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Table of contents

Generals...................................................................................................................................................................3

1.1

Physical wiring

.................................................................................................................................................3

1.2

Commanding the Flash sets

........................................................................................................................7

1.3

Querying the Flash sets

.................................................................................................................................7

1.4

Case of J-Bus fault

..........................................................................................................................................7

Dialog with JX 5600 ..............................................................................................................................................8

Harware local mode ...............................................................................................................................................8

Ethernet mode........................................................................................................................................................9

4.1

Machine level

...................................................................................................................................................9

4.1.1

ASCII mode...............................................................................................................................................9

4.1.2

ModBus-Jbus mode............................................................................................................................... 11

4.1.2.1 Querying the JX5600......................................................................................................................... 11
4.1.2.2 Answer from the JX5600.................................................................................................................. 12
4.1.2.3 Error trapping..................................................................................................................................... 12

4.2

Human level

.................................................................................................................................................. 13

4.3

Web site

........................................................................................................................................................... 14

4.3.1

Index page............................................................................................................................................... 14

4.3.2

Maintenance of the JX 5600 ................................................................................................................ 15

4.3.3

Maintenance of the SFLS Clock Cards............................................................................................... 16

4.4

JX5600Mgr

...................................................................................................................................................... 17

4.5

Recovering factory configuration

............................................................................................................ 20

4.5.1

Using reset button ................................................................................................................................. 20

4.5.2

Entering parameters .............................................................................................................................. 21

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1 Generals

The JX 5600 set has to be used in conjonction either with JX 2360 or JX 2600 families Flash Light Power
Sets.

1.1

Physical wiring

It is used to monitor and remote control a SFLS assembly such as described underneath :

The Power Station supplies the sets with main 240V AC +/- 10 % (Black wire on diagram).

The mains cable has to be able to supply 0,5 rms A (220 V AC) or 1 rms A (110 V AC) for each flash lamp.

This power supply is maintained continuously on line, as the eventual heater resistor may has to be supplied.

The JX 5600 will be in charge of switching On and Off the flashes.

Power Station

JX 5600

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The sets are hierarchicaly sequenced via an unique analog time base line (clock signal, blue wire on diagram)
This signal passes through single shielded wire.
Each clock top is a 20Vpp pulse of 10 ms duration.

This flash is the Master.
His internal clock pilots the repetition
period of the whole SFLS

Power Station

JX 5600

This flash is the Master.
Its internal clock pilots the repetition
period of the whole SFLS.
It has to be set in factory

These 2 flashes are REILS.
They have no intervall delay and, by
the fact, flash always together as
one.
The R1, first in the sequence, has to
be set in factory.

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The sets are monitored and controled via a serie (RS485) digital bus called J-Bus (Green wire on diagram)
This bus is constructed with a shielded twist pair cable.

This bus allows JX 5600 to :

Command the sets

Query the sets

JX 5600 Rear panel connector
(Jbus connections).

It is necessary to connect a J-Bus Load on each “end of line” to insure a perfect impedance for the digital
signal. 3 J-Bus Loads are delivered with eachJX 5600

If you need spare parts do not hesitate to ask your reseller or contact@flashelek.com

Power Station

JX 5600

Connect a J-Bus Load here

It is recommanded to insert a
« signal repeater » every 1 000 m

Connect to J-Bus B

Connect to J-Bus A

GND

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GND

A “signal repeater”

(symetrical amplifier) may be necessary when the line is longer than 1 000 m, even if a

1 600 m trial succeded.

The J-Bus lets the JX 5600 command the flash sets state and query sets infos.

It is also possible to command the set via analog way. (see JX2360 Connection manual for details)

JX 5600 Rear panel connector
(Analog connections).

To switch on the sets, short-circuit “ON” and “GND”

When ON, to change brilliance levels, short-circuit “MI” or “HI” and “GND”. If both are short-ciruited,
only “HI” is functionnal.

