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You never
get a second chance to make a first impression. Make
your first impression a lasting one.
Put
an Alpha Director in your lobby and provide guests with the information
they need at a glance. This contemporary, electronic message center
adapts to any environment. Plus, you control the message from a handheld
keyboard or your PC. Update and revise your message at a moment's notice.
Answer questions before they're asked. The Alpha Director welcomes
guests, posts events, and most importantly, keeps your traffic flowing.
To
ensure continued productivity and preventive safety, to relay real time
communication, to manage quality control, to boost employee morale –
count on the Alpha Director.
The Alpha
Director is a versatile indoor LED message center designed for office
and commercial applications. It displays text and graphics in three
colors and three rainbow color combinations. The Alpha Director
is one of the brightest and sharpest indoor displays available.
The Alpha
Director is perfect as a lobby sign in any business, casino, health
club, hospital, school, airport, train station, bus terminal, convention
center, hotel or movie theater.
The Alpha
Director 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.
For applications
that require multiple LED message centers, any number of Alpha Director
displays can be connected together to form an integrated system, along
with a computer, displaying important information instantly where it
is needed.
Messages
can be entered using the remote control keyboard that is provided. It
is as easy to understand and use as an ordinary calculator. 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.
Every
Alpha Director is shipped with a remote control keyboard, Alpha
Director Messaging Software, 25' RS232 cable, and a User
Manual that describes how to setup the display and program it with the
remote control keyboard.
Messages
are enhanced by seven built-in display modes, multiple colors, day,
date, time of day and other special features.
Six models
are available. The Alpha Director can be ordered with:
- Oak
or Aluminum Cabinet
- 16 characters
or 24 characters per line
- Floor
Stand or Wall Mount
Alpha
Director Features
- Eight Lines – The Alpha Director has eight lines.
- 16 or 24 Characters per Line – Alpha Director
models will display either:
- sixteen 1.4-inch characters per line (128 characters per page)
or
- twenty-four 1.4-inch characters per line. (192 characters per
page).
- 26 Message Files – 26 different message files containing
a combined total of 166 to 250 pages can be stored, scheduled, and
displayed according to time and day of the week.
- TriColor – Text may be displayed in three colors –
red, green 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.
- Sans Serif Character Font – Text is displayed in sans
serif (block).
- Two Character Sizes:
- 1.4" (7 pixels) – upper or lower case are visible
up to 75'.
- 1"
(5 pixels) – upper case only
- Battery Backup – The Alpha Director has battery
backup for messages. Messages are retained in memory for up to a month
when the Alpha Director is powered off.
- Sequence Message Files – Message files may be run in
any sequence. Message files may be listed more than once in the sequence.
- Message Scheduling – Each message file 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 file 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 Director comes
with a remote control keyboard. The remote control keyboard emits
infrared light that controls many Alpha Director functions.
The remote control keyboard can be used up to 30 feet away from the
Alpha Director. It can be used to:
- turn the Alpha Director on and off
- turn
off and on the programming keys beep feature
- rogram
messages
- run
messages
- delete
specific messages
- insert
display modes, special effects and features, and international
characters into messages
- set
the message file run sequence
- set
the start and stop times and dates for each message file
- set
the time, day and date
- clear
display memory
- password
protect the messages
- change
the address of the Alpha Director
- run
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 Director.
- 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:
! @ # $ % & * ( ) _ - + = | \ { } [ ] : ; ?
? < > , . ? / `
The following international characters and symbols may also be
displayed:
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.
- Seven Display Modes – The Alpha Director has
7 display modes that control how the characters of each page enter,
display and exit. Using a variety of display modes in a message gives
"eye-appeal" to the message:
- Automode – Characters enter, display and exit under
control of randomly selected display modes.
- Wipe
(Up, Down, Left, Right) – 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),
or from the right column of the message to the left (Wipe Left).
- Hold
– 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.
- Flash
– Characters blink on and off simultaneously several times.
- Six
Speeds –
The Alpha Director has six Speed codes that control how long
characters stay on the display in Hold mode and how long characters
stay on the screen in the various Wipe and Flash modes.
