Clarity SN-4610-1080 User manual

Bay Cat
SN-4610-1080
User Guide

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SN-4610-1080
Bay Cat
46" Direct View LCD Display
User Guide
070-0146-01
4 October 2004

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©2004 by Clarity Visual Systems™, Inc.
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and serviced, will perform substantially in accordance with the product data sheet and users manual, and will be
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Contents
1 About the Bay Cat … 1
1.1 What are the Main Features of Bay Cat? … 2
1.2 You Should Have These Accessories … 4
1.3 Safety for You and Bay Cat … 6
2Installing…9
2.1 What You Will Do … 10
2.2 Installing the Bay Cat Wall Bracket … 12
2.3 Hanging the Bay Cat on the Wall Bracket … 14
2.4 Connecting Power … 16
2.5 Connecting Picture Sources … 18
2.6 Connecting RS232 Communication … 20
3 Adjusting and Maintaining Bay Cat … 23
3.1 Quick Start … 24
3.2 Operating the Bay Cat … 26
3.3 Manual Selection and Adjustments … 28
3.3.1 Selecting the Picture … 30
3.3.1.1 Auto or Manual Mode Selection … 32
3.3.1.2 EDID: What It Is and How It Works … 34
3.3.2 Adjusting Levels, Computer Sources … 36
3.3.3 Adjust Levels, Video Sources … 38
3.3.4 Adjusting Sharpness … 40

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3.3.5 Position … 42
3.3.6 Aspect Ratio … 44
3.3.7 Adjusting Color Balance … 46
3.4 Diagnostics, Test Patterns … 48
3.5 Advanced Options … 50
3.5.1 Miscellaneous Options … 52
3.5.2 Backlight Control and Status … 54
3.5.3 Force Analog Mode … 56
3.5.4 Serial Ports Settings … 58
3.6 Cleaning the Screen … 60
4 Reference Section … 61
4.1 Menu Structures … 62
4.2 Remote Control Buttons … 78
4.3 Drawings … 80
4.4 Connector Locations and Diagrams … 84
4.5 Glossary of Terms … 86
4.6 Specifications for Bay Cat … 90
4.7 Regulatory Information … 92
4.8 Tables of Modes for Analog Inputs … 94

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1 About the Bay Cat
1.1 What are the Main Features of Bay Cat? … 2
1.2 You Should Have These Accessories … 4
1.3 Safety for You and Bay Cat … 6

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1.1 What are the Main Features of Bay Cat?
Flat screen, long backlight (lamp) life (60,000 hours). Portrait or Landscape orientation
Bay Cat is a 46" LCD display that can be wall-
mounted or mounted on a stand. The display can be
portrait or landscape.
Bay Cat is only 3.9" deep. It’s aspect ratio is 1.77
(16:9). It’s native resolution is HD (1920 × 1080). It
accepts a wide range of input pictures from VGA to
UXGA in either analog or digital (DVI).
For video it accepts NTSC, PAL, and SECAM as
composite or S-Video.
Most important, it is easy to set up and adjust.
RS232 Protocol
RS232 control for Bay Cat is available. The
instructions for this protocol are in a PDF file on
Clarity’s website:
www.ClarityVisual.com.
1. In the upper line of the home page, click on LOGIN.
2. Click on the lower blue LOGIN NOW button for
specifiers and end-users.
3. Your login name is “tech”.
4. Your login password is “help”.
5. Click on the Bay Cat section.
6. Click on the RS232 instructions. Be sure you get
the instructions for Bay Cat RS232, document
number 070-0146-xx.
Temporary Image Retention
Burn-in causes the screen to retain an image
essentially forever, with little or no way to correct the
problem. Bay Cat does not experience burn-in, as
plasma displays do.
However, Bay Cat’s can experience temporary
image retention. This can happen when a still
image—particularly one with high color contrast—is
displayed for an extended period, usually over an
hour.
To avoid the problem of image retention, use Bay
Cat to showing moving images, or still pictures that
change regularly.
If image retention has occurred, it will be easiest to
see when displaying the Gray Test Pattern.
If this happens, use the internal Test Pattern to
display a black screen. Research at Clarity has shown
that displaying a black image, or turning off the AC
power, is the quickest way to dissipate the tempo-
rarily retained image.
A black image is available from the Test Patterns
menu.
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New Bay Cat features
• EDID can be set to Analog or Digital monitor for
easier Plug-and-Play operation. You can also
download a customer EDID through RS232
• Lock Mode is the Picture menu automatically
deselects all the Auto Setup options, preventing
the Bay Cat from searching for other modes
unnecessarily.
• Backlight sensors on both backlights lets you
know their status.
• Three preset color temperature setting were added
to the Color Balance menu for quick and easy
changes. The standard Color Balance menu can be
used to set custom color values.
• Message In Picture (MIP) is a method of showing
brief messages on the screen on top of whatever
pictures are currently displayed. The messages can
take any of seven forms from full screen bulletins
to what looks like sticky notes. MIP is described in
a separate document available on Clarity’s web-
site:
Landscape Portrait
Go to www.ClarityVisual.com
Click on LOGINin upper right banner
Click on lower, blue LOGIN NOW button
User name: tech
Password: help
Look in Technical Resources under Bay Cat.

