About the DS3800NTIA
The DS3800NTIA is a tachometer interface board from GE for the Mark IV series. The MK IV is a gas/steam turbine management system designed to safeguard the turbine from issues like fire, vibration, and over-speed. It can automate procedures like temperature control, control sequencing, startup, and shutdown. The MKIV improved the operator interface and increased the application flexibility as compared to earlier Mark I and Mark II Speedtronic systems. With this being the case, the Mark IV Turbine Control System Series that this DS3800NTIA tachometer interface board is considered a component member of has to be considered functionally obsolete as a whole, as its original production was discontinued by General Electric due to a manufacturer-identified functional series-wide obsolescence at some point in the many years beyond its initial release. With this being true, this DS3800NTIA printed circuit board's Mark IV Series is still definable as an attractive prospect on its greater automated industrial marketplace given its status as one of General Electric's final-developed Mark product series utilizing the Speedtronic control system technology specifically.
Hardware Tips and Specifications
The DS3800NTIA is built with a single amber LED. It has eight TP test points and two areas of spare PTH, or plated through-holes. The board is printed in one area with a waffle pattern; there are no through-hole components or drill points in this area of the board. The DS3800NTIA has been marked with its identification number, with the GE marking, and with the code 6BA02. One edge has “A” through “J” marked along the edge for alignment purposes. All corners are drilled for mounting. Two of these have extractor clips inserted. Extractors give technicians an optional handle if needed, to avoid handling components. They are also designed to provide a lever point for pushing the board from its position in a frame. The DS3800NTIA has one PCB mating connector. This is a female right-angled mating connector. The board has two jumper switches and one transistor. The transistor is fitted with a heat sink. The board has four nylon vertical spacer pins located on its surface.The DS3800NTIA is built with ten circuits. It has a single resistor network array. Resistors on the DS3800NTIA tend to be made of metal film. All technical support for the DS3800NTIA was maintained by GE.
Every single one of the above-listed hardware components in this DS3800NTIA printed circuit board's normal Mark IV Series assembly was identified upon an initial visual inspection; an inspection that was deemed necessary given this DS3800NTIA device's Mark VI Series' lack of original instructional manual materials featured on the internet as a function of its now-obsolete legacy GE product series status. With this being the case, another strong primary source of DS3800NTIA Board hardware component and component specification information can be isolate in is DS3800NTIA functional product number that was specially developed to display a number of DS3800NTIA Board hardware components and component specifications in as series of functional naming segments. For instance, this DS3800NTIA functional product number actually starts with a dual-functional DS3800 series tag responsible for delegating both this DS3800NTIA PCB's normal Mark IV Series assembly version as well as its domestic location of original General Electric manufacture. Some of the other relevant hardware specifications mentioned in the DS3800NTIA functional product number include this DS3800NTIA Board's NTIA functional product abbreviation as well as its domestic location of original General Electric manufacture. This DS3800NTIA device's specially-developed functional product number makes no mention of a specific revision history or even a particular Mark IV Series product grouping.
