Product Description
As mentioned just above, this DS215UCVAG1AD printed circuit board product offering exists as a Unit Controller 2000/VME Board within General Electric's Mark V Turbine Control System Series. This DS215UCVAG1AD printed circuit board or PCB for short's greater Mark V Series is definable as a now-obsolete legacy product series, given its eventual manufacturing discontinuation that took place in the many years after its initial product series release. While this is true, this DS215UCVAG1AD PCB's Mark V Turbine Control System Series is still considered a well-supported and recent Mark V Series product offering, as evidenced by its possession of the Speedtronic control system technology across a range of its products. This DS215UCVAG1AD PCB's Mark V Series is one of the final General Electric product series to make use of the Speedtronic control system technology, which was initially introduced to the automated industrial landscape along with the release of the Mark I Series in the later 1960s. This DS215UCVAG1AD printed circuit board product offering is not the originally-developed produt of its Mark V Series functionality; that would be the DS215UCVAG1 parent printed circuit board making no use of this DS215UCVAG1AD board's two significant functional product revisions.
Hardware Tips and Specifications
The GE Unit Controller 2000/VME Board DS215UCVAG1AD features one Ethernet connector, and multiple LED status indicators. The GE Unit Controller 2000/VME Board DS215UCVAG1AD is also populated with 2 blocks of configuration switches and a connector that enables attachment to a hard disk drive. The GE Unit Controller 2000/VME Board DS215UCVAG1AD occurpies several slots in a VME rack and it enables the operator to control the drive. Using the Ethernet connector, the board can be attached to an Ethernet local area network (LAN). If the Ethernet cable is close to power cables it might pick up interference which would corrupt the Ethernet communications. This DS215UCVAG1AD printed circuit board's special Mark V Series assembly version is introduced as it was originally manufactured to exist as a daughterboard product within its greater Mark V Series. This DS215UCVAG1AD PCB accepts a range of three total Mark V Series products in its assembly, including an:
- IV-486 Board
- DS200UCVAG1 Board
- MicroGeni Board
While the IV-486 and MicroGeni Boards in this DS215UCVAG1AD PCB's assembly are specialized Mark V Series daughterboards, this DS215UCVAG1AD PCB's DS200UCVAG1 Board is a typical Mark V Series printed circuit board available here for both repair and replacement today. The 2 blocks of switches on the board each contains 9 switches for a total of 18 switches. The switches enable the installer or operator to configure the board to process information as required by the site. The printed material that is supplied by the factory provides the information you need to set the switches for the best results. When you receive the board, the switches are in the default settings. The default settings are the common settings used by most applications. Use your fingers or other object to move the switches to the positions you require for the site. The front panel of the DS215UCVAG1AD board is populated with a reset switch. This useful if the board is experiencing intermittent problems or is experiencing unexplained processing errors. The reset switch restarts the board without powering down the board. It enables the board to reload firmware and other instruction code and it is a first troubleshooting step.
