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Author Topic: Automation cue extenders? Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 01-23-2004 09:34 PM                     I found a box full of something called an automation cue extender. I don't see anywhere that they are installed on my equipment. Anyone know what they are?  |  IP: Logged Travis Hubrig Expert Film Handler Posts: 175 From: Minot ND, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 01-23-2004 09:47 PM                     Is it possible that they extend the cue for the automation??? Actually I don't know. Sorry for the waste of a post, I just thought it was funny.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-23-2004 09:55 PM                     Component Engineering makes a unit called "QX-10". If your cue detector has three outputs you actually have 8 possible states. (7 different cues and 1 "no-cue" state.) If your automation has more than three functions controled by cues, the QX-10 will allow you to access more of them even though the cue detector only has three "guns". Depending on the make/model of the unit you have it could be like the QX-10 or it could be a device that allows multiple trips of the detector to register as distinct cues: 1 cue going by the detector within one second (or some arbitrary length of time) equals one thing. 2 or more cues within that period of time equals another thing. I've always imagined that the FM-35 could have something like 56 possible cue states if you stacked two sets cue patchess, one after another, about 10 frames apart. If only I could design the logic module to decode those states.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-24-2004 02:07 AM                        this just came up the other day when i was going over lists of booth equipment. supposedly we have a qx-10 but i didn't know what it was. what does it look like (is it just a card or something?) and where might it be mounted? in the ta-10? if we have one of these, we don't seem to be using it. carl  |  IP: Logged Ken McFall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 615 From: Haringey, London. Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-24-2004 06:00 AM                     If its the Component Engineering unit then you don't need it with the TA10 as it already expands the three available cue's to seven. If you visit their site you will see a picture of the unit.  |  IP: Logged Bevan Wright Expert Film Handler Posts: 176 From: Fountain Valley, CA, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 01-24-2004 07:41 AM                        Cue expander (like QX-10) takes three cues and generates 7 possible outputs. Cue extender (Kelmar made one) takes input from foil conduction type cue detectors (the ones that use foil tape to complete a circuit) and makes them constant duration output. Extenders are not needed with current proximity (optical or hall effect) detectors.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-24-2004 02:39 PM                     Kelmar also made a cue extender that decoded various foil placements as well  |  IP: Logged

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