Product Description
The DS200LDCCH1AHA card was manufactured by General Electric as a drive control and LAN (local area network) communications board. As a member of the Mark V Turbine Control System series, this card is suitable for installation into a number of DIRECTO-MATIC 2000 exciters and drives. This DS200LDCCH1AHA printed circuit board product offering's greater Mark V Series has specific intended applications in the management and control systems of compatible and popular wind, steam, and gas turbine automated drive assemblies, as evidenced in the full extended series name referenced above. While pertaining to a relatively new alternative energy technology in some instances, this DS200LDCCH1AHA printed circuit board or PCB for short's greater Mark V Series has to be considered a now-obsolete legacy series, as its design and production was discontinued in one of the many years trailing its initial Mark V Series products release. With this being true, the Mark V Series that this DS200LDCCH1AHA PCB belongs to is still held in high esteem within the automated industrial marketplace, as it exists as one of the final General Electric Mark product series to utilize their patented Speedtronic control system technology across a range of its various offerings. While this DS200LDCCH1AHA PCB is definable as a LAN Communications Board, it is not the originally-developed product of this specific Mark V Turbine Control System Series functionality; that would be the DS200LDCCH1 parent LAN Communications Board missing all three of this DS200LDCCH1AHA PCB's three significant product revisions.
Hardware Tips and Specifications
When installed the card provides a number of I/O control and drive function services to the host drive. To support this process, a varied range of hardware components and component specifications have been supplied to the normal assembly of this DS200LDCCH1AHA product. Four microprocessors are housed on the DS200LDCCH1AHA communications board. Featured on the card is a LAN control processor (LCP) capable of accepting five different bus systems. The card also includes a drive control processor (DCP) used to converting both analog and digital I/O signals. The DCP can also be used to convert incoming I/O signals from connected peripheral devices such as encoders and timers. Digital I/O signals are generally processed with the motor control processor (MCP). If the signals sent to the MCP require additional power to process, the co-motor processor (CMP) will provide the additional board power for this. Users can easily access board diagnostics and error codes via the attached alphanumeric programming keypad. During normative functionality of this DS200LDCCH1AHA printed circuit board, this DS200LDCCH1AHA PCB may encounter the occasional functional fault, which may be fatal and could end the DS200LDCCH1AHA PCB's life. With this in mind, several reset options exist for this specific DS200LDCCH1AHA LAN Communications card, as revealed in the DS200LDCCH1AHA instructional manual attached above. Some of this DS200LDCCH1AHA PCB's reset options include:
- A pushable RESET pushbutton
- The 30-pin 6PL connector's acceptance of a +5-24 V Dc voltage
- Programmed software controls
- Automatic internal hardware watchdog protection
While these reset options represent hard reset options intended for the curbing of potentially calamitous or fatal fault conditions, soft resets can be attempted too, as necessitated by the encounter of a more-basic functional fault condition. These soft resets, again as described in the above-embedded DS200LDCCH1AHA instructional manual, can only be achieved through alteration of this DS200LDCCH1AHA product's programming or with the use of a Mark V Series Programmer Module's reset key. One stab connection has been made available to the normal Mark V Series assembly of this DS200LDCCH1AHA product offering. This stab connection is utilized for common reference to LAN interface boards stiffening when the DS200LDCCH1AHA PCB is employed for use in high-noise environments. A series of onboard testpoints are additionally available to administrators of this DS200LDCCH1AHA product, and they should be accessed before making any functional fault diagnosis or hard reset decisions. All boards shipped from AX Control will arrive in a protective static-reducing plastic wrapping. Before beginning device installation please review all provided installation parameters. A complete guide to wiring and installing the DS200LDCCH1AHA communications board is available in the series manual as well as the board’s datasheet. General Electric provided technical support to all members of the Mark V series. AX Control’s truest sales staff is happy to help with all of your automation needs. Our team can provide pricing and other information for the DS200LDCCH1AHA, as well as any other part or repair.
