Det-Tronics S3 Graphics User Manual

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User Guide

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CONTENTS

Section 1 - Introduction

Warranty Information .............................................................. 1-1

What is S3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

Features ....................................................................... 1-3

Requirements ................................................................... 1-4

Architecture .................................................................... 1-5

Configuration Environment ......................................................... 1-5

Online Environment .............................................................. 1-6

Data Collector & Distributor (DCD) .................................................. 1-6

Installation Options ............................................................... 1-6

Installation Procedure............................................................. 1-7

Hardware keys .................................................................. 1-10

Section 2 - S3 Configuration

Main Screen .................................................................... 2-1

Ports .......................................................................... 2-2

Start Monitoring ................................................................. 2-2

Print Documentation .............................................................. 2-2

Logs .......................................................................... 2-2

Preferences..................................................................... 2-2

Backups ....................................................................... 2-3

Passwords ..................................................................... 2-3

OPC Server..................................................................... 2-3

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Section 3 - Ports

Basic Port Configuration........................................................... 3-1

Serial Port Settings ............................................................... 3-3

Section 4 - Start Monitoring

Online Operation ................................................................ 4-1

Point Display.................................................................... 4-2

Function Keys ................................................................... 4-2

Data Tables .................................................................... 4-6

LON Overview .................................................................. 4-7

Section 5 - Printing

Overview of features.............................................................. 5-1

Filtering data to be printed ......................................................... 5-2

Selecting ports to document ....................................................... 5-3

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Section 6 - Logs

Overview of features.............................................................. 6-1

Alarm Logs (DCD Disk Log) ....................................................... 6-2

Configuration Logs .............................................................. 6-3

Calibration Logs ................................................................ 6-5

Section 7 - Preferences

Project......................................................................... 7-1

Drawing........................................................................ 7-2

Clock.......................................................................... 7-3

User Strings (Second language database) ............................................ 7-4

Examples of user string configuration ............................................... 7-5

Graphics ....................................................................... 7-8

Logs .......................................................................... 7-13

DCD .......................................................................... 7-14

Screen Prints ................................................................... 7-15

Screen Saver ................................................................... 7-16

Button User Levels ............................................................... 7-17

Sounds ........................................................................ 7-18

Section 8 - Backup & Restore Utility

Overview of features.............................................................. 8-1

Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2

Restore ........................................................................ 8-5

Section 9 - OPC Server

OPC in S3 ...................................................................... 9-1

OPC Server Configuration ......................................................... 9-2

OPC Property Viewer ............................................................. 9-3

Section 10 - User Log in & out/Accounts

Security....................................................................... 10-1

Administrator Privileges .......................................................... 10-2

Creating User Accounts .......................................................... 10-3

Passwords .................................................................... 10-6

Section 11 - Eagle Quantum Premier (EQP) Configuration

EQP Configuration ............................................................... 11-1

Configuration screen ............................................................ 11-2

Button Bar Overview............................................................. 11-2

Command Bar Overview ......................................................... 11-3

Command Definitions ............................................................ 11-3

Devices Found ................................................................ 11-3

Get Revision .................................................................. 11-4

Globals ...................................................................... 11-5

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Point Display .................................................................. 11-10

Reset Module ................................................................. 11-12

Download .................................................................... 11-12

Get RTC ..................................................................... 11-12

LON Diagnostic................................................................ 11-13

Point Address ................................................................. 11-15

Set RTC ...................................................................... 11-15

Edit (node) ................................................................... 11-16

Get Voltages .................................................................. 11-17

Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-18

Output Configuration Screen Details ............................................... 11-26

Print (node(s) ................................................................. 11-27

Upload....................................................................... 11-28

Configuration Bar ............................................................... 11-28

Arrange ...................................................................... 11-28

Display Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-29

Copy/Paste ................................................................... 11-30

Find ......................................................................... 11-30

Point Color.................................................................... 11-31

Delete ....................................................................... 11-31

New Device................................................................... 11-32

Controller Log ................................................................. 11-33

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Section 12 - Eagle Quantum Premier (EQP) Devices

Controller Overview .............................................................. 12-1

Configuring .................................................................... 12-2

Tagname creation .............................................................. 12-2

Miscellaneous text ............................................................. 12-2

Redundancy .................................................................. 12-3

Serial Port Configuration ......................................................... 12-3

LON Point disabling ............................................................ 12-5

Beeper Volume adjustment....................................................... 12-5

Hardware Inputs and Outputs .................................................... 12-5

Option Board configuration....................................................... 12-7

Alarms & Events overview ........................................................ 12-8

Alarm & Event configuration ...................................................... 12-9

Enabled checkbox ............................................................. 12-10

Name........................................................................ 12-10

Printer selection ............................................................... 12-10

File selection (Alarm History) ..................................................... 12-10

Window selection (Active Alarms) ................................................. 12-10

Auto Clear selection ............................................................ 12-10

Sound choices ................................................................ 12-10

Active/Normal Color selection .................................................... 12-11

Graphic Trigger Group .......................................................... 12-11

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MIR Flame Detector (X3301) ....................................................... 12-13

Overview...................................................................... 12-13

Heated Optics................................................................. 12-14

Automatic oi .................................................................. 12-14

Alarms ....................................................................... 12-17

User Levels ................................................................... 12-18

Point Display .................................................................. 12-18

MIR Flame Detector (X3302) ....................................................... 12-19

Overview...................................................................... 12-19

Heated Optics................................................................. 12-20

Automatic oi .................................................................. 12-20

Alarms ....................................................................... 12-23

User Levels ................................................................... 12-23

Point Display .................................................................. 12-24

IR Flame Detector (X9800)......................................................... 12-25

Overview...................................................................... 12-25

Processing Mode .............................................................. 12-26

Automatic oi .................................................................. 12-27

Alarms ....................................................................... 12-30

User Levels ................................................................... 12-30

Point Display .................................................................. 12-31

Ultraviolet / Infrared Optical Flame Detector (X5200) ..........................................12-33

Overview............................................................................12-33

UV Flame Detector Options ............................................................12-34

IR Detector Options ..................................................................12-35

Automatic oi ..........................................................................

Alarms.............................................................................12-38

User Levels .........................................................................12-38

Point Display ........................................................................12-39

UV Flame Detector (X2200) ........................................................ 12-41

Overview...................................................................... 12-41

Processing Mode .............................................................. 12-42

Automatic oi .................................................................. 12-43

Alarms ....................................................................... 12-45

User Levels ................................................................... 12-45

Point Display .................................................................. 12-46

UV Flame Detector (EQ2200UV) .................................................... 12-47

Overview...................................................................... 12-47

Processing Mode .............................................................. 12-48

Automatic oi .................................................................. 12-49

Alarms ....................................................................... 12-50

User Levels ................................................................... 12-51

Point Display .................................................................. 12-51

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UVIR Flame Detector (EQ2200UVIR)................................................. 12-53

Overview...................................................................... 12-53

Processing Mode .............................................................. 12-55

Automatic oi .................................................................. 12-56

Alarms ....................................................................... 12-57

User Levels ................................................................... 12-57

Point Display .........................................................................12-58

Point IR Hydrocarbon Detector (PIRECL) ............................................. 12-59

Overview...................................................................... 12-59

Gas type ..................................................................... 12-60

Special gases ................................................................. 12-60

Calibration gas type/concentration................................................. 12-61

Alarm setpoints ................................................................ 12-62

PV Deadband adjustment........................................................ 12-62

Alarms ....................................................................... 12-63

Point Display .................................................................. 12-64

Open Path Eclipse Gas Detector (OPECL) ............................................ 12-65

Overview...................................................................... 12-65

Gas type ..................................................................... 12-66

Special gases ................................................................. 12-66

Alarm setpoints ................................................................ 12-67

PV Deadband adjustment........................................................ 12-67

Alarms ....................................................................... 12-78

Point Display .................................................................. 12-69

Digital Communication Unit (DCU) .................................................. 12-71

Overview...................................................................... 12-71

DCU Type Selection ............................................................ 12-72

Alarms ....................................................................... 12-73

Point Display .................................................................. 12-74

Direct Current (DCIO)/Enhanced Discreet (EDIO) input/output modules ..................... 12-75

Overview...................................................................... 12-75

Channel configuration........................................................... 12-76

Static logic ................................................................... 12-77

Alarms ....................................................................... 12-77

User Levels ................................................................... 12-78

Point Display .................................................................. 12-79

Intelligent Protection Module (IPM) .................................................. 12-81

Overview...................................................................... 12-81

Configuration.................................................................. 12-82

Abort mode ................................................................... 12-83

Zone modes .................................................................. 12-83

Detection circuit delays ......................................................... 12-86

Alarms ....................................................................... 12-86

User Levels ................................................................... 12-87

Point Display .................................................................. 12-88

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Analog Input Module (AIM) ........................................................ 12-89

Overview...................................................................... 12-89

Channel Configuration .......................................................... 12-90

Ranges ...................................................................... 12-90

Deadband .................................................................... 12-90

Alarm trigger direction .......................................................... 12-91

Gas mode .................................................................... 12-91

Alarms ....................................................................... 12-91

User Levels ................................................................... 12-92

Point Display .................................................................. 12-93

Relay Module ................................................................... 12-95

Overview...................................................................... 12-95

Com failed mode selection ....................................................... 12-96

Alarms ....................................................................... 12-96

User Levels ................................................................... 12-97

