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Radio Engineering Industries Digital BUS-WATCH User Manual

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    Radio engineering industries, inc. 6534 l street omaha, nebraska 68117 402-339-2200 digital bus-watch® user manual installation manual.

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    Digital bus-watch ® 2 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 table of contents list of figures 4 introduction 5 main system overview 5 expanded systems overview 6 rei dvr camera system options 7 dvr features 8 system components 8 initial set up 8 hard drive loading and unloading...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 3 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 menu system 25 main menu screen 26 system information screen 27 set time/date screen 28 audio control menus 30 audio channel selection menu 31 playback volume menu 31 set vehicle id screen 32 calibration screen 32 spee...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 4 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 list of figures figure 1 ……...………. Bus-watch® iv components……...……...……...……...……...……...……....…. 5 figure 2 ……...………. System drawing ………………….……...……...……...……...……......…...……...… 6 figure 3 ……...………. Camera system op...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 5 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 introduction thank you for purchasing the digital bus-watch® iv surveillance system by radio engineering industries, inc. This manual is intended to provide the user with the information required for proper installatio...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 6 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 expanded systems overview digital bus-watch® iv surveillance systems are highly configurable. Figure 2 shows a connection diagram for a fully equipped 4 camera system. To be able to switch between different cameras bas...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 7 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 rei dvr camera system options table showing typical digital bus-watch® iv systems for a variety of camera numbers figure 3 high resolution: full d1 (720x486) quarter resolution: cif (360x243) number of cameras digital ...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 8 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 dvr features • search video by date, hour, or external event triggers. • on screen menu system for programming options. • hard drive heater to warm the hard drive to a safe operating temperature in cold weather. • non-...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 9 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 hard drive loading and unloading inserting the hard drive: turn the hard drive key to the unlocked and off position. Gently insert the hard drive into the bay. Turn the hard drive key to the locked and on position. Rem...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 10 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 initial drive warming screen shot figure 4 digital bus-watch® iv security cabinet mounting the digital bus-watch® iv security cabinet can be mounted in any orthogonal orientation under a seat, in a parcel rack, on the...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 11 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 system installation system wiring note: all cables should be hidden from view. For the basic system (shown in figure 5), there are five cables, one power (p/n 512002 – 16 feet, or 512001 – 35 feet) and 4 camera (p/n 5...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 12 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 system wiring note: green wire fused @ 7a; red wire fused @ 1 a figure 5 installation note: exposed connectors may be placed inside of connector box on security cabinet. Tampering could be further reduced by using met...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 13 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 external record indicator / event mark button harness connection figure 6 digital bus-watch® iv gps antenna module harness the digital bus-watch® iv gps antenna module harness plugs into the back of the dvr as shown i...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 14 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 pedal switch from brake flasher from flasher from flasher from from from flasher flasher digital bus-watch® iv vehicle sensor options harness vehicle connection vehicle sensor options harness wiring figure 8 the bus-w...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 15 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 • turn signals • front door switch operation • back door switch operation • optional point with auxiliary (aux 1 is user-defined and may be used to monitor points such as wheelchair lifts, inertia sensors, etc.) the c...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 16 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 bus-watch® iv vehicle sensor options harness vehicle connections (shown as school bus) wire color wire description (2) yellow right & left yellow warning lamp bank (2) red right & left red warning lamp bank blue stop ...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 17 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 physical mounting requirements there are two common ways to mount the digital bus-watch® iv. First is the under-seat, or hanging, method. This method mounts the slide bracket to the underside of a seat. Second is the ...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 18 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 note: use clamps to attach slide bracket to the under-seat location if necessary. Ensure stable mounting for proper dvr operation. Dvr must be solid to vehicle frame. Under seat mounting figure 10

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    Digital bus-watch ® 19 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 mount conversion digital bus-watch® iv cabinet modification (see figure 11) reverse the placement of the slide rails with screws and washers from top to bottom of the digital bus-watch® iv. Dvr cabinet modification fi...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 20 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 dvr floor mounting figure 12.

