ViewSmart 200/2050/2150 Controller User's Manual
Document: UM-1021
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Low Trip
is set for
NO
for increasing alarms or
YES
for decreasing alarms to
determine if the alarm activates upon exceeding or falling below the set-point.
Latching
determines either manual or automatic alarm reset operation.
YES
requires a manual
Alarm Reset
to unlatch the alarm even though an alarm condition
no longer exists.
YES
also causes this alarm’s common relay, front panel LED, and
optional discrete relay to latch.
NO
allows all outputs for this alarm to automatically
reset after the alarm condition clears.
Discrete LED indicators on the front panel indicate the status of each alarm. Any
new
alarm event causes the associated LED to flash until an
Alarm Reset
occurs causing an
acknowledged
steady on condition. Operators should recognize
new
alarms by a flashing
LED.
Alarm Reset
also
acknowledges
, or deactivates, audible devices driven by the
AUDIBLE ALARM option connector J2 (see Figure 3.1)
2.2.4
CONFIGURE MENU TO DEFINE CHANNEL
The channel setup menu after the alarm menus is
CONFIGURE.
It allows setting
Name
and
EUNIT
ASCII fields, defining the measurement range, and how many decimal points
of resolution the reading will have.
Figure 2.5
2.2.4a NAME / EUNITS ASCII DATA FIELDS
The first two items in this menu are for entering the 10 character channel
Name
and
engineering unit
ASCII fields.
Name
should describe the channel’s data in user
terminology such as tag # or other description.
Eunits
should define the units of measure
for what this channel is to display. Several standard
Eunits
fields are available by
pressing
EDIT
but if these are inappropriate, a CUSTOM field allows editing of each
character. Section 2.2 describes how to modify these fields using the keypad.
2.2.4b INPUT MEASUREMENT RANGE
The
ZERO / SPAN
menu entries allow configuration of the measurement range
displayed by this channel. Measurement Range defines the range of the input signal’s
engineering units. For example, if a channel’s input is 4-20mA from a transmitter