Point Display .................................................................. 12-98

Agent Release Module (ARM) ...................................................... 12-99

Overview...................................................................... 12-99

Mode Control ................................................................. 12-100

Alarms ....................................................................... 12-100

User Levels ................................................................... 12-100

Point Display .................................................................. 12-101

Initiating Device Circuit (IDC) module ................................................ 12-103

Overview...................................................................... 12-103

Static Logic Mode .............................................................. 12-104

Alarms ....................................................................... 12-105

User Levels ................................................................... 12-106

Point Display .................................................................. 12-106

Signal Audible Module (SAM) ...................................................... 12-107

Overview...................................................................... 12-107

Alarms ....................................................................... 12-108

User Levels ................................................................... 12-109

Point Display .................................................................. 12-109

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Section 13 - EQP Logic Editor

Logic Editor Overview ............................................................ 13-1

File menu ..................................................................... 13-3

Edit menu ..................................................................... 13-4

Controller menu ................................................................ 13-8

Global memory ................................................................ 13-8

Local memory ................................................................. 13-10

AB Monitor ................................................................... 13-11

AB Moves .................................................................... 13-11

AB Table Settings .............................................................. 13-14

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Modbus Monitor ............................................................... 13-14

Modbus Moves ................................................................ 13-15

Modbus Table Settings .......................................................... 13-19

Project menu................................................................... 13-19

Sheets menu................................................................... 13-30

Toolbars menu ................................................................. 13-36

Help menu .................................................................... 13-42

Logic Creation .................................................................. 13-45

Definitions ..................................................................... 13-46

Connecting logic operators ...................................................... 13-49

Linking variables ............................................................... 13-50

Sheet-to-sheet network linking .................................................... 13-55

SIL 2 logic creation ..................................................................13-57

SIL Logic..........................................................................13-58

Functions Reference ................................................................13-61

Device Items Reference........................................................... 13-65

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INTRODUCTION

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WARRANTY

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What is S3

Safety System Software (S3) is a complete, high performance Human Machine Interface software package that is designed to work seamlessly with a variety of Safety Systems including all three generations of the Detector Electronics “Eagle ” addressable systems. It allows data to be acquired from these systems for event and alarm tracking, display on custom graphics, and to be shared with other systems.

When used as an Operator Interface Station (OIS) it also allows commands to be sent to attached systems to perform a variety of functions. S3 also provides convenient and accurate device conﬁguration, programming and diagnostic tools.

There are no cumbersome keyboard commands for the operator to learn. The entire interface is graphic in nature. On screen point and click icons allow convenient navigation through the application with easy access to the various features.

The S3 database contains all of the information needed to allow for easy and accurate conﬁguration. All pertinent information for the device being conﬁgured including user selectable options is displayed on an easy to understand “point conﬁguration screen”. From this screen the conﬁguration can be viewed and changes can be made as desired.

Pre-conﬁgured “Point Display Screens” present data for complex networked devices as well as conventional ones in a consolidated and easy to understand format. With Eagle Quantum Premier devices, each node on the network provides detailed status information, recent alarms and calibration records.

S3 also provides password protection for up to 64 different user accounts to keep unauthorized personnel from modifying system conﬁgurations, and thousands of user levels for accessing command and control functions.

In short, S3 collects, tracks, displays and distributes your safety system information while allowing intuitive operator input for command and control functions of these safety systems.

User Guide

Depending on the application or system, it is very unlikely that all the features offered in S3 will be utilized, or some features may be used more than others. The S3 user guide has been developed to assist experienced operators in understanding the vast capabilities of this robust safety system software.

New users with no prior S a new user attend the EQP Systems Advanced Technical Training class (Course 102). Further information is available through our website or contact us by telephone.

knowledge will have difﬁculty following this guide. It is strongly recommended that

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User friendly point and click navigation, with no special keyboard commands to learn. •

Menu driven conﬁguration ensures easy installation or modiﬁcation.•

Conﬁguration additions or changes can be made at any time with minimal interruption to system operation.•

Alarm and calibration data available online.•

Automatic diagnostics ensures reliable system operation.•

Up to 10 simultaneous active communication ports.•

Automatic serial port conﬁguration; baud rate, data bits, stop bits, parity.•

OPC 2.03 Data Access Server option to share data with outside systems.•

Complete logic programming and simulation environment.•

SIL-2 compliant logics also available.•

Comprehensive “event tracking” for up to 250,000 unique tags.•

Event logging to screen, disk, and printer.•

Single window view of data from a variety of sources.•

Bilingual support for online operations.•

Multi-level security for up to 64 unique accounts.•

Project based development environment for managing multiple projects.•

Printing of comprehensive project documentation.•

Integral project backup and restore utility.•

Complete conﬁguration logging for tracking changes to setpoints, device conﬁgurations, downloads, etc.•

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Requirements

The minimum S3 workstation hardware requirements are:

Computer. The S3 software suite is designed to run on an Intel® based computer with at least a 800 MHz Pentium III processor, running Windows Vista/XP Professional. Computers operating on a 64 bit platform are fully supported; as with many modern programs, the faster the machine, the better the performance.

A hard drive with at least 50 MB of available space and a CD-ROM drive is also required for installation.

Memory. S3 Safety System Software is a high performance Operator Interface System (OIS) environment and requires a minimum of 256 MB of physical memory. When custom graphics are included in a project the memory footprint grows by 1MB per screen, based on XGA screen resolution, higher resolutions require more memory. Det-Tronics typically provides a minimum of 512MB of physical RAM in its OIS installations.

Display. S3 requires thousands of colors (16 bit) and a minimum display resolution of 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels high (XGA). Software support for touchscreens is included.

Serial Ports. S3 is designed to utilize up to ten high speed serial ports, all running at up to 115.2 kbps simultaneously — typically this includes the two serial ports available on the motherboard of the computer, plus up to eight additional ports on an expansion card with a serial coprocessor. USB to serial converters are supported.

Ethernet. S3 can communicate with some systems via a single or redundant Ethernet connection. Each network card must have a separate, ﬁxed, TCP/IP address.

Printers. The system can utilize any properly installed printer for documentation purposes. For on-line alarm monitoring a serial printer port must be conﬁgured through the “Ports” screen, and the appropriate printer attached. S3 is designed to work with a serial version of the Okidata ML490 four color, tractor feed, dot matrix printer.

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Architecture

The S3 software suite is divided into two distinct environments, Conﬁguration and Online Monitoring.

The Conﬁguration environment revolves around device/database conﬁguration, graphics generation, project management and documentation.

The Online environment involves utilizing these conﬁgurations to collect distribute and display the information to operations personnel.

These two environments are summarized below.

Configuration Environment

This environment is utilized to conﬁgure the system for operation. The following primary functions are accessible:

Conﬁguration of communication ports which allow data to be collected from attached systems. This includes • port type selection, protocol selection, and the manipulation of any adjustable parameters.

Conﬁguration of supported addressable ﬁeld devices.•

Programming and simulation of supported logic solvers.•

Creation and editing of the second language database.•

Tag name development, alarm and event tracking conﬁguration.•

Global operational parameter adjustments such as time & date format, touchscreen support, remote connection • parameters, custom sound library management, etc.

Project management tools to allow for multiple projects to be developed on one machine. This includes an • integral project based backup and restore utility

Security administration allowing for the creation and maintenance of user accounts.•

The ability to print selectable detailed project documentation.•

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Online Environment

The S3 software suite consists of a number of separate application programs that work together to collect, distribute and display data from a variety of sources.

At the center of the suite is an application program called the “Data Collector and Distributor” or “DCD” for short.

DCD

The DCD is the heart of all online operations. It handles all of the OIS communication processes including serial communications to attached systems, TCP/IP communication with attached systems, communication with OPC clients, other S3 application programs both local and remote.

The DCD can control up to ten communication ports, either individual serial ports or TCP/IP connections.

It collects data from these ports to update the tag database in accordance with the conﬁgurations of the individual attached systems.

Other S3 application programs query the DCD to perform their individual functions such as, updating the active alarm list, generating the alarm history and daily log, and servicing remote access requests.

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Installation Options

There are two installation options available depending on how the workstation is to be used. They are; Operations and Development.

Operations Installation Selection

This installation is designed for full time Operator Interface Station (OIS) operations where the system will be “online” around the clock and will be used by operations personnel as a window into the safety system.

If the “Operations” selection is used for installation, the system will be conﬁgured as a secure stand-alone OIS with tight security restrictions installed at the lowest levels of the operating system.

The user must be logged into Windows as the “Administrator” in order to install this option.

When the “Operations” installation is used S3 takes complete control of the workstation and when “Online” access to the operating system will not be allowed. In addition, access to other application programs or Windows functions such as “CTL-ALT-DEL”, “ALT-TAB”, etc. will not be available.

The “Operations” installation also conﬁgures the system so that on a loss of power (or other event that causes a system restart) the OIS will automatically return to its previous state. S3 will automatically restart and if online prior to the event will return online with the last valid user logged in as the current user. If not online the station will return to the S3 Main Screen.

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Development

The “Development” installation does not install the low level security features of the “Operations” version. User level security is still utilized but full access to the operating system is available in a manner consistent with the given operating system.

When S3 software is ordered with the OIS computer, the software will come already loaded on the hard disk of the computer. If S3 software is ordered separately, if re-installation of the original software becomes necessary, or if a software update is to be installed, use the following procedure.