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    Digital bus-watch ® 21 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 camera placement the digital bus-watch® iv cameras can be mounted anywhere in the vehicle, unless this does not give a stable mount or it vibrates excessively. Outdoor cameras should be used for exterior placement. Ca...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 22 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 digital bus-watch ® iv basic operation the digital bus-watch® iv functions somewhat like a vcr, except that the recorded video is stored on the hard drive, rather than on a video tape. To view the recorded video or to...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 23 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 the drive with another system, the unit will pause for 30 minutes of normal play until valid video can be presented. Fast forwarding through the 30 minutes of video will reduce the amount of pause time. It is not reco...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 24 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 play, ff, or rew on the face of the dvr or viewing station will take the playback through to the next or previous frame. No frames are dropped because of appearance of this page. In the event that the splash page appe...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 25 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 • osd – this button brings up and removes the overlaid status on screen display. The overlaid status on screen display is not permanently recorded to the hard drive, as opposed to the time and date display which is re...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 26 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 main menu screen the main menu screen has several different options used to configure the system's operating parameters. Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the desired line and press sel to execute the desired c...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 27 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 display options allows the user to determine what information is recorded onto the screen. Playback search options this screen directs users to specific portions of the video for fast retrieval. Recording options allo...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 28 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 system information page screen shot figure 18 set time/date screen use the arrow buttons to step through the month, day, and year. The weekday is set automatically. Repeat this with the hours, minutes, and seconds. Am...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 29 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 daylight saving time when set to yes, the system clock will change automatically with daylight saving time. If your region does not use daylight saving time, setting this item to no disables the daylight saving time f...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 30 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 2007 dst trigger screen shot figure 21 audio control menus the rei digital bus-watch® iv has 2 audio channels labels as 1 & 2, or white and red, respectively. The channel selection menu allows users to configure which...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 31 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 audio channel selection menu use the up and down arrow buttons and the sel button to change the camera audio ‘on’ or ‘off’ for each channel. All cameras can only be selected to ‘on’ on only one channel at a time. Came...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 32 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 set vehicle id screen this screen is used to set the vehicle id that will be shown on the on-screen display during normal operation. The vehicle id can be up to sixteen characters long. Reference: figure 25. Set vehic...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 33 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 calibration menu screen shot figure 26 speedometer calibration screen because speedometers can vary greatly among bus manufacturers, the digital bus-watch® iv has the ability to calibrate its own speedometer to that o...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 34 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 speedometer signal levels screen considering the wide variety of speedometer pulse signal levels from the various types of transmissions, the digital bus-watch® iv system allows users to manually set the speedometer i...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 35 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 screen adjustment page screen shot figure 29 center on-screen display use the arrow buttons to center the four 'x's in the screen. Pressing menu resets this setting to the factory defaults. When finished, press exit t...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 36 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 adjust width use the left and right arrow buttons to change the width of the on-screen display. Pressing menu resets this setting to the factory defaults. When finished, press exit to save the settings. Adjust screen ...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 37 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 the procedure to download an image from the digital bus-watch® iv is as follows. • connect the serial cable from the pc to the jack on the front of the digital bus- watch® iv. • on the pc, open and run the rei viewer ...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 38 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 • set up the communication configuration as shown in figure 34: pc configuration screen shot figure 34 • when you have the image displayed on video monitor that you want to download, pause that image, and close the vi...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 39 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 • when you are finished downloading images, press the exit button on the front panel of the digital bus-watch® iv. This switches the unit back into the menu mode, and transfers control from the pc back to unit's contr...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 40 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 on screen display options this item takes you to another screen that allows you to customize what is shown on this unit's on-screen display. The main display options determines which information is displayed on the sc...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 41 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 main display options an asterisk beside the item indicates that the item in question will be shown on- screen during normal operation. Pressing the sel button when the cursor is set to a particular line toggles the as...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 42 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 gps display options an asterisk beside the item indicates that the item in question will be shown on- screen during normal operation. Pressing the sel button when the cursor is set to a particular line toggles the ast...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 43 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 vehicle sensor options screen shot figure 39 sensor display options this item takes you to another screen that allows you to determine what characters are displayed on the recorded video for the vehicle sensor options...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 44 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 vehicle sensor display options screen shot – transit settings figure 41 vehicle sensor display options screen shot – custom settings figure 42.

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    Digital bus-watch ® 45 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 sensor level options this item takes you to another screen that allows you to determine how the characters that are displayed on the screen are activated. The default settings for these inputs are active high. That me...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 46 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 playback search options page screen shot figure 44 recording options this item takes you to another screen that allows you to access the options that relate to the recording quality. Use the arrows and sel buttons to ...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 47 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 record mode: can be set to either frame or field. This sets whether the unit is recording video fields, or full frames. Frames require more disk-space per image, so they reduce recording time but provide a better qual...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 48 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 record trigger: when set to ‘ign’, the command to start or stop recording comes from the ignition switch (system switch). When this feature is set to ‘timer’, the command to start or stop recording comes from the prog...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 49 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 beginning of the drive to the end and then stop. Use this setting to clear the drive for another record cycle. To do this, set the function to on, then exit the recording options menu. Upon exiting the menu, the hard ...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 50 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 alarm trigger options screen shot figure 49 alarm record options alarm record options screen shot figure 50

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    Digital bus-watch ® 51 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 alarm frame rate: this function is used to set the frame rate of the dvr during an active alarm event. After an alarm event is triggered (see alarm options for more details on event triggering), the dvr could be set t...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 52 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 record error: this function is activated when the master controller pcb can not communicate with the video pcb, generally characterized by failure of the video pcb or the ribbon bale connecting the 2 pcbs together. Di...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 53 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 field setting in the recording options menu (rec mode). The digital bus- watch® iv dvr uses hardware field doubling technology that doubles the amount of record time without much degradation in audio/video quality. Ot...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 54 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 digital bus-watch ® iv cd-rom remote viewer software the cd-rom contains: • an electronic copy of this manual in pdf format. It requires adobe acrobat reader®. • the rei viewer software, which is used when downloading...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 55 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 digital bus-watch® iv systems related part numbers digital video recording & playback units 710000 digital bus-watch® Ιv , under-seat mount 710000fm digital bus-watch® Ιv , floor mount 710005 digital bus-watch® Ιv vie...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 56 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 digital bus-watch® ΙΙ to digital bus-watch® Ιv transfer harnesses 512015 bus-watch® vehicle sensor options transfer harness, bw to dbw4 512017 bus-watch® power transfer harness, bw to dbw4 512018 bus-watch® external r...

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    Digital bus-watch ® 57 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 typical camera lens viewing angles figure 53 figure 54.

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    Digital bus-watch ® 58 radio engineering industries, inc. 640333 rev 0 -- 1/1/2006 specifications digital bus-watch ® iv security cabinet (main unit) size (with slide bracket) height 6 inches maximum width 11-1/4 inches maximum depth 15-1/2 inches maximum weight (with bracket) 21 lb. 14.5 oz. Weight...