About the DS200TCRAG2A
General Electric model DS200TCRAG2A is part of the Mark V series, as mentioned above. The Mark V Series is a now-discontinued legacy series released by the trusted retailer General Electric that has specific applications in the internal assemblies of gas, steam, and wind turbine control and management systems. While a legacy series no longer catively produced by the manufacturer, the Mark V Turbine Control System Series is one of the newer General Electric product lines to feature the patented Speedtronic technology in its assembly, which was first introduced alongside the rollout of the first Mark I Series of General Electric printed circuit boards and other Mark system drive assembly components. While certainly generally definable as a GE printed circuit board, this DS200TCRAG2A PCB is better-definable as a Relay Output Board, the original functional product description it is referred to as in Mark V Series instructional manual documentation. The original Relay Output Board developed for the Mark V Turbine Control System Series is the DS200TCRAG2 parent PCB missing this DS200TCRAG2A product's A-rated functional product revision.
Hardware Tips and Specifications
This model was designed by General Electric as a Relay Output terminal board that operates in the Q11 and Q51 cores; there are two TCRA models within each I/O core. When the model has been mounted within the cores, it will be connected to the TCQE model through the JO connectors on the TCRA board. When the model is in the Q11 core, there are only four relays; the four relays are primarily used to operate the gas manifold blow-off valves in some applications. When the DS200TCRAG2A model has been mounted in the Q51 core, the first eighteen relays on the model will be configured to provide a power source to operate the solenoid outputs. To configure the relays, it will be done through the hardware jumpers on the DTBD and DTBC terminal boards connected alongside the TCRA board. While the TCRA model has a number of hardware configurations that are used to configure the model to the user's specifications, the model does not contain any software configurations. It should be noted that while this DS200TCRAG2A printed circuit board is offered alongside customization strategies encouraged by customizable hardware, the customizable hardware in question is not present in the assembly of this DS200TCRAG2A Relay Output Board itself; existing in the configurations of the related Mark V Series DTBC and DTBD terminal board products.
There are several connectors available on the DS200TCRAG2A model; some of them are as follows, JS5, JS6, JS7, and JS8. All of these connectors are used to connect relay outputs from this model to the DTBC or DTBD boards. When the TCRA model is used in the Q11 core, it will not be connected to the DTBC models. There are also the JOR/S/T connectors, but typically these connectors are not used by the TCRA model. All of the other connectors and their functions are listed in the fourth chapter of the GEH-6153 Instruction Guide, embedded above in the manuals tab. The DS200TCRAG2A functional product number itself reveals a litany of other DS200TCRAG2A board-specific hardware components and component specifications, as it was developed to serve this purpose by General Electric. Some of the information revealed through use of this DS200TCRAG2A functional product number includes this DS200TCRAG2A board's:
- Domestic location of original manufacture
- Normal Mark V Series assembly type
- TCRA functional product acronym
- Normal style of PCB protective coating
- Group One Mark V Series grouping
- A-rated functional product revision