NOTE

If S3 software is currently running, return to the System Overview screen and quit S3 before installing the

software. It is highly recommended to uninstall any previous versions of S3 before installation.

Installation Procedure

Insert the 1. S3 CD into the CD-ROM drive. Open the CD drive icon and double click on “Install.” This will open the “Setup” dialog box with important instructions on how to continue. Clicking on the “Next” button will advance to the license screen.

This step presents Det-Tronics’ software license 2. agreement. Read the agreement and choose the appropriate radio button. Use the “Next” button to continue.

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Choose one of the two types of installations and click the Next button. A “Develolpment” install is required 3. when S3 is being installed for the ﬁrst time. An “Operations” install would be performed after all logics and settings have been created in the Development mode. In Operations mode, no changes can be made to logics or settings, only monitoring occurs in this mode.

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The next two windows are related to the S4. continue.

desktop shortcut. Choose accordingly, then choose Next to

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Verify that all options selected in previous windows are correct, use the Back button to make corrections, 5. choose Next to begin installation.

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During installation there will be a prompt to remove all Alladin 6. USB keys; do so at this time and choose OK to continue.

The installer will now install all the necessary drivers.7.

After the drivers are installed successfully, a conﬁrmation window will 8. appear, choose OK to continue.

A successful installation window will appear, click Finish.9.

Plug the Aladdin key to a USB port on the computer.10.

The system will ask to be rebooted due to the newly 11.

installed drivers. Choose Yes, and OK.

Upon successful installation, S3 automatically creates a desktop shortcut and a folder titled “DEC”, where all necessary and related ﬁles are stored.

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Hardware Keys

A hardware key which attaches to the workstation determines the options that will be enabled on the station.

The hardware keys are available in two versions; one for the standard DB-25 Parallel printer port and the other for a USB port.

This “Standard” hardware key is programmable to enable a variety of options.

The “Standard” Configuration/Runtime Key

This key will allow communication with and the conﬁguration of Detector Electronics Corporations “Eagle” addressable Fire & Gas systems. (EAGLE2000 “E2K”, Eagle Quantum “EQ”, Eagle Quantum Premier “EQP”).

The Conﬁguration/Runtime key enables the following features:

The ability to utilize up to 10 serial ports to communicate with multiple Eagle systems.•

The ability to conﬁgure any of the ﬁeld devices and download this conﬁguration to them.•

The ability to program, simulate, monitor and document logic for the supported controllers.•

The ability to look at the “real time status” of any attached Eagle ﬁeld device through pre-built “point-displays”.•

Enables the DCD program allowing it to run.•

The ability to utilize a conﬁguration engineered with the developers key to communicate via up to 10 ports.•

The ability to log to screen, disk, and printer any conﬁgured events for any of the attached systems.•

This key does not allow the development of custom graphics but does allow online operation with graphics created with a developers key.

A variety of options are available and when purchased will be enabled by the key. These include the following:

Expansion of EQP network from 60 to 250 nodes.•

Enabling additional communication ports. Up to 10 total can be enabled.•

Enabling the EQP OPC Data Access Server feature imbedded in the DCD.•

Enabling Modbus RTU serial and/or Modbus TCP Ethernet ports.•

Enabling Triconex serial and/or TSAA Ethernet ports.•

While on the main screen (see the next section) in S3, the user is able to view a list

of all enabled options available with a key by pressing “K” on the keyboard. The window should resemble the example to the right.

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S3 CONFIGURATION

When the S3 application program is started it will display its “MAIN SCREEN”. From this screen there is access to all the engineering, conﬁguration and utility programs that make up the S3 application suite.

There are eleven buttons on this screen, each one provides access to a different area of the application suite.

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Main Screen

Before any work can be done the user must “log in” to the system with a valid password utilizing the “Log In/ Out” button.

The access privileges for the users account will determine what features will be available for access and the buttons for these features will then be enabled.

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Ports

Provides access to the “Port Conﬁguration” screen. From that screen up to ten (10) ports can be conﬁgured for access to attached systems via serial connection, or Ethernet.

Start Monitoring

Launches the main online monitoring application (DCD) which starts continuous polling of all enabled ports and begins event monitoring, logging and printing. If so conﬁgured, it also displays custom graphics with dynamic data overlay.

Print Documentation

Provides access to the project conﬁguration documentation features of the system. Complete documentation of port, point, and event conﬁgurations for all attached devices can be selected for printing on the Windows default printer.

Logs

Allows access to both the conﬁguration logs and daily log ﬁles. The conﬁguration logs track all conﬁguration changes made to the system while the daily logs store events monitored online and are stored by day.

Preferences

Provides access to a wide range of global preferences including the ability to select the currently active project, second language support, sound library conﬁguration, day/date/time options, screensaver options and more.

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Backups

Provides access to the project backup and restore utility. This automated utility allows a selected project to archived to or restored from ﬂoppy. Built in compression routines allow even large projects to be backed up.

Provides access to the user “Log In” screen. Up to 64 unique password protected user accounts can be conﬁgured, each having different rights and privileges.

Passwords

Provides the system administrator with the tools for setting up and managing the individual user accounts. Individual users with valid accounts may also change their password from this utility.

OPC Server

Allows the user to browse the tag name database and view the OPC properties of tags, to activate or deactivate either individual tags or groups of tags, and to document (print) the server conﬁguration.

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PORTS

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Basic Port Configuration

Clicking on the “Ports” button from the S3 Navigation screen of the S3 software brings up the Port Conﬁgurations dialog box:

S3 offers ten ports, each of which can be conﬁgured to a speciﬁc type of system or device.

By default, when the Port Conﬁgurations dialog box ﬁrst appears, Port 1 is selected.

Choosing the “Conﬁgure” button from the “Port Conﬁgurations” dialog box, the “Select port type” dialog box appears (this is true only when an unused port is selected).

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The available choices are based on the S3 hardware key plugged into the computer, and only supported systems or devices are darkened.

PORTS

“Not Conﬁgured” is the default selection, simply select the radio button for the type of port to be created and click OK. This will open the main conﬁguration screen for the selected port type. Clicking Cancel will return to the Port Conﬁgurations dialog box without any change.

NOTE

Refer to the appropriate section of this manual for details on specic port type congurations.

From the main conﬁguration screen for the selected port type, choose “Exit” to return to the Port Conﬁguration screen.

NOTE

New port types are constantly under development. Information on new port type support and the latest

information on S3 updates can be obtained through the Detector Electronics website at www.det-tronics.com.

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Serial Port Settings

Once the port type has been selected, the button face will change to match the selection. In addition, six buttons on the right hand side of the window will be enabled. These buttons allow various parameters to be adjusted for any conﬁgured port.

Conﬁguration of the device(s) attached to a port, data table reads, etc. are accessed by double-clicking on the port button, or selecting the “Conﬁgure” button.

Physical serial port conﬁguration parameters like baud rate, the number of data bits, etc. can be accessed using the “Serial Settings” button. This will open a dialog box allowing the adjustment of the port parameters.

The port parameters can be set manually from the pull-down menus.

Selecting the “Auto Check” button will cause the software to cycle through all combinations until it can connect. It will then display the successful settings.

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The “Timers” button will open a dialog box allowing the “Polling” and “Watchdog” timers for the port to be set. There are also checkboxes to enable each of these timers.

The Polling Timer determines how quickly the port will poll the attached slave.

The Watchdog Timer determines how long to wait for a response from the slave before logging a watchdog fault. A sound can be tied to this fault from a pulldown menu.

PORTS

The “Delete” button allows the removal of a port from the system conﬁguration. Port deletions are nal, there is no “undo”, use with care.

The “Move” button allows a fully conﬁgured port to be relocated to a different port while preserving its conﬁguration.

NOTE

Moving a port will have no impact on the graphics since the dynamic and TAG objects are based on the tag

name not the port.

The “Name” button allows a name to be associated with a port. This name will then show up in the printed documentation for the port. It has no other purpose except for the printed documentation.

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Online Operation

The “Start Monitoring” button launches the DCD, which allows the user to access “Online Mode”.

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Online mode provides the operator with continuously updated information about the attached systems.

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Shows the user detailed information about a selected TAG object. Each type of device, digital inputs, analog inputs, fire detectors, gas detectors etc. have a different type of point display, tailored to the amount and type of data available for that specific device.

The sample point display above is for an addressable combustible gas detector.

Displays a list of defined button groups so the user can select and display the group. Each button group has up to five buttons that can be used to change screens, send commands to attached systems, etc. The user can only select button groups that are “enabled” for the current graphic screen. Button groups are defined in the graphic editor.

Displays the “Function Key List” available online for faster execution of functions.

The program functions with assigned Fkeys include the Acknowledge, Alarm History, Log in/out, Port Diagnostics, Calibration Log Reporter, and Quit Online Operations.

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Acknowledge (F3)

Silences audible alarms, causes all TAG objects in a “New Alarm” state on the graphics to go to their “Acknowledged Alarm” state, and can also be configured to activate a user programmed button.

Active Alarms (F5)

Opens the “Active Alarms” screen that shows any “out of tolerance” conditions. Using the buttons at the bottom of the screen, these conditions can be sorted by communication port or viewed all together.

In the example below there are two active ports, Port 1 configured for Triconex system and Port 3 configured for a Quantum system. On the right side of the screen are a number of self-explanatory buttons for navigating the list, none are shown highlighted due to the shortness of the list in the example.

