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1. select the date of the log to be checked here Succeed Succeed To check the power control log select the date of the log to be checked in the box labeled Select the Log File and select the function card to be checked form the function card list the Address list at the left of the page The detail of power supply control will be shown in the panel at the right of the page Edit Click this button to open the page for editing the power supply control schedule Shown in Fig 5 107 is the page for editing the schedule Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com 132 OITA tosses ES Power Custom List Custom Control List of power Custom Edit Area Delete Clear C Switch2 Switch 3 Week Start Time Close Time i C Switch 5 Switch 6 Power Switch 1 wrech Switch 8 Friday 17 34 03 18 34 03 Power Switch 2 Friday 17 34 03 18 34 03 Power Switch 8 Friday 17 34 03 18 34 03 09 02 15 09 02 15 Fig 5 107 the Power Custom List gt Delete click this button to delete the selected items in the Custom Edit Area gt Clear click this button to clear all existing settings gt Power Switch listed in the panel are the power supplies controlled by the function card Select the one to be edited here gt Date select the days for power control in this panel gt Time set the time for star and stop the
2. 1 One or more surrounding cabinets can be selected for generating the calibration coefficients for the new receiver card 2 The calibration coefficients are generated according to those of the selected surrounding cabinets and make the cabinet driven by the new receiver card similar to its surrounding cabinets in brightness hue and saturation The generated calibration coefficients are just substitution of those from NovaCLB and are not as good as those from NovaCLB in performance gt Step3 111 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd If the calibration coefficients from Step 2 are not satisfying they can be adjusted There are two type of adjustment Simple and Advanced Shown in Fig 5 89 and Fig 5 90 are the pages for Simple and Advanced adjustment respectively Adjust Coefficients Simple i ma 5 Red lt 2 56 Green lt v Blue 2T Advanced Beck ent eturm Fig 5 89 the Simple adjustment page Red Use the slide bar to adjust the red brightness of the calibration coefficients Green Use the slide bar to adjust the green brightness of the calibration coefficients Blue Use the slide bar to adjust the blue brightness of the calibration coefficients Advanced Click this item to switch to the advanced adjustment page 112 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 845070
3. 2 f the position of scan board is 1 1 it means all the scan boards of the first port in the first sending board 3 1f the position of scan board is 1 1 1 it means the first scan board of the first port in the first sending board ancanecncertnintoann aanmanen Fig 6 2 Send by address Send by topology Select the receiving card in accordance with the topology select the full Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com 147 NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd screen i e all connected receiving card or select one or more receiving cards in accordance with the arrangement diagram a 3 e ee A J Module Flash 5 Send By Address Send By Topolopy Select Screen Screen 1 Location X 0 Y 0 Size 32WX 16H V Screent Screen Pixel Topology Or List Select Area On Screen Operate all pixels Fig 6 3 Send by Topology Check coefficients in Scan Board Check the effect of calibration coefficient saved in receiving card at LED screen Check coefficients in Modules Check the effect of calibration coefficient saved in light panel Flash at LED screen Save coefficients on Scan Board Save the calibration coefficient currently being checked to receiving card Save coefficients to Modules Save the calibration coefficient currently being checked to light 148 Phone NovaStar Xi an
4. By phase here refers to the time relation between the shift clock and the corresponding data to be shifted This parameter can be used to eliminate the errors due to the phase such as image dislocation and flashing pixels Low Gray Compensation For driver chips that cannot respond to narrow pulse signals the Low Gray Compensation parameter can be used to improve the image quality of low gray levels Blanking Time This is the line blanking interval This parameter can be used to weaken the decoy Increase the value of this parameter if decoy is serious Ghost Control This refers to the time to end the process for weakening decoy It is used in conjunction with Blanking Time and Line Change Time to weaken the decoy Line Change Time This parameter refers to the time to switch to the next row It is used in conjunction with Blanking Time to weaken the decoy of scan mode LED displays The steps of performance parameters adjustment are as follow gt Step 1 Adjust the parameters in the Performance Setting panel Fig 5 23 until the Maximum Width and 46 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Height shown in the Cabinet Info panel Fig 5 22 are larger than the pixel array size of the cabinet Then click the Send To HW button on Fig 5 21 If the message as follow appears after clicking the Send To HW button it means there ar
5. Decode595 LXY695x Straight Decoding Scan Type The options could be any scan rate between 1 scan and 16 scan or unknown Rows and columns of the Module in one scan board also named receiver card This is the size of the module array in the cabinet which is being configured by smart setting Module Cascade Type Select the corresponding option according to the module connection routing Note that the cabinet should be observed from the front when considering the cascade direction Working Mode of Receiving Card gt Hub mode Select the Hub mode of the receiving card which could be divided into normal 20 group 24 group and 28 group gt Afterglow control signal polarity the polarity of the signal shall be selected according to the design of the afterglow circuit Note 1 If the module array size is set as the default 1 column 1 row the modules in the o first rows of the module arrays of all cabinets will be lightened LED lights on 2 Or if the module array size is set as the real numbers the last module of each first row of the module arrays of all cabinets will be lightened LED lights on gt Step 3 Click Next on the Smart Setting Step 1 window to access Smart Setting Step 2 Shown in 17 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Fig 5 5 is the Smart Setting Step 2 window Select All
6. This information could include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors Changes are periodically made to the information herein these changes will be incorporated in new editions of the publication Nova may make improvements and or changes in the product s and or the program s described in this publication at any time without notice Copyright 2012 by Xi anNovaStar Technology Company Limited All right reserved Nova M3 LED Display Control System User Manual Xi an NovaStar Tech Co LTD NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Content 1 INTRODUCTION TONOVALCT MARS wcsiccccsssccccscescessceciscecsacscectcssscvccsdsncesscacaccescesecdoecedoedsccacucececicauseisocecdseiacuedeceasese 1 1 1 CONFIGURATION LIST cicssiescvsssseowhconscguvevusssuncssuue tue ovedewtessidebusbsee outievseds tusbwedorhevnddbusbiad suwessiuysveodedouberaivouvcvassuvevaidetvevaeds 3 1 2 SYSTIEM ARCHITEGTURE cccvcevevccvectecccvchaevesvavenctevenerwectcvcnnceverecdeavenenncuivensdwcdversnsedveiie cece lavepsdevenenwedsceienedverscecavevenceuvanenses 4 2 WORKING ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENT ssscccsssssccsssscccsssscccsssscccssseccnsssseccsssssecessssscssssenssssseusseseaesssssones 4 3 INSTALLATION OF NOVALCT MARS Wwiesisicicisscasesconvacescctonssoncssacavansssonvecedacenesseucusssetecevcecessssncestsavecsetsavesssacaessveieessssees 5 4 MAIN INTERFACE OF NOVALCT MARS 5 scscccccsesccesssesacenssnsncessveuncesstesedssatesessecd
7. To configure a LED display with system configuration files click Screen Config button from the tool bar or select Tools gt Screen Config from the main menu of the NovaLCT Mars application main interface to open the Screen Config window Shown in Fig 5 1 is the Screen Config window r al Screen Config _ w aaa Select communication port Current operation OMS Realtek PCle GBE Family Controller Confia Screen Load Config File New cise Fig 5 1 the Screen Config window Step 1 Set the Current Operation Communication Port This is the port that connects the sending board controller to be configured to the control 12 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVAISTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd computer If only one serial port of the computer is used to connect the LED display control system the used serial port will be automatically set as the current serial port Otherwise if multiple serial ports are used to connect control systems to the computer one serial port for one control system the serial port that is used to connect the control system which is to be configured should be set as the current serial port If it s the mode with no sending board please set the corresponding network port Step 2 Load system configuration file Select Load Config File option use Browse button to select the system configuratio
8. gt Ethernet Port add a function card which is connected to a Ethernet port of the sending board controller Remove 126 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd This is to remove the selected node The selected node could be a function card Ethernet port sending board or a serial port Rename This is to rename the selected function card Serial port Operation The corresponding menu item and tool bar button are only available when the following requirements are satisfied The selected node is a serial port the device connected to the serial port does not match the device type of the serial port or the serial port is disconnected gt Modify Serial Port set the selected serial port as one that no function card has been configured for it gt Replace Serial Port when the function card of the selected node is connected to a serial port other than that of the selected node click this button to replace the selected node serial port with the one that is connected with the function card 5 9 2 Power Management Click the Power Management button on the Function Card Management page to open the page for power management The Power Management page is shown in Fig 5 103 Circled in the page is the Power Management button 127 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www
9. 100 0 255 100 0 255 100 0 00 229 89 8 229 89 8 229 89 84 00 204 80 0 204 80 0 204 80 0 00 178 69 8 178 69 8 178 69 8 100 100 00 00g 255 100 0 255 100 0 255 100 0 229 89 8 229 89 8 204 80 0 204 60 0 178 69 8 178 69 8 Fig 5 43 Configure Color Temperature Table 63 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com OTR sete 5 2 1 3 Configure Brightness Mode Config Brightness Mode sml _ z Accelerate Low Gray Standard Name Refresh Rate Rate Gray Scale Gray Mode Compensatic Max Load A ModeB 1200 20 Normal 8192 Performan 0 48 64 ModeA Normal 4096 Refresh Ra 66 64 t TE lae K 5 D o o q n Ada Eat Delete import Bot or Fig 5 44 Configure Brightness Mode Standard If one option was set as standard the software will adjust the brightness of the screen when Enable Brightness Mode Table is unchecked in the Manual Adjust Page Edit Parameters Click and edit the information of the selected mode 5 2 2 Schedule Adjustment Select Schedule in the Adjustment Mode panel to open schedule adjustment page Schedule adjustment is to generate a time table and the LED display brightness Gamma color temperature and brightness mode will be adjusted according to the time table Shown in Fig 5 45 is the schedule adjustment
10. 58 eee e e EEoeeeeEE Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com ES Screen Config CON19 Sending Board Scan Board Screen Connection EZI Screen Type Simole Screen Standard Screen Complex Screen Basic Information ee Location X 0 Virtual Mo C Enable e Operate Port Scan Board Scan Board Columns EB Reset ll C Hide Line Sending Board Index 4 2 Sending 14 Sending 1 Port 1 Port Index 3 be Width 128 Width 128 Height 128 Height 128 F E 2 ing 1 Sending 1 ing Port Bade Clear 2 wania Height 128 Scan Board Size Width 128 Heiaht O Set Blank Note Click or drag left mouse button to config screen right mouse button to ca Fig 5 40 the Screen Configuration page gt Load a LED display configuration file To load a LED display configuration file click the Read File button at the bottom of the Screen Configuration page on the Screen Config window and follow the instructions gt Save a system configuration file Heston semtintiotsnn m dines To save settings to a system configuration file click the Save Config File button at the bottom of the Screen Config window and follow the instructions gt Load a system configuration file Please refer to 5 1 1 Start with System Configurat
11. Website www novastar led com NovasStar Tech Co Ltd X Parameter of receiving card relay Disconnected Connected Auto Receive Card Timing cleared Record Time Unknown Fig 8 1 Setting of receiving card relay 9 660 Configuration The cabinet configuration files are imported to MCTARL660 provided that the MCTARL660 is connected to the control computer with the cabinet configuration files being saved in it if it does not have it the screen can be matched on the site then the configuration files can be saved The operations of saving the configuration files is as follows 164 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd a9 Screen Config COM5 d E N _ Sending Board Scan Board Screen Connection Module Info sas Chip SUM2017 Size 32Wx32H Scan Type 1 16 scan Direction Horizontal Decode Type 74HC138 Decoding Data Group 2 Cabinet Info Regular Irregular Pixel Width 128 lt 128 Please a idth Heiaht Please a r i make sure Loac rror Please adiust perfor make sure J Pixel Heiaht 256 7 lt 256 the width the width Module Casc andheight q Construct View Cabinet and height Performance Setting Group Swap More Setting Clear Afterglow retesnrate eos te Gray
12. _ gus3 deat egies BUSS Flash f D 3 INPUT OUTPUT BUS31 Module Flash 3US22 Module HUB si INPUT OUTPUT Flash Module Fig 5 26 physical connection schematic diagram of Flash 41 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com www telematics ca NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd As shown in Fig 5 27 to set MOM Topology on the software firstly set FLASH row and column numbers and then click anywhere on the right side of the window select the corresponding BUS and based on the actual route click the left button of the mouse or press the arrow key to set each piece of Flash information according to the order control size and coordinates Select a BUS and set Flash control size and then click Apply to current BUS the size of Flash with BUS connection will be modified as the current value After Flash Control Size is set click Reset All and then all Flash Control Sizes will be reset as the size set currently Flash Cols 4 BUS 1 Bust Wian a2 Mana l Height16 Height16 pusz Bus2 2 Number Number 2 MaRS P MaA PT dth idth 3 Height16 Height16 Lekel kloll le e e e e e e e LeeLekbbk7 Lelkek 8 HE z 28 a ga Note Click or drag left mouse button to config screen right mouse button to cancel Fig 5 27 MOM Physical
13. arbitrary point insertion anomalous plate anomalous cabinet anomalous screen and easy load gt Low grey scale with richness and smoothness first class build up of luminance and grey scale of 16bit which makes the image of the screen fine and smooth gt Green energy saving and environmental protection low voltage low power consumption Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd low radiation and easily passing EMI EMC gt Overall chip supported support TI Toshiba MBI SITI ENE MY Ri yue cheng Micro block and other series of products and supportTLC59282 TLC5929 TLC5944 DM13A DM13H P2510 SUM2016 SUM2017 MBI5020 5024 5034 5035 5042 5050 5152 SUM2032 MY9221 9262 RT5924and other IC gt No sending board mode supported being fit for small screen control Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 1 1 Configuration list Product name NovaLCT Mars V3 2 0 MSD300 MSD600 MCTRL300 Sending board MCTRL500 MCTRL600 MCTRL610 MRV200 MRV210 MRV220 MRV300 Receiving card MRV320 MRV330 MRV340 MRV350 qd MRV360 MRV365 Photoelectric converter Accessories Optical probe Type Version No MON300 Monitoring card MFN300 Multifunctional card Functions Remarks Operating platf
14. at the same time the brightness can be set manually When there is a colorimeter and the effect of initial adjustment is perfect there is no need to make fine adjustment so one can directly click satisfactory and click Next 153 mmm Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Hultiple batch control View the effect of initial adjustment View the effect of initial adjustment OE OE OHE oE o7 OH o Bright K 30 Automatic switching Interval Second swit Fig 7 4 View the effect of initial adjustment 2 Select the target batch and processing batch if the step 1 sets a reference model the target batch could not be modified here Hultiple batch control Select sample batches Select the targ Sample batches v Select the proc Sample batches v Fig 7 5 Select the target and pro 154 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 3 View the effect of display screen and make a fine adjustment of monochrome for the processing batch Here click Re select Target to re select the target batch click Switching Batch to select new batch processing the previous processing batches will be placed in the processing list for processing at the next time
15. 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd panel Flash Flash test test whether Flash is normal Types of error in Flash test and its reasons 1 Hardware failure a It may be caused by the screen inconsistent with the actual situation b It may be caused by the configuration of arrangement diagram inconsistent with the actual situation 2 Communication error it may be caused by a hardware connection error 3 Abnormal Flash arrangement no configuration of Flash arrangement or no hardware Flash arrangement embodies physical connections of all Flashes and it needs to be configured in the Display Configuration Please see the specific operation 149 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Hodule Flash Serial Port com Verify Result Sending Flash Flash Scan Beard Port Bead Flash X Flash Y Width Hei ght ErrorType 1 2 1 0 0 32 32 Hardware Error noe 1 0 32 32 32 Hardware Error Fig 6 4 Flash check 7 Multi Batch Adjustment www telematics ca Quickly adjust the chromaticity of each batch of cabinet to achieve the effect of reference model In the main interface click Tools gt MultiBatch Adjustment start multibatch adjustment The operation steps are as follows Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen
16. 909 resolution 1440 x 900 Refresh Setthe sending board display mode 1440 x f Resolution 1440x900px C Custom Refresh Rate 60 ma Hz se Fig 12 2 the Sending Board page 173 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Check whether the settings in the Smart Setting procedure are correct 12 4Only a part of the modules of each cabinet work normally in Smart Setting Check whether the size of the module array is correctly set in the page of Smart Setting Step 1 Shown in Fig 12 3 is the Smart Setting Step 1 page Smart Setting Step 1 Chip Type Data Type Concurrent Chip Type Common Chip OE Polarity Unknown Module Info Module Type Regular Module Irregular Module Actual Pixel Data Group Decoding Type 74HC138 Decoding Scan Type C Over 16 Scans 1 16 scan v Module in one scan Cols D Rows Module Cascade Type From The Front Left To Right To Up To Down O Right Left O Down O To Up Scan Board Work Mode Hub Mode Normal 20Groups 24Groups 28 Groups Ghost Control Signal Polarity High Low O Net Cancel Fig 12 3 the page of Smart Setting Step 1 174 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Websit
17. 98 the page to save the calibration coefficients The adjustment operations in Step 2 and Step 3 can also be applied to other areas that need the same adjustment Click Apply The Effect To Other Area item on Fig 5 98 to open the page for setting Shown in Fig 5 99 is the page for Apply The Effect To Other Area 122 mmm mmm Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Apply and Save Coefficients men Apply The Effect To Other Area Apply the Effect to Other Area Screen 1 Location X 100 Y 100 Size 256 X 128H Screen O Pixel Topology or List Select Area On Screen Operate all pixels omen secre miisi amima Fig 5 99 the page for Apply The Effect To Other area Apply Apply adjustment operations to the selected area Note 1 Ifthe adjustment operations are to be applied to another area the problem of this area should be similar to the area selected in Step 1 Otherwise don t o apply the operations to this area 2 If the adjustment result of the new area is satisfying after applying the operations click Save button again to save the adjusted calibration coefficients to the hardware 123 __ryYyYYSYSylfo Zo ______ aa Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 5 8
