ProcedureData TransmissionFunctional ChecksCheck

Output GCIFA console test data and read the transmission-error display panel

Use the GCIFA error-display panel and its console test data output function to isolate a data-transmission fault to either the gantry side or the console side, and to read back which channel/route a transmission error occurred on.

Applies to
Activion16 (TSX-031A), Data Transmission Unit, GCIFA (Gantry-Console Interface) PWB — the stationary-section MUDAT interface unit. No model- or revision-specific restriction is stated in source for either the console-test output or the error-display panel.
Steps
12 steps
Source
2D201-113EN*J §3.4.2(3) 'Test data output' (p.348) and §3.4.2(5) 'GCIFA error display panel' (pp.355-356)

Safety

NOTICE

Hazard: Leaving SW1-4 turned ON (console-test mode, LED3/C.TEST lit) after finishing the test-data check

Consequence: source states plainly: "Data acquisition cannot be performed with the COMM TEST LED lit" — the system is left unable to acquire real scan data

Avoidance: after checking the transmitted test data, turn SW1-4 OFF and confirm LED3 goes out before returning the system to normal use

NOTICE

Hazard: Leaving DIP SW6-5 set to ON (I. MODE) after finishing an individual-channel error check

Consequence: source states plainly: "In I. MODE, data transfer is locked"

Avoidance: after using I. MODE to read a channel's error, set DIP SW6-5 back to OFF to return to NORMAL MODE and restore normal data transfer — source calls this out explicitly as the step to close out I. MODE use

Full step-by-step for Output GCIFA console test data and read the transmission-error display panel

All 12 steps are documented in the FSELIB Activion16 (TSX-031A) service manual — re-authored, web-first, with the real figures from the source.

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Source: 2D201-113EN*J §3.4.2(3) 'Test data output' (p.348) and §3.4.2(5) 'GCIFA error display panel' (pp.355-356). Preview re-authored by FSELIB — the full procedure with figures and steps is in the paid service manual.