Air Contact Hardware Manual
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4 Function Description
4.1 General
The Main Controller is supplied with nominal 115/230 VAC.
The device has not a fuse in the power supply line. A fuse T1AH, 250V (slow-blow) CSA
certified and UL recognized has to be provided externally as described in paragraph 10.1.
Warning, dangerous electrical voltage can be at the connector. Never touch connections,
when the device is running.
Protective earth PE has to be connected.
The Main Controller contain electrostatically sensitive components:
Prior to assembly and service operations, the personnel must be free of electrostatic charge,
e.g. by touching the PE fixing screw or other grounded metal surfaces in the control cabinet.
4.2 Digital Input
The controller supplies a ground, which could be returned to a digital input over an external voltage free contact..
• Note, that the digital inputs are not isolated.
• When relay contacts are used, they generate typical 20ms bounces. The filtering of these
signals has been done in software.
4.3 HMI
The HMI (Human Machine Interface) consist of:
• 2 x 7-segment LED display
• 1 push button
• 3 LEDs
• 1 x selector rotary dip switch
• accessible SIM card holder
• Customer specific adhesive lexan front foil
4.3.1 LED-Display
The LED-display provided for the Air Contact is a simple 2 digit 7-segment LED. It is used mainly to show
the time left in service hours. One digit is for the thousands of hours and the other one for the hundreds
of hours. Some other diagnostic numeric codes could be also showed.
Parameter Value
dimensions 16 x 26 mm
Digits 2 x 7segment
Color Red Led Segments