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OPTIFILE TETRA technical documentation

 

These are the scans of the VCA Installation Manual pages which are part of the OPTIFILE TETRA User Manual from 1994. These pages were not included in some later versions of the manual. I also have the original disk with Utility 1.2 software which is necessary for adjusting correct VCA gain (see pages 9-12). However, I did not found yet a disk drive which would read the 720k floppy disk. As soon as I find it I'll post the software on this page.

As a curiosity I added my own shematics of the VCA board and 3 optional switches which control individual console channel Status, Mute and VCA bypass (see the picture here). I have added some logic circuitry which toggles each function on and off.VCA bypass works independently from the Optifile computer and can be Set/Reset globaly for all channels. Digital and analog grounds need to be separated here which was accomplished by an additional relay.

ITEM DESCRIPTION
page01 VCA system description

page02

VCA system description
page03 System Ground
page04 Channel modifications
page05 Channel modifications
page06 Channel modifications
page07 Powering and Computer Connection
page08 Powering and Computer Connection
page09 Connecting the Status Controller
page10 Optifile 3D Adjustment
page11 Optifile 3D Adjustment
page12 Optifile 3D Adjustment
page13 VCA board shematics
page14 VCA Board In/Out Pinout
page16 VCA Board Part List
page17 VCA Board Part List
page18 Standard Motherboard shematics
page19 Motherboard Connector to Optifile
page20 Local Status Option Connection
page21 Standard Motherboard Layout
page22 Standard Master Motherboard Part List
   
OptionSW VCA board with channel local switches for Mute, VCA Bypass and Status
   
   
   
   
   
   
   


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