18. Kultiple batch control Fine adjustment of monochrome 1 3 Sample batches Fine adjustment of red Fine adjustment of green Fine adjustment of blue Target g Sample batchesl Red co lt gt 2047 Processing a Green E gt 50 a 5 gt Blue c E gt 17 Fig 7 6 Fine adjustment of monochrome 155 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Hultiple batch control Fine adjustment of monochrome 1 3 Sample batches Fine adjustment of red Fine adjustment of green Fine adjustment of blue Target Sample batches gt 2047 Processing Hi Sanple batches2 Current target Sample batchesl Select a new ta Sample batches v Fig 7 7 Reselect the target batch 156 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Hultiple batch control Fine adjustment of monochrome 1 3 e H Switch processing batch Current process Sample batches adjustment of blue Target C Sample batches Select a new batch gt 2047 Processing BATHA ihi Sample batches2 Fig 7 8 Switch processing batch 4 View the effect of display screen if you are satisfied wit
19. NovaStar Tech Co Ltd T Screen Config COM19 Sending Board Scan Board Screen Connection Screent Screen Type Simple Screen O Standard Screen Complex Screen Scan Board Setting Virtual M C Enable Fig 5 20 complex screen configuration page Add Click Add to access the window for receiver cards information setting such as index of its host sending board Ethernet output ports mapping areas pixel array sizes and so on The setting will be shown in the list Edit To edit the information that has been set for receiver cards Delete To delete the selected receiver card from the receiver cards list Clear To delete all receiver cards from the list 36 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 5 1 3 Set the Cabinet Info Select Scan Board page in the Screen Config window Fig 5 2 Shown in Fig 5 21 is the Scan Board page EE Screen Config COM19 Sending Board Scan Board Screen Connection Module Info Chip Common C Size 32Wx32H Scan Type 1 16 scan Direction Horizontal Decode Type 74HC138 Decoding Data Group 2 Cabinet Info E Regular Irregular Pixel Width lt 96 Please A make sure Pixel Heiaht lt 256 the width Construct Performance Setting 240 Accelerate R Normal 16384
20. Refresh Temperature If this option is selected the temperature within the cabinets will be under monitoring Refresh power of scan board If this option is selected the power supplies of the receiver cards will be under monitoring Connect Monitor Board Monitor Boards are required for certain status and parameters monitoring Select this option to get those status and parameters under monitoring Refresh Humidity If this option is selected the humidity within the cabinets will be under monitoring Refresh Smoke If this option is selected the smoke within the cabinets will be under monitoring Refresh cabinet status If this option is selected the working status of the cabinets will be under monitoring Refresh status of Cabinet Door If this option is selected the open close status of the cabinet doors will be under monitoring Refresh Fan 83 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd If this option is selected the fans status will be under monitoring Every cabinet has same number of fan If for every cabinet the number of fans to be monitored is the same select this option and set the fan number in the box to the right of this option Ever cabinet has different number of fan If the numbers of fans to be monitored are different from one cabinet to another select this option and click the Setting button to set the fan n
21. Scale Normal 4096 v Gray Mode Refresh Rate First v Data Clock 12 5 x MHz Data Duty 50 25 75 Clock Phase Ps X Low Gray Co lo 2 Blanking Time 25 2 00us Ghost Contro al ay Line Change T 13 r 0 19 Brightness Effi 68 24 Min OE 80ns Smansenna tanase _ sme fiey Raadio seratonin Sancor sae ne Fig 9 1 Save configuration file The operation procedures of importing the configuration files are as follows 5 NovaLCT Mars V4 2 0 No Hardware System S Tools C Plug in Tool P User U Language Lang L Help H Screen Config S 2 Bightness B wy Screen Con Calibration C ol Monitor Function Card a ie Display Control P Monitor M Control Sv Function Card F View Detail Hardware Information H Monitor Info Multiple Screen Management A aa Point Detect T O Prestore Picture R Color Restore O Light Panel Flash U Server Status Receive Card relay l MultiBatch of Adgustment M 660Configuration E 165 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd a9 MCTRL66O Setting M eee Select COM port The serial port that corresponds to ppm P6 file minem manean m tetas a MCTRL660 Setting lt ere S Select COM port ss P3 file P6 file Fig 9 2 Import configuration
22. Screen Config window for manual configuration of the LED displays Note Make sure the resolutions of the sending board also named sending board and the computer video card are the same otherwise the LED display may not be able to lt work normally Reset the video card resolution or change that of the sending board if their resolutions are not the same Refer to 5 1 5 Adjust the Resolution and Refresh Rate for details about how to change the sending board resolution gt Step 2 Switch to the Scan Board page and click Smart Setting button to open the Smart Setting dialog 14 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Shown in Fig 5 3 is the Smart Setting dialog Smart Setting Note 1 Pption 1 click Next to begin smart setting 2 Option 2 or 3 load module information to software Option 1 Smart setting O Option 2 Load module from file m File Path Rocca O Option 3 Load module from database Cabinet Database Prowse Path lt Co Selected Module Select Module Fig 5 3 the Smart Setting dialog Select Option 1 Smart setting and click Next to activate smart setting wizard The Smart Setting Step 1 window will appear as shown in Fig 5 4 15 mmm o _____ ____ _T____ ________________ Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 8
23. a sending board is to be updated Sending Board FPGA 170 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd Select this option if the FPGA program of a sending board is to be updated Scan Board FPGA Select this option if the FPGA program of a scan board is to be updated Change Click this button to load the selected program to the selected hardware Refresh All If this option is selected the version information of all sending boards and scan boards connected to the current serial port will be refreshed when click the Refresh button Refresh One If this option is selected only the version information of the selected scan board will be refreshed when click the Refresh button Refresh Click this button to show the current version information of the hardware This can be used to check whether the hardware program has been updated 171 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd 12 Problem and Solution 12 1 NovaLCT Mars shows No Hardware on corresponding pages Check whether the hardware system is powered on Check whether the serial port cable connection is good 12 2NovaLCT Mars shows No Screen on corresponding pages If the LED display has been configured already then try reading the configurations fro
24. after any modifying of the external device type settings T Please click Save button after modify External device 1 Light Sensor v External device 2 v External device 3 No External Device v External device 4 No External Device w acetone ua Fig 5 109 the page for external devices management 5 9 5 Load Program Click the Load Program button on the Function Card Management page to open the page for loading program to the hardware Shown in Fig 5 110 is the page of program loading 135 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Function Card Information Model ID 8101 FPGA Version nan nnn FPGA Note porters MASY 2 0 2 Fig 5 110 the page for program loading Refresh Click this button to acquire the version information of the current function card Type in admin directly to access the options for program loading Shown in Fig 5 111 is the page with the program loading options Function Card Information Model ID 8101 FPGA Version ULE LI ee FPGA Note Hig M SV3 2 0 2 woop tan oes Load program for all fuctie pI Fig 5 111 the page with program loading options 136 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd Exit Click this button t
25. as Tools gt Function Card in the main menu 4 3 Monitor Info Panel Shown in the Monitor Info panel is the current monitored result of the system Red dots indicate there are errors detected while green dots mean no error Click a red dot to access the alarm window containing the corresponding error info An alarm window is as shown in Fig 4 2 Click 10 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd the blue hyperlink in an alarm window to open the monitor page of the corresponding LED display AL Display Hame Count COMS Screenl 10 Fig 4 3 Alarm window containing error info 11 esse f______________________L_L____L______________________________________ Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 5 Main Functions of NovaLCT Mars When in the mode with no sending board the control system software will have no sending board operation page all the parameter setting related to the sending board shall be omitted and other operations are the same as having sending board 5 1 Start the LED Displays 5 1 1 Start with System Configuration Files The advantage of using system configuration files to configure LED displays is that the configuration procedure is very simple and easy and no manual configuration operation is required
26. novastar led com NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Function Card Time 2013 02 20 Wednesday 10 10 Read Sot SetNotes StartDelay O00 OO ee Kan Sats Emmas Manual Auto Software Control Switch 1 Start Switch 2 Stop Switch 3 Stop Switch 4 Stop Switch 5 Stop Switch 6 Stop Switch 7 Stop PERRGEE Switch 8 Stop 2013 2 20 10 11 28 Read the status of all the powers in function card Succeed 2013 2 20 10 11 31 Start power Succeed 2013 2 20 10 11 33 Read the status of all the powers in function card Succeed Succeed Fig 5 103 the page for power management Function Card Time panel gt Read to read the time from the function card and show in this panel gt Set to set the function card time as that of the computer Set Notes Set note for each of the power supply of the current function card Start Delay Set the delay time for starting power If the delay time is successfully set the stating of each of the power supply control by the function card will be delay for the delay time For example if the delay time is set as 2 seconds then each power supply will delay 2 seconds when starts Refresh 128 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd This button is to refresh the power management information includi
27. or off load receiving card One split to eight One port of sending board connect to input port of deconcentrator port A and split to eight ports Two split to four Two ports of sending board connect to input ports of deconcentrator port A and port B and split to eight ports each port split to four Example 1 Port 1 and Port 2 of sending board 1 are set as two then internet access model of port 1 and port 2 of sending board 1 shall be set as two After the setup is finished it shall be 30 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com wwwtelematics ca NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd like the following figure port 1 corresponds to A1 A2 A3 and A4 and port 2 corresponds to B1 B2 B3 and B4 Screen Type Simple Screen Standard Screen Complex Screen Basic Information cee on g 3 Virtual Mo E Enable ia Operate Port Scan Board 4 Scan Board 8 Columns Rows Sending Board Index M a aa lt gt Sending Sending Sending Sending f Ej i Port Port Port Port Internet access Internet access Internet access Internet acc Port Index of of of of 2 a deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator Sending Sending Sending nding Port Port Port Port Internet ac s Internet access Internet access of of of of deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrato
28. page of the Display Adjustment window 64 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Click Config button according to the instruction and the Config Schedule File window will be opened Shown in Fig 5 45 is the Config Schedule File window Create the schedule time table for adjustment and NovaLCT Mars will perform the adjustment operations automatically according to the schedule COM3 Screent Adjustment Mode Manual sched fong Auto Config Auto Hardware Brightness Failed to get Data Schedual Adjust brightness Gamma and color temperature according to time table Please click Config Read Scan Board Parameters resultfailed Reason time out af K Fig 5 45 the Schedule setting page of the Display Adjustment window 65 es E Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Edit Schedual Start Brightness Gamma Value Mode Table Color Ho Temperatur L 2 8 Ho Brightness b 2 8 Adjust Gamma 2d Value Gamma Fixed Value S O Custom Fig 5 46 the Config Schedule File window Note 1 The time of the computer on which NovaLCT Mars is running is the base of the F schedule If the computer time is not correct the a
29. the shown images will be Gray Mode There are four options for Gray Mode Brightness First Refresh Rate First Gray Firsthand Performance balance Brightness First Brightness First mode is for normal use and it has lower brightness loss Refresh Rate First image refresh rate can be greatly increased but the cost is 8 of brightness loss Gray First Gray First mode will cost 50 brightness to get a better gray when display with low bright Performance balance Balance between gray scale and refreshing and promote refresh rate of low gray level Accelerate Rate This parameter is used to increase the refresh rate If N is selected the refresh rate will be increased by N times Data Clock This is the shift clock frequency The shift clock frequency depends on the performance of driver chips and the circuit design of the modules The higher the driver chip performance is and the better the module circuit is designed the higher the shift clock frequency can be A higher shift clock frequency will results in a larger pixel array more gray levels or higher refresh rate that a receiver card can support 45 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Data Duty This is the duty cycle for the shift clock The shift clock frequency can be increased by changing this parameter Normally the duty cycle should be set as 50 Data Phase
30. 07048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd respectively Select the source of Coefficients Database O Refer to Surrounding Scan Board Select Database Type Cabinet ID Columns Rows Discription Back Newt Return Fig 5 87 the page for getting calibration coefficients from a database Browse Click this button to select the database that the calibration coefficients for the new receiver card are from If the selected is a cabinet database the cabinet ID should also be specified from the Cabinet ID drop list Cabinet ID If the selected database is a cabinet database the IDs of the cabinets of which the calibration coefficients are contained in the database will be list in the drop list If the selected database is a screen database the list will be unavailable 110 y_ y Y y_o_L__ ____ _ ____ __ _____W__TT_ _ ___________________________ Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Select the source of Coefficients oO Database Refer to Surrounding Scan Board Select Reference Cabinet Reference Zone 1 CC Adjusted a Reference Cabinet Cabinet e Bent Retarm Fig 5 88 the page for generating coefficients for the new receiver card according to those of its surrounding receiver cards Note
31. 17 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 2 The calibration coefficients are generated according to those of the selected surrounding modules and make the pixel array driven by the new module card similar to its surrounding in brightness hue and saturation The generated calibration coefficients are just substitution of those from NovaCLB and are not as good as those from NovaCLB in performance gt Step 4 Adjust the calibration coefficients if the generated coefficients are not satisfying The adjustment page is similar to that for a new receiver card Please refer to 5 8 2 3 Set coefficients for a new scan board gt Step 3 for more details gt Step 5 Save the calibration coefficients to the hardware FLASH so they won t be lost when the LED display is powered off The operation is similar to that for a new receiver card Please refer to 5 8 2 3 Set coefficients for a new scan board gt Step 4 for more details 5 8 2 5 Adjust Coefficients If some parts of the LED display are different from the rest in color the color of these areas can be adjusted by modifying the corresponding calibration coefficients gt Step 1 Select the areas to be adjusted Fig 5 95 shows the page for area selecting 118 mmm oo _ __ i _ _ ___ _______ ________________________ Phone NovasStar Xi an 86 29
32. 2 6 Erase or reload Coefficients Shown in Fig 5 100 is the page for erasing reload calibration coefficients Erase coefficients erasing calibration coefficients of the whole display or any cabinets Reload coefficients reload the calibration coefficients lastly saved in hardware Online Calibration Offline Calibration Manage Coefficients Select Scan Boar d Screen 1 Location X 0 Y 0 Size 128 X128H Screen Pixel O Topology or List Select Area On Screen Operate all pixels icine onenean etree Fig 5 100 the page for erasing calibration coefficients Screen Select this option to erase all calibration coefficients for the whole display Topology or List Select this option to select the cabinets from the cabinet array sketch or the cabinet list of which the calibration coefficients are to be erased sh Note The calibration coefficients will be their default values after the erase operation Make 124 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd a copy of the calibration coefficients save to a database file for safety 5 8 3 Reset coefficients Reset correction coefficients of the full screen or the specified area in accordance with the size of light panel or pixel Complete all operation of reset coefficient click on the Save To HW The correction coefficien
33. 2 Control Information In The Monitor Page Click this link label to view the controlled information list as it show in Fig 5 73 91 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Finished Control Finished Control Fig 5 73 View The Control Information List Recover Control If the control scheme is performed View 5 6 4 1 Configure Control Scheme to configure the control scheme and the user can restart monitor control by clicking this button after dealing with the fault View Log Open the log window and view the stored logs 5 7 Check the LED Lights Status The LED lights status checking function also known as point detect is to check the working status of each LED light on a LED display NovaLCT Mars can detect and locate LED lights that are in open circuit or short circuit status Note o 1 Point detect is only available for LED displays of which the LED lights driver chips support LED lights open short circuit status checking 92 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 2 Driver chips supported by Mars serial LED display control systems and good for point detect at present are MBI5036 MBI5034 MBI5040 DM13H and MBI5030 3 Monitor boards for Mars serial LED display contro
34. 2s M mez Data Duty o o N 2575 ClockPhase 3 x LowGrayCo p Blanking Time 25 2 00us Shosi o ler Line Change T 3 0 19 Brightness Effi 52 31 Min OE 24 ns Smat Seting Loadfie Save Fie ReadFromHW SendToHW Fig 5 23 The Performance Setting panel Clear Afterglow Some of chips are supporting the functions of eliminating afterglow and the software defaults to be ticked 39 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com 5 NOVASTAR aJ Screen Con Sending Board Module Info Chip Direction fig COM5 Scan Board Screen Connection NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Lo E jam SUM2017 Horizontal Cabinet Info Size Decode Type 32Wx32H 74HC138 Decoding Scan Type Data Group 1 16 scan 2 Regular Pixel Width Pixel Heiaht 258 Irregular dth 27 Heicht Loadina error Please adiust perforr Construct View Cabinet Please a make sure jj the width E and height Performance Setting Refresh Rate Gray Scale Data Clock Clock Phase Blanking Time Line Change T 2 00us 0 19 v Clear Afterglow eT ae Gray Mode Refresh Rate First v Data Duty 25 75 Low Gray Co l0 Ghost Contro 0 Brightness Effi 68 24 Min OE 80ns Fig 5 24 clear afterglow Data group exchange adjust the orde
