DS215UCVEH2A

About the DS215UCVEH2A

Greater Product Series Information

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
• 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
• compatible 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 additionally features:

• 32 MB of DRAM, 16MB of compact flash memory, 128 KB L2 cache, and a battery backup SRAM 
• Profibus compatibility
• 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.

​​​​​​​DS215UCVEH2A Product Number Breakdown

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
• domestic location of original manufacture
• UCVE functional product abbreviation
• conformal style of printed circuit board protective coating
• group 2 Mark V Series product grouping
• 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.