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RC1xx LED Lighting Controllers - User Manual

RC100/120 LED

Lighting Controllers

Issue 007

User manual

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Page 1: ...RC1xx LED Lighting Controllers User Manual RC100 120 LED Lighting Controllers Issue 007 User manual www gardasoft com...

Page 2: ...ning of this equipment cannot cause any dangerous situation or significant financial loss to occur Deliberate acts of endangerment and vandalism are not covered by this document and must be considered...

Page 3: ...leur 8 4 2 lectricit 8 4 3 G n ral 9 4 4 Clause de non responsabilit 9 5 Mounting the RC1xx 9 5 1 Environmental considerations 9 6 Connecting the RC1xx 10 6 1 Power 10 6 2 Lighting output 10 6 3 Trigg...

Page 4: ...10 2 4 Setting up switched output 25 10 2 5 Setting up pulsed operation 25 10 2 6 Setting time periods 26 10 2 7 Setting the internal trigger timer 27 10 2 8 Using the key lock 28 10 2 9 Viewing the...

Page 5: ...shooting problems 1 1 RC1xx features a summary The RC1xx product is a single channel LED lighting controller for use in machine vision applications It can deliver 1A for the RC100 and 2A for the RC120...

Page 6: ...and such use should be avoided unless special measures are taken by the user to restrict emissions to a level that allows the reception of broadcast transmissions 2 3 General The RC1xx must not be use...

Page 7: ...duziert energiereiche Pulse Achten Sie darauf die Ausg nge korrekt anzuschlie en und die Ausgangsverdrahtung und die Verbraucher vor Kurzschl ssen zu sch tzen Nach dem Ausschalten wird die Energie noc...

Page 8: ...eut devenir chaude Attention Risque d lectrocution Veuillez vous r f rer aux consignes du manuel pour conna tre les pr cautions suivre au regard de ces symboles 4 1 Chaleur Assurez vous que le RC1xx e...

Page 9: ...l pourra en tre alt r e 4 4 Clause de non responsabilit Ces informations sont seulement titre indicatif Les installateurs doivent tablir leur propre valuation de risques pour chaque installation Gards...

Page 10: ...rated 6 1 Power Any power supply derived from mains electricity must have a Safety Extra Low Voltage SELV output Route low voltage wiring to the RC1xx controller separately from mains electricity wiri...

Page 11: ...ger input is a Smart Input it accepts a range of trigger sources with minimal extra circuitry Refer to Section 7 2 1 Trigger input options for further information Note The Smart Input is not isolated...

Page 12: ...provided for the light output Continuous the output is constant but variable between 0 and 100 in steps of 0 1 Pulse strobe the output is pulsed once per trigger The delay from trigger to pulse the p...

Page 13: ...C120 pulsed current cannot exceed 2A so for a lighting rating of 0 2A 1000 brightness is possible For 0 5A lighting rating the maximum brightness is 400 7 2 Triggering Trigger pulses should have a min...

Page 14: ...TTL driver goes HIGH To reverse this set the P flag to 0 see Section 7 2 Triggering NPN signal You can connect an NPN open collector drive to the RC1xx s input Use the connections shown opposite If th...

Page 15: ...e light the RC1xx senses the light on connection for its type and characteristics The unit does not need to sense the light again unless the light has changed or the RC1xx has been power cycled For fu...

Page 16: ...drift in the controller If the output current is less than 100mA the adjustments the feature imposes can have a significant effect on the lighting brightness If some flickering is seen it is recommend...

Page 17: ...100mA some fault detection is disabled Press SEL to cancel the error and allow the RC1xx to sense the light again 7 9 Factory settings You can clear the RC1xx configuration to return it to its factory...

Page 18: ...oft com The GardasoftMaint window is shown below GardasoftMaint allows you to view the controllers on your network change their IP addresses and upgrade their firmware if it becomes necessary In the m...

Page 19: ...e numbers of the IP address the same as other devices and to change only the last number For example if you have a network consisting of a PC IP address 192 168 1 35 and two RC12xs they could be alloc...

Page 20: ...rst to open when you access the RC120 s web pages This gives the controller s hardware and firmware revision levels and the serial number It also tells you the power being dissipated and the RC120 s i...

Page 21: ...age is shown below 9 3 General setup page On the general setup page shown below you can set a password for the RC120 and send it commands Refer to Section 10 3 3 General commands or Section 10 3 4 Lig...