The total resistance of the short circuit have to be less than 125 Ohmx for a SFLS of 31 boxes

Ordered separately. Ask your reseller for details or send a mail at contact@flashelek.com

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1.2

Commanding the Flash sets

The JX 5600 may :

•

Switch on/off the sets

•

Select brilliance level (3% low intensity : LI,

10% medium intensity : MI
100% hight intensity : HI)

If necessary, the JX 5600 may :

•

Change the repetition period of the SFLS from 500 ms to 1 s , 1,5 s or 2 s.

•

Change the inter flash intervall delay from 0, 14, 66 or 266 ms.

1.3

Querying the Flash sets

The JX 5600 may query the sets for:

•

The present brightness set up

•

Wether a lamp operates or not (curative maintenance)

•

The number of flashes a lamp has done since the last global switch on (preventive maintenance)

•

Internal un-documented technical datas

1.4

Case of J-Bus fault

When a box do not receive any J-Bus frame during a period longer than 2mn, then it automaticaly force
its internal J-Bus command to the state OFF/Low Intensity.
Analog commands keep their action.

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2 Dialog with JX 5600

The JX 5600 is internaly architectured around a web server which allows the maintenance engineer
and/or control tower to set up configuration and monitor the present state of the SFLS.

Connecting a standard PC compatible equiped with a web explorer to the JX 5600 allows the user
interact with it.

Depending on the request (human level or machine level) the JX 5600 sends user friendly pages or
simply encoded variables values datas.

The JX 5600 has a hardware mode which allows an operator to disconnect (local mode) or reconnect
(remote mode) the server.
On local mode, the SFLS may be switched of and off directly via a harware switch on the panel.
This mode allows the maintenance engineer to over drive the control tower orders on the SFLS in order
to prevent any un-safety situation when technical operations are proceeded.

3 Harware local mode

On the frontpanel, switching the “local” position configure the JX 5600 in local ode. In this mode, only
the switches of the front panel command the SFLS

ON/OFF switches On or Off the SFLS, as Brigthness level switches on Low, Medium or Hight
intensity (LI, MI or HI). These modes are confirmed by the leds.

Do not forget to back switch on “remote” mode, otherwise nobody can

pilot the SFLS via Ethernet.

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4 Ethernet mode

4.1

Machine level

The JX 5600 can dialog with a computer via the ethernet plug.

Two different ways are possible to use.

4.1.1

ASCII mode

In this mode, it acts as a slave and answers to the commands and queries in ASCII mode as described
below. The JX 5600 uses port 5556 and UDP protocol. Each message ends with a semicolon.

Query

Answer

ACTIVE_MESSAGE;

SFLC_STATUS0

010

………0

…….;

Where :

X =

on local mode

on remote mode

Y =

when SFLS is Off

when SFLS in On and LI active

when SFLS in On and MI active

when SFLS in On and HI active

a to F

= alarm on each flash

when Alarm

when OK

when no Box is present at this position

when a lan error occured

FLASH_COUNTER

;

SFLC_COUNTER

abcdefghij;

Where :

XY = Number of selected box (01 to 32

)

abcdefghij = Value of shots done by the selected box

(0000000000 to 4294967295)

when 32 boxes

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Command

Action

STEP_CONTROL

XY;

This command changes the brightness level of the whole SFLS
following XY value :

XY =

to switch Off the SFLS

to switch On on LI mode

to switch On on MI mode

to switch On on HI mode

SPEED_CONTROL

XY;

This command changes the repetition period time and interflash
intervall delay on the whole SFLS

X =

for 500 ms period

for 1 s period

for 1,5 s period

for 2 s period

Y =

for 0 ms delay

for 14 ms delay

for 66 ms delay

for 266 ms delay

CAT_CONTROL

abcdef

ghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzA
BCDEF

;

This command specifies each box which will really switch on when a
SFLS ON command is sent. (see STEP_CONTROL)

(This command allows to use the SFL under various standard modes)

a to F = 1 (Box will flash)

a to F = 0 (Box will not flash)

when 32 boxes

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4.1.2

ModBus-Jbus mode

In this mode, it acts as a slave and answers to the commands and queries in binary following the
Modbus standard, as described below. The JX 5600 uses port 502 and TCP protocol.

