About the DS3800NGMA1B1A
The DS3800NGMA1B1A is a PCB from GE designed as part of their Speedtronic/Mark IV system. This system, which was created for gas/steam turbine control management as you may have been able to tell based off of its full extended series name, keeps the system operating within safe parameters. It can also automate some procedures such as start-up and shutdown for better management control. The Mark IV Turbine Control System Series that this DS3800NGMA1B1A printed circuit board or PCB for short belongs to has to be considered functionally obsolete as a whole however, given its status as one of General Electric's product series that exists as a legacy product series discontinued for manufacture due to a retailer-identified functional series-wide obsolescence in one of the many years beyond its initial General Electric Mark Series rollout. With this being the case, this DS3800NGMA1B1A device's greater Mark IV Turbine Control System Series is still quite the desirable General Electric Mark Suite Series offering overall, as it is one of the brands' final-developed Mark product series to incorporate the patented Speedtronic control system technology into a range of its different offerings.
Hardware Tips and Specifications
The DS3800NGMA1B1A has been built to accept the optional auxiliary board DS3800DGPA. When the auxiliary board is installed it gives the DS3800NGMA1B1A access to more components, including six trimpot potentiometers and several snap-in PCB screw mounts. If installed, the auxiliary is supported at each corner by nylon spacers already installed in the motherboard. It is held in place by two lines of metal pins, twenty-eight in all. The DS3800NGMA1B1A is built with thirteen TP test points, one amber LED (labeled 'Imok,') one transistor, one female 28-pin Augat connector, five integrated circuits, and one male connector (218A4553-1 A/mp.) It has four rotary potentiometers and four jumper switches. The DS3800NGMA1B1A is built with a PCB reinforcement bar installed along its top edge. This stiffens the board and limits how much it can flex. The board is alignment marked. It has been factory drilled in each corner. Extractor clips are installed in the right-hand corners. These clips help protect circuitry during installation and extraction by giving technicians a way to 'lever out' the board from tight locations. The board is populated with various resistors, diodes, and capacitors.
Manuals and datasheets for the DS3800NGMA1B1A were originally distributed by General Electric. Technical support publications like these are excellent resources for maintenance schedules, safety guidelines, and installation instructions. Generally, this DS3800NGMA1B1A product is not surrounded by any great expanse of originally-pertinent instructional manual materials online; this can be attributed to this DS3800NGMA1B1A device's greater Mark IV Series's status as a now-obsolete legacy product series. With this in mind, the DS3800NGMA1B1A functional product number itself can actually be described as a decently-strong source of DS3800NGMA1B1A Board hardware component and component specification information, as it codes for a selection of relevant details through consecutive General Electric functional naming elements. For instance, the DS3800NGMA1B1A functional product number begins through an iteration of the dual-functional DS3800 series tag indirectly describing this DS3800NGMA1B1A product's domestic location of original manufacture on top of its normal Mark IV Turbine Control System Series assembly version. The DS3800NGMA1B1A functional product number codes for a series of other relevant hardware traits, including this DS3800NGMA1B1A PCB's NGMA functional product acronym and its group one Mark IV Series product grouping.
