Omega Products CN9300 Installation Manual

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User’s Guide

CN9-SW-GRAFIX

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page Description

4 CN9-SW-Grafix Overview

7 Quick Start Description

8 Quick Start Installation and Troubleshooting

9 Adding a new instrument

13 Setting instrument properties

14 Creating a new program

15 Setting program properties

18 Adding segments to a program

19 Setting segment types and properties

20 Adding a new chart

24 Setting chart properties

27 Adding a new alarm

29 Setting alarm properties

30 Basic Menu Description

File New

File Open

31 File Export

File Save

File Save As

32 File MRU (Most Recent Files)

File Print

File Print Setup

File Custom Display Properties

File Properties

File Exit

33 View Toolbar

View Status Bar

Window Cascade

Window Tile

Window Arrange Icons

34 Help Topics

Help About

ModbusServer Description

35 COM and DCOM

Application and Instrument Templates

36 Creating a new application template

36 Application Template Properties

37 Charts and Charting

38 Chart Add Trace

Chart Start, Stop and Restart

Chart Zoom

Chart Key

Chart Add and Show notes

39 Chart properties

Creating a new chart

Chart exporting

40 Instrument displays

Instrument SP1 and Run Mode

Instrument Communications

Instrument Clone

41 Instrument Edit Programs

Instrument Properties

Initial Setup

42 Setpoint One

Setpoint Two

43 Setpoint Three

Analog Scaling

Programmer

Calibration Adjustments

Output Configuration

44 Diagnostic and Instrument

Communications

Security settings

Standard Instrument Types

45 Setpoint Programmer

Programmer New Program

Programmer Delete Program

Programmer Select Program

Programmer Read and Write program data

46 Programmer Add and Insert Segment

Programmer Remove Segment

Programmer Properties

47 Custom displays

Creating a custom display

48 Alarms

Alarm Add Alarms

Alarm Settings

48 Alarm Restart Alarms

49 Security Settings

Instrument display security settings

Application security settings

50 Start and Stop Communication

New options dialog

51 Select devices dialog

52 Device Properties dialog

53 Select devices dialog

54 Omega Engineering CN9600 instrument display

55 Instrument settings dialog

56 Chart properties dialog

57 Format properties dialog

58 Chart trace selection dialog

59 Trace properties dialog

60 Modify Trace Details dialog

61 Select data source dialog

62 Application properties dialog

63 Security parameters dialog

64 Manage device templates dialog

65 Clone instrument dialog

66 Clone instrument settings dialog

67 Alarm properties dialog

68 Alarm active dialog

69 Chart Zoom dialog

70 Chart Key dialog

71 Chart Add Note dialog

72 Chart Show Notes dialog

73 Select Program to Delete dialog

74 Select Program to Edit dialog

75 Program Properties dialog

76 Program Colors dialog

77 Program Scales dialog

78 Custom Template Properties dialog

79 Custom Display Settings dialog

80 Custom Setting Properties dialog

81 Custom Display Layout dialog

82 Custom Display Layout Properties dialog

84 Load select dialog

85 SP1 and Run mode dialog

86 Index

CN9-SW-GRAFIX Description

CN9-SW-GRAFIX is a configuration and charting tool for use with Modbus connected

instrumentation.

The application enables the user to configure, display and chart data values from any

connectable instrument for which a suitable template is available. Omega Engineering

instruments are connected using the ModbusServer application which is installed with this

product. See the ModbusServer section for more details.

This help document assumes that the user has basic knowledge of the windows operating

system, mouse and keyboard. It is beyond the scope of this document to detail operation of these

items and users should consult the original documentation that was provided with their system.

Omega Engineering Inc can be contacted at the following addresses:

Omega Engineering Inc

One Omega Drive

PO Box 4047

Stamford, CT

06907-0047

email: info@omega.com

http://www.omega.com

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Quick Start Description

This getting started guide describes the basic actions required to connect and communicate

to instruments, chart values from those instruments and configure alarms on those data values.

Before using this guide ensure that a suitably equipped instrument is connected to the PC

and has valid initial settings before continuing. If the instrument is displaying LEV5 then the

instrument initial settings need to be defined, see owners manual for details.

For more information consult the application guides for wiring and connecting instruments and

communications.

Quick Start Installation and Troubleshooting

The CN9-SW-GRAFIX application is installed from the CDROM automatically when the CD is

inserted. If after inserting the CD the application does not automatically install run the

"SETUP.EXE" file located in the root of the CDROM drive.

Under the ModbusServer application directory are new instrument template files, stored in the

"Template" sub-directory. Users of existing ModbusServer applications will need to re-create

their applications with these updated templates for use with CN9_SW_GRAFIX.

The instrument displays are blank at startup and will remain blank if the communications link

is not functioning correctly. To verify this either verify the communications activity at the target

instrument (see manual for details) or open the server application and use the View/Ports menu

to select a port and view the statistics.

