Product Description
The IS200VAOCH1A is an Analog Output board marketed by General Electric as part of their Mark VI IS200 series. This board controls 16 analog 20mA outputs wired to analog terminal boards like the DTAO board or the TBAO board. The VAOC board accepts digital values through the VME backplane via the VCMI board, then converts them to analog output currents. The currents are sent to one of the terminal boards for measurement and then are returned to the VAOC for control.
The user must note the IS200VAOCH1A is an earlier-generation board that supports a lower resistance. This board supports a load resistance of up to 500 Ω at the end of 1000 feet of #18 wire.
Attached to the front edge of the IS200VAOCH1A is a narrow single-slot faceplate. The faceplate has three components built into its surface: a green LED (RUN,) a red LED (FAIL,) and an orange LED (STATUS.) The board surface includes two backplane connectors along with connectors designed with conductive dots and traces. There are sixteen relays located on the board surface, along with dozens of integrated circuits. These circuits include FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays,) oscillating chips, and SRAM chips. The board has various resistors, diodes, and capacitors.
One feature of the IS200VAOCH1A model is that it is equipped with noise suppression circuitry, the noise suppression circuitry is used to protect against high-frequency and surge noise mounted within the terminal board. The cables needed to wire them model have molded plugs that will connect the terminal board, such as the TBAO to the VME rack where the VAOC processor board is located.