ASCO 5010 Remote Display Unit
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Section 7.
Basic Configuration
When powered up after being installed into an electrical panel, or powered up by being connected to the ASCO 5450 and 5490
Power Quality Meters via the LAN2/LCD socket, the ASCO 5010 is ready to be configured before being used to configure, set up
and monitor a ASCO 5400 Series PQM.
When the LAN and power cables are first connected, the device boots up, first showing the ASCO welcome screen and then
arriving at the Connection Configuration page shown in Figure 10, from where the ASCO 5010 RDU can be configured. After a
few seconds (configurable- see below "Auto connect page"), the page changes to the ASCO 5400 Series Power Quality Meter’s
main entry menu page, from where the ASCO 5400 Series PQM is to be configured (Figure 9). To return to the ASCO 5010 RDU
configuration page, simply push the Network Key or use the right arrow ( ) and left arrow ( ) to navigate to and select the Log
Off
option, that will return to the 'Connection Configuration' page.
Figure 10: The ASCO Welcome Screen followed by the Connection Configuration Page
As seen from Figure 10, the Connection Configuration screen displays the following headings:
IP address: This heading displays the last ASCO 5400 Series Power Quality Meter to which the ASCO 5010 RDU was
connected. Entering here allows the user to connect to any ASCO 5400 Series PQM on the network.
Password: The default password is 123. An administration password is supplied separately by ASCO. From this
heading, the administrator may input his password and freely change parameters on the ASCO 5400 Series Power
Quality Meter being configured until he presses the Network key or the keypad is idle for 5 minutes. There is no need
for any password to change the parameters of the ASCO 5010 RDU from these pages.
Language: From this screen the user chooses the interface language.
Configuration: Navigate to this heading using the F4 and F5 keys in order to configure the ASCO 5010 Remote Display
Unit with the following options:
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General information- this screen offers the serial number and version information for all software resident in the
ASCO 5010 RDU
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Auto connect configuration- In this page the time for presenting the Connection Configuration page is set. After
this time, the ASCO 5010 RDU will automatically connect to the last ASCO 5400 Series instrument to which it
was connected.
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LCD Contrast- the contrast ratio between black and white for the LCD is set in this screen
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LCD Backlight timeout- this screen allows for setting a time until the backlight extinguishes automatically
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Network configuration- this screen is used to configure the network parameters for the ASCO 5010 Remote
Display Unit in order that it may be plugged into the LAN/WAN and communicate with any ASCO 5400 Series
anywhere in the world. The parameters that must be configured are as follows (these parameters are explained in
section 7.1- Network Parameters- Table 1):
