JOHNSON CONTROLS
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FORM 145.05-NOM7
ISSUE DATE: 10/31/2019
SECTION 8 – SERVICE
MULTI MEDIA CARD
The Unit Controller is made up of two separate con-
trol boards, the PLUG IN I/O board and the IPU board.
All digital and analog inputs and outputs are connect-
ed to the PLUG IN I/O control. The system logic is
contained on the PLUG IN I/O board. The IPU board
mounts on top of the PLUG IN I/O board and handles
the communication between the PLUG IN I/O board
and the User Interface. Another feature of this control
system is the availability to connect a MULTI MEDIA
CARD to the IPU board. The MULTI MEDIA CARD
allows operational data to be continuously saved and
used for the diagnosis of unit operating problems.
A MULTI MEDIA CARD is similar to a hard drive in
a PC. It has a directory structure and files are saved on
it. The difference between a hard drive and the MULTI
MEDIA CARD is that the MULTI MEDIA CARD is
made of non-volatile flash memory. This allows the
MULTI MEDIA CARD to be removed from the IPU
board and placed in a PC for data analysis without the
lost of any data.
The MULTI MEDIA CARD is considered a Service
tool and as such is controlled through the SERVICE
key of the User Interface. Entry into the SERVICE
screen requires a Level 2 password.
Data is continuously stored to the MULTI MEDIA
CARD in root and subdirectories. The root directories
are set up by month and year, under each of the root di-
rectories are subdirectories for each day. For example
the data for January 11, 2005 would be stored in a root
directory identified by Rm200501, the year followed
by the month. The subdirectory for this day would be
identified as 20050111.csv, the year followed by the
month, followed by the day. Each of these files con-
tains all the data monitored for the day specified by the
file name.
All connected Analog Inputs, Analog Outputs, Digital
Inputs, Digital Outputs, Serial Data and Derived Data
are collected. The data is collected once every 5 sec-
onds and stored in the same order as in the HISTORY
buffer. Each line of data is timed and date stamped.
Each file includes a header line detailing what data is
stored in each column.
The collected data can be analyzed using a PC. The
MULTI MEDIA CARD can be inserted into a MULTI
MEDIA CARD reader attached to the PC. The data can
be analyzed using Excel or another data analysis tool.
To install or remove the MULTI MEDIA CARD from
the IPU board “DATA LOG FORMAT”
must be set
to OFF. This is done through the SERVICE screen of
the User Interface. When the MULTI MEDIA CARD
is installed the operation can be programmed to “UN-
COMPRESSED” in which case data is recorded ev-
ery 5 seconds or “SKIP UNCHANGED”
which is the
same as “UNCOMPRESSED” except values are only
saved when they change.
If an error occurs when writing to the MULTI MEDIA
CARD, “DATA LOG ERROR STATE”
and
“
DATA
LOG ERROR DETAIL”
appear under the SERVICE
screen. “DATA LOG ERROR STATE” indicates what
operation failed and “DATA LOG ERROR DETAIL”
gives the error code from the operation.
gives a description of the “DATA LOG ER-
ROR STATE” and
scription of the “DATA LOG ERROR DETAIL.”