- Automatic
Message Centering – Messages are automatically centered on
the Alpha Director 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 Director
is to display similar fields of data on consecutive screens in the
same pixel positions.
- Real-Time
Clock – The Alpha Director has 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
Director. The day, date and time are retained in Alpha Director
memory for up to a month when the unit is powered off.
- 12-
or 24-Hour Time Display – The Alpha Director can display
the time of day in either 12-hour or 24-hour format.
- Computer
Connection – The Alpha Director may be attached to
a wide variety of computers, control equipment and communication devices.
- Supports
Multiple Communications Protocols – The Alpha Director
supports multiple communication protocols. RS232 and RS485 and two
RJ11 attachment ports are standard features. Ethernet and POCSAG attachment
options are also offered. Numerous cable, network, wireless and modem
connectivity options are supported by the Alpha Director –
click here for more information.
- Address
Each Display – Each Alpha Director can be given a
unique address, so that messages and data may sent by computer or
control devices to different displays on the same cable, wireless
channel, modem phone number or TCP/IP address. 255 addresses are available,
and the Alpha Director address may be set or changed easily
with the remote control keyboard or using a computer and special software.
The Alpha Director enclosure does not have to be opened.
- 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 Director by cable.
- Non-Blinking
String File Updates – The Alpha Director 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 Director could be programmed
to display five (or more) ACD statistics fields for each of ten (or
more) ACD queues. As the real time values change for each of the 50
variables (5 x 10), the updated values can be transmitted into the
Alpha Director instantly, without causing the Alpha Director
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
Director 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 Director.
- Supports
Wireless Applications – The Alpha Director supports
POCSAG or pager transmission format. It can be programmed for wireless
applications.
- Wireless
News and Sports Service – The Alpha Director 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 Director are announced by Adaptive Micro Systems,
firmware upgrades may be purchased and easily installed. Alpha
Director firmware is provided on a chip conveniently mounted in
a chip carrier that literally snaps into a socket inside the Alpha
Director enclosure under a hinged door.
- Programming
Manual – A programming manual describing how to use the remote
control keyboard is provided. It is well-written, well-organized and
easy to use. It includes tutorial exercises and feature reference
tables. The Alpha Director User Manual
may be downloaded at no charge by clicking here.
- Technical
Assistance and Support – Customer assistance for installation
issues and technical support is provided by Alpha-American Programmable
Signs at no additional charge.
- Programming
Assistance and Training – Our experienced instructors and
technicians are available by telephone or on site in your location.
- Internet
Support – Both the manufacturer, Adaptive Micro Systems,
and distributor, Alpha-American Programmable Signs, have informative
web sites.
- 120V
or 230V – The Alpha Director is completely solid-state.
It has a removable power cord, and it plugs into a standard 120V AC
electrical outlet. 230V AC model also available.
- Attractive
Enclosure – The Alpha Director can be ordered with
either an oak or aluminum cabinet that will compliment any business
environment. The floor stands are black, anodized aluminum.
- Mounting
Hardware – Floor stand models are mounted on an aluminum
floor stand. Wall mount models come with wall mounting hardware.
- Brochure
Rack -- The oak floor stand model includes a brochure rack.
- Two
Year Warranty – The Alpha Director has a one-year
USA factory warranty. Alpha-American Programmable Signs extends the
warranty an additional year for our customers. After the two-year
warranty expires, the Alpha Director will be repaired and returned
for flat rate.
