Gilderfluke&Co old Smart Brick Manual - Manual (Page 110)

were found in the transmitted data before it is used to up-
date their outputs. It should always be used if the Micro
Console is being used to control any Gilderfluke & Co.
Animation equipment.
e) Assignment Range: When assigning channels on the Micro Console you use
the analog input knobs on the front of the Micro Console.
These are eight bit resolution inputs, which can make them
a little hard to select any one channel accurately. This
command allows you to ÔlowerÕ the resolution of these in-
puts when making channel assignments. This is done by
limiting your selection range. You will need to set this ad-
justment to a point where you can still access all of the
channels you need to assign.
f) Dumb Bricks: This toggle is used to tell the Micro Console that it has
Dumb Bricks attached to it. When ON, the Micro Console
will insert some extra delays when accessing the bricks, and
knows that it canÕt jump immediately to any brick frame as
it can when controlling Smart Bricks. This command is un-
available if ÔJ6 modeÕ is not selected.
g) Step Forward: This command tells any Smart or Dumb Bricks to step for-
ward by one frame. The Bricks must be connected to the
Micro Console by the Smart Brick Network (for Smart Bricks)
or J8 (for Dumb Bricks) for this command to work. The
Dumb Brick must also be configured to accept start and
reset on its Green Input and External Clock on the Blue. This
command is unavailable if ÔJ6 modeÕ is not selected.
h) Step Backward: This command tells any Smart Bricks to step backward by
one frame. The Smart Bricks must be connected to the
Micro Console by the Smart Brick Network for this com-
mand to work. This command is unavailable if ÔJ6 modeÕ is
not selected or the ÔDumb BricksÕ toggle is ON.
i) Go To Frame: This command tells any Smart or Dumb Bricks to go to the
frame selected. Smart Bricks will jump immediately to this
frame. Dumb Bricks will need to first reset and then fast for-
ward to the selected frame. The Bricks must be connected
to the Micro Console by the Smart Brick Network (for Smart
Bricks) or J8 (for Dumb Bricks) for this command to work. The
Dumb Brick must also be configured to accept start and
reset on its Green Input and External Clock on the Blue. This
command is unavailable if ÔJ6 modeÕ is not selected.
j) Set Start Frame: This command sets the first frame that will be stored, re-
stored, verified or tested when using these commands. This
command is unavailable if ÔJ6 modeÕ is not selected.
k) Set End Frame: This command sets the last frame that will be stored, re-
stored, verified or tested. If you are using a 16K Smart Brick,
the last frame is at 16,383 frames. You should use 65,535
as a maximum for 64K Smart Bricks.
Dumb Bricks write data into their memory as they are
stepping into a frame. For this reason the only way to write
to frame zero of a Dumb Brick is to go to the very last frame
in the brick and then step forward just one more frame.
You can do this manually, or if you set the End Frame to
16,384 for 16K Dumb Bricks and 65,536 for 64K Dumb
Bricks it will happen automatically.
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