There is a counter at the top right indicating the current number of active alarms. In the lower right there is a page indicator and buttons for Acknowledging alarms or exiting the display.

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Alarm History (F6)

Opens the “Alarm History” screen and displays the current days log. This daily log shows date and time stamped events for a 24 hour period.

It has two main areas, the historical display in the center and the navigation buttons running down the right side of the screen. In addition to viewing the current days log, the user can use the “Select Log” button to choose a log from another day.

The date of the log being displayed is shown at the top right of the display.

An acknowledge button is provided to acknowledge alarms without leaving the Alarm History screen.

Up to 64 unique users can be configured, each having their own access privileges. This Fkey allows the current user to “log out”, or a new user to “log in” to the system. This action will be recorded in the Alarm History.

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Port Diagnostics (F11)

Opens the “Port Diagnostics” screen which displays the status of all ten communication ports.

Dynamic counters display information on data reads issued and successful, writes issued and successful, and failures in communication between S3 and the attached systems.

Each port type has buttons for accessing applicable features. These include a way to display the ports data tables, a LON Overview for Eagle type ports and a way to clear the counters.

The “Printer” port type allows for printer control and maintenance. A “soft reset” of the printer can be performed as well as setting the top of form and initiating form feeds. In addition the printer event queue can be cleared.

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Data Tables

The data tables show users the current information about addresses and bits being read from attached systems stored in specific serial tables of a port.

This feature is typically used by maintenance personnel to determine if the selected port is reading the correct addresses and to do detailed troubleshooting.

Some port types allow for the configuration and polling of multiple data tables. All configured data tables are available for viewing by pressing the appropriate button at the lower left of the screen.

An “Acknowledge” button is provided to allow alarms and events to be acknowledged without leaving the data table screen.

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LON Overview

This is a specialized diagnostic screen which displays a schematic representation of the addressable Eagle Quantum Premier, Eagle Quantum or EAGLE2000 loop.

Each device on the loop is represented by a rectangle containing the device tag and other information. The color of the rectangle represents the current status of the device. There are five possible conditions/status, Normal, Fault, Alarm, New Fault, or New Alarm.

Additional viewing options that can display more information are accessed through a group of buttons in the lower right of the display.

Acknowledge

Either silences an activated alarm while being in the LON overview screen or silences an activated alarm from the Port Diagnostics screen.

Display Type

It displays devices by device name.

Point Display

Clicking on this button or double clicking on the rectangle representing a particular point will display the “Point Display” for that unit. From the “Point Display” all of the available status and diagnostic details on a nodes can be viewed. (Read more about the point display in Section 11-10).

Exit

Takes the user out of the LON overview screen.

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Overview of features

Using the Windows default local or network printer, S and event conﬁgurations for all attached devices.

Selecting the “Print Documentation” button from the main screen will open a dialog box which allows the user to conﬁgure which portions of the documentation to print.

can be print comprehensive documentation of port, point,

Choices are made using check boxes for both the type of documentation and the ports to be included. Using the select all button will provide total documentation of the system conﬁguration. This could easily reach into hundreds of pages of printed documentation depending on the number of ports conﬁgured and their point conﬁgurations.

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Filtering data to be printed

Tagnames (All)

This selection prints a list of all tagnames used in the system.

User Module Strings

This selection prints the factory default and user conﬁgured “event descriptions” associated with the individual points.

User Miscellaneous Strings

This selection prints the factory default and user conﬁgured substitutes for the descriptions of buttons and text used by the system in the “Online” mode. Examples of miscellaneous strings include the navigation button descriptions, function key list and user conﬁgured buttons.

Miscellaneous Preferences

This selection prints certain conﬁguration parameters in the graphic editor and online applications. In the graphic editor this includes the graphic grid spacing and polygon tool settings. In the online application it includes whether or not the acknowledge button silences custom sounds ﬁrst, how may days alarm logs will be kept, whether the alternate language dictionary is conﬁgured to be used or not and whether to use a twelve or twenty four hour clock.

User Configuration

supports up to sixty four (64) unique user accounts, this selection prints all user account information except passwords. This includes whether or not the user can access the conﬁguration programs, initiate send commands to attached devices, access port diagnostics and quit online operations.

Sounds

This selection prints a list of the custom sound library. Up to 64 custom sounds can be recorded and used by the system.

OPC Server Configuration

Prints a list of “Active” tags available to OPC Clients.

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Selecting ports to document

Port 1 - 10

supports up to ten ports. Each port can be physical serial port or an Ethernet

connection.

NOTE

A single Ethernet card can support multiple ports!

In the example to the right, ports one and three are conﬁgured and therefore selectable. The ports not conﬁgured are grayed out.

Each selected port will have its documentation printed.

Port documentation includes all aspects of the conﬁguration including the communication parameters and any conﬁgured points, events, alarms, setpoints, custom event names, etc. Each conﬁgured point has one page of printed conﬁguration data.

Once all of the selections for the documentation and ports to print have been made, select the “OK” button to access the “Print Setup” dialog box for the Windows-NT/2000/XP/Vista default printer and continue the printing process.

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Once the print conﬁguration is set, selecting OK will display the “Print Setup” dialog box for the Windows-NT/2000/XP/Vista default printer.

In the example below an HP LaserJet 5000 network printer is the Windows-NT/2000/XP/Vista default.

Depending on the default printer installed the dialog box and choices available will vary.

The Okidata event and alarm

printer specied for use with

S3 can be congured as the

Windows-NT/2000/XP/Vista default printer and used for

documentation. However, due to

the volume of paper and printer

speed, it is not recommended.

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Overview of features

S3 maintains three different types of logs; disk, conﬁguration and calibration. All can be viewed and printed from this utility.

Selecting the “Logs” button will display the “Select Log Type” window to choose which type of logs are to be accessed.

DCD Disk Log’s are a chronological list of alarms and events that have occurred during a 24 hour period while the DCD was online. Each log runs from midnight to midnight and each days log is stored by date.

Conﬁguration logs track all conﬁguration changes made to the system including point creation and deletion, setpoint changes, etc.

Calibration logs are the collation of data from queries of the distributed calibration histories of ﬁeld devices on the network. The user determines what port, what type of device, a time frame and S3 will retrieve the data from the ﬁeld devices and put it into a report. The daily disk, conﬁguration log and any previous logs from this utility can be viewed or printed.

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Alarm Logs (DCD Disk Log)

Below is a sample alarm log. Running down the right hand side is the log name (which is the date), navigation buttons, a button to select a different log for viewing, the page indicator for the currently viewed log, a print button and an exit button.

The purpose for the alarm log is to provide a chronological history of events related to the system. These recorded “events” can indicate alarms, diagnostic information, or just out of tolerance conditions as deﬁned by the user.

During the detailed port conﬁguration process events are conﬁgured and their destinations determined. One of these destinations is the daily alarm or disk log.

Events can appear in any of four colors:

Red = Alarm Yellow = Fault Green = Alarm/Fault; Return to normal

White = Non-critical event

NOTE

Events congured as “white” that also go to the alarm printer will print in “black”.

The log is formatted in three columns, the ﬁrst contains the event name, the second indicates the time, and date is displayed in column three.

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Configuration Logs

Below is a sample conﬁguration log. Running down the right hand side is the log name (which is the date), navigation buttons, a button to select a different log for viewing, the page indicator for the currently viewed log, a print button and an exit button.

The purpose for the conﬁguration log is to provide an audit trail for safety related changes to the system. By examining the conﬁguration log it can be determined if tagnames were changed, if alarm setpoints were changed in the detector conﬁgurations, and if these changes were downloaded to the system or not.

The log is formatted in three columns, the ﬁrst contains the time, the second the date and the third a description of the change.

The change column may use two lines to log the change. In these cases the ﬁrst line contains the port number, point number, and tag name. The second line contains the description of the change.

NOTE

The conguration log tracks changes related to operation and safety only. Changes to graphics are not

logged.

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The Conﬁguration and Alarm logs can be opened or viewed, and previous logs can be printed by using the “Select Log” button.

LOGS

This will display a standard Windows-NT/2000/XP ﬁle navigation dialog box showing the content of the conﬁguration or alarm log sub-directory, which ever is applicable.

The logs are listed using the month, the day and year, with the date as their name. Select the date of interest and OK to open the log for viewing and / or printing.

The “Print” button will display the standard Windows-NT/2000/XP printer dialog box for the default printer.

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Calibration Logs

Below is a sample calibration log. The calibration log reporter is a conﬁgurable database query tool designed to allow a user to quickly determine if periodic calibration of ﬁeld devices is being conducted.

The log displays the Tagname, Device Type, Detector type, Days since the last calibration and the Date/Time of the last calibration. If the device has never been calibrated, the Date/Time will show the time the calibration log reporter was accessed and the “Days” ﬁeld will have the maximum integer value of 2147483647.

Whenever a calibration log is collected from a ﬁeld device, online or in conﬁguration, it is stored in a database. This database is currently viewable only on the computer where the database ﬁle is located. It is viewable from the “Logs” button on the main screen, and the DCD.

If viewed from the “Logs” button a choice of project/database is available. If via the DCD it is the current active project.

Printing is supported to any “windows” conﬁgured printer. If preferred, the logs can be exported as a text document and opened with a text editing software such as Notepad.

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Calibration Log Reporter Filter Options

The options button opens the “Filter Options..” dialog box allowing for the S3 database query to be conﬁgured. This allows the user to conﬁgure a report that provides just the speciﬁc information required.

