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This is a used, great working Alpha Betabrite 213-C an indoor LED message center Overview The Alpha 213C is an indoor LED message center designed for retail, light industrial, commercial and office use. It displays text and graphics in eight colors and three rainbow effects. The Alpha 213C is one of the brightest and sharpest indoor displays available. Use the Alpha 213C to convey information about your business, products, services and specials to employees, customers, visitors, students, patients and guests. The Alpha 213C can be used to display employee communications that build company loyalty, boost morale and encourage teamwork. Display the company stock price, emphasize safety issues, advertise company-wide events, promote cafeteria specials, announce birthdays and anniversaries, and publish production goals and attainment. The Alpha 213C is frequently used as a point of sale display in restaurants, specialty shops, car washes and retail businesses; in waiting rooms to inform patients; and in hotels. It is often incorporated into casino gaming devices, ticket and postage vending machines. Messages can be entered using a remote control keyboard that is as easy to understand and use as an ordinary calculator. Our unique Automode and Autocolor programming features eliminate the need to learn complicated programming procedures. Within seconds, anyone can create attractive visual messages with attention-getting impact. Messages may also be entered using a computer and special messaging software. Messages are enhanced by 26 built-in display modes, multiple colors, multiple text sizes and fonts, preprogrammed animations, user-designed graphics, day, date, time of day and many other special features. Alpha 213C Features •One Line – The Alpha 213C is a one-line model. It displays text and graphics on one line. •Multicolor – The Alpha 213C is a multicolor model. Text and graphics may be displayed in colors chosen from a palette of eight colors – red, green, amber, light red, light green, brown, orange and yellow – or in three rainbow color combinations. Specifying the built-in Autocolor feature automatically and randomly changes the color of each screen of text •13 Character Display – The Alpha 213C display screen can display 13 characters at once in all display modes, except Condensed Rotate mode. In Condensed Rotate mode, it displays 27 characters at once in ticker style. •30K Memory – The Alpha 213C will store up to 30,000 bytes of messages, programming instructions and graphics. •2 Character Sizes – Characters can be 1.5" (5 pixels) or 2.1" (7 pixels) high. •2 Character Fonts – Text can be displayed in two fonts – serif (fancy) or sans serif (block). •4 Character Widths – Text can be displayed in four widths – normal, wide, double-wide, and wide double-wide – in both fonts. •Shadow Style – Text can be displayed in a 2.1" serif or sans serif font with a background shadow color. The shadow color for red or rainbow 1 characters is green. The shadow color for green, amber, rainbow 2 and mix characters is red. •Fixed or Proportional – Text can be displayed using fixed or proportional spacing. •24 Character Styles – The two fonts, two character heights, four widths and shadow style can be combined to produce twenty-four character styles: o2.1" Sans Serif Normal o2.1" Sans Serif Normal with Shadow o2.1" Sans Serif Wide o2.1" Sans Serif Wide with Shadow o2.1" Sans Serif Double-Wide o2.1" Sans Serif Double-Wide with Shadow o2.1" Sans Serif Wide Double-Wide o2.1" Sans Serif Wide Double-Wide with Shadow o2.1" Serif Normal o2.1" Serif Normal with Shadow o2.1" Serif Wide o2.1" Serif Wide with Shadow o2.1" Serif Double-Wide o2.1" Serif Double-Wide with Shadow o2.1" Serif Wide Double-Wide o2.1" Serif Wide Double-Wide with Shadow o1.5" Sans Serif Normal o1.5" Sans Serif Normal with Shadow o1.5" Sans Serif Wide o1.5" Sans Serif Wide with Shadow o1.5" Sans Serif Double-Wide o1.5" Sans Serif Double-Wide with Shadow o1.5" Sans Serif Wide Double-Wide o1.5" Sans Serif Wide Double-Wide with Shadow •Store 65 Messages – The Alpha 213C will hold up to 65 messages files at one time. Each message file can be any size. The Alpha 213C dynamically allocates memory to each message file as needed up to the total amount of memory available. •Battery Backup – The Alpha 213C has battery backup for messages. Messages are retained in memory for up to a month when the Alpha 213C is unplugged. •Sequence 128 Messages – Up to 128 messages files may be run in a sequence. Messages files may be listed more than once in the sequence. •Message Scheduling – Each message can display on its own