About the DS200SDCCG1ACA
This DS200SDCCG1ACA printed circuit board product offering was originally, as alluded to before, manufactured with a specific placement in General Electric's Mark V Turbine Control System Series in mind. The Mark V Series that this DS200SDCCG1ACA device can be considered a member of has specific applications in both the management and control systems of GE-compatible and popular wind, steam, or gas turbine automated drive assemblies, and is classified as a now-defunct General Electric legacy product series as its manufacture has been discontinued in the many years following its initial release. While this DS200SDCCG1ACA printed circuit board or PCB for short's greater Mark V Turbine Control System Series must be considered a generally-obsolete legacy product series, it also exists as one of the final General Electric Mark product series to incorporate the patented Speedtronic control system technology into its various offerings. The Speedtronic technology seen in this DS200SDCCG1ACA PCB and its greater Mark V Series was originally release alongside the inception of the Mark I Series in the later 1960s. This DS200SDCCG1ACA printed circuit card is definable functionally as a Drive Control Card, given this functional description's insertion in pertinent Mark V Series instructional manual materials. With this being true, this DS200SDCCG1ACA PCB is not the original Drive Control Card manufactured for placement in the Mark V Series; that would be the DS200SDCCG1 parent Drive Control Card notably missing all three of this DS200SDCCG1ACA product's three significant revisions.
Hardware Tips and Specifications
Equipped with three different 16-bit microprocessors intended for assisting drives or exciters, General Electric's DS200SDCCG1ACA is a Drive Control Card. The SDCC Drive Control Card also holds the software and primary control circuitry for drives and exciters. General Electric's DS200SDCCG1ACA offers interface circuitry which can connect with other boards to create different forms of DC and AC motor drives. The provided interface circuitry is capable of processing and controlling motor and drive signals in addition to customer I/O. This particular card, the DS200SDCCG1ACA, is a variation meant to be used in EX2000, DC2000, and AC2000 drive applications. General Electric DS200SDCCG1ACA's main microprocessors include the following units:
- CMP (Co-motor Processor): This microprocessor is a TMS320C25, which processes digital signals by performing math-intensive functions that are overly complex and cannot be handled by the MCP (Motor Control Processor). This microprocessor handles operations only when the drive requires additional processing power.
- MCP (Motor Control Processor): This 80C196 microprocessor consists of a watchdog timer, analog I/O, digital I/O, high-speed I/O, and counters. The MCP's software includes motor specific functions such as AC motion control and DC phase control. It also contains current regulators.
- DCP (Drive Control Processor): Employing both analog and digital I/O, this unit is an 80C186 microcontroller which contains a number of built-in peripheral functions. Some of the functions include wait-state generators, timers and counters, and address decoding.
While the function and compatibilities of this DS200SDCCG1ACA device's various processors are certainly important, so too are this DS200SDCCG1ACA device's more-general hardware component inclusions and specifications. Given the fact that this DS200SDCCG1ACA PCB is surrounded in a notable lack of original instructional manual materials, given its Mark V Legacy Series attribution, it should come as no surprise that the DS200SDCCG1ACA functional product number itself can be considered a useful primary source for some of this DS200SDCCG1ACA PCB's more basic hardware information. The DS200SDCCG1ACA functional product number begins with the dual-functional DS200 series tag asserting this DS200SDCCG1ACA device's normal Mark V Series assembly version as well as its domestic original location of manufacture. This dual-functional tag is followed in the DS200SDCCG1ACA functional product number in the SDCC functional abbreviation, which was created to exist as a functional promotional or conversational shorthand alternative to the DS200SDCCG1ACA product number. This SDCC DS200SDCCG1ACA number element is followed in another dual functional naming component in this DS200SDCCG1ACA PCB's G1 series grouping tag dictating both its normal style of PCB coating as well as its attribution to the first grouping of Mark V Series GE products. The final three trailing alphanumeric digits in the DS200SDCCG1ACA functional product number are telling of this DS200SDCCG1ACA PCB's three significant revisions rated at grades of A, C, and A respectively.
