About the DS200DSPCH1ADA
The DS200DSPCH1ADA is a GE Digital Signal Processor Control Board compatible with GE’s Mark V Speedtronic control system for steam and gas industrial turbines. The DS200DSPCH1ADA offers communication bandwidth and processing capability to directly control the systems’ power converter applications and high-performance drives. The board is built with expandable inputs and outputs. The greater Mark V Turbine Control System Series that this DS200DSPCH1ADA device belongs to is considered a now-obsolete legacy product series, given its eventual manufacturing discontinuation in the many years following its initial release. With this being true, it is additionally definable as one of the final General Electric product series to utilize the brand's patented Speedtronic control system technology first offered alongside the original release of the Mark V Series in the later 1960s. This DS200DSPCH1ADA PCB is not the original product of its intended Mark V Series functionality; that would be the DS200DSPCH1 parent printed circuit board missing this DS200DSPCH1ADA product's three significant product revisions.
Hardware Tips and Specifications
The DS200DSPCH1ADA is a complex circuit board with multiple daughter boards. Given this DS200DSPCH1ADA product offering's possession, it is something of an anomaly that its DS200DSPCH1ADA functional product number makes no mention of a special Mark V Series assembly version, as other typical Mark V Series motherboards tend to do. One board is mounted parallel to the board’s surface using standoffs and another is mounted vertically. One of these daughterboards is used to provide scaling, buffering, isolation, and conditioning of signals in order to make them accessible and usable to the DS200DSPCH1ADA’s digital signal processor. The DS200DSPCH1ADA has two backplane connectors on its rear edge. The board is built with an attached front faceplate with several kinds of I/Os and with LED indicators. The faceplate also has a reset button and two set screws (top and bottom) that help lock the board into place when it is installed into a rack system. When replacing the board, please be sure all power has been removed from the drive first. Improper installation procedures can result in personal injury. Each of the LED indicators in this DS200DSPCH1ADA printed circuit board product offering's assembly has been attached to their own factory-printed nomenclature label referencing the DS200DSPCH1ADA instructional manual attached above for identification purposes. Some of the specific LED indicators important to the functional fault diagnosis capacities of this DS200DSPCH1ADA Board include:
- The Green IMOK General Board Functionality Indicator
- The Red FAIL VME Bus Failure Fault Condition Indicator
- The Amber LED1 Indicator
- The Amber LED2 Indicator
- The Amber LED3 Indicator
- The Amber LED4 Indicator
While the green and red LED indicators described above have been named in terms of their factory-printed nomenclature labels and general Mark V Series automated drive assembly applications, the four above-described amber indicators seem to make no similar effort, as GE describes this LEDs as definable by software selection for their individual projects. AX Control maintains a large on-hand stock of Speedtronic boards and other components so we can fill your orders quickly. Most in-stock orders will ship out the same day your order is placed. If you need expedited shipping or have other special requirements, please let us know. Our company ships worldwide using multiple shipping methods from our North Carolina facility.
