with the interval
of 3 seconds indicating free memory capacity (1

to 12 scale). The closer LED is to 12 o’clock the

bigger free memory size and vice versa. Red
LED will be ashing with the interval of 3 seconds
indicating battery charge level (1 to 12 scale). The

closer LED to the 12 o’clock position the more full
the rechargeable battery and vice versa. Recording

continues until the Recorder switches to Standby

Mode by double pressing on the Rec button. To

pause press the Rec button – recording will stop.
To resume press the Rec button – recording will

continue.

Attention!

If while recording the Recorder’s memory is full

or the rechargeable battery is discharged the
Recorder switches automatically to Standby
Mode. Record Mode will not work until there is

free memory or the battery is charged.

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Playing back and deleting records

Connect headphones to micro-USB connector.
The Recorder is in Standby Mode. Press the Play
button twice – after a short blue-and-yellow ash
(the 12 o’clock position) the Recorder starts playing
back the last record and the green LED (the 1
o’clock position) will be ashing with the interval of

3 seconds. To fast forward within the current record

keep the Rec button pressed; to rewind within the

current record keep the Play button pressed. To
stop playing back press the Rec and Play buttons
simultaneously.

Navigation in Playback Mode

To go to the end of the current
record

press the Rec
button

To go to the start of the
current record

press the Play
button

To go to the start of the next

record

press the Rec
button twice

To go to the start of the
previous record

press the Play
button twice

To go to the start of the last
record

press the Rec
button three
times

To go to the start of the rst

record

press the Rec
button three
times

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Deleting Recordings

The recorded message can be deleted during
playback. Press the Play button twice to start
Playback Mode. The Recorder starts playing

back the last recording (green LED is ashing).
Using navigation (see Table) go to the desired

record. Keep the Rec and Play buttons pressed

until the blue LED starts ashing in the 12 o’clock
position. After a second press the Play button – the

recording is being deleted and blue LED is on.

When the recording is deleted blue LED goes off
and the Recorder switches to Standby Mode.

Monitoring battery charge level and free mem­ory capacity

The Recorder provides the option to monitor battery
charge level and free memory capacity.

In Standby Mode press the Rec and Play buttons

simultaneously until yellow-and-blue LED

(the 12 o’clock position) is on. Then it goes off.
Green LED indicates free memory capacity: the

closer LED is to 12 o’clock the bigger free memory

size (1 to 12 scale). If the green LED is in one
o’clock position, there is minimum free memory.

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Red LED indicates battery charge level: the closer

LED to the 12 o’clock position the more full the

rechargeable battery (1 to 12 scale). If the red LED
is in the one o’clock position, the rechargeable

battery needs immediate charging.

Prole Selection

In Standby Mode press the Rec and Play buttons
simultaneously until the yellow-and-blue LED (the
12 o’clock position) is on. Then it goes off. Green
LED starts ashing in the position from one to eight
o’clock position depending on the prole’s number.
The number of the prole can be modied by

pressing the Play button.

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Record Types

Voice Activation System

Voice Activation System (VAS) can signicantly (up
to 100 times) reduce both memory consumption

and energy consumption from the power source.

The principle of VAS is as follows: after the user
starts recording, the Recorder starts tracing signal

from the microphone.

If the signal is less than the one specied in settings
(VAS level), it is not the sound from a microphone
that is stored in memory, but only the time value
during which the threshold is not exceeded (the

duration of silence).

When signal level exceeds the preset threshold
recording of sound into memory starts. When the

signal from the microphone is less than the preset

threshold, after some time (which is set at VAS

time setting) the Recorder stops recording sound
into memory and only saves silence duration. That
continues until recording stops.

Indication while standby recording from VAS: LED

is not on.

When uploading record onto the PC, you can
specify the operations with pauses (silence):

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store them in the le uploaded or not. If you save
pauses, the duration of the resulting record will

correspond to the time during which the recording

was performed, and the moments when the signal

was below threshold will be played back silent. The
duration of silence corresponds to the time when

the signal was below the congured threshold.
If the pauses are not saved, then the resulting
record will consist of written parts (when the signal
exceeds the threshold) without counting pauses.

These parts will be played one after another
without interruption.
You can copy and listen to some voice parts in the

records using VAS.

Recording by Timer

Recording can start automatically, without user’s

control. This is possible when using the built-in

timers. The Recorder has two timers: daily, once.

When using timers forced starting the Recorder

is not necessary.

When using Daily Timer the Recorder records
every day starting and ending at times specied
during setup. For example, the recording starts at
12:50 and ends at 13:20.

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If you use Once Timer, only one record will be
performed, which will start and end at the specied
date and record’s start and end time. For example,
December 31, 2011 at 23:50 recording starts, and
January 3, 2012 at 00:10 ends.

Recording will be carried out as long as the
Recorder has free memory and its battery charge
is enough to perform the operation.
Recording by timer can be stopped by pressing
Rec twice.

Circular Recording

The Recorder has the option of circular recording.
This method enables it not to stop recording when
the Recorder runs out of memory. After there is no
more free memory the Recorder begins to record

new data over old ones. Thus, the memory will

always contain the most recent records that are no
longer written off at the time of writing.
The user can devote to circular recording the
whole or only a part of the Recorder’s memory.

The volume of the memory specied determines

the duration of the resulting circular record.

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Recorder Setup

Prole Selection

Prole Selection is available through the
RecManager software, but one of eight preset
proles is selected directly on the Recorder.

Prole record consists of the following
characteristics:

Coder type – type of compression

• No compress;

• uLaw;

• ADPCM 2bit;

• ADPCM 4bit.

Frequency – sampling rate

You can choose one of these values:

• No compress – 4, 8, 13.3, 20, 40 kHz;

• ADPCM – 4 and 8 kHz;

• u-Law – 4; 8; 13,3; 20 kHz.

Cycle – circular type of record.

When choosing circular recording, you can set

the buffer size in percentage of the Recorder’s

total memory.

Timer

You can select the type of timer (Daily, Once)

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VAS - Voice Activation System

When turning VAS on you can set threshold

above which the recording starts from 0 to -60
dB.

And the time during which (after the recording

level is below the threshold of record) recording

continues - from 0 to 255 seconds

Gain - amplication

from -1 to 40 dB with steps of 0,5 dB

AGC - Automatic Gain Control

When you select the AGC four parameters

characterizing the work of AGC can be set

• ft attact (fast attack speed AGC) -

• ft release (Rapid release AGC) -

• sl attact (slow attack speed AGC) -

• sl release (slow release rate of AGC) -

For all of the four options the following values

to be set are available: 2.44, 4.88, 9.77, 19.53,

39.1, 78.13, 156.25, 312.5, 625; 1250, 2500;
5000; 10000 20000; 40 000, 80 000 dB / sec.

Connecting to the PC

When connecting to the PC carefully observe the
consistency: rst connect USB-SPI to USB port,

and then connect the adapter to the Recorder. The
Recorder switches automatically to charging mode.

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Flashing LED states that the charging is in
progress.
To connect the Recorder to the PC and to work
with the software see Operational Manual for
RecManager.

Firmware Update

To update rmware:

• Connect the Recorder to the PC via a USB­SPI adapter as described in Connecting to the

PC

• Fully charge the rechargeable battery (until
LED stops ashing).

• Press and hold any button on the Recorder.

• Run the rmware update program and follow its
instructions (after the corresponding message

the button can be released).

Technical Support

Our engineers constantly work improving the
software and documentation. You can always
download the last version of the program from our
website for free.

www.ts-market.com

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