The top section, labeled “Ports” provides check boxes for the ten potential ports. “All” is the default, deselecting it will highlight all available ports for which logs exist.

Eagle devices (2000, Quantum, Premier) store their calibration histories in local non-volatile memory. Whenever S3 accesses this data it stores it in a database thus creating a “Log” linked to the port of origin. This happens whenever a point display is accessed, from the conﬁguration environment, or by the DCD when running.

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PREFERENCES

The preferences button provides access to a variety of project management and global attributes and settings. They are accessed from a dialog box called “S3 Preferences”. Arranged down the left side are eleven categories, starting with “Project”. Once the project is selected, the other ten categories apply only to that project.

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Project

Shown below, the project category allows for the top level selection and manipulation of the project to be worked on. The currently active project is displayed at the top right, in this example “Remote Access”.

Multiple projects can be in development on the same machine and this tab provides resources for deleting projects, duplicating projects, creating new projects, renaming existing projects, and selecting an existing project.

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Drawing (Unsupported Feature)

The drawing tab allows for the setting of the default operation of two drawing tools in the graphic editor. The “Polygon” and “Arc” tools.

Close Polygons

By default, this check box is de-selected. This means that when a polygon is drawn in the graphic editor, when ﬁnished it has no ﬁll color or pattern. If selected, the ﬁnished polygon will become a solid object with adjustable ﬁll color and pattern attributes.

Within the graphic editor, any polygons drawn will be “open” or “closed” based on the settings of this check box. However, once drawn individual polygons can be changed as required.

Arc Wedge

By default, this check box is de-selected. This means that when an arc is drawn in the graphic editor, when ﬁnished it has no ﬁll color or pattern. If selected, the ﬁnished arc will become a solid object (wedge) with adjustable ﬁll color and pattern attributes.

Within the graphic editor, any arc drawn will be “open” or “closed” based on the settings of this check box. However, once drawn individual arcs can be changed as required.

DEC Tagnames Always

By default, this check box is de-selected. This means that when a project with graphics is opened in the graphic editor, all devices represented will not have a Det-Tronics tagname associated with them. When selected, a series of Det-Tronics tagnames will appear beside the various devices represented in a graphic project.

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Clock

The purpose of the clock tab is to accommodate the two different methods for displaying the time and date around the world.

Time

A radio button is provided to choose between a twelve hour clock with AM and PM sufﬁx or a 24 hour clock.

Date

A check box is provided to format the date using the “Day/Month/Year” method. The default is “Month/Day/ Year”. These time and date settings apply to all logs and printouts created by

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User Strings

The “User Strings” tab provides access to a very powerful feature, the Second Language Dictionary (SLD). The SLD is used to provide second language support to the “Online” aspects of the systems operation.

The four databases in the SLD are accessed through the buttons on the preferences dialog box. Each database provides the factory default, in English, with a ﬁeld to substitute a second language equivalent.

Common Buttons

Substitutes for all operator interface buttons found in the online application of S3.

Detector Point to Point Modules

Supports a variety of commonly used Detector Electronics Corporation conventional gas detectors and optical ﬂame detectors.

Eagle 2000 / Eagle Quantum

The default device event descriptions can be substituted by the user in various languages.

Eagle Quantum Premier

Factory names for each item may be conﬁgured by creating or importing a replacement name.

Miscellaneous

Substitutes for a variety of text descriptions found throughout the S3 online application.

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Examples

Below is an example of EAGLE2000/Eagle Quantum SLD conﬁguration. On the right hand side of the dialog box are a series of buttons for the different products.

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In this example, the EAGLE2000 Gateway is selected. That causes a list of the available events for that device that can be conﬁgured for tracking. The English factory default description is displayed above a ﬁeld where a substitute description can be entered. In this example it is a Spanish description but it could be any Roman character language.

NOTE

Cyrillic font support is included for Russian speaking countries.

Once the appropriate substitute descriptions have been entered, selecting the “Save” button will record the new descriptions.

The descriptions entered in the SLD’s will be made available for use when points are conﬁgured in the “Ports” conﬁguration area.

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SLD descriptions for the user interface buttons used by the online application are presented in the “Factory Name” column of the “User Button Names...” dialog box.

Substitutes are entered in the “User Name” column. In the example below the conﬁguration is incomplete, some buttons do not yet have a substitute string.

If left blank, these buttons will have no name when online.

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“Miscellaneous Strings” are pieces of descriptive text used in a variety of online locations like dialog boxes, window names and data entry ﬁelds.

Substitutes are entered in the “User Name” column.

Like the user buttons, all ﬁelds must be ﬁlled out or “blank spaces” will appear at these locations when online.

When translating button names or miscellaneous strings into other languages the text may be too long for the button or space causing problems.

Take care to test thoroughly to ensure a “proper ﬁt” for substitute strings.

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Graphics (Unsupported Feature)

This category pertains to the operation of the “Online” application. This application displays custom graphics with an overlay of dynamic information from various attached systems. This is the main operational mode used by plant operators and other personnel monitoring the safety systems.

There are four global attributes that are conﬁgured by check box selections in the Miscellaneous portion of the dialog box and two other settings pertaining to the online color selections.

User Strings

When this check box is selected, the Online application will substitute the factory defaults for button descriptions, miscellaneous text, and device alarm and event data with user conﬁgured Second Language Dictionary (SLD) data.

To revert back to the English factory default values, stop the online application and de-select this checkbox. This provides an easy means of switching back and forth between the defaults and SLD.

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Cyrillic Font

S3 supports the use of Cyrillic in the SLD for both display and printing purposes when used with the recommended alarm printer.

Virtual Keyboard

When this option is selected S3 provides an onscreen keyboard whenever data entry is required, such as for user login, password entry, etc.

This is primarily to provide user input on systems equipped with a touch-screen as the operators primary interface.

Custom Overview (Unsupported Feature)

When this option is selected a custom full-screen overview is substituted for the automatically generated scaled composite of custom screens. This custom overview must be created in the graphic editor and can be generated using the editors tools, from imported graphics, or a combination of the two.

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Visual Object Error Settings (Unsupported Feature)

This checkbox selection enables an online feature that changes the color of any dynamic object that is tied to data that has been ﬂagged as invalid by S3.

To change the “error” color select the “Edit” button and S3 will display the color selection dialog box. The default error colors will initially be selected with Aqua for the foreground, Magenta for the background, and a solid brush. To change these selections click on the sample block for the color to be changed and a color picker will be displayed.

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Choose from any of the 48 standard color deﬁnitions displayed, or from the 16 custom colors.

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Select the “Deﬁne Custom Colors” button to display an expanded color picker dialog box that allows any desired color to be added to the “Custom Colors” selections. Up to 16 can be conﬁgured.

NOTE

Custom colors will not be saved.

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Color Depth Settings

There are three choices for the displayed color depth, 16, 24 and 32. This corresponds to the maximum number of colors used by the operating system and the computers video card to display graphics.

16 bit = 65,636 colors

24 bit = 16, 777, 216 colors 32 bit = True color

16 bit is the default and minimum requirement.

Screen Resolution

The selected screen resolution for the custom graphics on the active project is displayed and a “Select” button to open the “Resolution Selector” dialog box where the screen resolution can be set.

Resolution Selector

This dialog box has an adjustable slider where the screen resolution for the online custom graphics can be set for the project.

At the bottom of the dialog box the project resolution is displayed along with the screen resolution of the computer S3 is currently running on.

In some cases, the graphic development may be done on a computer with a different resolution than the “target” machine for the project.

The minimum resolution is XGA or 1024 X 768 pixels. At XGA resolution the task bar must be conﬁgured to “Auto Hide” otherwise buttons in certain areas of the conﬁguration environment will be hidden.

NOTE The list of supported resolutions to the left may have grown since this issue of the manual as PC vendors are constantly adding support for

additional screen sizes.

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Logs

This tab allows the setting of the log retention time. This adjustment determines how long the system will keep daily log ﬁles.

When set to zero (the default) all ﬁles will be kept and the user must ensure the hard disk does not ﬁll up. If a number is entered in the ﬁeld, the system will save that number of log ﬁles and then delete the oldest when that number is exceeded.

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DCD

The Data Collector and Distributor application program has ﬁve conﬁgurable parameters that can be used to modify its behavior.

Settings

There are two settings relating to how sounds are handled.

The ﬁrst one, “Track sounds for clients only” is used in conﬁgurations where the local machines DCD is unattended and is used primarily to send data to other S3 client machines. In this situation the conﬁgured sounds play and are acknowledged by the remote clients and the local machine does not play sounds.

The second setting, “Silence Sound First” conﬁgures the DCD to silence the active sound(s) prior to any additional functions that may be conﬁgured to be executed when the “Acknowledge” button is activated.

Both settings can be used concurrently.

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Screen Prints

In addition to capturing screens in S3, the captured screens can be sent to either a local or remote printer for output.

Local Printing

With “Local” selected as the destination, the screen will print on the default Windows printer.

Remote Printing

If “Remote” is selected as the destination, a “Host Address” for another S3 workstation that is running the DCD must be speciﬁed by its TCP/ IP address.

Specifying a Printer

Clicking the “Edit” button will allow the TCP/IP address to be entered.

Local and remote computers must all be on the same side of

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NOTE

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Screen Saver

S3 provides a screen saver feature that will display the current time on a black background after a user conﬁgurable time period has elapsed without any activity.

