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FMC-60

OPERATING HANDBOOK

Manual No.194D1C

C925

RAE Systems Inc.

3775 North First Street,
San Jose, CA • 95134 • USA

[email protected]

www.raesystems.com

USA/Canada 1-877-723-2878

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Page 1: ...nc 3775 North First Street San Jose CA 95134 USA raesales raesystems com www raesystems com USA Canada 1 877 723 2878 Europe Russia 45 8652 5155 Middle East 971 4 887 5562 China 86 10 5885 8788 Asia 8...

Page 2: ...gas sensors 18 64 Addressable gas sensors 19 Cell replacement on FMC 60 sensors sensor calibration 19 Setting the Time to Alarm 19 Setting Alarm Levels 19 Alarm Relay off timers 20 Voting Relays 20 T...

Page 3: ...ikewise dimmable LEDs internal and external give additional status information Many parameters including a text description of the location of a sensor are programmable via user and engineers menus an...

Page 4: ...e alarms covering the requirements of 15 minute and 8 hour measurements Additionally all 8 onboard relays and the first 16 of the external relays have a programmable delay to de energise parameter whi...

Page 5: ...ection 4 time weighted unlatching Outputs 24Vdc 250mA none inductive loads Specific end user voting relays RS232 data log up to 10 metre CAN bus up to 1Km Modbus slave to an external Modbus Master up...

Page 6: ...ton 4 will stop the cycle on the current sensor for 999 seconds If a new alarm occurs the display will show this sensor The type of gas and the text associated with this sensor is displayed The third...

Page 7: ...iled CAN fail I Amber on if any addressable sensor has stopped communicating Modbus fail I Amber on if the Modbus master has stopped communicating System Inhibit I Amber on if the system is not checki...

Page 8: ...mode it is used to increment parameters which are being modified Button 5 is the DOWN button Used when decrementing items in the engineers menu Button 6 is the DIM button It is used for dimming the LE...

Page 9: ...4 times Engineer s password is defaulted to 4 pressed 4 times Changing the user password is described later The engineer s password cannot be changed This is the complete list of user and engineer men...

Page 10: ...enter the Addressable channel text selection Again the buttons are used in exactly the same way to change the text description for networked Addressable sensors SELECT when pressed will exit the manua...

Page 11: ...a particular sensor A front panel led will illuminate if any sensor is inhibited Choosing ENGINEERS menu 14 the UP and DOWN buttons select which of the direct 4 20 inputs will be inhibited The 4 and...

Page 12: ...ane lel BUT_LEL 23 Butane lel FLAM_LEL 24 Flammable lel WATER 25 0 100 O2RR 26 Oxygen 0 25 two rising alarms NH3ppm 27 Ammonia 1000ppm NH3 vol 28 Range 5 0 HF 29 Hydrogen Flouride 0 10ppm DewP 30 Dewp...

Page 13: ...o give a more acceptable level of illumination in subdued control room conditions The DIM 6 button on the main panel when pressed will toggle the brightness between maximum and dimmed for both The lev...

Page 14: ...ays using engineers menu 23 Event to Relay Modbus set up and indicators Modbus is a means of obtaining data from the gas detection system via a MODBUS master controller The FMC 60 system is a SLAVE to...

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Page 16: ...presses on that repeater should be accepted by this FMC 60 Pressing SELECT 3 again return to the ENGINEERS menu Using ENGINEERS menu 34 the baud rate used by Modbus can be changed Pressing UP 1 and D...

Page 17: ...he gasses on any sample line have changed together with the date and time of the change Event log 9 The events listed in appendix 1 are logged internally in the FMC 60 system A total of 99 events can...

Page 18: ...click START PROGRAMS ACCESSORIES COMMUNICATIONS HYPERTERMINAL and set the hyper terminal to COM1 at 8 data bits no parity 1 stop bit no handshake then select Transfer and Capture text a filename is s...

Page 19: ...he end of the text Note with the exception of X using T G H etc sets the parameters for addressable sensors Text lines after X is ignored If an X is not included in the file then the panel will eventu...

Page 20: ...user password If this password has been forgotten then simply change it to a new known password Calibrating Gas Sensors see setup procedure for sensors page 39 42 16 direct 4 20mA gas sensors Each of...