35. 3592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Open Click this button to open an existing database to save the read back calibration coefficients The new saved coefficients will replace the old ones according to the position If the coefficients array size of the opened database is smaller than that of the current display the save operation will be failed If the opened is a cabinet database the ID list of the existing cabinets of the database will be shown Select Database oO Save to an Existing Database Save to a Hew Database New Database Type Screen Database oO Cabinet Database Select Database Type Existing Cabinet ID Columns Rows Discription gt gt as Fig 5 84 the page for saving calibration coefficients to a new database Screen Database Select this option if it is to save the calibration coefficients to a new screen database Cabinet Database Select this option if it is to save the calibration coefficients to a new cabinet database Create 106 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Click this button to create a new screen database or a cabinet database according to the settings Note 1 Screen database In a screen database the saved are the calibration coefficients and the positions of they are to be uploaded to in the LED lights array o
36. 3592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd period the light sensors measure the environment brightness Read times of light sensors is the times that NovaLCT Mars reads the measurement results of the light sensors Thus the auto brightness time interval is the production of Detect Period and Read times of light sensors For example if light sensors measure the environment brightness every 10 second this is the Detect Period and NovaLCT Mars reads the measurement results of the light sensors for 5 times this is the Read times of light sensor before adjusting the LED display brightness the auto brightness time interval will be 50 seconds Note P The default values for Detect Period and Read times of light sensors are 60 seconds T 7 and 5 times respectively Thus the auto brightness time interval is 300 seconds or 5 minutes by default 5 3 Display Control Click Display Control button from the tool bar or select Tools gt Display Control from the main menu of the NovaLCT Mars application main interface to open the Screen Control window Shown in Fig 5 55 is the Display Control window 73 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd al Screen Control TA COM6 Screenl n m Normal Fig 5 55 the Screen Control window Kill Show nothing on the LED display Lock
37. 4507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOV4ASTAR Smart Setting Step 1 E3 NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Chip Type Data Type Concurrent v Chip Type Common Chip J OE Polarity Unknown v Module Info Module Type Regular Module Irregular Module Actual Pixel x a2 E y B2 B Data Group Decoding Type 74HC138 Decoding x Scan Type C Over 16 Scans nescan I Module in one scan Car z z R 2 g Module Cascade Type From The Front Left To Right To Up To Down O Right Left O Down O To Up Scan Board Work Mode Hub Mode Normal 20 Groups 24Groups 28 Groups Ghost Control Signal Polarity High Low Net Cancel Fig 5 4 Smart Setting Step 1 Chip Type Select the driver chip type from the list according to what is actually used for the cabinets OE Polarity This option can be High Effective Low Effective or Unknown Module type The option can be regular module or irregular module If it is set to be irregular module the counts of driver chips for one data set and one color should be given Actual Pixel This is the size of the real pixel array of a module X represents the width and Y the height 16 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Decoding type The options can be Static 74HC138 Code
38. 48NovasStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Adjust Coefficients Advanced Color Adjust Red O Green O Blue Brightnes gt 56 D a TAONA TS TETITIIITiTiititiiiiiitiiiiy Saturation s E 100 PESRSEURSSECSTRRERCEC SEER SESUSSUS DSSS ESE S TESS SUES ESSER SSESUEUSSSESSSESSS ESSE S55 53 Hue 2 50 E D Color Temperature Adjust O Yellow oO Cyan oO Magenta oO White Red Green Blue Note Display different color for observing the effect Simple ede tant Ret Fig 5 90 the Advanced adjustment page Color Adjustment The brightness hue and saturation of red green and blue can be adjusted in the Color Adjust panel Color Temperature Adjustment Use the slide bars to adjust the red green and blue components for yellow cyan magenta and white in the Color Temperature Adjust panel Simple Click this item to switch to the simple adjustment page The color bar under each side bar indicates the color to be shown when adjusting 113 y y y yo__ i ___ i ______T__ s___________________________ Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd Note 1 If the cabinet driven by the new receiver card is only different from the surrounding cabinets in brightness simple adjustment is sufficient N 2 If the cabinet driv
39. 7048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd virtual mode Select the layout type of the lights on the top right corner of the window and drag the mouse on the left side of the window to change the arrangement of the lights For example if the Erected Triangle Interaction is selected the changed positions are as follows Set Virtual Hode E3 Layout Rectangle Erected Triangle Interaction Inverted Triangle Interaction Preview Prompt Infc Dragging round object with the mouse ca Red L reen LED MM uee MO Virualred LED Eo Cancel Fig 5 14 Positions of the virtual lights before change Set Virtual Hode Layout Rectangle Erected Triangle Interaction Inverted Triangle Interaction Preview Prompt Infe Dragging round object with the mouse ca MMM Red LED MMM oGreen LED MM Blue LED WO Virvalred LED OK Cancel Fig 5 15 Positions of the virtual lights after change Scan Board Columns Rows 26 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd These are the numbers of columns and rows of the scan boards receiver cards array of the LED display Scan Board Width Height These two parameters in the Scan Board Info panel refer to the width and height of the pixel array driven by a scan board receiver card They must b
40. 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd lightened any more A line of the lightened lights routing will be drawn at the same time A message indicating the finish of the Smart Setting Step 9 will be shown when enough lights have been processed Smart Setting Step 9 Note Look at the lighting point in the modules and click the corresponding cells Undo to back or ence stein Clear to restart Fig 5 10 Smart Setting Step 9 Note Hold the left button of the mouse and drag or use Tab and Enter to draw the routing line Use Automatic button to accomplish drawing routing lines of the same pattern gt Step9 Click Next on the Smart Setting Step 9 window to open the Save Module dialog which is for saving the settings set for the module through all the smart setting steps The Save Module 21 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd dialog is shown in Fig 5 11 Saving the module settings to files module configuration files or cabinet database files will make it easier to perform module configuration for another LED displays constructed by modules which require the same settings as the one just set Choose Option2 or 3 in the Smart Setting dialog Fig 5 3 in Step 2 select corresponding files and modules and smart setting is done Click Fin
41. 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Select The Adjustive Area Screen 1 Location 100 Y 100 Size 256 X 128H Screen O Pixel Topology or List Select Area On Screen BO CO Fig 5 95 the page for selecting the area to be adjusted gt Step 2 Select the adjustment type If Adjust Own Effect option is selected the color adjustment of selected area is independent to the other areas of the LED display If Effect As Other Selected Area option is selected the color of the selected area will be adjusted according to the reference area color The selected area color will look similar to the reference area color after the adjustment operation Shown in Fig 5 96 and Fig 5 97 are the page for the two adjustment type respectively 119 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Seen A Mody me Adjust Own Effect O Effect As Other Selected Area Adjust own effect immm etme in Fig 5 96 the page for Adjust Own Effect option Select The Adjustive Mode oO Adjust Own Effect Effect As Other Selected Area Select Reference Area Screen 1 Location 100 Y 100 Size 256 X 128H Screen O Pixel Topology or List Oo Select Area On Screen 1 2 1 3 1 4 tetemen mn msie Fig 5 97 the page for Effect As Ot
42. 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NovaStar Tech Co Ltd NovaLCT Mars V4 2 0 No Hardware System S Tools C Plug in Tool P User U Language Lang L Help H Ey Screen Config S 2 Bightness B ray Screen Conf Calibration C ol Monitor Function Card Local System Display Control P Monitor M Control Sv Function Card F View Detail ontario Hardware Information H Multiple Screen Management A Point Detect T Prestore Picture R Color Restore O Light Panel Flash U i sever Status Receive Card relay I MultiBatch of Adgustment M 660Configuration E Fig 7 1 Multi Batch Adjustment 1 Select a colorimeter connected to the system If the system does not connect with the colorimeter tick No colorimeter and then click Next Chips batch consol Tees Select colorimeter information Commonly us D Other colorimeter O No colorimeter Select colorimeter Minolta CS2000 Determine precision according to the selection of colorimeter information Fig 7 2 Select colorimeter information 2 Set sample batches Select screen and select the corresponding communication port click P to adda batch and then click Choose region to set the corresponding coordinates and size of the sample batches 151 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NO
43. Always show the current image frame of the LED display Run Switch the LED display back to normal from Kill or Lock Self Test Show the test images generated by the receiver card for LED displays aging test or error detecting 5 4 Check Hardware Info Click Tool gt Hardware Information from the main menu to open the Hardware Information page Shown in Fig 5 56 is the Hardware Information page 74 a Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd HS Hardware Information Time Time of Hardware 2012 06 12 Select Serial Port Current Serial Port coma v Sending Board SN Serial Number SH Number i 1202 1000 0000 0199 Hardware Version Info Refresh All O Refresh One Sending Board Scan Board Sending Board MCU Sending Board FPGA Scan Board FPGA Communication Info 2012 6 12 19 32 15 Current control system address 1 port 3 Read FPGA program version of sca 2012 6 12 19 32 15 Current control system address 1 port 4 Read FPGA program version of sca Current control system address 1 port 4 Read FPGA program version of scan board O Fig 5 56 the Hardware Information page Current Serial Port If more than one Mars serial LED display control system is connected to the computer set the serial port through which the Mars serial LED display control
44. Black or Has Contents according to the module status Smart Setting Step 2 Current Module is Black Showing Next Cane Fig 5 5 Smart Setting Step 2 sh Note J This step will be skipped if module polarity is known and set in Step 1 gt Step 4 Click Next on the Smart Setting Step 2 window to access Smart Setting Step 3 Shown in Fig 5 6 is the Smart Setting Step 3 window Select the color for each module statuses 1 2 3 and 4 For example if the module shows green in statuses 2 choose Green in the corresponding com box The software will switch the module statuses automatically if Auto switch status is selected Select Manual switch status to switch the module statuses manually 18 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Smart Setting Step 3 Auto switch status Manual switch status Please choose the module color in each status O1 Reda O2 Green 3 Blue O4 Red B Or Black Fig 5 6 Smart Setting Step 3 gt Step5 Click Next on the Smart Setting Step 3 window to access Smart Setting Step 4 Shown in Fig 5 7 is the Smart Setting Step 4 window Enter the number of LED light rows that are on in a module Smart Setting Step 4 Lighting rows or columns in the modules P Ro mmmn ant Fig 5 7 Smart Setting Step 4 gt Ste
45. Client operating system Win2000 PRO 98 XP win7 etc Network environment The screen shall be connected with internet to perform on line correction 3 Installation of NovaLCT Mars The installation of NovaLCT Mars is the same as other common software applications One thing need to be mentioned is that if the installation process is blocked by any anti virus or firewall application please select the option that allows the installation operation to do what it needs to do Because what is blocked is usually the installation or update operation of the serial ports driver Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 4 Main Interface of NovaLCT Mars After running NovaLCT Mars Click User Advanced Login the User login window will appears shown in Fig 4 1 w User Login s Fig 4 1 Advanced Login Input the password admin and then enter the NovaLCT Mars main interface for advanced users Shown in Fig 4 2 A NovaLCT Mars V4 2 0 Ques System S Tools C Plug in Tool P User U Language Lang L Help H YG Be X o Screen Config Brightness Calibration Display Control Monitor Function Card Local System Info Control Svstem Other Device View Detail Monitor Info Server Status Server Version 3 0 Fig 4 2 the main interface for advanced users 4 1 Main Menu gt System Recon
46. Gray Mode Gray First Data Clock Data Duty 50 Clock Phase B3 p Low Gray Co ho p Blanking Time 2 J 200us Chost Contro 20 0 19 boadfie SaveFie ReadFromHW Send To HW Save ConigFie Sae Close Fig 5 21 the Scan Board page Cabinet Info Pixel array size and module cascade direction can be set in this panel Note that the Regular panel is for regular cabinets parameters setting and the Irregular panel is for irregular cabinets parameters setting Shown in Fig 5 22 is the Regular Cabinet Info panel which is circled and marked as area 1 in Fig 5 21 37 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd Regular Pixel Width 99 Qs Pixel Heiaht 32 F Module Casc Right tol Left he Fig 5 22 the Regular Cabinet Info panel Width Height These two items specify the width and height of the cabinet pixel array Note that the two numbers circled in Fig 5 22 are the maximum values that can be set which is also named as Maximum Width and Maximum Height Maximum Width Maximum width varies with parameters of refresh rate gray scale levels and shift clock frequency Normally the higher the refresh rate is and the finer the gray scale levels are the smaller the maximum width will be while the higher the shift clock frequency is the larger the maxi
47. MI Settings C Auto Select Audio Inout S Video Inout S Bit Of Inout S External DVI 8 Bit e Fig 5 36 HDMI Settings 54 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Automatic input mode Select Automatic Input Mode to enter into the automatic input mode and the system will automatically detect and select the corresponding port with video input Manual input mode gt Video input options DVI input or HDMI HD input can be opted gt Audio Input Options external audio or HDMI audio input can be opted gt The digits of input source 8 digits or 12 digits After setting the above options click on the Send to send the parameters to the hardware 5 1 8 Save Settings to FLASH Once data is saved in the FLASH chips of the hardware the saved data won t be lost even the hardware is powered off To save the settings to FLASH click the Save button at the lower right corner of the Screen Config window Fig 5 2 Note F Please save the settings to FLASH click the Save button after sending settings of 7 the LED display configuration performance parameters and hot backup to hardware 5 1 9 Save Load Configuration Files There are four types of configuration files at present the module configuration file the receiver card configuration file the LED displ
48. Master Sending J Slave Sending Board Index a Board Index Master Port Slave Port Index Index Fig 5 35 the Hot Backup Setting dialog gt Step 2 Enter the indexes as required and click the Add button on the dialog 53 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 1 Only for the sending boards that are in the same cascade chain can master slave hot backup relation be set 2 Ethernet ports of the same sending board can also be set as hot backup of each other As in Fig 5 31 the Ethernet port 2 is the hot backup of the Ethernet port 1 3 Hot backup can be set between the Ethernet ports of a sending board 4 A slave device can t be set as a master device when it is the hot backup of another sending board To clear the slave status of a sending board delete the record indicating it as a slave device and click Send button in the Hot Backup sh Setting panel to change the hardware settings The sending board that is used for LED display configuration refer to 5 1 2 2 LED Display Configuration can t set as a slave device unless the LED display configuration information on it has been deleted gt Step 3 Click Send button to send the hot backup settings to the hardware 5 1 7 HDMI Settings MSD600 MCTRL600 MCTRL610 Sending cards supporting HDMI interface need to set this option HD
49. Screent v Enable Color Restore CIE 1931 Chromaticity Diagram ey Cx Cy Lum a 0 675 0 33 s00 a 0 19 078 1800 g 0 13 0 04 300 a Target Cx Cy Lum g 0 64 fo33 w os B 0 15 0 06 6 0 3444 0 3388 PAL O NTSC Custom o Send Save ToHW 2013 9 29 09 04 56 COM19 Screen1 Succeed to set 2013 9 29 09 04 57 COM19 Screen1 Succeed to set Fig 5 116 change the color temperature of the white point 143 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Color Restore Serial Port COM19 Screen1 Original CIE 1931 Chromaticity Diagram Cy 0 33 0 78 0 04 f L Target Cy 0 33 PAL O NTSC Custom v Enable Color Restore 2013 9 29 09 05 43 COM19 Screen1 Succeed to set 2013 9 29 09 05 43 COM19 Screen1 Succeed to set 2013 9 29 09 05 44 COM19 Screen1 Succeed to set Fig 5 117 change the scope of the color gamut Obtain original color gamut The light gun is recommended to obtain the current color gamut or the Original Color Gamut The accurate original color gamut could facilitate the adjustment of the target color gamut 1 Adjust the target color gamut If the original color gamut is accurate it could be directly transformed into the PAL or NTSC standard target color gamut or the
50. Setting gt Data Group Extension Twenty data group mode 42 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd If selected the scan board will provide 20 sets of output data for the cabinet This mode and D clock as the second road extended to 32 sets of data can t be selected at the same time Twenty Four data group mode If selected the scan board will provide 24 sets of output data for the cabinet This mode and D clock as the second road extended to 32 sets of data can t be selected at the same time Twenty Eight data group mode If selected the scan board will provide 28 sets of output data for the cabinet This mode and D clock as the second road extended to 32 sets of data can t be selected at the same time e D clock as the second road extended to 32 sets of data If selected the scan board will provide 32 sets of output data for the cabinet This mode and Twenty Data Group Mode can t be selected at the same time gt Ghost Control Signal Signal Switch the On or Off could be selected Signal Polarity the polarity of the signal could be selected according to the design of the afterglow circuit gt Hub Mode select the Hub mode of the receiving card which could be divided into normal 20 groups 24 groups or 28 groups gt Graphics Output the output in the scanning direction or the output in the reverse direction coul
51. VASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd when selecting in accordance with pixels area if there is a red box it shows that it is out of range If one selects a batch and tick as a reference only not adjustable only select one batch then this batch will be used as a reference target value which could not be further modified If you do not tick such a target value can be modified in the next step Click Next once setting is completed ie Yaara oona Set sample batches Sane batches Screen information Communication Select ports COMS display Displayl Sample regional information X coordinates O Y coordinates 0 S Sample batches2 idik 32 Height 16 amp Sample batches3 amp Sample batches4 As a reference only not adjustable only select one batch Please maintain sample information of the batches can add or delete export and import Steps 1 first select a maintained sample batch 2 maintain the 152 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Screen 1 Location X 0 Y 0 Size 32WX 16H Select Area On Screen Pixel a aa Co IS Screen Start Columns 9 Start Rows of 9 Width 32 Hei ght 16 z Fig 7 3 Choose region 1 View the effect of initial adjustment it can automatically switch each color or be manually switched