There is also a “Touchscreen” check-box to allow the user to exit the screen saver by touching anywhere on the screen, without causing any screen navigation response.

The color of the displayed time can be changed by clicking on the “Color” button. This will open the standard “color picker” dialog box that allows the selection of any of the 48 pre-set colors.

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Button User Levels

This feature allows the DCD application program’s user interface buttons to be assigned a “User Level” for security or operational control purposes.

The default value is “0” and has a range of 0-65535. The user level is set in the “Passwords” conﬁguration section of S3.

If the user logged in has a user level greater than or equal to the setting of the button, the button will be available. Otherwise, it will be grayed out.

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Sounds

The sounds tab allows access to the custom sounds database and integrated sound editor.

Selecting the “Edit” button will open the “Sound Editor” dialog box.

S3 supports up to sixty four sounds that can be attached to events in the system. One sound, “Warning,” is included with S3 the other sixty three slots can be used to build a project speciﬁc sound library.

To access the editor, select a sound database slot, numbered 1 through 64 on the left side of the “Sound Names” scrolling list, and then select the “Edit” button.

This will launch the “Sound Editor”.

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The sound editor makes use of the standard Windows based sound card and microphone to allow for the recording and playback of custom sounds.

Custom sounds are limited to a maximum recording time of ﬁve seconds. This is to accommodate the fact that more than one sound may be in the queue at any given time.

The recording time is displayed in the horizontal bar graph at the top of the dialog box.

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Use the “Record” button to begin recording. The horizontal bar graph will display the elapsed time. Press the “Stop” button to end the recording. Use the “Play” button to play back the recorded sound.

Sounds from this library are then attached to events in the system during point conﬁguration in the “Ports” area of the system.

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BACKUP/RESTORE

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Overview of features

This button provides access to S3’s built in project Backup and Restore utilities. These utilities allow whole projects to be archived or restored for backup purposes or to be moved to another workstation.

Selecting the “BACKUP” button will open the “Select Project” dialog box prompting for a selection.

Select the appropriate project from the scrolling list and the select “OK” to begin the process.

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Backup

Once the project is selected a dialog box will be displayed allowing for browsing of the ﬁle system in order to select a destination for the backup.

This can be on local hard drives, a network drive, or the local ﬂoppy disk drive.

NOTE

We suggest storing the backup elsewhere rather than on the S3

computer

Procedure for backing up to a Network Drive

Once the destination is chosen for backup, the system will display the “Backup File List” dialog box which displays the ﬁles to backup and the status of the procedure.

The dialog box is formatted with two columns, the left one containing the ﬁle name, the right one displaying the status of the ﬁle.

S3 will begin the backup process automatically by compressing all of the ﬁles to reduce disk space requirements. This highly efﬁcient compression algorithm allows even large projects with dozens of custom graphic pages to be backed up to a ﬂoppy disk, or ﬂash drive.

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After the ﬁles have been compressed they will be copied to the destination volume, the status will indicate “Backup Completed Select Done”.

Click on the “Done” button to return to the Backup/Restore main dialog box.

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Backing up to Floppy Disk

If the “A” drive was selected as the destination, there may be a prompt to conﬁrm that the drive is removable and whether it should be erased before copying the project onto it.

In some cases, it may be desirable to backup more than one project to the ﬂoppy disk(s) in which case select “No” to the prompt.

In most cases, a ﬂoppy disk should be erased and this is the default choice. Select “Yes” and the program will open a prompt asking for a formatted disk to be inserted into the “A” drive. If a ﬂash drive is selected, choose “No”.

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Once the disk is in place, choose the desired ﬁle option, either “Single” or “Multiple”. The default is “Single” and will combine all of the compressed project ﬁles into a single project backup ﬁle and copy it to the selected destination. This option is signiﬁcantly faster when backing up available when access to the individual ﬁles might be preferred.

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to a ﬂoppy disk. The “Multiple Files” option is

Once the ﬁle option selection is made, select the “Continue” button and the utility will copy the ﬁles to the ﬂoppy. If the project is too large to be backed up to a single ﬂoppy, the program will prompt for additional disks as required.

When all ﬁles have been successfully backed up, the “Cancel” button will change to a “Done” button which when selected will exit the backup utility.

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Restore

To restore an archived project from either a ﬂoppy disk or network, select the “Restore” button from the Backup/Restore Utility dialog box.

Once the “Restore” button is selected the “Restore Selection” dialog box is displayed.

Select either “Existing” or “New” to begin the process.

NOTE

If “Existing” is selected the restore function will overwrite the existing project with the “Restored” information.

The existing project info will be deleted.

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If “Existing” is chosen the “Select Project” dialog box is displayed. Select the appropriate project from the scrolling list and the select “OK” to begin the process.

If “New” is selected a dialog box prompting the entry of the project name is displayed.

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Once the project to be restored has been chosen and the “OK” button selected, the ﬁle system browser dialog box is displayed prompting for the selection of the project source.

When the source has been chosen select the “Save” button to begin the restoration procedure. As ﬁles are restored they will show up in the “Filename” column of the dialog box with their state displayed to the right.

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When the process is complete, the “Done” button will highlight. Select “Done” to exit the restoration utility.

NOTE

Use the “Restore” feature for situations where a S3 project created on one workstation needs to be opened on

a secondary workstation.

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OPC SERVER

S3 is designed to simply and efﬁciently “integrate” data from a variety of multi-vendor safety solutions into a common Operator Interface Station (OIS) where it can be viewed, tracked, and presented to the operator.

We have chosen “OPC” as the mechanism for sharing this concentrated safety system data with other systems throughout the facility.

Traditionally, each software or application developer was required to write a custom interface, or server/driver, to exchange data with hardware ﬁeld devices. OPC eliminates this requirement by deﬁning a common, high performance interface that permits this work to be done once, and then easily reused by HMI, SCADA, Control and custom applications.

What is OPC? OPC (OLE for Process Control) is an industry standard created with the collaboration of a number a leading worldwide automation and hardware software suppliers working in cooperation with Microsoft.

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The organization that manages this standard is the OPC Foundation. The Foundation has over 220 members from around the world, including nearly all of the world’s major providers of control systems, instrumentation, and process control systems.

OPC Deﬁned: OPC is based on Microsoft’s OLE (now Active X), COM (Component Object Model) and DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) technologies. It consists of a standard set of interfaces, properties, and methods for use in processcontrol and manufacturing-automation applications.

The Active X/COM technologies deﬁne how individual software components can interact and share data. OPC provides a common interface for communicating with diverse process-control devices, regardless of the controlling software or devices in the process.

OPC in S

The OPC option for S3 is one of the easiest ways to provide safety system data from many sources to the distributed control system or other OPC compliant system.

With the OPC option S3 becomes a “Version 2.03 Data Access Server” to make available, under user conﬁguration, any information being tracked by the S3 event handling database.

The S3 server setup is a model of simplicity. The user is presented with a tag list showing all of the points being tracked by the system and the user can then choose what to “activate” for OPC clients to access. Using this simple tag based method it is possible to share complex data knowing little more that the tag name. OPC clients don’t need to know anything about the port type, serial or Ethernet settings, memory register locations, addresses, or any of a number of technical details, just the tag name.

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OPC Server Configuration

To conﬁgure OPC data points, select the OPC Server button from the S3 Main Screen. This will display the OPC Server Conﬁguration dialog box which lists all of the tags available for activation by the server.

NOTE

For the S3 server to function, the S3 hardware key must have the OPC server function enabled.

The available tags shown, were created during the port conﬁguration process. When a Modbus, Triconex, Eagle or other device is conﬁgured it is added to the S3 tag name database. All of the points in this tag name database are automatically set up by S3 for use by the OPC server. This greatly simpliﬁes OPC tag management.

The OPC Server Conﬁguration dialog box displays the tagname, type and origin information along with its OPC status, either Active or Inactive. To make a tagname available to OPC Clients, select the tagname and click on the “Activate” button.

In the example to the left, the EQP Controller is selected. Its tagname is “Controller”, it originates at S3 port 1 point 1, is an “I” (input), and has an OPC State of “Inactive”.

This is a “top level” view of the devices and their status. In the above example this single point “Controller” actually is a compound point with a variety of subordinate data available to the OPC client.

To view this data, select the “Properties” button.

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OPC Property Viewer

The properties button at the bottom of the OPC Server Conﬁguration dialog box will open the “OPC Property Viewer” and display the properties for the selected point.

The individual property extension, description and variant type are displayed.

These properties were conﬁgured automatically by S3 for inclusion by the OPC server when the point was created within the Port Conﬁguration process.

In the above example, because it was an intelligent addressable device, it has a great deal of data indexed to it.

Simple analog or discrete devices will have far less available data.

NOTE

Individual properties of an “Active” device cannot be made inactive.

NOTE

OPC Clients: In order for OPC clients to be able to connect to the S3 OPC Server, S3 must be installed on the

client machine, but not running and no hardware key is necessary.

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Security

These buttons are part of the S3 security system. The “Log In/Out” button is used to log in or change users, the “User Accounts” button allows the system administrator to create or modify user accounts. User accounts are speciﬁc to each project and multiple users can have access to one project.

S3 supports up to sixty three unique user accounts, each capable of having a different password and access privileges. These user accounts are controlled by the S3 system administrator.

