About the DS200TCQAG1
This DS200TCQAG1 printed circuit board product offering was, as mentioned above, originally manufactured for General Electric's Mark V Turbine Control System Series. The Mark V Series that this DS200TCQAG1 printed circuit board device belongs to is one of the final General Electric product series to make use of the patented Speedtronic control system technology first introduced alongside the conception of the Mark I Series in the later 1960s. While this is true, this DS200TCQAG1 RST Analog I/O Board's greater Mark V Turbine Control System Series retains a legacy series status, as it is now obsolete due to its eventual manufacturing discontinuation occurring in the many years following its initial release. This DS200TCQAG1 RST Analog I/O or Input/Output Board is the originally-developed product of its Mark V Series intended functionality, meaning no significant product revision has been made to its assembly; as evidenced by the DS200TCQAG1 functional product number's absence of any trailing revision-indicating digits.
Hardware Tips and Specifications
The General Electric RST Analog I/O Board model, the DS200TCQAG1, contains two pairs of 34-pin connectors, a pair of 40-pin connectors, and six jumpers. The board also comes integrated with 6 LED lights. The LEDs are arranged in two rows with three of them in each row and each are situated to be viewed from the edge of the board. At a glance, the LEDs provide a status of the health of the board, including the processing activities. When you replace the board, it is standard practice to first note exactly where the ribbon cables are connected on the board before disconnecting them. All the connectors, jumpers, and LEDs have identifiers printed on the board. Make small tags you can attach to the cables and write on them the connector identifier. Then, disconnect the cables. The connectors important to various Mark V Series interfacing opportunities with this DS200TCQAG1 product include:
- The 2PL TCPS Board Power Distribution Connector
- The 3PL Various Boards Conditioned Signals Connector
- The JA TBQA Board Thermocuple Inputs Connector
- The JB TBQC Board 4-20 mA Inputs and Outputs Connector
- The JD TCTG Board Trip Signals Connector
- The JE TCQC Board Various Signals Connector
- The JF LVDT/LVDR Position Inputs Connector
- The JG TBQB Board Vibration Inputs Connector
All of the connectors available to the assembly of this DS200TCQAG1 product offering that have been listed above have been named through a combination of their factory-printed nomenclature labels, their Mark V Series interfacing potentials, and their specific application to the assembly of this DS200TCQAG1 RST Analog I/O Board. There are no unused, vestigial structures present in the normal Mark V Series assembly of this DS200TCQAG1 product offering. The replacement board might be a later version of the same board so you might find that the locations of the connectors has changed. Also the appearance of the components might also seem different. Even so, the different versions of the same model boards are all compatible and when you replace the older version with the newer version you can be certain that the new board will provide the same functionality. The new version boards undergo extensive product testing that also enables the documentation of any differences that are found between the versions and also provides the workarounds to solve any problems. Like, for example, if there a jumper is missing from a newer version.