52. Website www novastar led com History Email History ea Tne Wednesday April 18 202 O Reteh Deletelog w Notify Date Prei Recipients Plosiestan EmailState Screen Content Fig 5 66 the History window for notification emails checking 5 6 4 Monitor Control 5 6 4 1 Configure Control Scheme Config Monitor Control Information v Enable Honitor Control Control information list www telematics ca Temperature gt 32 brightness decrease 50 Temperat All 2 Temperature gt TOT brightness decrease 50 Temperat All Fig 5 67 Configuration Of Monitor Control 88 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Enable Monitor Control The functions of Monitor Control will work only when the option is checked Valid days of logs Set the valid days of logs One control information can be added by clicking the button in Fig 5 67 As it show in Fig 5 68 is to add one temperature control information as it show in Fig 5 69 is to add one smoke control information Add One Control Information Displav Number an Control Information Control Type Temperature Control X Decrease the brightness Temperature The maximu The averac When the tem 60 Brightness decrease C Open Cooling Device Power Off Fig 5 68 Tempera
53. abase is shown here There are two database types screen database and cabinet database A screen database contains calibration coefficients for a whole display while a cabinet database contains calibration coefficients for one or multiple cabinets Cabinet ID The cabinet ID s will be shown here if the selected is a cabinet calibration coefficient database Columns This is the column number of the calibration coefficient array of the selected database Rows This is the row number of the calibration coefficient array of the selected database Click Next button to open the page for Step 2 after all settings gt Step 2 This step is to specify the LED display area for which the calibration coefficients are to be uploaded There are three options Screen Pixel Topology or List Screen If this option is selected calibration coefficients for the whole display will be uploaded Pixel Select this option to upload calibration coefficients to the specified pixel area Topology or List Selected this option to upload calibration coefficients to the cabinets selected in the cabinet 101 Phone NovasStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd array sketch map or the cabinet list If the current LED display is a simple or a standard display the sketch map of the cabinet array will be shown after this option is selected Otherwise if the current is a
54. aecessnececsesececsenaecsesaeeecseaueceseeaaesesaaeeeeseaseseeeanes 49 5 1 6 Set Hot Backup for Receiver Cards si ceis iesisccs vestsete cactssaccsatanes caveacsccsszeadedsaceacecasd sass dasiacssshaceads cond saassestausi EE 52 5 1 7 HDMI Settings MSD600 MCTRL600 MCTRL610 uecceccecsescssscssesscsscsscsssescsssescessesscsessssesssssessesessessssscsssisees 54 5 1 8 S ve Settings to FLASH scsceic ssssstsecascesscceseasaassdecianssdsasensassadaaasacabeasuaandassaipsseiassadadanaoseussasniasanspsdoniadead saan apanata 55 5 1 9 Save Load Configuration Files ccccccscccessseesseeessseessecsssecssecssseessecsssseessecsasssessecsusseessecsssssesseceasseessecasseenseeaess 55 5 2 ADJUST THE BRIGHTNESS DISPLAY QUALITY GAMMA AND CURRENT GAIN ccccccccecececccececececececececececececeseceseceseseseseseseseseness 60 521 M n n l Adj MO E aaar aee r a E aa a a a a a a E AOTEA 60 5 2 2 Sched le Adjustment ins sssccvcsedixsas aeaea a a EE a A aA Erea E EA sl vadads andeadendbvapaness 64 5 2 3 Auto Adjustment erena a EE EE AEA AEEA EE E RERE 66 5 3 BIENES ONE O EE E A A E A E A E A nsec euadvsieseasas 73 ll Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 5 4 CHECK HARDWARE INFO ss0s0scsivelassescasedesisosassedsosendeieesadsesossedeodeesasccdvssaddedvebadsedeasadesisnsascdvaseddedevsadscduasedeedeosdedeasssveess 74 5 5 MANAGE THE VED DISPLAYS i sessvicsc
55. arameters and status include system components working status cabinet door status open close and temperature humidity smoke fans status and power supply The monitoring subsystem can also report error by email when fails detected Shown below is the Monitor page The status and parameters mentioned above can all be 80 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd watched here W Monitor Sending Board Status H E DYI Exception Bio Refresh Period The time to next refresh 2012 6 7 11 48 28 jEIF S BER Fault Alarm Information ims BSR Fig 5 61 the Monitor page Refresh This button is used to update the monitored data Monitor Setting This button is used to edit the contents to be monitored and set rules for alarm Email Setting This button is used to set the email notification Email Log Click this button to check the log of the report email sent by NovaLCT Mars monitoring 81 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd subsystem 5 6 1 Monitor Setting 5 6 1 1 The Monitor Setting Page Shown in Fig 5 62 is the Monitor Setting page Honitor Setting Auto Refresh C Auto Refresh Retry times Setting Retry times after read status failed Refresh and Alarm Settin
56. ay configuration file and the system configuration file Module Configuration File Saved in a module configuration file are the settings of modules Module configuration files can 55 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd be used for quick configuration of modules requiring the same kind of settings Receiver Card Configuration File Saved in a receiver card configuration file are the settings of receiver cards Receiver card configuration files can be used for quick configuration of cabinets requiring the same kind of settings LED Display Configuration File Saved in a LED display configuration file are the information of how receiver cards are put together to construct a LED display The LED display configuration files can be used for quick construction of a LED display System Configuration File Saved is a system configuration file is the complete setting information of a LED display control system it can be used to quickly recover a LED display control system from error or to quickly start a LED display gt Save a module configuration file There are two ways to save a module configuration file The first is to save it at the last step of smart setting please refer to 5 1 2 1 Smart Setting gt Step 9 for details Shown in Fig 5 37 is the dialog for saving module settings to a module configuration file 56 Phone No
57. brary Open Click this button to open an existing library Create Click this button to create a new library gt Step 2 1 Module Management Shown in Fig 5 113 is the page for module management 138 yYyYYYYYyySS__ iii _ _____________________________ Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NovaStar Tech Co Ltd ES fouls and Cabinet DatabBase DER Module Operation Cabinet Operation O B lt m H Inport Module Export Module Refresh Module Delete Module Clear Module F 7 Module Cabinet g i Name Pixel Columns Pixel Rows Data Direction Chip Scan Type Show AL oO Search by Condition Search Condition MBISO36 32 6 Horizontal MBISOS6 1 8 Select All Data Direction Chip Scan Type Encoding Mode Hepp cl a ee a O E OE Polarity Module Width Module Height Data Groups oon Tn kk Ww eH Search Now Current operation status Database is open C Documents and Settings Administrator Sim tempDD mcl Fig 5 113 the page for module management Import Module Click this button to import the module configuration files generated during the Smart Setting procedure to a cabinet library Export Module Click this button to export the module configurations from a cabinet library to a module configuration file Module configuration files help in speeding up the Smart Setting procedure Show All Select th
58. can Boards This option is for sending parameter settings to specific receiver cards There are two ways for sending parameter settings to specific receiver cards by address and by sketch map Corresponding pages are shown in Fig 5 31 and Fig 5 32 W Send Parameters to Scan Board O All Scan Boards Reset the start position of scan boards Specified Scan Boards Send By Address Is Send By Topolopy Sending Index start from 1 means all 1 If the position of scan board is 1 it means all the scan boards of the first sending board 2 If the position of scan board is 1 1 it means all the scan boards of the first port in the first sending board 3 If the position of scan board is 1 1 1 it means the first scan board of the first port in the first sending board Fig 5 31 the Send by Address page Shown in Fig 5 31 is the Send by Address page The Sending Port and Scan Bo are used to specify the receiver cards to which the settings will be sent Set these three parameters according 48 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd to the instructions given at the lower half of the page HE Send Parameters to Scan Board O All Scan Boards Reset the start position of scan boards i Specified Scan Boards Send Cancel Send By Address Send By Topolopy Select meyan Scree
59. complex display the show is the cabinet list Zoom The zoom slide bar is for zoom in or out the cabinet array sketch map Shown below are the pages for the three options Select Upload Area Screen 1 Location X 0 Y 0 Size 512 X 256H Screen Pixel O Topology or List Select Area On Screen Operate all pixels Back Ment Retan Fig 5 79 the page for uploading calibration coefficients in Screen way 102 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Select Upload Area Screen 1 Location 0 Y 0 Size 512 X 256H O Screen Pixel O Topology or List Select Area On Screen Start Columns Start Rows of 10 Width 512 ee Height 256 s Fig 5 80 the page for uploading calibration coefficients in Pixel way Select Upload Area Screen 1 Location X 0 Y 0 Size 512 X 256H O Screen oO Pixel Topology or List F Select Area On Screen Fig 5 81 the page for uploading calibration coefficients in Topology or List way 103 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Click Next to open the page for Step 3 gt Step 3 Shown in Fig 5 82is the page for Step 3 Upload Coefficients Fast Upload O Stable Upload i haek inia aterm Fig 5 82 the upload calibra
60. creen click on the screen to see the effect on the screen and click Apply to apply the adjustment effect to this area 162 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd r TENE e Adjust application of effect Sample ree Sample batchesl amp Sample batches2 Regional information Screen Applicati Revocatio Deletion CONS Di splay1 X 0 Y 0 W 15 Seren Apply Cancel Delete CONS Displayl X 0 0 10 Screen Apply Cancel Delete c ti Byers Fos Se a Chromaticity cc v J Mark all regions of the current batch If there is a need to change the color temperature please open operation of LOT brightness function Fig 7 14 Adjust application of effect 8 Receive card relay For the receiving card supporting the relay module the parameters of relay can be set here The relay can be set as disconnected closed or automatic when the relay is set as automatic the temperature of closing and the temperature of disconnecting shall be designated Timing of receiving card is the accumulated using time of the receiving card when Clear timing the time will be recorded from 0 After finishing the setting click Send to send the parameters to the receiving card 163 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492
61. d be selected 43 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Monitoring Card Data Line Adjustment If the monitoring corresponding signals are mismatched when the monitoring card HUB is connected to the receiving card the corresponding signal of each monitoring data line can be adjusted manually Adjustment of Monitoring Data Line C Enable Adjustment of Monitoring Data Line Data Line2 Green Data Line 3 Blue Data Line 4 Vitual Red Fig 5 28 Monitoring Card Data line Adjustment gt Additional Function eliminate the afterglow of the insolated points and shut down the indicators of the receiving card Additional Function Isolated Point Afterglow O Clear Indicator Light of Rec C Close Cancat Fig 5 29 Additional Function Refresh Rate This is the rate that images shown on a LED display are update The higher the refresh rate is the more stable the video is for watching Gray Scale Normally 256 levels of gray scale is enough for two color LED displays 4096 levels enough for 44 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd indoor full color LED displays and 16384 levels enough for outdoor full color LED displays And apparently the more levels the gray scale is divided into the more exquisite
62. display and save them to a database file Set coefficients for a new scan board This option is to set the calibration coefficients for a newly placed receiver card in the LED display Set coefficients for a new module This option is to set the calibration coefficients for a newly placed module in the LED display 99 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Adjust Coefficients This option is to adjust the calibration coefficients of the selected LED display area for better performance Erase or reload Coefficients This option is to erase or reload the calibration coefficients of the selected LED display 5 8 2 1 Upload Coefficients This is to upload the calibration coefficients to the LED display thus the LED display control system can use the coefficients to improve the image quality of the display gt Stepl Select Database Select Database D ScreenCoefficient mdb Type Screen Database Cabinet ID Columns 512 Rows Discription mj e gt Fig 5 78 the page for upload coefficients step 1 Browse 100 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Click this button to select the calibration coefficients database file to be uploaded Type The type of the selected calibration coefficients dat
63. display configuration information Screen Number This is the number of LED displays that are to be configured Config This button is used to load the Screen Number to the NovaLCT Mars application Read form HW This is used for the application to read the LED display information from the hardware Detect Status 23 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd This is used to check whether the communication within the current LED display is good Read File This is used for the application to load the LED display configuration settings from a file Save File This is used to save the LED display configuration settings to a scr file Send to HW This is used to send the LED display configuration settings to the connected sending board Save This is used to save the settings to a FLASH chip The saved data won t be lost even the hardware is powered off Screen Type There are three options for the screen type which are simple screen standard screen and complex screen These options will be shown at the top of each screen page on the Screen Configuration page Choose a screen type before any configuration operation Configurations for different type of screen will be given as follow gt Simple Screen Configuration The page for simple screen configuration is shown in Fig 5 13 24 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaSta
64. djustment operation will not be U performed at the expected time 2 As it show in Fig 5 46 the Enable Bright Mode option can be selected only when the Bright Mode Table is configured in the Manual Adjust Page 5 2 3 Auto Adjustment Auto adjustment is to adjust LED display brightness according to the environment brightness Light sensors are used to determine the environment brightness 5 2 3 1 Light Sensor Setting Select Auto in the Adjustment Mode panel to open the page for auto adjustment Shown in Fig 5 47 is the auto adjustment page 66 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd COM3 Screen1 Adjustment Mode Manual Sched Auto Auto Hardware Brightness Brightn g Failed to get Data Auto Adjust brightness according to enviroment brightness Please click Config Read Scan Board Parameters resultfailed Reason time out www telematics ca Fig 5 47 the Auto Adjustment page Click Config button to open the Auto Brightness window Shown in Fig 5 48 is the Auto Brightness window Set the parameters for auto brightness through the Auto Brightness window 67 ryyYYYyyvtlo_l__ _ i ____L__ _ ___________________ Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech C
65. e www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd 13 Appendix 13 1Update Info Version Date Description Remark V1 0 2011 6 3 Initial version V1 1 2011 8 22 Modified according to feedbacks V1 2 2011 9 21 Add the part for multifunction card V1 3 2011 11 7 Modified according to application modification For NovaLCT Mars Ver 1 4 Add the sending board V1 4 2011 12 14 configuration V2 2 1 2012 3 8 For NovaLCT Mars Ver 2 2 1 V2 4 0 2012 4 16 For NovaLCT Mars Ver 2 4 0 V3 0 0 2013 2 25 For NovaLCT Mars Ver3 0 0 V4 0 0 2013 12 12 For NovaLCT Mars Ver4 0 0 V4 1 0 2014 03 18 For NovaLCT Mars Ver4 1 0 V4 2 0 2014 06 18 For NovaLCT Mars Ver4 2 0 175 y y ________JW___ _ __ll fo _ __ _ _________________L__L_L__________________________________________ Phone NovasStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com
66. e parameters not properly set in the Performance Setting panel or the Cabinet Info panel Those parameters will be in red Reset those parameters and o click Send To HW button again R The parameters in red color are unreasonable please adjust gt Step2 If all parameter settings are acceptable the dialog as shown in Fig 5 30 will appear after clicking the Send To HW button ES Send Parameters to Scan Board All Scan Boards C Reset the start position of scan boards oO Specified Scan Boards O Sead Cancel Fig 5 30 the dialog for specifying receiver cards to send the parameter settings to All Scan Boards When this option is selected parameter settings will be sent to all receiver cards scan boards that are connected to the current serial port through the sending boards that are connected with the current serial port Reset the start position of scan boards This option is available when All Scan Boards is selected When this option is checked start 47 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com positions of all relating receiver cards receiver cards that are connected to the current serial port through the sending boards that are connected with the current serial port will be set as 0 0 Thus all relating receiver cards will show on their pixel arrays the upper left corner image of the computer display Specified S
67. e retry number when adjustment failed If NovaLCT Mars fails in auto brightness adjustment it will retry the adjustment again The number set here is times NovaLCT Mars try to adjust the brightness before it give up Calculate Type of Lux This is to specify how the final result is calculated from the measurement results of all light sensors Enable Bright Mode Table The Brightness of the screen will be adjusted by the Bright Mode Table and the environmental luminance if the Enable Bright Mode Table option is checked Fix Color Temperature 69 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd If this option is selected the LED display brightness will be adjusted according to the color temperature table and the environment brightness Number of Segments Thresholds need to be set for automatic brightness adjustment When the environment brightness is higher than the high side threshold a high brightness level will be set for the screen for example 100 And while the environment brightness is lower than the low side threshold a low brightness level is set The interval between the high and low threshold of environment brightness is linearly divided into subsections with subsection number equals the Number of Segments So does the interval between the high and low LED display brightness levels If the environment brightness is in certain subsecti
68. e set the same as those set in the Scan Board page Sending This parameter is used to specify the current sending board sending board The sending board of the chosen index is will be set as the current sending board And all relating settings are for this sending board Connecting Mode Select the connecting mode of cable Port 1 Loaded Set the number of scan boards that port 1 loaded Advance If the connecting mode of each port is different click the link to enter advance mode gt Standard Screen Configuration The page for standard screen configuration is shown in Fig 5 16 27 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com wwwtelematics ca NOVAISTAR Sending Board Scan Board Screen Connection NovaStar Tech Co Ltd seen C quel Screent Screen Type Location Operate Port Port Index Simple Screen Basic Information x 0 yo Sending Board Index mM E E a a a a Bi m ei f a el Connect Scan Board Size Width 128 cal Height 128 i E Set Blank Standard Screen Complex Screen Virtual Mo Enable k eo eu Scan Board Columns q _ ScanBoard Rows ort 2 Wiath 128 Width 128 fat T Height 128 t Ean 128 ia 128 eight 128 eae Note Click or drag left mouse button to config