Selecting the “User Log In/Out” button will display the user selection screen. The administrator account is automatically created by the system and cannot be deleted.

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Administrator Privileges

The person logged in as the Administrator is the only one who can create, modify or delete user accounts. In addition, the Administrator may also change the password for his/her own account.

NOTE

The default password for the Administrator is “DEC”.

CAUTION

If the Administrator changes his/her password and loses it, there is no way to restore the account.

To set up or modify user account parameters, click on the “User Accounts” button on the main screen. This will open the “User settings...” dialog box. Five buttons allow for selecting, creating, renaming and deleting user accounts, one button is for entering or changing an accounts password.

Above the buttons are four check boxes and a “User Level” ﬁeld that determine the rights the user is allocated. These rights include the user level and whether or not he/she is able to access diagnostics or conﬁguration utilities and a “restricted access” mode for viewing but not changing conﬁguration data.

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Creating User Accounts

To create a new user, select the “New” button from the “User Settings” dialog box (see previous page). The user selection screen will appear, then select any blank button to be conﬁgured as a new user

This will display a dialog box for entering the new users name. Enter the name of the new user, in the example below “Operator” was chosen.

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After entering the new users name, select “OK” to accept the name and display the “User settings...” dialog box.

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There are four check boxes and one ﬁeld that are used to conﬁgure the users account.

User Level

A user level between 0 and 65535 is used to determine what a user can do. Each command or button which a user can interact with in S3 has a user level assigned to it. The higher the number, the higher the “privileges” for that user. A user level of “0” would allow “browsing” only with no command capability.

Configure system enabled

When selected, this option allows the user access to the engineering and conﬁguration aspects of the S3 software suite. This includes the ability to make, move, conﬁgure and delete ports. The ability to create or modify points like ﬁre detectors, gas detectors, analog transmitters, digital inputs, etc. attached to one or more of the available ports.

Quit “Online” operations enabled

When selected, the user is able to quit online operations and return to the S3 main screen for access to the various engineering and maintenance utilities.

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Port Diagnostics viewing enabled

When selected, when online the user can access the port diagnostics screen (F11). This screen allows the user to view details about the operation of all active communication ports, whether serial or Ethernet. This would typically be used by a technician responsible for troubleshooting connectivity between the S3 station and any attached systems.

Restricted Access enabled

This feature applies only to Det-Tronics Eagle Quantum Premier systems and is intended to give limited access of the EQP port conﬁgurations for viewing and documentation purposes.

User accounts can be created with only the “restricted access” checkbox selected, or combined with the other checkboxes; conﬁgure system, quit online, port diagnostics.

When a user account is created using only the restricted access checkbox, the user can log in and view the conﬁguration and calibration logs as well as conﬁgure and initiate the print-out of system documentation but cannot access any other S3 features.

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If “restricted access” is combined with “conﬁgure system” the user can also create project backups using the “Backup/Restore” utility and view the LON conﬁguration of an EQP port but cannot edit or view the LON devices details.

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If combined with “Quit Online operations” a restricted access user could log in while the graphics environment was online, be able to navigate the graphics and be able to quit the graphics environment returning to the conﬁguration environment and the view and document the project as described above but not be able to make changes or return online.

Passwords

After the selection of the options assigned to the user, a user password must be created. This password is used to log on to the system at startup or when online during shift changes etc.

Select the “Password” pushbutton to access the “Password” dialog box. The password must ﬁrst be entered into the “Enter password:” ﬁeld and then again into the “Verify password:” ﬁeld to validate the entry.

NOTE

Only the Administrator may change passwords.

If a password is lost it cannot be retrieved and the user account must be deleted and then recreated as a new user.

Change Name

This button allows a users login name to be changed without effecting the account conﬁguration. For instance “Operator” could be changed to “John Doe” while retaining the password and privileges previously conﬁgured.

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EQP Configuration

One of the supported communication port types is for the Detector Electronics Corporation “Eagle Quantum Premier” ﬁre & gas system.

System conﬁguration consists of three major phases.

Identifying all of the devices on the network.•

Conﬁguring the operating parameters of each of these devices.•

Downloading the conﬁguration data over the network to the devices.•

NOTE

Prior to conguration, ensure communication with the Eagle Quantum Premier controller is established.

Reference the “Ports” (Section 3) area of this users guide on establishing serial communications.

Enter the Eagle Quantum Premier conﬁguration screen by either double-clicking on the port button or by selecting the port and then choosing “Conﬁgure” from the buttons on the right of the Ports screen.

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Configuration Screen

The main conﬁguration screen is divided into two functional areas. The top area, which has a schematic representation of the Local Operating Network (LON™) on which all of the ﬁeld devices reside and the lower area which contains context sensitive buttons for accessing features and performing functions.

On a new loop, as represented in the sample above (in blue), the LON schematic has a single device, the controller, shown at the upper left corner and addressed as “Node 1”. This node is automatically placed on the LON because without it no further conﬁguration or monitoring can take place.

Button Bar Overview

There are two button bars located at the bottom of the screen, the “Command Bar” and the “Conﬁguration Bar”. The Command Bar is used to create, query or directly manipulate LON devices.

The Conﬁguration Bar is used to create, duplicate or delete devices and to reconcile their physical and logical LON addresses.

The functionality of each button is described on the following pages.

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Command Bar Overview

The command bar has ﬁfteen buttons, most of which initiate a command to a ﬁeld device to perform a certain function, return a value, or feed “real-time” information to S3 to be displayed.

The command issued is speciﬁc to the node selected in the upper section. In some cases, multiple nodes may be selected using either the shift-click or drag methods and the command can be sent to all applicable nodes in the selected set.

To initiate a command using the command bar, select either a single node or a group of nodes, then click on the desired command button. In most cases a progress monitor will appear and display text messages tracking the execution of the command.

Command Definitions

Devices Found

This command actively queries the controller for information on any devices it is in communication with.

The controller returns this information to S3 which displays a table listing the devices, by node number (address on the LON) along with the device type and the ﬁrmware revision number of each device.

The “Devices Found” dialog box also provides a “Print” button which can be used to output a hardcopy of the current LON conﬁguration, both hardware and ﬁrmware.

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Get Revision

Returns the selected devices revision and ﬁrmware version information.

Over time features and ﬁxes are added to various products. The “Get Revision” feature provides a convenient way of determining if the devices in the system have these features and/or ﬁxes or if they need to be updated.

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In the example above, the controller was selected prior to initiating the “Get Revision” command and the “Revisions...” dialog box displays the controllers information.

NOTE

All devices have revision values, but not all devices will have version values

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Globals

Provides access to conﬁguration services allowing deﬁned global memory values to be set up for tracking by the DCD.

Once conﬁgured, these globals can be logged and/or printed by the event monitor.

NOTE

Global memory points cannot be congured from this location. Global memory point creation and

conguration is done within the controllers logic editor.

To conﬁgure a global memory point for monitoring, select a “slot” from the “Monitored Globals” pane on the left side of the dialog box and then select the “Edit” button.

This will open a dialog box displaying all conﬁgured global memory points that are available for monitoring.

In the example to the right, two points are available.

Choose the desired point and select “OK” to access the conﬁguration dialog box for the point.

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A dialog box labeled “Global Point Monitor Conﬁguration...” that is speciﬁc to the type (digital, analog, etc.) will be displayed allowing the monitoring of the point to be conﬁgured.

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The selected example point above is a “Digital” ON/OFF point type that can be conﬁgured to log to the printer, disk, alarm window. In the example below, an “Analog” point type is selected and can be conﬁgured for multiple conditional events to be tracked.

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Discrete Points

Globals tied to “discrete” ON/OFF type events can be set to alarm when the event transitions either High (ON) or Low (OFF) with the “Alarm Condition” radio button. They can also be disabled which removes them from tracking but leaves the event conﬁgured in case it is desired to activate it later without the need for knowing the conﬁguration details.

Transition On

When the tracked event transitions from the off state to the on state the alarm will be activated as conﬁgured.

Transition Off

When the tracked event transitions from the on state to the off state the alarm will be activated as conﬁgured.

The event conﬁguration consists of selecting where the event is to be tracked (Printer, Disk, Alarm Window), whether it will automatically clear when the event returns to its normal condition, what colors will be used for the events normal and active states, and whether a recorded sound will be triggered when the event occurs.

There is also an option to allow the event to “trigger a fault”.

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Analog Points

Globals tied to “analog” type events can be set to alarm in accordance with “conditional arguments” chosen from the “Analog Comparison Selection...” dialog box.

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Up to ﬁve conditions can be named and conﬁgured with each one using one of the available comparisons. The analog signal is compared using the selected logical operator against the values entered. When the condition is true the event will be activated and tracked as conﬁgured.

The logical operators for comparison are self explanatory and selected by radio button. Most have a single value entry ﬁeld.

The “In Range” and “Out Range” operators have two value entry ﬁelds to deﬁne the desired range.

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Once the event name is entered and the comparison conﬁgured, the event tracking conﬁguration is set up using the check boxes and menus to the right of the event name.

The ﬁve checkbox selections are deﬁned below:

P: Printer (Tractor feed event printer)

D: Disk (Daily log ﬁle)

W: Window (One line FIFO display)

AC: Auto Clear (Event directly tracks the “raw” data state and doesn’t require operator acknowledgement)

FL: Fault (Designates the event to be considered a fault instead of an alarm).