Variable Table

R/W

0x00

0x00 = Local mode, 0x01 = Remote mode

0x01

R/W

Satus of SFLS:
0x00 = SFLS OFF
0x01 = SFLS ON, Brillance LI
0x10 = SFLS ON, Brillance MI
0x11 = SFLS ON, Brillance HI

0x02 and 0x03

R/W

Enabled : each bit is the enabled bit of corresponding box.

0x0A to 0x29

Status of boxes
0x00 = Error lamp
0x01 = No error
0x10 = No box
0x11 = Lan error

4.1.2.1

Querying the JX5600

The skeleton of query frame is as follow

aa aa 00 00 00 0b FF ….

Is the Modbus header, where :

aa aa is the transaction number. You can fill it as you want, the JX5600 will send it back in its
answer.
00 00 is always 00 00 (Modbus protocol)
00 0b shows the following bytes quantity
0xFF (or 0x01) takes place of module adress. This is unused as JX5600 IP adress is known and
unique.

Followed by the content of the transaction, which can be

Reading many registers : code

0x03

03 00 cc 00 dd

•

00 cc is the first register number to be read

•

00 dd is the number of registers to be read

Writing one register :

code 0x06

06 00 cc xx xx

•

00 cc is the register number to be written

•

xx xx is the value to be written

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Writing many registers :

code 0x10

10 00 cc 00 ee dd xx xx xx xx….

•

00 cc is the first register number to be written

•

00 ee the number of registers to be written

•

dd the number of bytes to be written

•

xx xx xx xx … are the values : dd bytes

4.1.2.2

Answer from the JX5600

The JX5600 answers with a frame having the following skeleton :

aa aa 00 00 00 0b FF ….

Is the Modbus header, where :

aa aa is the transaction number sent in the query.
00 00 is always 00 00 (Modbus protocol)
00 0b shows the following bytes quantity
0xFF (or 0x01) takes place of module adress. This is unused as JX5600 IP adress is known and
unique.

Followed by the content of the answer, which can be

Reading many registers : code

0x03

03 dd xx xx xx xx….

•

dd the number of bytes read

•

xx xx xx xx … are the values read : dd bytes

Writing one register :

code 0x06

06 00 cc xx xx

•

00 cc is the register number written

•

xx xx is the value written

Writing many registers :

code 0x10

10 00 cc 00 ee

•

00 cc is the first register number written

•

00 ee the number of registers written

4.1.2.3

Error trapping

If an error occured, th JX5600 adds 0x80 to the operation code.

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4.2

Human level

The JX 5600 allows the operators to interact via an internal web server.

The LAN factory settings are :

IP adress

192.168.1.130

DNS

192.168.1.1

Sub net mask

255.255.255.0

Passerelle

192.168.1.1

DHCP

Off

Host name

JX5600

The host name is used on title for the web pages, as it is a mean to know which JX 5600 is answering,
on a situation where there are many.

For example, naming a JX 5600 “25L” will let the title of the pages become :

Supervision 25L

If DHCP mode is activated then you can navigate to

http://25L/

Nevertheless, it is recommanded to declare the Host name in the hosts file of your computer, eg :

127.0.0.1

localhost

192.168.1.130

25L

On Windows XP the hosts file is located at c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\
On Linux it is located at /etc/hosts

When there is no DHCP, type IP adress instead Hostname on your web explorer and the following
page will appear.

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4.3

Web site

4.3.1

Index page

This is the default page

On this page you can see that :

The SFLS is on (On/Off button caption is “SFLS OFF”, the On/Off led is green, the Flashes are
Yellow)
The brightness level is switched on LI level (LI led is green, other are red)
The SFLS has 22 flashes
The flashes number 21 and 22 are configured in REILS mode
The Flash number 2 is defective.

This page has enough information to pilot and supervise the SFLS.

Now click on

button and the following page will appear.