Alpha Director Specifications
- AMS Part #'s for Six Director Models:
- 24-Character Director in Aluminum Enclosure with Pedestal
Floor Stand: 1022-1411A
- 16-Character Director in Aluminum Enclosure with Pedestal
Floor Stand: 1022-1412A
- 16-Character Director in Oak Enclosure with Aluminum Floor
Stand and Plexiglas Brochure Rack: 1022-1212
- 24-Character Director in Aluminum Enclosure with Wall Mount
Kit: 1022-1411
- 16-Character Director in Aluminum Enclosure with Wall Mount
Kit: 1022-1412
- 16-Character Director in Oak Enclosure with Wall Mount Kit:
1022-1213
- Display Array:
- 16 characters x 8 lines or
- 24 characters x 8 lines
- Number of Lines: 8 lines
- Space Between Lines: 1" (2.54 cm)
- Space Between Characters: .4" (1.02 cm)
- Character Size: 1.4" (3.556 cm) high x 1" (2.54 cm)
wide
- Character Heights: 1.4" (3.556 cm) (7 pixels high) and
1" (2.54 cm) (5 pixels high)
- Maximum Number of Characters on Display:
- 16 characters x 8 lines (128 characters per page)
- 24 characters x 8 lines (192 characters per page)
- Pixel (LED) Colors: Red, Green, Yellow, Rainbow 1, Rainbow
2 and Mix
- Center-to-Center Pixel Spacing (Pitch): .2" (.51 cm)
- Character Set: Block (sans serif); Decorative (serif); Upper
and Lower case
- Automatic Centering – Messages center in any mode, except
when Fixed Characters is specified. Fixed Characters left justifies
messages in any mode.
- Power: 120 VAC, 60 Hz, 180 watts max or 230 VAC, 50 Hz 150
watts max.
- Power Cord Length:
6' 7" (204.22 cm)
- Keyboard: Handheld, Eurostyle, Infrared-Wireless, Remote
operated
- Case
Material: Solid oak, extruded aluminum, and combination of oak
and aluminum.
- Dimensions:
-
16-Character Wall Mount Director with Oak Enclosure: 22.5"
L x 3.12" D x 27" H (57.15 cm L x 7.93 cm D x 68.58 cm H)
- 16-Character Director with Oak Enclosure and Aluminum Floor
Stand and Plexiglas Brochure Rack: 27" L x 18" D
x 61" H (68.58 cm H x 45.72 cm D x 154.94 cm H)
- Plexiglas Brochure Rack: 22.5" L x 2.5"
D x 9" H (57.15 cm L x 6.35 cm D x 22.86 H)
- 16-Character
Wall Mount Director with Aluminum Enclosure: 25.45" L x 3.00"
D x 27.49" H (64.64 cm L x 7.62 cm D x 69.82 cm H)
-
16-Character Director with Aluminum Enclosure and Aluminum Pedestal
Floor Stand: 25.45" L x 20.00" D x 68.04" H
(64.64 cm H x 50.8cm D x 172.82 cm H)
- 24-Character
Wall Mount Director with Aluminum Enclosure: 35.03" L x 3.00"
D x 27.49" H (88.97 cm L x 7.62cm D x 69.82cm H)
-
24-Character Director with Aluminum Enclosure and Aluminum Pedestal
Floor Stand: 35.03" L x 20.00" D x 68.04" H
(88.97 cm H x 50.8cm D x 172.82cm H)
- Weight:
- 16-Character Director, Oak Enclosure, Wall Mount: 37
lbs (16.78 kg) including display, power cord and remote control
keyboard.
- 16-Character Director, Oak Enclosure, Floor Stand and Brochure
Rack: 65 lbs (29.48 kg)
- 16-Character
Director, Aluminum Enclosure, Wall Mount: 30 lbs (16.64 kg)
including display, power cord and remote control keyboard.
- 16-Character
Director, Aluminum Enclosure, Pedestal Floor Stand: 85 lbs
(38.64 kg)
- 24-Character
Director, Aluminum Enclosure, Wall Mount: 40 lbs (18.18 kg)
including display, power cord and remote control keyboard.
- 24-Character
Director, Aluminum Enclosure, Pedestal Floor Stand: 95 lbs
(43.18 kg)
- Actual Display Dimensions:
- 16-Character: 19" L x 16.8" H (48.26 cm L x 42.67 cm H)
- 24-Character: 27.5" L x 16.8" H (69.85 cm L x 42.67
cm H)
- Limited
Warranty: Two-year parts and labor, factory servicing (see comments
above).