In the completed sample above, when the analog value exceeds 29 the event “30 Seconds Remaining” will be logged to the printer (in red), daily log ﬁle, event window and the OIS will play the “Warning” sound.

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When the value drops below 29 the event will automatically clear.

Selecting a “Monitored Global” display its associated conﬁguration data in the “Conﬁguration” pane to the right of the globals list.

This provides “at a glance” a complete conﬁguration overview of the selected global.

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Since hundreds of monitored global points can be created, a “Search” button is provided to quickly locate a speciﬁc point entering all or part of the text from the points tagname.

A “Check” button ensures that the monitored global is indexed to a valid tag in the controller. If the tag has been deleted after the creation of the monitored global, an error will be generated.

A “Delete” button is used to remove one or more monitored globals from the database.

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Point Display

Shows detailed information about a selected node including status and diagnostics, alarm history, calibration history and trend, and if applicable the current analog value. To access a device point display, select the device from the LON schematic by single clicking on it. It will highlight as shown below.

Select the “Point Display” button and the appropriate display will open.

Each device type has a point display that is speciﬁc to the information available for its type of ﬁeld device. In the following example, a Point IR Gas Detector (PIRECL) is selected.

Both conﬁguration and dynamic information for the device are arranged in a logical manner and presented on a full screen template. If the controller is not currently connected and communicating with the S3 station then no “watchdog timeout” will be displayed for the selected point. Simulated data is only displayed if no hardware key is installed.

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In the example below Node 1, the Controller (EQ3001) is selected.

When the “Point Display” button in the command bar is selected a point display template speciﬁc to the controller is brought up.

Point displays are very useful in determining the status of the device, for resetting faults, inhibiting functions, checking calibration and alarm histories, and in the case of the controller, the faceplates’ scrolling text display is simulated.

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Reset Module

This command forces a selected ﬁeld device to perform a “soft restart” effectively “rebooting” the ﬁeld device. This will also reset any latched alarms, faults, outputs, etc.

The reset command can be sent to a single selected device or a group of devices. In the example to the right a group of nodes 1-125 was selected from the LON schematic and the reset command issued.

The controller then sent the reset command to the appropriate devices and logged the activity to the “Reset Module(s)” dialog box to provide feedback to the user.

Download

Sends all conﬁguration data from S3’s LON conﬁguration database to the controller. This command must be used after changing the conﬁguration of a node, group of nodes, or controller logic.

To send conﬁguration data to the devices on the LON, choose “Download”. This will cause S3 to sequentially download the conﬁguration of all nodes, starting with LON address 1 and ending with the last conﬁgured node.

Get RTC

Requests the “Real Time Clock” data from the controller.

The gateway will return the current date and time, according to its internal clock. Verify this date and time against that of the S3 station for accuracy. If it is not the same as the S3 station, use the Set RTC command described later to correct the discrepancy.

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LON Diagnostic

Displays a graphic “LON Schematic” displaying dynamic information about the LON and the devices residing on it.

The schematic begins with Node 1, the controller, in the upper left corner and a line representing the communication network (LON) running back and forth across and down the screen.

The LON is typically wired as a loop starting and ending at the controller although the schematic does not show this for aesthetic reasons. The end of the LON at the lower right is assumed to connect back to the controller at the top left of the screen.

Each conﬁgured device is represented by a rectangle bisected longitudinally with the tag name displayed in the upper section and the node number (LON address) displayed in the lower section.

Using the “Display Type” button the node number in the lower section can be replaced with the device type.

NOTE

Use of this display requires proper setup of the “LON ORDER” screen prior to the use of

this display.

This button is a “toggle” and will change name following activation to indicate what its function will be on its next activation.

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Diagnostic data is displayed to two ways on the display, through the color of the rectangle deﬁning each node, and through indicators and counters at the bottom of the screen.

On an intact LON each of these transceivers receives information from all of the ﬁeld devices at roughly the same time. A nodes proximity to one or the other transceiver along with the propagation delay of long wiring distances and/or network extenders will induce a small time differential. This differential will cause an individual nodes message to be read by either the A or B transceiver ﬁrst and processed by the controller.

If the last message processed by the controller for a node comes through the “A” transceiver the rectangle representing that node will have a green outline on the diagnostic LON schematic. If it comes through the “B” transceiver its rectangle will be outlined in yellow.

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The LON is typically wired as a loop starting and ending at the controller

which has two physical interfaces

(transceivers) labeled “A” and “B”.

Normal LON

On a healthy LON with good network integrity, message trafﬁc will appear random and each nodes outline color will constantly change without any pattern.

Faulted LON

On a faulty LON with a break in the wiring or other abnormal condition, message trafﬁc may have only one path to the controller. This would be indicated graphically by all of the nodes before the problem changing to one color (green or yellow) and the nodes after the problem changing to the other color. The area where the color transition occurs is most likely the problem area.

In this way the LON diagnostic display can be used to localize LON wiring problems. representation of message trafﬁc on the display, quantitative data is available for diagnostics through indicators and counters.

If a node on the schematic is selected (by single-clicking on its rectangle) the ﬁve indicators in the lower left of the screen will show the diagnostic data from the selected node.

To the right of these indicators are LON counters that show message processing by the controller. On a healthy system the counters should be close to equal. On a system with a degraded network, there may be a signiﬁcant offset showing either the “A” or “B” transceiver getting the majority of trafﬁc.

In addition to the graphic

Reset Module

To the right of the LON counters is the “Reset Module” button. This command forces a selected ﬁeld device to perform a “soft restart” effectively “rebooting” the ﬁeld device. This will also reset any latched alarms, faults, outputs, etc.

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Point Address

Allows a node on the LON schematic to be given a different address.

This is typically used when similar nodes are copied & pasted to preserve a particular set of conﬁguration parameters. After the paste function, the “new” node may have an incorrect address and it must then be changed.

To use this function, select a node by single-clicking on its rectangle. Once the node is highlighted, click on the “Point Address” button and the “Enter new point address” dialog box will appear. Enter the desired new node number and the click on the “OK” button.

Set RTC

Sends the current date and time of the use the controllers date and time pulse when storing their own alarm and calibration data, it the proper time on the PC and then match the clock used by S3 station for event monitoring and tracking.

S3 station to the controller synchronizing them. Since the ﬁeld devices all

is important to verify

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Edit

Selecting the “Edit” button displays the detailed conﬁguration data for a single selected node. To enter the edit mode for a particular node double-click on the rectangle representing the node on the LON schematic.

Below is an example of the controller conﬁguration screen. Detailed examples of node editing, for each device, will be shown in the Premier Device Conﬁguration section of this document.

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Get Voltages

Displays 24 Vdc supply voltage information for uses such as troubleshooting power distribution problems.

Selecting the “Get Voltages” button will display a graphic LON Schematic upon which S3 will overlay dynamic 24 Vdc power supply data from each compatible ﬁeld device.

Certain previous generation Eagle Quantum ﬁeld devices may not be compatible with this command.

In the example above nodes 12, 14, 15 and 16 are compatible and display the node address in the lower left with the supply voltage in the lower right. Nodes 13 and 22 are older styles, therefore a UVIR and UV optical ﬂame detector cannot support this feature and only display their node number.

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Outputs

Tags linked to commands to be sent to the controller or ﬁeld devices on the LON are conﬁgured here.

Each “output” is a tag in the DCD database that references a command or controls a memory location within the Premier controller.

Select the “Outputs” button from the command bar to access the conﬁguration screen.

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The screen is divided into two sections, Outputs & Conﬁguration. On the left side the outputs pane consists of a scrolling list showing all conﬁgured output tags in the database. Below the list are buttons for creating and maintaining the tag list.

On the right side is the conﬁguration pane which will show the details of any selected output from the list.

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To create an output, double click on one of the “slots” in the scrolling list or select a slot and click on the “Edit” button below the list.

This will display the “Output Editor” dialog box.

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The Output Editor provides two data entry ﬁelds, the ﬁrst for entering the tagname desired for the conﬁgured output, the second provides for a “long description” of the tagname function.

Below these two ﬁelds is a hierarchal list of “destinations” to tie the output to the database.

Any item on the list that has a “+” before it has subordinate items and clicking on the “+” will expand the list showing all items that make up that category.

To the right of the list are two buttons that can “Expand” or “Collapse” all subordinate items in the list for easy viewing.

A checkbox in the lower left of the Output Editor dialog box determines whether the conﬁgured output will be logged to the history ﬁle upon execution.

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Det-Tronics S3 Graphics User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Features

INSTALLATION

Installation Procedure

S3 CONFIGURATION

Main Screen

PORT CONFIGURATION

Serial Port Settings

START MONITORING

Data Tables

LON Overview

PRINTING

Filtering data to be printed

Selecting ports to document

LOGS

Alarm Logs (DCD Disk Log)

Configuration Logs

Calibration Logs

PREFERENCES

Project

Drawing (Unsupported Feature)

Clock

User Strings

Graphics (Unsupported Feature)

Logs

Screen Prints

Screen Saver

Button User Levels

Sounds

BACKUP/RESTORE

Backup

Restore

OPC SERVER

OPC Server Configuration

OPC Property Viewer

Security

Administrator Privileges

Creating User Accounts

EQP Configuration

Configuration Screen

Button Bar Overview

Devices Found

Get Revision

Globals

Point Display

Reset Module

Download

Get RTC

LON Diagnostic

Point Address

Set RTC

Edit

Get Voltages

Outputs