69. eEoeeeeeEEEEeee A Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd F Load Program gt x cox Load Program Select operation communication port Current operation t communication port eat BE amiy Controles Device Count 1 COMS Select Program FReatek PCle GEE Family Controler Proaram Name Tx600 Data Mars V3 6 0 0 Proaram Version 3 6 0 0 l Proaram Path D NovaLCT Mars Data Data_Mars_3 6 0 0 SendCard Tx600_Data_Mars_3 6 0 0 Select Items To Load Scan Board FPGA i i Hardware Version Info RefreshAll Refresh One Scan Board i V3 7 0 6 Total 1 Remarks 2013 12 14 for test all ZPA Ein POLE il ERR EE ABR 1A Ba macht Scan Board FPGA Communication Info 2013 12 16 14 59 30 Read FPGA program version of scan board 0 2013 12 16 14 59 31 Read FPGA program version of scan board 0 2013 12 16 14 59 32 Read FPGA program version of scan board 0 Read FPGA program version of scan board 0 LULU Fig 11 2 the Load Program page with no Sending Board Current Operation Communication Port Select the serial port or Network port through which the hardware to be updated is connected to the computer Program Path Select the program to be loaded to the hardware here Sending Board MCU Select this option if the MCU program of
70. ect Monitor Board Refresh Humidity Refresh Smoke C Refresh cabinet status Rerrak statuz of Refresh Fan Every cabinet has same number of fan Every cabinet has different number of fan Refresh power 9 O Every cabinet has same number of power Every cabinet has different number of power Alarm Setting f Fahrenheit Temperture When 60 temperature E display alarm information Tina te 60 3 display alarm information When speed lt 1000 E speed min display alarm information When voltage lt 4 display alarm information Uniform Setting e e Fig 5 63 the Monitor Setting page for individual display setting A Note AJ The Monitor Setting page is in the Uniform Setting status by default 5 6 1 2 Display with Cabinets Varying in Fan Power Supply Number For a display of which the cabinets are different in fan power supply number use the individual display Monitor Setting page for monitoring option setting Click Single Setting at the lower left corner of the Monitor Setting page Fig 5 62 to open the individual display Monitor Setting page Fig 5 63 To set the fan power supply number for each cabinet click the Setting button to open the 85 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd setting page after select Refresh Fan Refresh power of monitor board and Ever
71. elected cabinet to open the page for specifying the new module Shown in Fig 5 93 is the page for specifying the new module Select the New Module Scan Bo 0 0 0 Location 192 0 Size 64X64 Sereen Pixel Topology or List C Select Area On Screen Module Size x Display Mode Modules Pixels Fig 5 93 the page for specifying the new module 116 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Module Size Set the pixel array size of a module here NovaLCT Mars divides a cabinet into modules according to the module pixel array size and the cabinet pixel array size gt Step3 Select the calibration coefficients source Calibration coefficients generated according to those of the surrounding modules are used for the new module because the coefficients saved in the receiver card or the database are not suitable for the new module Shown in Fig 5 94 is the page for selecting the coefficients source Select the source of Coefficients Refer to Surrounding Modules Select Reference Module Reference Zone it Adjusted RB Reference O Module Module Beek Mart o etan Fig 5 94 the page for selecting the calibration coefficients source Note g 1 One or more surrounding modules can be selected for generating the calibration coefficients for the new module 1
72. en by the new receiver card is different from the surrounding 7 cabinets in color adjust the brightness saturation and hue through the advanced adjustment page for better image quality 3 Use the test tools in Plug In Tool Test Tool to require the LED display to show the color that is being adjusted gt Step 4 Save the calibration coefficients to the hardware FLASH so they won t be lost when the LED display is powered off Shown in Fig 5 91 is the page for saving the coefficients to the hardware Click the Save button to save the coefficients to the hardware 114 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Saye OO EO oB o imis etre Fig 5 91 the page for saving calibration coefficients to the hardware 5 8 2 4 Set coefficients for a new module gt Step1 Specify the cabinet which the new module is in this can be done through the page shown in Fig 5 92 115 Ln yy yY YYYo o_o _ i ____ aaa Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com www telematics ca NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd Select the New Module Screen 1 Location X 0 Y 0 Size 256 X 128H Screen _ Pixel Topology or List Oo Select Area On Screen Fig 5 92 the page for specifying the cabinet the new module is in gt Step 2 Double click the s
73. equired Sending Board Scan Board Screen Connection Display Mode Current Display Mode Sending Board Graphics output f Resolution 1440 x 900 resolution 1440 x 900 Refresh Set the sending board display mode Resolution 1440x900px C Custom x H Refresh Rate 60 v Hz se Fig 5 33 the Sending Board page Sending Board Resolution This is the image resolution saved in the sending board Graphics output resolution This is the image resolution of the output AVI video of the computer graphic card Refresh Click this button to update the Sending Board Resolution and the Graphics output resolution Resolution This is the resolution that is going to be set for the sending board Select one from the drop off list Refresh Rate This is the refresh rate that is going to be set for the sending board Select one from the drop off list 50 n__n Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Custom Check this option to customize the sending board resolution gt Step 2 Click Set button in the Set the sending board display mode panel to send the new set resolution and refresh rate to the sending board gt Step 3 Switch the graphic card mode from duplicate or extend to single display and then switch back This operation is to avoid physical reconnecting DVI cable for the graphic card to
74. er of c deconcentrator deconcentrator d entrator deconcentrator S ng Sending Sending Sending None One Two Port Port Port Internet access Internet access Internet access ara A2 B2 43 B3 A4 B4 P of of of deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator atten Scan Board Size Width 128 Ica meem an meses tenement sienai siento daniatetien mmen masa Fig 5 18 Example 1 Configuration of internet access Example 2 Internet access 1 of sending board 2 is set as one and port 2 is directly connected with scan board The internet access model of port 1 of sending board 2 is set as one and the internet access model of port 2 is set as None 32 n__n Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com wwwtelematics ca NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd Screen Type Simple Screen Standard Screen Complex Screen Basic Information locaios x 1 r Virtual Mo E Enable a Operate Port Scan Board 4 Sean Sending Board Index ea OG wig Sending Sending Sending Sending S m a m m Co cnet acess antec Internet access Internet access Internet access Internet access of of of of Port Index i 2 3 4 deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator Sending Sending Sending Sending Port Port Port Port I
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76. f the whole display In the uploading procedure the coefficients are uploaded according to the positions set for N them Thus if the position of a cabinet is changed the coefficients for this cabinet will not be correctly uploaded 2 Cabinet database In a cabinet database the calibration coefficients are arranged in the form of cabinets The coefficients for the same cabinets are grouped together and labeled with the cabinet ID Thus even the place of a cabinet has been changed the corresponding coefficients can also be correctly uploaded to the cabinet gt Step2 Select the display area for which the calibration coefficients are to be saved to a database Shown in Fig 5 85 is the page for Step 2 107 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Select Area Screen 1 Location 0 Y 0 Size 512 X 256H O Screen O Pixel Topology or List oO Select Area On Screen a omer mediate Fig 5 85 the page for specifying the display area for coefficients saving Screen Check this option if the calibration coefficients for the whole display are to be saved If the database for saving the coefficients is a cabinet database this option will be unavailable Pixel Check this option to select the pixel area for which the calibration are to be saved If the database for saving the coefficients is a cabinet databa
77. file 10 Configure information management Click Help configure information management to conduct configuration file management 166 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd neac vor Vd System S Tools C Plug inTool P User U Language Lang L Help H User Documents D gt E G X O nmm Screen Config Brightness Calibration Display Control Monitor Fu Set initial position P Local System Info About A Control Svstem Other Device View Detail Monitor Info Fig 10 1 Configure information management Import config Export all the configuration files in the configuration process and save in the computer in zip format Export config Import previously saved configuration files Cancel Exit the configuration file management 167 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 11 Hardware Program updating Login as an advanced user and type in admin on the NovaLCT Mars main interface to open the page for updating the hardware program Shown in Fig 11 1 Fig 11 2 is the page for hardware program updating Note 1 There isn t any place to view the typing when typing the passcode Just type in n the passcode directly 7 2 Just type in the passcode again if the one input before is w
78. four color target points could be dragged to change the scope of the color gamut and the color temperature of the white point See Fig 5 116 and 5 117 Click the lift button of the mouse and drag or directly enter the parameters The display effect could be reviewed in real time after the adjustment 2 Checkthe Enable Color Restore 144 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 3 Click Send to send the information to the hardware 4 Click Save to HW and parameters can be saved to the hardware which cannot be lost in case of power failure 145 mmm Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 6 Light Panel Flash Click the option Light Panel Flash U interface as you can see in the figure 5 NovaLCT Mars V4 2 0 No Hardware System S Screen Conf Local System Control Sv Monitor Info Ea O Server Status Tools C Plug in Tool P Language Lang L Help H Monitor Function Card User U Screen Config S Bightness B Calibration C ol Display Control P Monitor M Function Card F Hardware Information H View Detail Multiple Screen Management A Point Detect T Prestore Picture R Color Restore O Light Panel Flash U Rece
79. g Refresh Setting Refresh Status Refresh Temperature Connect Monitor Board Refresh power of scan board Refresh Humidity Refresh Smoke C Refresh cabinet status eer oe ee oF Refresh Fan Every cabinet has same number of fan Every cabinet has different number of fan Refresh power of monitor board very cabinet has same number of power Every cabinet has different number of power Setting Alarm Setting then z Fahrenheit Temperture temperature gt T display alarm information When humidity X display alarm information When speed lt a speed min display alarm information When voltage lt ingle Setting display alarm information Fig 5 62 the Monitor Setting page for setting all displays Auto Refresh If this option is check NovaLCT Mars will automatically check the status and parameters being monitored and update the monitored data periodically according to the period setting 82 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Retry times after read status failed This parameter determines how many time NovaLCT Mars will retry to check the status and parameters being monitored when it fails in doing so Refresh Status The status here refers to the working status of the receiver cards If this option is selected the working status of the receiver cards will be under monitoring
80. h the effect of current batch of white process to the next step if you are dissatisfied you should make a fine adjustment of white for the processing batches 157 yoo _ i ___ ____ ___ _X_TVT_______________________________ Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Kultiple batch control Fine adjustment of white 2 3 Sample batches Whether the effect of the current batch of white is Target satisfactory C Sample batches1 O Satisfied Dissatisfied Processing tt Sanple S Fine adjustment of white Red co Green Fig 7 9 Fine adjustment of white 5 If the magnitude of adjustment of monochrome and white is too large it will enter the following interface Please carefully check the color effect on the screen and operate according to the software prompts 158 r__yYYyl_lo Zo _ _ ___ _ ___ _______ _T___________________________ Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Hultiple batch control Automatical optimization and match of effect 3 3 Target Whether the current screen effect is satisfactory 1 C Sample batches1 48 Processing fff Sample batches2 O Satisfied O Dissatisfied Please carefully check the color on the screen The system will carry ou
81. he system is connected with deconcentrator tick this option to configure the deconcentrator internet access When deconcentrator is connected tick Connect to deconcentrator on the software screen and then click Config to popup the window for configuration of deconcentrator internet access as shown below 29 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com www telematics ca NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Wl screentontige a es e Ss Screen N 1 X a an Sending Board Scan Board Screen Connection Screen1 P PEN 1 Screen Type Simple Screen Standard Screen Complex Screen Basic Information a oad Location y 0 Virtual Mo C Enable e Operate Port Scan Board w Scan Board ResetAll 3 d Hide Line Sending Board Index CO Rows 6 _ amx Port Port Index Sending Board Index eee ee r OE EEE Sending card internet access V Cor oom ra Internet access number of deconcentrator Internet access model None One Two Scan Board Size Width 128 cal Fon este as io Games Fig 5 17 Configuration of deconcentrator internet access Set the number of sending card number of sending card internet access and the internet access model respectively None directly connect the on load
82. her Selected Area 120 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd Note 1 If Adjust Own Effect option is selected NovaLCT Mars will acquire the calibration coefficients of the selected area for the hardware Adjustment on these coefficients is independent to the other area of the LED display g 2 If Effect As Other Selected Area is selected NovaLCT Mars will adjust the calibration coefficients of the selected area according to those of the reference areas and make the selected area looks similar to the reference areas in color The nearer the reference areas are to the area being adjusted the better the adjustment result will be gt Step 3 Adjust the calibration coefficients This step is similar to that for a new receiver card Please refer to 5 8 2 3 Set coefficients for a new scan board gt Step 3 for more details gt Step 4 Click the Save button to save the adjusted calibration coefficients to the hardware The save coefficients won t be lost even the system is powered off Shown in Fig 5 98 is the page for saving the calibration coefficients 121 mmm mmm Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Apply and Save Coefficients Apply The Effect To Other Area Beak nish aterm Fig 5
83. hone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Combination Display Config Combination Display Count ji Fig 5 57 the Combination Display Config window Combination Display Count This is the number of combination displays to be configured Following are the steps for combination display configuration gt Step1 Set the Combination Display Count as required and click the Config button The combination display pages will be shown on the Combination Display Config window There is only one combination display page because the Combination Display Count is set as 1 Set the Screen Count as required in the combination display page Screen Count is the number of LED displays that will be combined into the combination display Click Config in the combination page and a sketch map will be shown in the combination page as shown in Fig 5 58 Here Screen Count is 3 thus there are 3 colored rectangles labeled 1 2 and 3 respectively in the sketch map 77 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NovaStar Tech Co Ltd m 1 Hame Screen Count Zoom Fig 5 58 combination display setting page 1 gt Step2 Click left button of the rectangle labeled 1 to Screen information window as shown in Fig 5 59 Appoint one of the three LED displays as Dis
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85. ights status information Shown in Fig 5 75 is the Point Detect Result of Modules window showing the LED lights status of the red cabinet in Fig 5 74 Point Detect Result Of Modules Red A Green 8 Blue 0 Red B 0 Eq 3x4 5 6 TF 9 Be ete 1814 15 46 n 19 20 222 Zac Fig 5 75 the Point Detect Result of Modules Shown on the left of Fig 5 75 is the module array of the cabinet and on the right the pixel array of the selected module in the module array Red A 95 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd This is the number of the error red LED lights of the selected module Select this item to view the locations of the error lights in the pixel array sketch The black points in the array are the error lights Green This is the number of the error green LED lights of the selected module Select this item to view the locations of the error lights in the pixel array sketch Blue This is the number of the error blue LED lights of the selected module Select this item to view the locations of the error lights in the pixel array sketch Red B This is the number of the error virtual red LED lights of the selected module Select this item to view the locations of the error lights in the pixel array sketch 5 8 Brightness Color Calibration 5 8 1 Online Calibration In online calibration NovaCLB connects w
86. ings click the Change Setting item Detect Screen Click this button to perform point detect on the whole display Detect Selected Click this button to perform point detect on the pixel array of the selected receiver cards Pause Click this button to pause the ongoing point detect operation Stop Click this button to stop the ongoing point detect operation Zoom Drag the slide bar to zoom in or out of the LED display sketch map Notification panel The information of the ongoing point detect operation will be shown in this panel Colors of the LED display sketch map gt Gray the point detect operation result is unknown It may be due to hardware communication failure or receiver card setting error gt Red Error LED lights detected The number shown is the number of the error LED lights 94 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd gt Green No error LED lights detected gt Yellow the receiver card cabinet does not connected with a monitor card Note F 1 Put the curse on the sketch map of a cabinet to show its information U 2 Module specifications have effect on the point detect result Please set the point detect parameters according to the module type In Fig 5 73 click on the cabinet in the sketch map to open the Point Detect Result of Modules window for details about LED l
87. ion Files for details 59 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 5 2 Adjust the brightness display quality Gamma and Current Gain Click Brightness button from the tool bar or select Tools gt Brightness from the main menu of the NovaLCT Mars application main interface to open the Display Adjustment window for brightness display quality Gamma and current gain adjustment 5 2 1 Manual Adjustment Select Manual in the Adjustment Mode panel to open manual adjustment page Shown in Fig 5 41 is the manual setting page of the Display Adjustment window r Display Adjustment COM3 Screen1 Adjustment Mode Manual Sched Config Auto Config Display Quality Gamma Adjustment Soft Mode Enhanced Mode Fixed Value Brightness Adjustment ModeA _ ModeB Enable Briahtness Mode Table 4 t 28 i 7 t 100 Gamma Ta camma ia 39 2 Custom i Color Temperature Adjustment V Custom Read chip type failed Gain RGB Brightness WE cme T 6500 K e 7 100 I Synchronous Default Value Advanced M i F r v Set brightness result Succeed Fig 5 41 the manual adjustment page of the Display Adjustment window 60 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led c