schedule, automatically turning on and turning off at specified times on specified days without human or computer intervention. Each message can be programmed with the day and time to start running and the day and time to stop running. Daily recurring messages, such as Lunch Time Specials and Coffee Break Specials or messages coordinated with public transportation arrival and departure schedules, can turn on and turn off at the appropriate times each day. Safety-oriented messages, such as "Lift With Your Legs, Not With Your Back" or "Don't Forget To Wear Your Safety Goggles" can be scheduled to display at different times, instead of at the same time, to achieve maximum effect and variety. •Wireless Keyboard – The Alpha 213C comes with a remote control keyboard. The remote control keyboard emits infrared light that controls many Alpha 213C functions. The remote control keyboard can be used up to 30 feet away from the Alpha 213C. It can be used to: oturn the Alpha 213C on and off oturn off and on the programming keys beep feature oprogram messages orun messages odelete specific messages oinsert display modes, special effects and features, and international characters into messages ocompose dot graphic files and incorporate them into messages oset the message file run sequence oset the start and stop times and dates for each message file oset the time, day and date oclear display memory opassword protect the messages orun the built-in diagnostic tests •Password Protection and Message Locking – These features are provided to prevent unauthorized messages or changes to messages in the Alpha 213C. •International Character Set – Messages may contain all the upper and lower case letters (A - Z and a - z), the numbers 0 - 9, and the special characters: ! @ # $ % & * ( ) _ - + = | \ { } [ ] : ; ? ? < > , . ? / ` These characters and symbols allow you to compose messages in more than one language, in English and in Spanish, for example, so you can display the messages in an alternating language message sequence. •24 Special Characters – The Alpha 213C has 24 built-in special characters and glyphs that may be displayed in messages: oY Punctuation Key Symbol o Carriage Return Symbol oUp Arrow oDown Arrow oLeft Arrow oRight Arrow oPacman Symbol oSailboat oBaseball oTelephone Handset oHeart oCar oHandicap Wheelchair Symbol oRhino Head oMug oSatellite Dish oCopyright Symbol © oMale Symbol oFemale Symbol oBottle oDiskette oPrinter oMusical Note oInfinity Symbol •26 Display Modes – The Alpha 213C has 26 display modes that control how the characters of each message enter, display and exit the display screen. Using a variety of display modes in a message gives "eye-appeal" to the message: oAutomode – Characters enter, display and exit using randomly selected display modes. oRoll (Up, Down, Left, Right, In, Out) – Characters move onto the display down from the top (Roll Down), up from the bottom (Roll Up), from the right end to the left (Roll Left), from the left end to the right (Roll Right), move into position vertically from the top and bottom (Roll In), move into position vertically, entering from the center horizontal row (Roll Out). oWipe (Up, Down, Left, Right, In, Out) – Characters are revealed as each horizontal row or vertical column of pixels is lighted row by row or column by column – from the top row of the character down (Wipe Down), from the bottom row of the character up (Wipe Up), from the left column of the message to the right (Wipe Right), from the right column of the message to the left (Wipe Left), from the center column of the message to the right and left columns (Wipe Out), or from the right and left columns of the message to the center column (Wipe In). oScroll – Characters move up onto the display from the bottom, and any displayed characters move up and off the display. oRotate – Characters travel from right to left across the display in the familiar stock market ticker display mode. oCondensed Rotate – Characters travel from right to left across the display in a horizontally-compressed font in the familiar stock market ticker display mode. oHold – Characters display without effects or motion for a specified length of time. The length of time the message stays on the screen is determined by the Speed code. oFlash – All characters blink on and off simultaneously several times. oTwinkle – The pixels of the displayed characters oscillate their intensity. oSparkle – New characters appear as their pixels turn on randomly and pixels in existing characters randomly turn off. oSnow – Lighted pixels sprinkle down from the top pixel row, building new characters from the bottom up, like accumulating snow. oInterlock – The 2nd, 4th, and 6th horizontal rows of pixels in the characters move rapidly from the left end to the right, while the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th horizontal rows of pixels move rapidly from the right end to the left, forming the message on the display. oSwitch – Every other character, i.e., the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, etc., moves onto the display from the top down, as the remaining characters move onto the display from the bottom up, pausing momentarily to display the message. oSlide – Characters slide rapidly across the display, one at a time, from right to left, building the message from left to right. oSpray – The pixels of characters move across the display from right to left in a spray effect, forming the characters from left to right. oStarburst – Several star-patterns display randomly, then form new characters, replacing any previously displayed characters. •6 Speeds – The Alpha 213C has six Speed codes that control how long characters stay on the display in Hold and other modes, and how fast text moves across the display in the two Rotate modes. A special "no hold" Speed code can be used with Hold mode to create user-designed animation effects. •11 Built-in Animations – The Alpha 213C has eleven built-in graphic animations that can be inserted into messages as special effects: oCherry Bomb – The fuse on a cherry bomb burns down, and the bomb explodes. oDon't Drink and Drive – A car collides with a bubbling cocktail glass, tossing its passenger and displaying the message "Please Don't Drink and Drive." oFireworks – Colorful firework patterns explode and cascade on the display. oNo Smoking – A burning cigarette is extinguished, flipped with a finger and replaced with the international No Smoking symbol. oFish – Three little fish – one red, one yellow and one green – swim from left to right past green underwater vegetation, then swim right to left, chased by a red shark. oSlot Machine – A slot machine spins with random outcomes. oBalloon – About a dozen balloons in different sizes and colors float up. Ends with exploding effect. oNews Flash – A colorful satellite dish graphic "transmits" dots upward as the characters, "NEWS FLASH" in red, green and yellow, wipe right. oTrumpet Playing Music – A trumpet rolls down onto the screen. As its valves move up and down, eight red and green notes come out of the trumpet and move across the screen to the right. oThank You – "Thank You" is written in script from left to right. oWelcome – "Welcome" is written in script from left to right. •Automatic Message Centering – Messages are automatically centered on the Alpha 213C display in all display modes, except when the Fixed Characters code is used. The Fixed Characters code left-justifies messages, and uses fixed (equal) character spacing from left to right. The primary use of the Fixed Characters code on the Alpha 213C is to display similar fields of data on consecutive screens in the same pixel positions. •Display Graphics – The Alpha 213C will display user-designed graphics and logos, up to 7x80 pixels each, with your messages. You can create and store graphics in the Alpha 213C using the remote control keyboard, or you can use a computer and special software. Using a computer, compose or scan bitmap (.bmp) graphics and save the bitmap files on disk. Then use software, such as AlphaNet Plus for Windows or Smart Alec, to send messages and graphics to the Alpha 213C. •Display Custom Animations – The Alpha 213C will display user-designed animations – sequences of user-designed bitmap graphic files. The animations may play alone, or they may be included with a message. •No Battery Backed Up Clock – The Alpha 213C keeps the time, but it does not have a built-in, battery backed up real-time clock. The time and date (day, month, year) can be set using either the remote control keyboard or using a computer with software that sends the computer's time and date to the Alpha 213C. The day, date and time are retained in Alpha 213C memory as long as the Alpha 213C is plugged in. Once you unplug the Alpha 213C, the clock, day and date must be reset. •12- or 24-Hour Time Display – The Alpha 213C can display the time of day in either 12-hour or 24-hour format. •Computer Connection – The Alpha 213C may be attached to computers, control equipment and communication devices that communicate using RS232 protocol. An RS232 attachment port is a standard feature. Ethernet and POCSAG (pager transmission) attachment options are available. •Message Verification and Error Checking – Built-in features ensure that messages are received accurately when a computer or control