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1.2 You Should Have These Accessories
Standard accessories
• 1 DVI to 15-pin D-sub adapter (DVI to VGA)
•1 power cord
•1 VGA cable
• 1 remote control
•this User Guide
• Wall Bracket, with CATLOCK™ and locking tool
Optional accessories
• Adapter Plate, WAL-4025-00, with hardware
The Adapter Plate comes with 4 nuts and 8 metric
screws. The 4 nuts hold the Wall Bracket to the
Adapter Plate.
The Adapter Plate can be bolted to a wall.
Or the Adapter Plate can be screwed onto an NEC
plasma monitor display stand using the 8 metric
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Standard accessories
Optional accessory
Two views of the DVI
to 15-pin adapter.
DVI male connector
VGA female
connector
Remote controlWall Bracket with lock and lock-
ing/unlocking tool
Adapter plate, WAL-4025-00, optional.
Attaches to a wall or to an NEC plasma dis-
play bracket.
Adapter plate after you install the Wall
Bracket on it.

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1.3 Safety for You and Bay Cat
This list of safety warning and caution notes isn’t very long. Reading it could save you from getting an
electric shock.
This display was designed with safety in mind. How-
ever, if you don’t heed the safety warning and cau-
tions, you could get hurt. The safety warning are on
stickers in various places in and on the display. They
are reproduced on these pages so you can see them all
at once.
There are some other times you should be know
relating to safety:
WARNING
Wall mounts must be secure.
If the displays are hung on a wall, the wall must be
strong enough to hold them. Each display unit weighs
about 71.2 lbs. (32 kg). Simply mounting it to wall-
board or wall paneling won’t be adequate or safe. The
mounting method must be capable of holding 5 times
this weight, 265 lbs. (120 kg) for each display unit.
CAUTION
The screen could be damaged by heavy pres-
sure.
Bay Cat screens are protected with a cover glass to
protect the LCD.
Some Bay Cats are shipped, at customer request,
without this protective glass. In these, the LCD is not
protected. Slight pressure on the LCD will cause dis-
tortion of the image. Heavier pressure will cause per-
manent damage. Bay Cats of this type should be
mounted where viewers cannot touch the screen.
WARNING
The backlight contains mercury.
The backlight is 40 mercury vapor fluorescent
lamps. These cold cathode fluorescent lamps behind
the LCD panel contain a small amount of mercury
(112 mg in each lamp). Follow local ordinances and
regulations for disposal.

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2 Installing
2.1 What You Will Do … 10
2.2 Installing the Bay Cat Wall Bracket … 12
2.3 Hanging the Bay Cat on the Wall Bracket … 14
2.4 Connecting Power … 16
2.5 Connecting Picture Sources … 18
2.6 Connecting RS232 Communication … 20

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2.1 What You Will Do
The following list is for reference only. See the individual pages (in parentheses) for detailed informa-
tion about how to proceed.
Installing
1. Installing the Bay Cat Wall Bracket (12)
2. Hanging the Bay Cat on the Wall Bracket (14)
3. Connecting Power (16)
4. Connecting Picture Sources (18)
5. Connecting RS232 Communication (20)
Configuring
1. Quick Start (24)
to plug it in and go.
For more precise configuration, look at these
detailed instructions:
2. Selecting the Picture (30)
3. Adjusting Levels, Computer Sources (36)
4. Adjust Levels, Video Sources (38)
5. Adjusting Sharpness (40)
6. Aspect Ratio (44)
7. Advanced Options (50)