88. is option to request NovaLCT Mars to show module configurations of all cabinets in the list Search by Condition Select this option to shown all module configurations that meet the requirements set in the 139 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Search Condition panel in the list 2 Cabinet Management Shown in Fig 5 114 is the page for cabinet management fi Module and Cabinet DatabBase DEOR Module Operation Cabinet Operation Import Cabinet Export Cabinet Refresh Cabinet Delete Cabinet Clear Cabinet Cabinet Type Cabinet Width Show All Search by Condition Search Condition Regular Cabinet Irregular Cabinet Select All Cabinet Width Cabinet Hight Module Cascade Search Now LI Current operation status Database is open C Documents and Settings Administrator iml tempDD mcl Fig 5 114 the page for cabinet management Import Cabinet Click this button to import a cabinet configuration file to a cabinet library Export Cabinet Click this button to export the cabinet configurations from a cabinet library to a cabinet configuration file Show All Select this option to shown in the list all cabinets configurations in the library Search by Condition 140 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website ww
89. ish to finish smart setting after saving the settings Click Finish directly if you don t want to save the settings Save Module Note You can save module to file or cabinet database for later using Module Name Option 1 Save module to file File Path Option 2 Save module to database Cabinet Database Path Fig 5 11 the Save Module dialog Note g The saved module settings can be used in Step 2 of Smart Setting to simplify smart setting process 5 1 2 2 LED Display Configuration Select Screen Configuration page in the Screen Config window Fig 5 2 If no LED display has been configured the Screen Configuration page will be as shown in Fig 5 12 Enter screen number number of the LED displays to be configured and click Config button The default screen configuration page page for simple LED display configuration will open The configuration information will be shown on the Screen Configuration page if a LED display 22 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd has been configured Modify the settings and send them to hardware by clicking Send To HW button if necessary E Screen Config COMl7 Sending Board Scan Board Screen Connection ua ata Geom Sereen No Screen please click Config Fig 5 12 the Screen Configuration page with no LED
90. ith NovaLCT Mars through network Data and instructions for LED display calibration are exchanged through the network Shown in Fig 5 76 is the page for online calibration 96 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NovaStar Tech Co Ltd pment Seenet Online Calibration Offline Calibration Manage Coefficients Network Setting come Current Screen Screen Enable Disnable alibraion Enable Calibration Sere Cheer Fig 5 76 the page for online calibration Current Serial Port This is the serial port through which the LED display to be calibrated is connected to the computer Current Screen The LED displays connected to the computer will be list in this panel Select the LED display to be calibrated from the list Local IP This is the IP address that NovaLCT Mars listens to It is actually an IP of the computer on which NovaLCT Mars is running Port This is the port that NovaLCT Mars listens to 97 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd Reconnect Click this button to terminate the current listening process and start a new listen process using the settings of Local IP and Port Communication Log Records of the communication between NovaCLB and NovaLCT Mars are listed is this panel Enable Calibra
91. ive Card relay l MultiBatch of Adgustment M 660Configuration E in Tools and open the light panel Flash operation p Serial Port Select Screen H a O ungi p m _ v Screen Send By Address Send By Topolopy Screen 1 Location xX 0 Y 0 Size 32WX 16H Screen Pixel Topology Or List oe Area On Operate all pixels Check coeficients in Scan Check coeficients in Modul Save coefciens on Scan Save coeficients to Modules Flash Check Fig 6 1 Light panel Flash operation interface Serial Port Serial port of currently connected sending equipment 146 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com www telematics ca NOVASTAR Send by Address Double click the corresponding table and set the physical address the description is shown as follows NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Sending Port Scan board Means 1 g Means all the Scan boards of the first sending board Means all the scan boards of the first port in the first 1 1 i sending board Means the first scan board of the first port in the first 1 1 1 sending board Index start from 1 means all Flash Check no support 1 lf the position of scan board is 1 it means all the scan boards ofthe first sending board
92. l After the completion of adjusting the current batch view the effect Target E Fj Display effect of all batches L gt Sample batches1 _ Have adjusted View the effect of adjustment V Sample batches1 swine CH C OR ON O Cl Bright lt 530 8 Automatic switching Interval 3 Second swit Fig 7 12 Complete all batches 8 Select the best solution according to the effect of image If the extended operation is ticked color vividness can be enhanced The differences between batches may be increased with higher vividness If one batch is selected as reference in the step 2 here the extended effect could not be operated 161 r yY YYYo amp o Lo _ _ ____ aaam Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR Kultiple batch control Selection of best solution Adjustment has been completed Please select better effect according to the image Current fine adjustment effect Priority effect of white C Extended effect of operation Extended operation WS BE Hapa OE OHE OHE oE o OH o Bright S 30 Automatic switching Interval 3 Second swit NovasStar Tech Co Ltd The a view E TE to the RE of different solutions and select the best effect Fig 7 13 Selection of best solution 9 Select the batch and then add one or more unadjusted areas with the same batch on the s
93. l systems are required for point detect Select Tool gt Point Detect from the NovaLCT Mars main menu to open the Point Detect window for point detect setting Shown in Fig 5 74 is the Point Detect window As shown in the figure the LED display under point detecting has a receiver cards one receiver card corresponds to a cabinet array of 2 rows and 4 columns And the driver chips used are MBI5036 Point Detect Serial Port Selected Serial Port cone Ser eenl Screen Topological Graph El Unknown Error a Normal w No Monitor Card Point Detect Parameters Detect Type Open Circuit And Short Circuit Threshold Current 1 D2 Current Gain F Enable Change Setting C Y a 2012 04 16 02 04 enl finish detecting point The number o dete scan board is 1 Total number A Fig 5 74 the Point Detect window Serial Port Selected Specify the serial port through which the LED display to be operated is connected to the 93 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd computer Point Detect Parameters gt Detect Type this is the LED lights status type can be checked gt Threshold Current set the current threshold for point detect here by selecting an index gt Current Gain current gain can be enabled disabled here To modify the current gain sett
94. m the display by click the Read from HW button on the Screen Configuration page as shown in Fig 12 1 If the display has not been configured yet configure it 172 Phone NovasStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd El Screen Config COml1g9 DER Sending Board Scan Board Screen Connection EI Screen Type Simple Screen Standard Screen Complex Screen Basic Information gt Location X 0 Virtual Mo C Enable Operate Port Scan Board Scan Board 4 Columns ft Rows s Reset All C Hide Line Sending Board Index 1 Port Index 2 5 4 ax ema Scan Board Size Width 128 Heiaht 128 5 _ Aooytopon U C Set Blank Y Note Click or drag left mouse button to config screen right mouse button to ca a a Balen Read ie Fig 12 1 the Screen Configuration page 12 3The LED display does not show the image correctly during the Smart Setting procedure www telema Check whether the sending board resolution and the graphic card output video resolution on the Sending Board page are the same Set them to be the same if they are not Shown in Fig 12 2 is the Sending Board page Sending Board Scan Board Screen Connection Display Mode Current Display Mode Sending Board Graphics output Resolution 1440 x
95. mum width can be But as the shift clock frequency is limited by driver chips and module design the maximum width is also limited Maximum Height The Maximum Height depends on the module design Note 1 If the module cascade direction is from left to right or from right to left then sf as mentioned above the Maximum Width depends on the parameters such as refresh rate gray scale levels and shift clock frequency and the Maximum Height depends on the module design 2 If the module cascade direction is from top to bottom or from bottom to top 38 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd then factors affect the Maximum Width and Height are just switched The Maximum Height depends on the parameters such as refresh rate gray scale levels and shift clock frequency and the Maximum Width depends on the module design 5 1 4 Adjust the Performance Parameters To achieve the best performance performance parameters should be set properly Performance parameters setting can be through the performance setting panel Shown in Fig 5 23 is the Performance Setting panel which is circled and marked as area 2 in Fig 5 21 Performance Setting Group Swap More Setting Refresh Rate 20 Hz i Gray Scale Normal 16384 Gray Mode Gray Fist Data Clock
96. n 1 Location X 100 Y 100 Size 256 X128H ia Sereen i oO Screen Pixel Topology Or List o Select Area On Sc lt i Fig 5 32 the Send by Topology page Shown in Fig 5 32 is the Send by Topology page The sketch of the receiver cards layout is show in this page Select the receive cards from the sketch To select multiple scan boards press the left button and drag the mouse gt Step 3 Click Send button and the parameter settings will be sent all or the specified receiver cards 5 1 5 Adjust the Resolution and Refresh Rate If the resolution or refresh rate of the input DVI video is different from that saved in the sending board which the DVI video is input into the related LED display may not be able to work normally For example the image shown could be zoomed in or out overlapped or flashing To avoid these problems the resolutions and refreshed rates of the input AVI video and the sending board must be the same Following are steps to adjust the sending board resolution and refresh rate for the case that it is inconvenient to change the AVI video resolution and refresh rate 49 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd gt Step1 Open the Sending Board page in the Screen Config window Fig 5 2 Shown in Fig 5 33 is the Sending Board page Adjust the parameters in the Set the sending board display mode panel as r
97. n file to be loaded and then click Next The selected configuration file will be automatically loaded to the LED display system The LED display system will have been configured when the load operation is finished Note N The loaded performance parameters from the configuration file can be adjusted if j they are not suitable Please refer to 5 1 4 Adjust the Performance Parameters for details about how to adjust the performance parameters 5 1 2 Start Manually 5 1 2 1 Smart Setting gt Stepl Select Config Screen option in the Screen Config window Fig 5 1 and click Next to open the window for manual configuration of the LED displays The window is as shown in Fig 5 2 13 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd fi Screen Config COM19 Sending Board Scan Board Screen Connection Display Mode Current Display Mode Sending Board Graphics output Resolution 1440x900 resolution 1440 x 900 Set the sending board display mode Resolution 1440 x 900 px v C custom OS x Refresh Rate 60 M Hz Hot Backup Setting Master Device Slave Device Master Sending Board Index Slave Sending Master Port Index Based biden Slave Port Index HDMI Settings O Auto Select Audio Inout S External Video Inout S Bit Of Inout S Fig 5 2 the
98. nd the disconnection point and keep the LED display working normally Shown in Fig 5 34 is panel on the Sending Board page for Hot Backup Setting Hot Backup Setting Master Device Slave Device Slave Sending Board Index Master Sending Board Index Slave Port Index Master Port Index gt anton amsitnm af Fig 5 34 the Hot Backup Setting panel atone Master Device Master Sending Board Index this is the index of the sending board which is to be set as a master device Master Port Index this is the index of the Ethernet port of a master device sending board that is used to output data Slave Device Slave Sending Board Index this is the index of the sending board which is to be set as a slave device 52 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Slave Port Index this is the index of the Ethernet port of a slave device sending board that is used to output data Refresh To update the current hot backup information Send To send the hot backup settings to hardware New To add a new record into the hot backup info list Edit To edit a record in the hot backup info list Delete To delete a record in the hot backup info list gt Stepl Click Add button to open the dialog for adding a hot backup record The dialog is as shown in Fig 5 35 Hot Backup Setting
99. nect Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd This is used to reconnecting the NovaLCT Mars to the LED display control system gt Tools Screen Config Only accessible by advanced users This is used for configuration of the LED display control system Details about this operation will be given in a later part of this manual Brightness This is used for adjusting the LED display brightness There are three ways for brightness adjustment automatic brightness manual brightness and schedule brightness Details about brightness adjustment will be given in a later part of this manual Cabinet Database Only accessible by advanced users This is used for management of the existing cabinet libraries mcl files or creating new cabinet libraries Calibration Only accessible by advanced users Select this item to open the calibration page Details about calibration will be given in a later part of this manual Display Control gt Kill Show nothing on the LED display gt Lock Always show the current image frame of the LED display gt Run Switch the LED display back to normal from Kill or Lock gt Self Test show the test images generated by the receiver card for LED displays aging test or error detecting Monitor Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www no
100. ng the power control mode manual auto or software control the power supply status start or stop the function card time and the delay time Start All This button is to start all power supplies controlled by the function card Emergency Stop Click this button to stop all power supplied controlled by the function card For power supplies under auto control their schedules will be disabled when the emergency stop operation is executed The schedules won t be enabled until Start All button is clicked Manual This is to set the power control into manual control mode Use the Start button or the Stop button to start or stop the corresponding power Auto This is to set the power control into auto control mode The hardware system will start or stop the power supplies according to the schedule automatically The schedule can be set and send to the hardware through NovaLCT Mars Software Control In this mode NovaLCT Mars controls the power supplies according to the schedule set for the power supplies 5 9 2 1 Manual Power Control Select the Manual option to set the power supply control mode in to manual mode And the 129 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd power supplies of the function card can be controlled through the corresponding Start button or Stop button 5 9 2 2 Automatic Power Control The page for automa
101. nternet access Internet access Internet access Internet access of of of of deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator Sending Sending Sending Sending Port Port Port Port Internet access Internet access Internet access Internet acc of of of of Internet access number of deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator Sending Sending Sending Sending None One Port Port Port Port Internet access Internet access Internet access Internet access Ls m i rar deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator Scan Board Size Width 128 ca E Connect 33 yYYYYy yYYYyy _ iii __ ______ _ ___ ____________________ Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com www telematics ca NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Screen Type Simple Screen Standard Screen Complex Screen Basic Information S Location x 0 Virtual Mo E Enable o Operate Port Scan Board 4 Scan Board a s Columns Sending Board Index AF S ws Sending Sending Sending Sending H H 2 2 Bl Port Port Port Port ss Internet access Internet access Internet access Port Index of of of of 1 e 3 4 de c entrator de ntrator entrato Sending Sending Sending Sending Port Port Port P
102. o Ltd Auto Brightness Light Sensor for Auto Brightness Stat Index Address The retry number when adjustment failed Caculate Type of Lux Average after remove maximum and Average of all light sensor SS Adjustive Relationship of Auto Brightness Enable Briaht Mode Table Fixed Color Temperature Environment Brightn Screen Brightness Above 100 20 lt Linear adiustment between mininum and maxinum Numbers of S lt 10 lux Fig 5 48 the Auto Brightness page The LED display control system uses light sensors to get the environment brightness Click button and NovaLCT Mars will automatically detect light sensors that are connected with sending boards and add them to the lightness sensor list as shown in the upper light sensor list on Fig 5 49 Light sensors connected to multifunction cards can be configured through the function card management page 68 Yo __ _________ __ _ SF___TTST_ _______________________ Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Select Light Sensor Light sensor of sending board Index Address Operate iY Be COMB Sending Board 1 Light Sensor 60 Read Light sensor of function card You can config light sensor of function card in Function Card page Index Address Operate Fig 5 49 light sensor lists page Th
103. o go back to the page shown in Fig 5 110 Load program for selected function card Select this option to load program to the current function card Load program for all function card Select this option to load program to all function cards Program Path Select the program to be loaded here Change Click this button to load the selected program to the current function card or all function cards Note 1 Thereisn tany place to view the typing when typing the pass code Just type in the pass code directly and the page shown in Fig 5 110 will change to the one st shown in Fig 5 111 ii 2 Just type in the pass code again if the one input before is wrong 3 It not recommended changing the program unless there are problems with the function cards 5 10Cabinet Library Management This is to manage the existing cabinet libraries or creating new cabinet libraries It helps in quick configuration of the cabinets and modules gt Stepl 137 Phone NovasStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Click Tool gt Cabinet Library to open the page for library management If it is the first time to open the page the dialog as shown in Fig 5 112 will appear for open or create a library HE Open Or Create Library Q Please open or create a library Prem Greate Canel Fig 5 112 the dialog for opening or creating a li
104. om NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Display quality There are two modes for display quality soft mode and strengthen mode Use soft mode for the situation that the environment brightness is not very high Strengthen mode is better when the background is very bright Gamma Adjustment If Fixed Value is selected the Gamma coefficient can be any value between 1 and 4 And the default value is 2 8 Select Custom to manually define the Gamma table Brightness Adjustment Brightness can be adjusted by the slide bar All together there are 256 levels of brightness If the Bright Mode Table was configured and Enable Bright Mode Table was checked the software will adjust the brightness of the screen by the Bright Mode Table when pull the slide bar Color Temperature Adjustment Color temperature adjustment can be done in two ways Advanced mode and color Normal mode Choose one as you want Select Advanced mode and the color temperature can be adjusted through the brightness and current gains of Red Green and Blue components Click Normal mode button to open the dialog for color temperature table configuration Color temperature can be adjusted by dragging the bar of RGB brightness or modify the value directly Note A M Current gain adjustment option won t be available if the LED light driver chips do not support current gain adjustment If the color temperature table has been set NovaLCT Mars will adjust the LED dis