Page 22: ...e RC120 in steps of 0 01A The voltage rating can be set from 12V to 24V in steps of 1V When a voltage rated light is connected the RC1xx automatically senses the current rating of the light Both volta...

Page 23: ...from the front panel press and hold SEL for 1 second CH1 is displayed You can then use the and keys to scroll through the menu pressing the SEL button to access the required set up as shown in the tab...

Page 24: ...the current in Amps and the voltage in Volts Press the SEL button The light s rating is set up 10 2 3 Setting up continuous output Press and hold SEL for 1 second and follow the keystrokes below CH1...

Page 25: ...SEL button Use the and buttons to set the Trigger flag F P is enabled F P is disabled Press the SEL button Use the and buttons to set the Error Detect flag F E is enabled F E is disabled Press the SEL...

Page 26: ...Error Detect flag F E is enabled F E is disabled Press the SEL button Pulsed operation is set up Note If you set the brightness to more than 100 the pulse width is limited to a safe value as described...

Page 27: ...in steps of 0 1ms Press the SEL button 10 2 7 Setting the internal trigger timer You can set an internal trigger timer when the RC1xx is in pulse mode When set the RC1xx triggers with the same delay a...

Page 28: ...e SEL button To set the lock code use the and buttons to scroll to Lc Press the SEL button Use the and buttons to set a lock code value from 0 to 255 and press the SEL button The RC1xx keypad is locke...

Page 29: ...2 10 Viewing the output current You can view an approximate measure of the output current from the RC1xx front panel The current measurement is updated roughly once per second but this can be slower w...

Page 30: ...mmand is returned by the RC120 together with any reply generated by that command in UDP or TCP IP packets followed by LF CR The last character sent is the prompt Once this has been received the host k...

Page 31: ...nds 200us 200 microseconds 0 1s 0 1 seconds 100mA 100 milliamps 2 45A 2 45 Amps 2 3 2300 milliamps 2 3 Amps 10 3 3 General commands Any changes you make using Ethernet commands are not saved permanent...

Page 32: ...ol the internal trigger When set the output is triggered using an internal trigger signal Type in TT0 to disable the internal trigger TT1 to enable the internal trigger using the period last set TT1 p...

Page 33: ...urrent rating of the light after being sensed successfully by SafeSense RA Configured voltage or current rating of the light set by the VL command Clear configuration CL This command clears the config...

Page 34: ...pt is returned Set Clear the webpage password This command sets the web page password Up to six characters can be chosen Type in EYasc1 asc2 asc3 asc4 asc5 asc6 Where asc1 to asc6 are decimal ASCII va...

Page 35: ...it is voltage rated set the current rating to 0 Set continuous mode This command sets the output to continuous mode and allows the brightness to be set RS1 s Where s brightness as a percentage 0 to 1...

Page 36: ...utomatic sensing of light characteristics Sets the maximum brightness to be used when automatically sensing the characteristics of the light connected PQ1 0 PQ1 m PQ Where m maximum expected brightnes...

Page 37: ...anual contains information about the RC1xx s specification ratings You can find further information in Section 11 2 Restrictions Section 11 3 Event codes and Section 11 4 Error codes 11 1 Specificatio...

Page 38: ...when commands are entered Exceeding these values causes an error to be returned The keypad interface prevents invalid values being entered at the controller 11 2 1 Continuous mode The maximum continu...

Page 39: ...mat is Evt1 event code Some event codes are displayed on the RC120 s front panel these are shown in red Event number Reason 1 to 127 An error has occurred See Section 11 3 Event codes 128 A light has...

Page 40: ...aved to EEPROM Err 19 A light has been connected but no rating has been set Err 21 22 23 A sensing error has occurred see Section 7 8 Fault detection Err 27 Ethernet settings cannot be read from the E...

Page 41: ...a voltage Err 44 FAt Fatal error The RC1xx is too hot The unit has a thermal cut out which operates between approximately 65 C and 70 C depending on conditions Err 46 The channel output power is great...

Page 42: ...ighting Controllers User Manual www gardasoft com Issue 007 September 2021 Copyright 2021 Gardasoft Vision Ltd Gardasoft Vision Ltd Trinity Court Buckingway Business Park Cambridge CB24 4UQ UK tel 44...

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