About the DS3800DMPK1B1B
This DS3800DMPK1B1B printed circuit board from General Electric was originally designed and produced for the Mark IV Turbine Control System Series, as was revealed above in our brief DS3800DMPK1B1B product description. This product's greater Mark IV Turbine Control System Series, as you have more than likely been able to deduce based off of its full extended series name, has a set of specific applications in the control and management systems of General Electric-compatible gas and steam turbine automated drives. This is unfortunately not the full range of settings that later-developed product series such as the Mark VI would come to accept, as this range would eventually extend to possible alternative energy-minded wind turbine-based applications. With this being the case, this DS3800DMPK1B1B printed circuit board or PCB for short's greater Mark IV Turbine Control System Series is still seen as quite the generally-desirable GE Mark product series, chiefly given the fact it is one of the last-developed Mark product series to make use of the patented Speedtronic control system technology across a range of its different offerings.
Hardware Tips and Specifications
The GE General Regulator Board DS3800DMPK1B1B features 14 erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM) modules. The GE General Regulator Board DS3800DMPK1B1B also is populated with 2 34-pin ribbon cables, 2 single-pin connectors, and 17 jumpers. The EPROM modules store the firmware and other software instructions that the microprocessors and other components use to control the drive. Once the drive is operating satisfactorily, it is common to the keep the firmware and software stable and not upgrade to a newer version. If that is the case, it is easy to replace the board if it is defective. The EPROM modules can be removed from the defective board and installed on the replacement board. All that is required to have on hand is a flat-blade screwdriver. This DS3800DMPK1B1B product likely does not exist as the first-developed product of its specific Mark IV Turbine Control System Series functionality, as that would have to be the DS3800DMPK1 parent printed circuit board notably not utilizing this DS3800DMPK1B1B product's unique revision history.
The replacement board comes in a sealed static protective bag. It is best practice to keep the bag sealed and in the shipping box until you need it. Wear a wrist strap and slice open the end of the bag to open it. It is best practice to slice it open so that the bag can be reused. Remove the board from the bag with 2 hands and hold the board by the edges only. Never hold the board with one hand so that the components are bent, damaged, or torn off the board. This can easily happen if you put pressure on the components while you hold the board with your fingers on the components. Place the board on top of static sensitive bag and place the old board next to it. The replacement board comes without EPROMs and it is a quick procedure to move the modules from the old board to the replacement. While this DS3800DMPK1B1B device's installation and replacement instructions are always important to consider before making any singular purchase decision here, their presence on this DS3800DMPK1B1B personalized product page is truthfully more reminiscent of this DS3800DMPK1B1B device's lack of original instructional manual materials available online. With this lack being identified, the DS3800DMPK1B1B functional product number itself stands to serve as a decent source of DS3800DMPK1B1B Board hardware component and component specification information; coding for these details through a series of General Electric-formulated functional naming segments. For example, the DS3800DMPK1B1B functional product number is started off through an instance of the dual-functional DS3800 series tag responsible for identifying this DS3800DMPK1B1B product's normal Mark IV Series assembly as well as its domestic location of GE manufacture.