105. on the corresponding brightness level will be set for the LED display The maximum number is 10 As can be seen in Fig 5 50 the scope of the threshold is that if the environmental brightness is smaller than 10lux or 10lux 100lux the 5 screen brightness shall be selected If the environmental brightness is larger than 100lux the 80 screen brightness shall be selected Select the Advanced Setting to add several thresholds and respectively enter the environmental brightness and the screen brightness boundaries See Fig 5 51 the environmental brightness that is less than 20lux or between 20lux and 100lux corresponds to 30 screen brightness the environmental brightness that is between 100lux 200lux corresponds to 80 of the screen brightness and the environmental brightness that is larger 200lux corresponds to 100 of the screen brightness 70 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Environment Brighin Screen Brightness Above m Linear adiustment between mininum and maxinum Linear adjustment Numbers of S s gt 10 Below 10 lx gt 5 x o Canesh Fig 5 50 Segment interval setting Ambient Brightness Screen Brightness 1 200 100 2 100 20 Fig 5 51 Several thresholds tet for segment intervals Note The information of the multifunction card light sensor lis
106. orm Standard configuration Transmitting data Selectable Standard configuration Being connected with the screen to deliver control information to the screen Monitoring the status of Selectable the hardware Monitoring temperature Selectable humidity and the optical probe Selectable Remote transmission Detecting environmental brightness Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 1 2 System architecture The system is under two situations with sending board or no sending board when it has no sending board the computer is directly connected with the receiver card through the Ethernet cable ai Ethernet cable P T y i i USB RS232 4 Computer Sending Board LED Display Fig 1 1 Diagram of system architecture a Ethernet cable ee 1an Computer LED Display Fig 1 2 Diagram of system architecture with no Sending Board 2 Working environment requirements In order to guarantee stability and safety during system operation process the working environment is provided with the following advices Hardware environment Client minimum configuration requirement Celeron 1Gabove and internal storageof 256Mor above Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Software environment
107. ort Internet access Internet access Internet access Internet access of f of C d entrator de centrator d entrator Sending Sending Sending z Config 0 Port Port W Connect J nternet a Internet access Internet access number of deconcentrator None One Internet access Internet access Internet access Internet access of f of of of o deconcentrator econcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator Fig 5 19 Example 2 Configuration of internet access If the deconcentrator internet access has been configured before software will prompt To delete the current configuration information click OK and it is done Back This button is used to clear all settings related to the last set sending board Clear Port This button is used to clear all settings related to the current Ethernet port Width Height Scan Board Size These are the width and height of the pixel array of the current receiver card Apply to port 34 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Click this button to set the pixel array sizes of all receiver cards connected to the current Ethernet port the same as that of the current receiver card Set Blank Select this if the current position pixel array of the current receiver card needs to be left unse
108. p6 Click Next on the Smart Setting Step 4 window to access Smart Setting Step 5 Shown in Fig 5 8 is the Smart Setting Step 5 window Enter the number of LED light columns that are on in a module 19 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Smart Setting Step 5 E3 Lighting rows or columns in the modules 2 Hest ance Fig 5 8 Smart Setting Step 5 gt Step 7 Click Next on the Smart Setting Step 5 window to access Smart Setting Step 6 Shown in Fig 5 9 is the Smart Setting Step 6 window Use Auto Switch Status or Manual Switch Status to switch the module status automatically or manually And then select the option corresponding to the module statuses 1 or 2 under which all lights are on If all lights are on under both statuses then any of the two options 1 and 2 will be OK Smart Setting Step 6 Auto Switch Status O Manual Switch Status Please look at the modules ae Thich state can fully light the current module If both just choose one Fig 5 9 Smart Setting Step 6 gt Step 8 Click Next on the Smart Setting Step 6 window to access Smart Setting Step 9 Shown in Fig 5 10 is the Smart Setting Step 9 window Click the corresponding grids according to the position of the lightened lights until no light is 20 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86
109. panel To set the function card time click Set button and the function card time will be set the same as that of the computer 5 9 2 3 Software Power Control The page for software power control is as shown in Fig 5 105 Function Card Time 2012 04 17 Tuesday 18 30 23 Read eeee eee Manual auto Software Control Custom Control List Week Start Time Close Time hemes STIEER A Friday 17 34 03 18 34 03 Seas SEARLES S Friday 17 34 03 18 34 03 _ Power Switch 8 Friday 17 34 03 16 34 03 Fig 5 105 the page for software power control Copy To copy the power control schedule of the current function card so it can be applied to other function cards by pasting Paste To paste the copied power control schedule to the current function card 131 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovasStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR View Log NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Click this button to check the log of the control operations on the power supplies Shown in Fig 5 106 is the page of View Log Select the Log File 2012 6 4 V Monday Log Information 1 COM6 Sending Board 1 Port 1 10 15 00 10 15 00 10 15 00 Succeed Succeed Succeed 10 15 00 Succeed 10 15 00 Succeed 10 15 00 oa ra ajaj 4 u N Be 10 15 00 Fig 5 106 the View Log page gt Select the Log File
110. play 1 the rectangle labeled 1 represent Display 1 by specifying the serial port it connects to the computer and the its index in the screen list Note that listed in the screen list are the LED displays that are connected to the computer through the specified serial port 78 n__n Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Screen information Serial ports v i The screen lists Fig 5 59 the Screen information window Serial ports This is the serial port that the target LED display is connected to the computer The screen list This is the index of the target LED display in the screen list of the specified serial port gt Step 3 Do the same for the other displays of the combination display 79 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 1 Sereen Count i O Config Reet Zoom gt 0 39 Fig 5 60 the combination display after configuration The layout of the displays in the combination display can also be arranged Use the mouse to drag the displays The same layout will also be used in the monitoring pages 5 6 Monitor the System Monitoring is one of the key features of the Mars serial LED display control systems The monitoring subsystem performs comprehensive monitoring on the overall LED display The monitored p
111. play settings 61 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd according to the current brightness setting and keep the color temperature unchanged Note o Professional equipment is necessary to find out the current gains and brightness of red green and blue for different LED display brightness of certain color temperature 5 2 1 1 Gamma After the custom Gamma table is finished click send to send Gamma table to the receiving card and save it to the configuration file of the receiving card g Gamma Adjustment Generating the gamma table fastly by You can edit certain value in Gamma adjusting the Gamma curves table X Axis pf 25s Y Axis Gamma Value LJ Recommended Gamma Original 5 AMode BMode sa lass ak Fo in 8 9 Fig 5 42 Gamma Adjustment 62 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 5 2 1 2 Configure Color Temperature Table Configure color temperature SEE Operate Hote Selected color temperature is yellow Add Add color temperature Delete Delete color temperature Edit Edit selected color temperature Color Temperature Brightness R Gain G Gain B Gain R Brightness G Brightness B Bright 00 255
112. power in this panel gt Add click this button to add the settings in the Custom Edit Area to the Custom Control List of Power Note A s The time standard for the software control mode is the time of the computer on which NovaLCT Mars is running 133 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 5 9 3 Monitor Data Click Monitor Data button on the Function Card Management page to open the page for system monitoring Show in Fig 5 108 is the page for system monitoring Monitor Data of Function Card il Temperatu 29 C 9 Humiditv 29 aaj Voltage 4 2V No monitor board Fig 5 108 the page for system monitoring Refresh Click this button to acquire the monitored data from the current function card and the monitor board that connected to the current function card 5 9 4 External Device Click the External Device button on the Function Card Management page to open the page for external devices management Shown in Fig 5 109 is the page of External Device Refresh This is to refresh the information of the external devices 134 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovasStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Save Click this button to save the external device type settings to a file The Save button must be clicked
113. r 4 Sending Sending Sending Sending Port Port Port Port Internet access Internet access Internet access Internet acc of of of of Internet access number of deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator V Connect deconcentrator Sending Sending Sending Sendina e Two Port Port Port Port None On Internet acc Internet access Internet access Intenet a are A2 B2 A3 B3 Aa BA of of of of deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator deconcentrator ae Scan Board Size Width 128 31 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com wwwtelematics ca NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Sending Board Scan Board Screen Connection Screen N fy Screen Screen Type Simple Screen Standard Screen Comolex Screen Basic Information Location xX 0 y 0 Virtual Mo C Enable Ad Operate Port Scan Board Fi Scan Board 4 Sending Board Index SOE Rows i ol el ml Sending Sending Sending Sending Hoda a es Internet access Internet access Port Index 0 of f centrator deconcentrator c 1 2 3 4 g Sending Port nternet acces oncentrator f Sending Pe ort P con com ial eel uj Hohe Internet access Internet access Internet access 0 of of of Internet access numb
114. r Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd fi Screen Config C0N19 Sending Board Scan Board Screen Connection screen 1 queen Screen Screen Type Simple Screen O Standard Screen Complex Screen Note One sendina board for screen everv scan board must have same loadina Basic Information ee Location X o y o Virtual M C Enable o Connection Setting Scan Bo Colum 8 Scan Bo Width 128 ee Pixel Scan Bo Rows 8 Scan Bo Heia 128 Pixel Sendina 1 M Connecting Mode Horizontal Vertical O aie oO U Por 1 Lo 64 a 16sxs64 and must be integer multiples of the columns of scan boards oS eof ofY oll antinen extvetioen amanatna anaa _Seeconmgrie saw cise Fig 5 13 simple screen configuration page Location This is the upper left corner of a rectangular area of the computer display The rectangle area of the computer display is called mapping area Content inside the mapping area will be shown on the LED display The default location is 0 0 which is actually the upper left corner of the computer display Virtual Mode Specify the pixel mode of the LED display The option could be real pixel or virtual 3 lights or virtual 4 lights Select the Start to launch the virtual mode click ee to enter into the setting interface of the 25 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 8450
115. r of the data groups More settings Symmetrical Data Group Extension Output Mode C symmetrical Output C Four Doors Output Data Group Extension CO Twenty Data Grou CO Twenty Four Data C Twenty Eight Dat O D signalis taken as the second way clock to Ghost Control Signal Signal Switch Open O Close Signal Polarity High O Low Hub Mode Normal 20 Gourps 24 Groups 28 Groups Graphics Output Scan Direction Reverse Sca jammin amosan Fig 5 25 More settings Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com 40 OTA tesco gt Output Mode Symmetrical Output If selected the two 50pin output ports of a scan board will work for the left and the right half of the cabinet pixel array respectively Four doors output being optional and after being selected the loaded box will be divided into four parts from left to right gt MOM Topology gt Fig 5 26 is the physical connection schematic diagram of Flash According to that diagram the sequence number of BUS is determinedly selector Users shall consult HUB board designer for connection of the flash module to confirm the sequence number of BUS One BUS can be cascaded with multiple modules The MOM Topology can be set on the software according to the actual order of connection Scan board ee Ninu ouTPUT s152 sS PENE BUS1 S aus2 SElector
116. receiving card Multi batch of adjustment Adjust the brightness of the display according to the batches of cabinet Configuration of MCTRL660 Add Delete configuration files Modify file name Save the configuration file in MCTRL660 gt Plug in Tool Test Tool to open the page which all test tools test content for LED displays testing are in Calculator a shortcut to the calculator application of Microsoft Windows Click on this item will open the Microsoft Windows calculator External Program a shortcut to add frequently used programs gt User This is for user login The password for advanced users is admin gt Language Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd This is used to switch the language of the NovaLCT Mars application Languages available now are simplified Chinese and English gt Help Select Help gt About to check the version information about the NovaLCT Mars application 4 2 Tool Bar za Screen Config A the same as Tools gt Screen Config in the main menu Brightness ___ the same as Tools gt Brightness in the main menu G T Calibration_ the same as Tools gt Calibration in the main menu BS Display Control the same as Tools gt Display Control in the main menu Monitor the same as Tools gt Monitor in the main menu amp Function Card___ the same
117. red to each cabinet of the screen Each cabinet will show this picture in its own region Test Effect Show the selected picture on the screen This operation will not save the picture to the hardware Save To Hardware User can click this button to save the picture as prestore picture to the hardware if he is satisfied with the test effect Check Store Picture In order to check the stored effect click this button to show the prestore picture which was stored in the hardware on the screen 2 Function Settings Boot Screen User can set whether enable boot screen or not and the boot screen time when power on The prestore picture is used as the boot screen Cable Disconnect User can select the display frame when cable disconnect No DVI Signal User can select the display frame when there is no DVI signal Send Send the settings to the hardware If Save to Hardware is not clicked the settings will lost after power off Save To Hardware Save current settings to hardware then the settings will not lost after power off 5 12Color Restore Color restore is mainly aimed to solve and adapt to the gamut conversion at a different standard 142 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Interface Tools Color Restore to enter the interface color restore as shown below fo Color Restore Serial Port COM19 a
118. rong 3 It not recommended changing the program unless there are problems with the hardware 168 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com www telematics ca NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd oo O E Load Program Select operation communication port i i Current operation A communication port Device Count Select Program Realtek PCle GBE Family Controller Program Name Tx600 Data Mars V3 6 0 0 Proaram Version 3 6 0 0 Proaram Path DANovaLCT Mars Data Data_Mars_3 6 0 0 SendCard Tx600_Data_Mars_3 6 0 0 Select Items To Load Sendina Board MCU Sendina Board FPGA C Scan Board FPGA Change Reconnect Hardware Version Info RefreshAll RefreshOne Sending Boardi Port ScanBoard 1 Refresh V3 6 0 0 Total 1 Remarks 2013 09 11T Sending Board MCU Sending Board FPGA Scan Board FPGA Communication Info 2013 12 16 14 59 12 Current control system address 1 port 2 Read FPGA program version of scan board 0 2013 12 16 14 59 12 Current control system address 1 port 3 Read FPGA program version of scan board 0 2013 12 16 14 59 12 Current control system address 1 port 4 Read FPGA program version of scan board 0 Current control system address 1 port 4 Read FPGA program version of scan board 0 Fig 11 1 the Load Program page 169 ees eo
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120. screen right mouse button to cancel Reaafile SaeFie ReadtomHW Sena ToHW Location LL Fig 5 16 standard screen configuration page This is the upper left corner of a rectangular area of the computer display The rectangle area of the computer display is called mapping area Content inside the mapping area will be shown on the LED display The default location is 0 0 which is actually the upper left corner of the computer display Virtual Mode Specify the pixel mode of the LED display The option could be real pixel or virtual 3 lights or virtual 4 lights Scan Board Columns Rows Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com 28 NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd These are the numbers of columns and rows of the scan board receiver card array of the LED display A sketch map of the scan board array will be shown in this page after these two parameters are set Reset All This button is used to reset all cabinet settings and connection settings Sending Board Index This parameter is used to specify the current sending board sending board The sending board of the chosen index is will be set as the current sending board And all relating settings are for this sending board Port Index This is to specify which Ethernet port of the current sending board will be used for data output Connect to deconcentrator If t
121. se this option will be unavailable Topology or List Check this option to select the cabinets for which the calibration coefficients are to be saved Note that if the database for saving the coefficients is a cabinet database one cabinet should be selected at one time for coefficients saving Save 108 yyy _ Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Click this button to save the calibration coefficients of the selected display area to the specified database If the database for saving the coefficients is a cabinet database a dialog will appear for users to input the cabinet ID 5 8 2 3 Set coefficients for a new scan board gt Stepl Specify the LED display area that the new receiver card scan board works for Shown in Fig 5 86 is the page for specifying the area Select Area of New Scan Board in Screen Screen 1 Location 0 Y 0 Size 512 X 256H Screen Pixel Topology or List F Select Area On Screen CoE H Fig 5 86 the page for specifying the working area of the new receiver card gt Step2 Select the calibration coefficient source The coefficients could be from a database the Database option or generated according to those of the surrounding receiver cards the Refer to Surrounding Scan Board option Fig 5 87 and Fig 5 88 show the pages for two option 109 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 845
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123. system to be configured as the current serial port Time of Hardware This is the date and time of the current Mars serial LED display control system Click Read button to update the hardware time shown in the Time panel Click Set button to set the time of the current Mars serial LED display control system as that of the computer 75 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd Note sf The date information has been set for the Mars serial LED display control systems L when produced Only time hour minute and second is set here for the control system hardware Hardware Version This includes the version information of the MCU sending boards and receiver cards Note A st The sending board version information is that of the first sending board connected with the current serial port Sending Board SN Listed are the SNs of all sending boards of the current serial port To update the listed SNs click Refresh button 5 5 Manage the LED Displays To make brightness control and monitoring easier multiple LED displays can be combined together The combined is called a combination display Select Tool gt Multiple Screen Management to open the Combination Display Config window for combination display configuration Shown in Fig 5 57 is the Combination Display Config window 76 P