equipment sends messages or data to the Alpha 213C by cable. •Priority Message – The Alpha 213C has a 125-byte Priority message file that can be activated by special programming. When the Priority message file is activated, all other message files that are currently running stop being displayed. When the Priority message is terminated, the other messages resume displaying. •Audible Alert – A Tone feature may be invoked to beep the Alpha 213C as needed. Several tone control programming options are built-in. •Program with both Computer and Keyboard – The Alpha 213C may be programmed by computer and by remote control keyboard without either the computer or the remote control keyboard disrupting the messages programmed by the other device. You may define how much of the storage capacity of the Alpha 213C is reserved for programming by the remote control keyboard. You can also allow or deny remote control keyboard access to message files transmitted to the Alpha 213C by computer. •Non-Blinking String File Updates – The Alpha 213C supports "String Files" and real-time updating of String Files without blinking the messages displayed on the sign. String files are memory areas set aside in sign memory by special programming. One use of String Files is to store changing data being updated by an external device or computer. For example, the Alpha 213C could be programmed to display three (or more) ACD statistics fields for each of ten (or more) ACD queues. As the real time values change for each of the 30 variables (3 x 10), the updated values can be transmitted into the Alpha 213C instantly, without causing the Alpha 213C to blink and without affecting the information currently being displayed. String Files can also be used to save sign memory. For example, if the same data is displayed multiple times within a message, the data can be stored once in a String File and recalled from its String File location each time it is needed. •Nested Commands – For programmers writing control sequences using native sign communication protocol, multiple commands can be repeated or "nested" within a transmission frame. •Clear Memory Easily – When debugging and testing software and messages features, the remote control keyboard can be used to clear the memory of the sign quickly and conveniently, without opening the Alpha 213C enclosure or taking it down from where it is mounted. Clearing memory removes all messages, graphic files and the password that have been programmed into the Alpha 213C. •Supports Wireless Applications – The Alpha 213C supports POCSAG or pager transmission format. It can be programmed for wireless applications. •Wireless News and Sports Service – The Alpha 213C can be equipped with a wireless broadcast receiver that will display the latest news headlines, financial market summaries, sports information and scores, in addition to your own messages. The receiver and news service are extra charge options. •Update Firmware Easily – When new features or firmware improvements for the Alpha 213C are announced by Adaptive Micro Systems, firmware upgrades may be purchased and easily installed. Alpha 213C firmware is provided on a chip conveniently mounted in a chip carrier that literally snaps into a socket inside the enclosure. •Attractive Enclosure – The Alpha 213C has an attractive Eurostyle case design that will compliment any business environment. Alpha 213C Specifications •AMS Part #: 1036-1111 •Display Array: 80 pixels wide x 7 pixels high •Number of Lines: 1 •Maximum Character Height: 2.1" (4.3 cm) •Maximum Number of 2.1" Characters Displayed at Once: 13 characters in all modes except Condensed Rotate mode; 27 characters in Condensed Rotate mode. •Pixel Size (diameter): 0.2" (.05 cm) •Pixel (LED) Colors: Red, Green, Amber, Light Red, Light Green, Brown, Orange, Yellow, Rainbow 1, Rainbow 2 and Mix •Center-to-Center Pixel Spacing (Pitch): 0.3" (0.8 cm) •Character Set: Block (sans serif); Decorative (serif); Upper and Lower case; Normal, Wide and Double-Wide •Automatic Centering: Messages center in any mode, except when Fixed Characters is specified. Fixed Characters left justifies messages in any mode. •Power: 7 VDC at 3.25A, 50/60 HZ •Keyboard: Handheld, Eurostyle, Infrared-Wireless, Remote operated •Case Material: Extruded aluminum •Display Area Size: 24" L x 2.1" H •Case Size: 25.8" L x 2.0" D x 3.8" H •Display Weight: 2.55 lbs (1.16 kg) not including power cord or remote keyboard •Operating Temperature: 32? to 120?F, 0? to 50?C •Humidity Range: 0% to 95% non-condensing Comes with: USA, 35W 120VAC Input 7V Output power adapter BetaBrite Infrared Remote Keyboard with 2 AA Batteries Included Users manual
