E-Plex economy slim clock module with flush LCD display and integrated electroluminescent backlight.
A space is provided at the edge of the LCD to insert a printed graphic. Typically, this would include controls to switch the LCD display on and off. The 500CCM can be programmed to switch off the LCD after an amount of inactivity, but the power buttons will still be visible. This can also be used for commonly used menu functions, such as a link to the home page.
The correct USB driver is installed automatically with Elogic. When you connect the 500CCM for the first time, Windows will ask to go online to find the correct drivers. Don't allow it to do this- instead use the drivers located in c:\elogic\USB\ . You should only need to do this once. The same drivers are used with the 431USB.
The graphics on the 500CCM must be loaded seperatly to the main program, to do this go to the Eplex interface, select the 500CCM in the module selector window, then press “Open Module Test Program”, now press “Write All Backgrounds”, this may take a while. Once the graphics have loaded, exit the test program and do a “Program all”.
This can occur if the rendering process is interrupted, re-render the design and program the graphics again.
Yes, it is much faster to program the module as a 500CCM than as a 500LCD. The procedure is as follows:
The following instructions describe the touch screen calibration procedure for the 500CCM. Note that there are separate instructions for recalibrating the 500LCD.
Each design can have only one 500CCM object in it. Any additional displays would need to be 500LCD objects. The 500CCM defaults to auto sense mode. It will automatically scan for a random period of time on power up looking for a pre-existing E-Plex signal. If it does not find one, it will go into clock (master) mode. If it does find an E-Plex signal, it will go into module (slave) mode.
If you want to have two 500CCMs in a design with identical displays, create the 500CCM first, and then copy its layout to a 500LCD. It is normal to dedicate one clock as the master; this would only be programmed as a 500CCM. The other unit would be programmed as a 500CCM, then using a second clock it is programmed as a 500LCD.
You can also have a system with a 400 or 450ECM as the master, and a 500LCD as a display. In this configuration, the 500CCM should be set to 'disable clock mode' in the module test program.
Unless a 500 is forced to master or slave in the options, it is important to make sure that the master powers up first and then the slave, or else they could get reversed. It is also important to ensure that two modules never both come up in master mode. (i.e. a clock with the Disable Module Mode option selected powers up when another module is already putting E-Plex pulses onto the bus.)
It is much faster to program the graphics when the 500 is in clock mode. It is therefore recommended that the graphics are programmed before converting the clock to an LCD.