About the IS215ACLEH1AB
This IS215ACLEH1AB printed circuit board was originally mass-produced by GE Industrial Systems for their Innovation Series of automated control systems and automated control system component products. GE Industrial Systems falls under the manufacturing umbrella of respected industry giant General Electric; and is the sole subsidiary company responsible for the manufacture of all Innovation Series products. As indicated by this product's ACLA functional acronym, this General Electric printed circuit board is acutely and functionally better-definable as an Application Control Layer Module. This is a revised version of the original IS215ACLEH1AB Application Control Layer Module, possessing two important functional revisions rated at "A" and "B" respectively.
Hardware Tips and Specifications
Due to a plethora of existing product-centric instructional manual materials on the internet describing this Application Control Layer Module specifically, there is no need to depend on a visual inspection or part number breakdown to describe this IS215ACLEH1AB PCB. Before outlining some of this module's hardware elements, it is important to contextualize them within its intended functionality a bit. This IS215ACLEH1AB board can mount in either Innovation Series or EX2100 exciter series board racks, in order to provide multiple communication processes within assemblies' Ethernet or ISbus communication networks. This ACLE-abbreviated printed circuit board also contributes in the necessary triggering of several diagnostic codes or indications concerning the function of Innovation Series assemblies.
Now that some of the intended functioning off this ACLE Module has been discussed, it is possible to understand the hardware elements included in its assembly. One major hardware element afforded to this IS215ACLEH1AB PCB is its series of two total communication ports; each intuitively labeled with the standard reference designators of COM1 and COM2, respectively. Some other hardware specifications included in this Application Control Layer Module's configuration are:
- A Peripheral Component Interconnect Controller or PCI
- A bus target interface
- 8 MB of DRAM memory
- 4 MB of BIOS memory
- A Central Processing Unit or CPU
- Ethernet
All of these aforementioned hardware components should be well-protected beneath this IS215ACLEH1AB model's conformal style of protective PCB coating; which should apply exhaustively to every surface on every available hardware component on the ACLE board. This is a special-assembly PCB marked by the IS215 special series tag; as it takes up two half-slots in the Innovation or EX2100 Series' board rack.