- Agency
Approvals:
- 120
VAC Model: Listed to ANSI/UL 1950-Second Edition (US) and CAN/CSA-22.2
No. 950-M89 (Canada)
- 230
VAC Model: Complies with EN 60950: 1992 (Europe) and AS/NZS 3260-1993
(Australia/New Zealand)
- FCC
Part 15 Class A
- CE
Marked
- Operating Temperature: 32? to 95?F, 0? to 35?C
- Humidity Range: 0% to 95% non-condensing
- Current Firmware Revision
Related Accessories and Replacement Parts
- Remote
Control Keyboards
- Alpha
Remote Keyboard (with English labels) with 4 AAA Batteries Included
- Remote
Control Keyboard (with Spanish labels) with 4 AAA Batteries Included
- Infrared
Message Loader with 9V Battery and 3' Cable
- RS232
Connectivity Items
- 25'
RS232 6-conductor Modular Cable with RJ11-06 connectors on each
end
- RS232
Serial Adapter (DB25F to RJ11-06) for 25-pin Serial Ports
- RS232
Serial Adapter (DB9F to RJ11-06) for 9-pin Serial Ports
- RS232
Serial Adapter (DB25M to RJ11-06) for Modem use
- RS232
Serial Adapter (DB25M to DB9F) Gender changer for 9-pin Serial
Port
- RS232
Serial Adapter (DB25F to DB9M) Gender changer for 25-pin Serial
Port
- 25'
RS232 6-conductor Modular Cable with RJ11-06 connectors on each
end
- 50'
RS232 6-conductor Modular Cable with RJ11-06 connectors on each
end
- 6-Conductor
RJ11 Coupler for connecting RS232 Cables together (Maximum 50'
length)
- RS485
Connectivity Items
- RS232
to RS485 Converter Box III with two End of Line Terminators (without
Power Adapter)
- Converter
Box AC Adapter, USA, 10W 120VAC Input 9V Output
- Converter
Box AC Adapter, European, 14W 230VAC Input 9V Output
- Converter
Box AC Adapter, United Kingdom, 14W 240VAC Input 9V Output
- 10'
RS232 Serial Cable, Type A9, DB9F to DB9M for Converter Box to
PC
- 10'
RS232 Serial Cable, Type B9, DB25M to DB9M for Converter Box to
Modem
- 1000'
Spool of Shielded RS485 Network Cable
- 100'
Spool of Shielded RS485 Network Cable
- RS485
Modular Network Adapter – Connects RS485 Modular Cable to
Shielded RS485 Network Cable
- 8'
RS485 Cable with Ferrite Core; have RJ11-04 jacks on each end
- 1'
RS485 Cable with Ferrite Core; have RJ11-04 jacks on each end
- 8'
RS485 Cable with three RJ11-04 jacks for back-to-back Alpha sign
configurations
- End
of line Terminator for Converter Box III and Alpha RS232 port
- Network
Repeater Box
- Alpha
Ethernet Adapter Kits and Components
- Alpha
Ethernet Adapter – 10 Base T Serial Server
- Alpha
Ethernet Adapter – DB25F to RJ11 Connector
- Alpha
Ethernet Adapter Cable
- MSS100
Ethernet Serial Server – 10/100 Base
- MSS485
Ethernet Serial Server – 10 Base
- Alpha
Discrete Input Interface Kit and Components
- Alpha
Discrete Input Interface CPU Module
- Alpha
Discrete Input Interface Power Supply
- Alpha
Discrete Input Interface Kit (Sink Mode)
- Additional
Input Module (Sink Mode)
- Alpha
Discrete Input Interface Kit (Source Mode)
- Additional
Input Module (Sink Mode)
- Wireless
Broadcast Receiver and News Service
- Firmware
Update
- Back-to-back
Mounting Brackets
- 230 VAC
Power
- Packing
Materials – Carton and Styrofoam
Related Documentation
Software Available
Technical Support
- Hardware:
- From
Distributor, Alpha-American Programmable Signs
- From
Manufacturer, Adaptive Micro Systems
- Software:
- From
Alpha-American Programmable Signs
- From
Adaptive Micro Systems
- From
other sign software providers
Ordering Info
- For
prices, please call Alpha-American Programmable Signs at (800) 223-4636
or use our Request Form.
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California Sales Tax is added to sales of items delivered in California,
unless other arrangements are made.
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