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Technical description (preliminary)
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Microcontroler board hardware properties:
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- applied Microcontroler: Fairchilds low cost ACE1201 in cuircuit programmable, low power consumption 8bit 2 MHz
- Controler board can be programmed when it is installed inside MY reflector
- Data of ACE can be read and load into MY reflector, ACE keeps it's DATA without battery supply voltage
- Board is false polarity protected, with low current descrete voltage regulator appliable also for 27V supply networks
- external switch can be hooked to board for secondary additional switch
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- 6 Hawker Cyclon extended D-cells
- 15 ampere fast fused
- fast constant voltage charge without current limitation : 14.7 Volt charge about 1 hour. For full charge instruction details, see Hawker data sheet.
- a discharged battery shall be recharged as soon as possible to prevent it from damage
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- 3 basic software modes: active, passive and timer mode
- selected loop is stored and remembered by ACE to be selected active for the next battery supply connection
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Active mode: When battery is supplied to the MY reflector the ballast is switched actively off by the controler board. Controler is waiting in error mode until error reset by the user. Red LED is shining indicating the error mode.
1: Reset the error: Press button until red Led goes off and relese button. The controler is accepting now next 3 possible commands:
a) short push: toggling between default low power and high power light output.
b) long push about 1 second: toggles light ON and OFF
c) longer push about 2 second: select the next mode: passive mode of operation to deactivate the controler not affecting the action of the ballast.
If errors are occuring in the the timer mode the active mode will be selected automatically and the error needs to be reset.
Attention: Remove real error reasons first, most errors will be indicating an empty battery!
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Passive mode: Controler board monitors push button and doing nothing else:
a) short push: switching back to active mode: by default an error is set, ballast is switched OFF and the red LED is shining until it is reset (see active mode).
b) longer push about 2 seconds: selecting the next operating mode: timer mode.
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Timer mode: Controler board monitors push button and keep ballast switched off. Timer mode is shown by blinking red LED
a) short push: timer is started with preprogrammed timing intervall:
After about 3,5 minutes the light is started in low power for about 40 seconds.
b) longer push about 2 seconds: selecting the next operating mode: active mode: by default an error is set, ballast is switched OFF and the red LED is shining until it is reset (see active mode).
Any error will bring back mode to active mode.
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Example 1 of operation:
- connect battery
- red LED is blinking showing timer mode is selected
- activate timer by a short push: timer will start loop operation
- operation is stoped by empty battery with error going back to active mode
- operation can be stopped by a long pus to select active mode
- disconnect battery when lamp OFF duty cycle is present will keep timer mode selected for the next battery connection
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Example 2 of operation:
- connect battery
- red LED is shining steadily: active mode is selected
- activate the active mode by a long push until red LED is OFF and error is reset
- switch ON by a one second push in low power
- toggle to high power with a short push about 0.5 second
- switch OFF by another one second push, the next start will be performed in high power
- disconnect battery active mode will be present with the next battery connection
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