Crown Audio IQ-MSD Turbo Software - Manual (Page 188)

IQ–MSD Turbo 1.4 Advanced IQ System Software
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Fig. 8.13 The Drone Control Block with the Transponder Switch Enabled
Transponder
Switch
8.6 Linking Multiple Drones
Sometimes an IQ System requires more than one drone. A special “transponder” mode makes this possible by
allowing multiple drones to be linked together in a single system. Note: This mode requires version 1.1 drones.
Contact Crown’s technical support group if more information is needed.
To use the transponder mode, you must first enable the Transponder switch in the drone control block. This is
done by modifying the TURBO.INI file which is located in the same directory as Turbo. Open TURBO.INI with a
text editor (like the Windows Notepad program) and add the following lines to the end of the file.
[DroneU]
Enabled=True
After modifying TURBO.INI file, run Turbo and go to the drone Control Block screen. The Transponder switch
should now be visible in the lower portion of the control block as shown below in Figure 8.13:
Next, turn on the Transponder switches of each drone in the system. Finally, perform a roll call and all of the IQ
components attached to the drones will be recognized.
In transponder mode, each drone will control a single Crown Bus loop. Each of these Crown Bus loops will use
the IQ address of the drone as its loop number. For example, if an SMX-6 mixer with an IQ address of 7 is
connected to the Crown Bus loop of a drone with IQ address 3. The IQ mixer would be controlled and monitored
as mixer 7 in Loop 3. In transponder mode, all drones appear to be connected to Crown Bus loop 251. In the
preceding example, the drone would be monitored and configured as drone 3 in Loop 251.
Important: Special wiring must be used for transponder mode. Contact Crown’s Technical Support Group if
more information is needed.