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USING THE COMPACT FLASH INTERFACE
If you have the compact flash interface installed, it will appear and act the same as a floppy disk to the
SD2. Refer to the instructions regarding the disk drive. One note of importance: The SD2 compact flash
interface will only work with cards that are formatted using the FAT12 or FAT16 file systems. This is
standard on most small capacity cards. Larger capacity (gigabyte) cards are sometimes formatted using the
FAT32 files system or NTFS. These will not work unless you reformat them to FAT16.
Not all brands of CF cards have been tested on this interface. We recommend using SanDisk brand cards.
They have been tested and work well. You don’t need a very large capacity card for the SD2, 32MB or
64MB is sufficient. As with the floppy disk interface, long filenames (longer than 8 characters) are not
supported and folders are not supported. All files must reside in the root directory to be accessible to the
SD2. Please also note that the card will insert with the label side down on some units. The card socket is
polarized and will only allow you insert the card the correct way.
USING THE COMPUTER PORT
If you do not have the disk drive option installed on your Show Designer 2, the RS-232 port can be used to
connect to a personal computer in order to do memory backups, software updates and to load fixture
profiles. You will need a serial lap link cable sometimes referred to as a null modem cable available at any
computer store. A lap link cable is normally used to connect a laptop computer to a desktop computer or
to connect 2 computers together. A standard RS-232 cable will not work. Connect the 9 pin RS-232 port
on Show Designer 2 to one of the serial “COM” ports on your PC. Some COM ports use a 25 pin
connector and some use a 9 pin. Most lap link cables come with both types of connectors.
Note: If you have the disk drive option installed, software updates must use the disk drive and not the RS-
232 port. You can however do memory backups and load fixture profiles with the COM port. Memory
backups are much faster using the disk drive.
CONFIGURING WINDOWS
Elation now offers a program that can be downloaded from the web site at www.elationlighting.com called
“SD Backup” that is designed to handle communication between a PC and the Show Designer lighting
controllers. Before this program was available you had to use the Windows accessory “Hyper Terminal”
for all communication with your PC but with “SD Backup” the process has been simplified. “SD Backup”
will also allow you to download a fixture profile, which wasn’t possible using Hyper Terminal. Instructions
for using Hyper Terminal are still included here but we recommend that you use the SD Backup program
instead.
Determine which of your COM ports is available on your PC and connect it to the RS-232 port on the
Show Designer 2 as described in the previous section. COM 1 is sometimes used for the mouse on your
PC so you will probably be using COM 2 to connect to the Show Designer 2.
If you have installed the SD Backup program, follow the directions on the help file included with the
program. If you want to use Hyper Terminal you must first configure it to work with the Show Designer 2.
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