124. t reset will be effective e 3 Screen Clinton dipae Gi a Current operation Online Calibration Offiine Calibration Manage Coefficients communication port Choose to re set the coefficients of the region COM3 Screen 1 Location X 0 Y 0 Size 32WX 16H Current Screen Pi i Select Area On Screent Screen Pixel Topology or List sae f Set Coefficients Enable Disnable Calibraion Fig 5 101 Reset coefficients 5 9 Function Card Management Management operations of the function card also named multifunction card such function card configuration program loading external device configuration monitored data updating and 125 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd power supply management will be given in this section Shown in Fig 5 102 is the Function Card Management page when it is opened for the first time Function Card Management Add Remove Refresh Rename Eade ME Set card count of port Succeed Fig 5 102 the Function Card Management page 5 9 1 Function Card Configuration Use the menu or tool bar in the panel on the left of the Function Card Management page to configure the function card Add gt Serial Port add a function card which is connected to a serial port of the computer
125. t The configuration operation is easy First if the deconcentrator is not connected set the index as 1 for the receiver card scan board directly connected to a sending board through an Ethernet port if the deconcentrator is connected define the receiving card connected with the A1 internet access of the deconcentrator as the first one and input values for other parameters And then set the index as 2 for the receiver card which is connected to the first index 1 receiver card and also input values for other parameter for the No 2 receiver card Do the same configuration operation until all receiver cards are set The configuration is completed by then The pixel array sizes of the receiver cards can be different from each other select and then the pixel can be changed and can also be left unset After configuration click corresponding button to send the configuration information to the sending board or save it in the computer Note For different sending boards the background colors of the grids are different g For different Ethernet ports the font colors are different The right button of the mouse can be used to clear the settings for the current sending board gt Complex Screen Configuration The page for complex screen configuration is shown in Fig 5 20 35 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com www telematics ca NOV4ASTAR
126. t calculation optimizations based on the results of your selection so the sequence jumping is a normal phenomenon Fig 7 10 Automatically optimization and match of effect 6 After the completion of adjusting the current batch view the effect if you are dissatisfied you can back to Last step if you are satisfied you can continue to the next batch 159 mmm Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com 5 NOVASTAR Hultiple batch control After the completion of adjusting the current batch view the effect Sample batches Target Fj Display effect of all batches Sample batchesl Have adjusted View the effect of adjustment V Sample batchesl ysente betcee ON OM OM ON ON Ol Bright 30 Automatic switching 3 g Second swit Select sample batches Select the targ T eet Select the proc Sample batches2 Have adjusted the batch Sample Sample bat bat Fig 7 11 View effect of the current batch and select the next processing batch Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 160 NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 7 Adjust other batches according to the same steps and click Finish all batches after the completion Hultiple batch contro
127. t is from the multifunction card configuration settings NovaLCT Mars first generates the environment brightness value from measurement results of all available light sensors according to the calculating type And then NovaLCT Mars uses the generated environment brightness to adjust the LED display brightness according to the parameter settings such as brightness thresholds segment numbers 71 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 5 2 3 2 Auto Brightness Time Interval The following steps are to set the time interval for auto brightness gt Stepi Click right button on the circled panel icon as shown in Fig 5 52 and select Advance Setting from the pop up menu as shown in Fig 5 53 to open the Advance Setting window as shown in Fig 5 54 Regist to server again Read Screen Information OS DS A At Notice Bet ore theims ove eate atjistment we will read the light sensor value N times and caculate the average value after removing maximum and minimum then we adjust screen brightness according to this average value and the linear straight which you set jan jamam Fig 5 54 the Advance Setting window for auto brightness gt Step2 Set the values for Detect Period and Read times of light sensors Detect Period is the time 72 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 3
128. tar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd E Screen Config COM19 DER Sending Board Scan Board Screen Connection Module Info Chip Common C Size 32Wx32H Scan Type 1 16 scan Direction Horizontal Decode Type 74HC138 Decoding Data Group 2 Cabinet Info Regular Irregular Pixel Width 30 lt 96 Please al make sure v Pixel Heiaht 32 lt 256 the width i j Module Casc Righttoleh W and height Construct fiew Cabinet Performance Setting Refresh Rate 240 Accelerate R no F Gray Scale Normal 16384 Gray Mode Gray First v Data Clock j Data Duty 25 75 Clock Phase Low Gray Co Blanking Time 25 2 00us Ghost Contro Line Change T 0 19 Brightness Effi Smart Seting LoadFile SaveFle Read FromHw SendToHW Saveconigrie Save Close Fig 5 39 the Scan Board page gt Load a receiver card configuration file To load a receiver card configuration file click the Load File button at the bottom of the Scan Board page on the Screen Config window and follow the instructions gt Save a LED display configuration file To save settings to a LED display configuration file click the Save File button at the bottom of the Screen Configuration page of the Screen Config window and follow the instructions Shown in Fig 5 40 is the Screen Configuration page
129. tic power control is as shown in Fig 5 104 Function Card Time 2012 04 17 Tuesday 18 30 23 Read ee Set Notes Start Delay eeeeeeee E Geni pease oO Manual oO Software Control Start Stop Switch 1 10 51 30 13 52 30 s Switch 2 13 51 30 13 52 30 Switch 3 13 51 30 19 52 30 Switch 4 13 51 30 4 13 52 30 Switch 5 13 51 30 13 52 30 i Switch 6 13 51 30 13 52 30 Switch T 13 51 30 2 13 52 30 Switch 8 13 51 30 i 13 52 30 Fig 5 104 the page for automatic power control Select the Auto option to set the power control mode into auto control mode The time for start or stop each power supply can be set through this page Click Send button to send the schedule to the hardware And the hardware system will automatically start or stop the power supplies according to the schedule Note sf 1 In Auto mode the schedule will be disabled if the Emergency Stop button is U clicked The schedule won t be enabled until the Start All button is clicked 2 The time standard for automatic power control is the function card time Check 130 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd the function card time before setting the schedule for auto power control To check the function card time click Read button in the Function Card Time
130. tion This option is to enable or disable LED display calibration using calibration coefficients Save button in the Enable Disable Calibration panel Click this button to save the calibration switch status enable or disable to the hardware Save button in the communication log panel Click this button to save the communication log to a text file 5 8 2 Manage Coefficients This page is to adjust the calibration coefficients for better calibration performance Shown in Fig 5 77 is the Manage Coefficients page 98 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com OITA teste w E SB a H wn Baa zl r F rs E al Screen Calibration s ee a _ Current operation Online Calibration Offiine Calibration Manage Coefficients communication port Select Operation COM3 v 1 Upload Coefficients Current Screen 2 Save coefficients to database Screen1 3 Set coefficients for a new scan board 4 Set coefficients for a new module 5 Adjust coefficients Color is ununiform on screen 6 Erase or reload coefficients 7 ReSet coefficients Enable Disnable Calibraion The E O Fig 5 77 the Manage Coefficients page Upload Coefficients Upload a calibration coefficients data base to the LED display Save coefficients to database This operation is to read back the calibration coefficients form the LED
131. tion coefficients Step 3 page Fast Upload The uploading speed will be set as maximum thus the time required for uploading is minimized if this option is selected Stable Upload The uploading process is more stable and reliable for this option But the time required is longer than the Fast Upload option Upload 104 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Click this button to upload the selected calibration coefficients to the hardware Save Save the selected calibration coefficients to hardware FLASH The saved data won t be lost even the system is powered off 5 8 2 2 Save Coefficients to Database This operation is to read back the calibration coefficients form the current LED display and save them to a database file gt Step1 The calibration coefficients read back can be saved to an existing database or a new database Shown in Fig 5 83 and Fig 5 84 are the pages for saving coefficients to an existing database anda new database respectively Select Database Save to an Existing Database O Save to a Hew Database Select Database Open Type Unknown Existing Cabinet ID Columns Unknown Rows Unknown Discription Unknown z Fig 5 83 the page for saving calibration coefficients to an existing database 105 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 3
132. ture Control Information 89 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com atic mM www tele NOV4ASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd pad ove Convener OOOO Display Number Control Information Control Tvpe When the Smo Power Off Send e mail after power off Configuring email infor Choose Power to Control ca COMB Sending Board 1 Port 1 1 ue Switch N 4 Switch 4 Switch 4 Switch 4 Switch 4 Switch Cl Switch C Switch Cl Switch Cl Switch Cl Switch Cl Switch Cl Switch OAM PHONE Fig 5 70 Select The Controlled Power 90 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 5 6 4 2 Monitor Control Log Preview Monitor Control Log Date Wednesday April 18 2012 Log Information COMB Screenl Temperature gt 32 brightness decrease 50 Succeed COMB Screenl Temperature gt 32 C brightness decrease 50 Succeed Fig 5 71 Monitor Control Log 5 6 4 3 Recovering Of Monitor Control The latest control information will show in the bottom right corner in the main form and the monitor page As it show in Fig 5 72 is the information which comes from the last control O 8 O O O O canes lt lt _2012 6 6 15 43 53 COM6 Screenl brightness decreasge Fig 5 7
133. umbers for each cabinet Refresh power of monitor board If this option is selected the power supplies on the monitor board will be under monitoring Every cabinet has same number of power If for every monitor board the number of power supplies to be monitored is the same select this option and set the power supplies number in the box to the right of this option Every cabinet has different number of power If the numbers of power supplies to be monitored are different from one monitor board to another select this option and click the Setting button to set the power supplies numbers for each cabinet Single Setting Click this to set the monitoring options for each display individually Shown in Fig 5 63 is the Monitoring Setting page for individual display monitoring option setting The Ever cabinet has different number of fan and the Every cabinet has different number of power are available in this page To return to the Monitoring Setting page that all displays can be set together click Uniform Setting at the lower left corner of the page 84 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovasStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Honitor Setting EER FES Aeh C Auto Refresh OO EO Retry times after read status failed Betresh end re 5 mmm CONG Sereent CONB Screen2 COMB Screen3 Retresirs Refresh Status Refresh Temperature Refresh power of scan board Conn
134. update sending board info gt Step 4 If refresh rate is changed parameters settings on the Scan Board page must be resent If it is not sent the receiving card may self adapt to the refresh rate when the refresh rate is too high and exceeds the on load range the receiving card will not self adapt to the refresh rate then the new refresh rate must be sent to the receiving card If the resolution of the final DVI video is different from that of the computer which is use to configure the Mars serial LED display control system the sending board resolution must be set as that of the final DVI video when the configuration st operation is finished If the refresh rate of the final DVI video is different from that of the computer which is use to configure the Mars serial LED display control system the sending board refresh rate must be set as that of the final DVI video when the 51 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd configuration operation is finished And don t forget to resend the parameters settings on the Scan Board page 5 1 6 Set Hot Backup for Receiver Cards The hot backup setting makes the connection of relating the receiver cards into a loop In the case that some Ethernet cable within the loop is disconnected by accident a slave device will take over the receiver cards behi
135. usadeesnecoub eb o a deodvavesdadeedbavdenavdsned cut deadeadveded esiuebees 175 IV Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd 1 Introduction toNovaLCT Mars Nova M3 series LED screen control system taking the software NovaLCT Mars as operating platform cooperating with data transmitter receiver card monitoring card and multifunctional card realizes smart setting brightness control power control light point supervision screen calibration and hardware monitoring of LED screen so the user can easily control all the key information of the screen in front of a computer to perfectly reveal your screen at any time Nova M3 series control system has the important performances as follows gt High grey scale and high refresh rate universal chip with high grey scale high refresh rate and high performance gt Point by point chroma correction correct color of every lamp eliminate chroma difference among batches of LEDs gt Comprehensive status monitoring supervising work status temperature humidity smog supply voltage of switch fan rotating speed and single lamp open and short circuit of every cabinet gt Infinite area load unique cascade and synchronization technology and huge stable and reliable load without black out jitter or stutter gt Perfect anomalous type support arbitrary cabling arbitrary point extraction
136. vaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Save Module Note You can save module to file or cabinet database for later using Module Hame Option 1 Save module to file File Path Option 2 Save module to database Cabinet Database Path Fig 5 37 the dialog for saving module setting to a module configuration file The other way is to click button in the Module Info panel of the Receiver Card page The module settings can be saved to a module configuration file through the opened dialog Shown in Fig 5 38 is Module Info panel of the Receiver Card page that the button is on Sending Board Scan Board Screen Connection Module Info Chip Common C Size 16Wx16H Scan Tvoe Static gt Direction Horizontal Decode Tvpe 74HC138 Decodina Data Group 8 Fig 5 38 the Module Info panel gt Load a module configuration file In smart setting step 2 Please refer to 5 1 2 1 Smart Setting gt Step 2 select Option 2 Load module from file on the Smart Setting dialog and follow the instructions gt Save a receiver card configuration file To save settings to a receiver card configuration file click the Save File button at the bottom of the Scan Board page on the Screen Config window and follow the instructions Shown in Fig 5 39 is the Scan Board page 57 qe Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaS
137. vastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd This is used to open the page for system monitoring Details will be given in a later part of this manual Function Card This is used to open the page for multifunction card configuration Details will be given in a later part of this manual Hardware Information This is used to check the information about the current LED display control system Multiple Screen Management Only accessible by advanced users This is used to open the page for combination display configuration It makes the management of brightness control and monitoring of multiple LED displays easier when these LED displays are combined together Details will be given in a later part of this manual Point Detect This is used to open the page for point detection LED lights open short circuit status checking Prestore Picture Enter the restore screen booting screen and no signal including the disconnected network cable and no DVI signal screen settings can be conducted Color Restore Gamut conversion Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovasStar Tech Co Ltd Light panel Flash View correction coefficients of the receiving card and light panel Save correction coefficients in the receiving card and light panel Test whether Flash is normal Receiving card relay Set parameters for the receiving card relay Reset the time of the
138. w novastar led com ROOST tosses Select this option to shown the configurations of the cabinets that meet the requirements set in the Search Condition panel in the list 5 11Prestore Picture User can store a picture as the screen s prestore picture in the Prestore Picture Setting form and then use as boot logo cable disconnected logo and no DVI signal logo Click the submenu Prestore Picture of the Tools in the main menu and then it is show as follow Prestore Picture Settings Select Serial Port Serial Port COM3 v Prestore Picture Settings Select f Picture Browse Effect Settings Screen Effect Stretch v Cabinet Effect o Test Effect Seve To Hardware Check Store Picture Function Settings Boot Screen C Enable Cable Disconnect Black O Last Frame Frar ore No DYI Signal Black Last Frame O ere o Send Save To Hardware Fig 5 115 Prestore Picture Setting 1 Prestore Picture Setting Browse Select the picture s path of prestore picture 141 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NOVASTAR NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Screen Effect The selected picture will be stretched tiled or centered to the screen Each cabinet will show part of this picture and they matching to be the whole picture Cabinet Effect The selected picture will be stretched tiled or cente
139. y cabinet has different number of fan Every cabinet has different number of power As an example shown in Fig 5 64 is the page for fan number setting for each cabinet Advance Setting of Monitor RTIA COMB Screenl Fig 5 64 the Advance Setting of Monitor page for fan number setting 5 6 2 Email Notification Setting Shown in Fig 5 65 is the page for email notification setting Set the email notification according to the instructions given on the page If the sending system report e mail is enabled the regular sending could be set The date could be set by clicking E mail Setting 86 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492 Website www novastar led com NovaStar Tech Co Ltd Setting Of Email Notification About Monitor Fault Notification Setting C Enable Email Notification Enable Svstem Recovery Notice Enable Sendina Svstem Report Email Set Reaular Sendina of Svstem Operation Report Email l Modifv Sender Use Default Recipient Name Email Address A Enable Loa gt Fig 5 65 the email notification setting page 5 6 3 Notification Email Log Shown in Fig 5 66 is the History window for checking the notification emails Information about the notification emails such as date error display index email recipients and so on can be checked through this window 87 Phone NovaStar Xi an 86 29 84507048NovaStar Shenzhen 86 755 33592492

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