Page 21: ...enu 26 the time in seconds required to detect a direct 4 20 alarm can be set to a maximum value of 60 seconds This is useful in certain installations where transient gas presence is allowed and gas de...

Page 22: ...menu 25 the direct 4 20 channels are displayed UP 1 and DOWN 5 buttons will display which groups this channel is in whilst the 4 and 2 buttons change the channel being viewed If a channel was in group...

Page 23: ...60 panel In fact the data displayed on the repeater board is transmitted from the main panel Likewise pushing buttons on the repeater are transmitted to the main panel and are used by the main panel a...

Page 24: ...increase with the passage of time Ventilation of the room will of course alter the situation significantly but it should be remembered that if the ventilator is not at ceiling level a dangerous conce...

Page 25: ...bles and outgoing alarm annunciation Sensor cables to be electrically shielded steel wire armoured or screened cable Sensor cables to be run separately from power cables Field cables which are termina...

Page 26: ...o and that all other indicators are normal TWICE YEARLY MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE 1 All zeros at the control unit to be checked logged and aligned 2 Each detector to be gas tested and reading logged sensit...

Page 27: ...u 6 Edit Company Text The fourth line of the LED display alternates between time and compant text This text can be edited to show the site or installer details 7 Lamp Test This menu will illuminate al...

Page 28: ...sensor to be inhibited using the and to toggle the state The LCD indicates whether inhibited or not and the UP and DOWN buttons change the channel Note that only channels with active sensors can be i...

Page 29: ...Zero and Span Normally a gas sensor will be calibrated as a separate item but minor adjustments to the readings of any of the four gasses can be made at the panel using this menu Use UP and DOWN initi...

Page 30: ...this menu allows you to set the delay in seconds Use Up and DOWN to select which of the 8 relays to set described in words and then and to alter the time The minimum time is 1 second and the maximum i...

Page 31: ...up HyperTerminal on your PC and then waits for data to be sent in a prescribed format ending in x When the text has been sent any valid data is stored Bad data and comments are ignored Valid command...

Page 32: ...u to inhibit the battery alarm first and by pressing SELECT then the mains alarm The and buttons toggle whether or not each alarm is inhibited this is displayed on the LCD Pressing SELECT will exit th...

Page 33: ...ower CanComms Battery ev 1 2 3 4 4321FOHL Local energised relays E00000001 hfedcba987654321 Remote energised relays R0000000000000011 hfedcba987654321 Direct fault relay patterns h01 0100000000000001...

Page 34: ...alarm bits 49 64 channel 1 alarm bit 0 is chan 49 etc Can Chan 173 high alarm bits 1 16 channel 1 alarm bit 0 is chan 1 etc Can Chan 174 high alarm bits 17 32 channel 1 alarm bit 0 is chan 17 etc Can...

Page 35: ...Appendix 5 Toxic DIL header configurations These links configure the electrochemical cell and the table below show some typical values used 34...

Page 36: ...utput When programming the sensor processor the Run and Prog slide switch SW2 is set to Prog but under normal circumstances this switch should be in the Run position The Reset push button SW1 when pre...

Page 37: ...r terminals can be selected to run out to the sensors Hi Lo Ov Hi Lo Ov Hi Lo Ov Hi Lo Ov Hi Lo Ov Hi Lo Ov CAN relay unit Repeater panel Sensors Hi Lo Ov Hi Lo Ov Control Panel 24 Hi Lo 0v Sensor Add...

Page 38: ...37 Fig 3 Circuit Board details Processor PCB Power supply and Input Outputs...

Page 39: ...38 Fig 4 Enclosure Detail 315mm 265mm 100mm 278mm 228mm DIM 6 RESET 7 Select 3 1 2 4 5 F A I FMC 60 DIM 6 RESET 7 Select 3 1 2 4 5 F A I FMC 60...

Page 40: ...l 41 41 541 5877 Fax 41 41 541 5878 Email General Information Sales info kesn ch Accounts Department accounts kesn ch USA O ce 233 Rogue River Highway 425 Grants Pass Oregon 97527 5429 USA Tel 1 503 2...

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