Conductor Trigger features.

[RJ]

Since not much has been put out about it I decided to post this rough draft of the additional document for the conductor that shows how to use the triggers built into it.

Also a link for those that would like to get a head start on learning the basic tutorial of the the conductors use.
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RJ

[keitha43]

I thought you mentioned putting in a "time between songs" feature at the Academy. Is that in the future? Or do we just create a short animation sequence with no lights and schedule it between songs? I like 4-5 seconds between songs so they don't just run together like some DJ mix Can't wait for the beta testers to give final approval!

[rimist]

I love the binary usage... I knew I wasn't the only one to use that! I am curious...  What is the voltage for the triggers? What is the maximum distance the trigger can be from the conductor, assuming running the trigger line with cat5?

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[sittinguphigh]

Ideal format. Manual or auto. Looks very simple. Low watt usage. Small.

Great RJ. Hopefully comes out soon. But not expecting to.

Thanks RJ for all your hard work and others that are helping out.

[rrowan]

Hi RJ,

Very nice video

You and the beta guys did a lot of work getting to work that smoothly. Congrats

Rick R.

[mkozik1]

+1 - Can't wait for it's release!!

Thanks RJ and Company 

[JerryPlak]

+1 - Can't wait for it's release!!

Thanks RJ and Company 

+1.1  Can't wait for it's release!!

[RJ]

I thought you mentioned putting in a "time between songs" feature at the Academy. Is that in the future? Or do we just create a short animation sequence with no lights and schedule it between songs? I like 4-5 seconds between songs so they don't just run together like some DJ mix Can't wait for the beta testers to give final approval!

currently between songs in a show is 4 seconds. it is not adjustable at this time. We did add the delay I was talking about between shows on scheduled to repeat shows. If later it is found to be needed we can add an adjustable delay but we had to get the features locked in to allow us to finsish the beta.

RJ

[RJ]

I love the binary usage... I knew I wasn't the only one to use that! I am curious...  What is the voltage for the triggers? What is the maximum distance the trigger can be from the conductor, assuming running the trigger line with cat5?

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Since you are grounding out a weak pull up resistor. It should be of little effect. You should be able to run a good ways.

RJ

[keitha43]

4 seconds is good enough for me.

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[deplanche]

Really premature question, but did I hear correctly that the Conductor uses a Compact Flash (CF) memory card?  Are there are speed or size limits needed?  My old Canon camera still uses those, and this might be a good reason to upgrade that and use the older one for the conductor.

[Steve Gase]

Really premature question, but did I hear correctly that the Conductor uses a Compact Flash (CF) memory card?  Are there are speed or size limits needed?  My old Canon camera still uses those, and this might be a good reason to upgrade that and use the older one for the conductor.

The coop will include the CF card according to RJ.
No doubt he intends CF speed, sizes, and manufacturer options to be reduced as problems to debug.

[jeffcoast]

I have a question about the Trigger attachment. The thread doesn't really go into how the hardware works. Is it 1 trigger board will activate 1 sequence, or will there be multiple buttons on each board? Hard to plan using it and getting in on the coop without knowing what its capabilities are.

Thanks
Jeff

[KeithTarpley]

Greetings,,,

The board is the connections for the wires that you run to your switches.  You can add from 1 to 15 switches as you wish to the Trigger board.

keith

[RJ]

The trigger pcb accepts 15 inputs where you close a switch to between the grounds terminals and the input of the one you want to trigger. Then the unit will play the seqence and music / music only / or seqence only that is setup in the show name  12.sho for the the #12 trigger. ect.

So one pcb give you 15 triggers. It hooks back to the conductor with 5 wires. 1 ground and four inputs which are binary coded.

You can have 4 triggers directly to the conductor with out the trigger pcb.

I have attached the trigger document. Sorry thought I had posted it already earlier.


RJ