CTI Products RCD Standard - Remote Comparator Display - Manual (Page 80)

MCN Remote Comparator Display Appendix A
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9.6 Display Position Field
This field allows you to specify the number of character positions to reserve for
the status text message. This field is a two digit decimal value in the range 00
through 18.
Below is a diagram for the layout of each receiver display position, showing all 18
character places. The receiver name is displayed beginning at character position
1. The character positions reserved for the status text messages begin at character
position 18 and go to the left.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
For example, if we have the following text definition line:
01 01 2F 70 0 05 “Vote”
the display position field is set to 5. Therefore, the last 5 character positions are
reserved for this status text message. When this status message is displayed, the
status message Vote will be displayed beginning at character position 14.
To create an attractive status display, we recommend that you set the display
position fields of all text definition lines of a category to the length of the longest
status text message in that category. If you happen to be using sub-categories,
then you can set the display position fields of all text definitions lines of a sub-
category to the length of the longest status text message in that sub-category.
9.7 Audible Tone Output
To alert operators when a particular status message text is displayed, an audible
tone can be sounded on the PC’s speaker using the tone time and tone frequency
fields of the status message text definition line. The tone time field (having a
range of 0000 to 0100) specifies the number of seconds the tone should be
sounded and the tone frequency field (having a range of 00000 or 00037 to 32767)
specifies the frequency of the tone. The audible tone output of a text definition
line is disabled by setting the tone frequency field to a value of 00000.
The tone output can be controlled in one of the following ways:
1. By setting the tone frequency field to a valid number and setting the
tone time to 0000, you can create a tone cancel command. This could
be used to immediately stop any tone that is playing when the receiver
changes to that state.
2. By setting the tone frequency field to 00000, you can have the current
tone continue playing for the entire duration specified in the tone time
field when the receiver changes to that state.