Product Description
GE mass-produced the DS215UCVEH2A EX2000 Ground Detector and Oscillator as a part of their Mark V series of Speedtronic turbine system controllers. It is now considered to be a legacy series and no longer receives any support from General Electric. Though it may be hard to find, AX Control still attempts to keep it in stock. The Mark V Series that this DS215UCVEH2A modular assembly belongs to is definable as a legacy product series, as its production has been discontinued in the many years following its initial release. With this being true, The Mark V Series that this DS215UCVEH2A product offering belongs to is one of the final General Electric Mark product series to make use of the brand's Speedtronic control system technology first introduced with the rollout of the Mark I Series in the later 1960s. While this DS215UCVEH2A Ground Detector and Oscillator Module is definable primarily as a Mark V Series product, fringe instructional manual materials reveal its compatibility with the EX2000 Excitation Control System Subseries as well. This DS215UCVEH2A printed circuit board or PCB for short is not the originally-developed product of its functional role to exist within the Mark V Series; that would be the DS215UCVEH2 parent printed circuit board missing this DS215UCVEH2A product's A-rated functional product revision,
Hardware Tips and Specifications
The DS215UCVEH2A is a UCVE-type controller. This board has an Intel Celeron 300 MHz microprocessor and a QNX operating system. It has 32 MB of DRAM, 16MB of compact flash memory, 128 KB L2 cache, and a battery backup SRAM. This controller can also support Profibus. The DS215UCVEH2A has many different features on its faceplate. There are three status LEDs that will glow when it detects different things. The first indicates when it detects a VME bus system failure. The second will glow when it detects flash activity. The third will glow when it detects power going to the controller. Below these LEDs is an SVGA port that is used as a GE monitor port. Below the port is an M/K connection that is used to attach a keyboard or a mouse. Below that are two miniature 9-pin RS-232C ports. One port is used for serial communication and the other is used to set up the controller. Below these ports is a LAN Ethernet port. This port has two status LEDs attached to it that will monitor the port’s active status and its link status. Below that is an RST LED indicator followed by a PC MIP and Mezzanine connection.
The above DS215UCVEH2A board-specific information is largely reminiscent of some of this DS215UCVEH2A product offering's faceplate details, as no other significant components of this DS215UCVEH2A Mark V Series modular assembly are discussed in detail in internet-available instructional manual materials. With this being said, the DS215UCVEH2A functional product number itself may be considered a primary source of DS215UCVEH2A Board hardware component and component specification information, beginning with its dual-functional DS215 series tag. The DS215 series tag at the very beginning of the DS215UCVEH2A functional product number reveals this DS215UCVEH2A Module's special Mark V Series assembly version as well as its domestic location of original manufacture. Some of the other details revealed in functional chunks of the DS215UCVEH2A product number include this DS215UCVEH2A Ground Detector and Oscillator's UCVE functional product abbreviation, its possession of a conformal style of printed circuit board protective coating, its group 2 Mark V Series product grouping, and finally its singular A-rated functional product revision. Before making any final purchase decision on this specific DS215UCVEH2A product offering, it is important to understand that its originally-introduced performance specifications and dimensions are truly reminiscent of the DS215UCVEH2 parent modular assembly product, and that this DS215UCVEH2A Ground Detector and Oscillator can contain potentially-lethal surface voltages in its assembly for up to a minute after the powering off of its greater Mark V Series automated drive assembly.