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4.3.2

Maintenance of the JX 5600

This page is usefull to install the JX 5600 the first time, and when, for any reason, a clock panel is
changed in a Flash Box of the SFLS.

The reason why is that each Flash Box has its own adress on the J-Bus line, allowing JX 5600 to
communicate with it.

The first time the whole sytem is connected on the mains, click on the

button.

This will begin a procedure where JX 5600 knows the adress of each Flash Boxe and the emplacement
in the SFLS.

This page also lets the repetition period change and the intervall delay of the SFLS. It also allows to
switch on/off and change the brightness level.

Now click on

button and the following page will appear.

A Broadcast procedure has to be done each time the JX 5600 have no

knowledge of the successive adresses of the Flash Boxes

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4.3.3

Maintenance of the SFLS Clock Cards

This page is mainly used for high level technical maintenance.

You can use it for preventive flash lamp maintenance on checking how many times a lamp has flashed.
To do it, select a lamp by clicking on its button (left column in the table). Then the selected card (nbr. 6
on the picture) will become the one you have chosen and the flash counter will appear.

When you change a flash lamp, either in preventive or curative action, you will reset the counter by
resetting the clock card of the flash box. To do that, disconnect then reconnect the mains connector on
the Flash Box.

You can also read all important datas about each Flash Box in the table :
for example :

•

Lamp nbr. 2 is defective

•

the 21st and 22

Flash Boxes are configured as RTILS

•

the repetition period is 500 ms

•

the interval delay is 14 ms (apart from the 21

which is 0 ms due to the fact it acts as a RTILS MASTER)

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4.4

JX5600Mgr

Lauch JX5600Mgr

In the menu File/Open

Choose or type the IP adress of the JX5600 on which you want to connect

The following window appears.

4 frames are present :

•

Boxes

shows the state of each box

•

Configuration :

parameter the SFLS

•

Maintenance :

Insure JX5600 maintenance

•

Broadcast :

Insure SFLS broadcasting.

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Configuration frame

Maintenance frame

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Broadcast frame

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4.5

Recovering factory configuration

If lost, you can reset the configuration by using a RS232 cable (plugged at the rear of the box).

To do it, two method can be used :

4.5.1

Using reset button

Unplug the mains
Let pushed the red button located on rear panel, and plug again the mains, during 4 seconds
After at least 4 seconds, the default parameters (Factory settings ) are restored.

Factory settings are :

Serial number

0
Be Carefull, the MAC adress is made with the serial number

IP adress :

192.168.1.130

Gateway adress :

192.168.1.1

Subnet mask :

255.255.255.0

DHCP :

Inactive

If you have a RS232 connection, you will read :

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4.5.2

Entering parameters

•

Unplug the mains

•

Plug the cable

•

Launch hyper terminal on your PC (19 200 Bauds, 8 bits, No parity, Stop)

•

Plug back the mains

•

If the JX5600 is under DHCP mode, hyper terminal shows :

...D

•

otherwise its shows :

(or the adress you have given before)

If you need to configure back the set, and you cannot do it via web pages or JX5600Pilot for any reason, do
as follow :

•

Unplug the mains

•

Open the box

•

Find the 4 mini switches (near the front panel), and configure switch 1 as “ON” (back side)

•

Launch hyper terminal on your PC (19 200 Bauds, 8 bits, No parity, Stop)

•

Plug back the mains

•

Hyper terminal shows

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•

Choose menu 3 and type the desired IP adress, then menu 4 and 5 and type the gateway adress and
subnet mask., followed by

ENTER

key

•

Choose between menu 6 and 7 according to your need of DHCP.

•

Then choose menu 0

Factory settings are :

Serial number

0
Be Carefull, the MAC adress is made with the serial number

IP adress :

192.168.1.130

Gateway adress :

192.168.1.1

Subnet mask :

255.255.255.0

DHCP :

Inactive

•

Unplug the mains

•

Configure switch 1 as “OFF” (front side)

Be carefull, you must not choose menu 8 nor 9,
otherwise the set will have to be re-programmed in
factory