If the instruments displays go blank occasionally or the message "Error reading settings from

device" is seen then the servers communication settings may need to be changed. This is

normally only the case if a RS232-RS485 converter is in use on a chain of more than twenty

instruments. To change the communications settings to fix these problems open the server

application and use the File/Ports menu to access the setup of the required port. In the port

setup is a setting called the "Transaction Gap", this value is used to slow data transfer to allow

RS232-RS485 converters to operate correctly. The default value for this setting is 20ms, for a

malfunctioning link this value should be increased to 35ms or greater.

For a link without a RS232-RS485 converter this value can be reduced to 0ms to improve the

communications speed to the connected instruments.

Adding a new instrument

To add a new instrument to the application select "New" from the File menu which will open the New options dialog

Select the New instrument option and press OK which will open the Select devices dialog.

The "OEM.ModbusServer" server is selected in the dropdown server list. Then click on the Browse button which will open the Browse server devices dialog.

Select the communications port which is connected to the Omega Engineering instrument and the communications baud rate. You may also specify the highest ModBus address to scan for devices on, this defaults to 30 but can be set as 1 to 254.

To add more instruments to an existing application select "Add to existing list".

To start a new list or to change the Baud rate on a communications port select "Start new list".

Press Browse and the Server application will attempt to the find any instruments connected to the specified communications port. The detected devices will be listed in the devices list of the Select devices dialog (show above).

Displayed next to each device in the devices list is the default display template of that instrument. If the instrument is not communicating correctly then the display template will be shown as "[Unknown]". To change a display template selection double click on the device name in the list, this will open the Device properties dialog.

This lists the available model types to display for the selected instrument. Select the required option and press OK.

Note: the single display instrument models will always prompt for the user to select a display template. This can either be done in advance or pressing OK will prompt for any devices which require a display template to be selected.

Choose any of the detected devices and press OK to complete the addition of the instrument to the application template. This will create an instrument display window for the selected instrument type and display template. For example;

Note: the instrument display will show LEV5 if no valid setting has been made for input

sensor, display resolution or output device, these settings are configurable from instrument front

panel only.

To inspect of change instrument settings see Setting instrument properties.

Setting instrument properties

To inspect of change instrument settings select "Properties" from the "Instrument" menu which will open the Instrument settings dialog.

Settings groups can be open and closed by double-clicking on the plus and minus symbols of

the left of the list.

Each value can be changed by double-clicking on the value and either selecting a new value

from the provided list of typing a new value.

Pressing Apply or OK will send these new settings to the instrument.

Creating a new program

To create a new program for a programable instrument select the "Edit Programs" option from the "Instrument" menu which opens the Programmer document window.

It may take several seconds to load the program data from the instrument and during this period the wait dialog will be displayed.

Once the program data has been loaded from the instrument select the "New Program" option

from the "Programmer" menu to create a new program.

To configure the properties of the newly created program see Setting program properties.

Setting program properties

To configure the properties of a program select the "Properties" option from the "Programmer" menu which opens the Program Properties tabbed dialog.

The first page contains settings for the current program.

The program number show the program number the instrument front panel would display and cannot be changed.

The program name should be set to a name which describes the process that the program will perform e.g. "Extruder warmup cycle" .

The powerfail recovery, ramp rate units and program start point should all be set to the desired values.

The second page of this tabbed dialog is the Program Colors dialog.

This allows the appearance of the program graphical trace to be changed.

The last page of this tabbed dialog is the Program Scales dialog.

This allows the setpoint value (y axis) range to be defined and the timebase (x axis) draw

method to be selected.

To add a segment to this program see Adding segments to a program.

Adding segments to a program

To add a segment to the current program select the "Add Segment" option from the "Programmer" menu, for this example select the "Ramp/Soak/Step" option which will open the add segments dialog.

Leave the segment count at one and press OK to continue. This should change the programmer document window as shown.

To set the segment properties see Setting segment types and properties

Setting segment types and properties

Double click on the plus symbol at the left of the segment name to open the segment properties list. Next double-click on the "Segment Type" value and select RAMP from the dropdown list to change the segment type.

Set the "Ramp rate" value to be 600 and set the "Target Setpoint" value to be 100 greater than its initial value. This should change to programmer document window to something like this.

The ramp rate and target setpoint can also be changed using the graphical program trace.

Left click on the line end point box and holding the left button down move the end point to a new

position. The values in the ramp rate and target setpoint values will change to reflect the new

program trace.

To save the new program to the instrument select the "Write program data" option from the

"Programmer" menu.

For more information about the programmer document and segment settings see Setpoint

Programmer

Adding a new chart

To add a new chart to the application select New option from the File menu which opens the New options dialog.

Select the New chart option and press OK which will open the Chart properties dialog.

Enter the required filename for the new chart, change any other parameter values required and then press Next to show the Chart trace selection dialog.

Press the Add button to add a trace to the chart, this opens the Select data source dialog.

The OEM.ModbusServer server from the dropdown server list. If no instruments appear in the instrument list then see Select devices dialog. Select a data source tag from the instrument display list and press Next, this opens the Trace properties dialog.

Change the trace name and select the trace units if required and press Finish to return to the Chart trace selection dialog.

Press Next to move to the Chart properties dialog.

Make any required changes to the chart appearance settings and press Finish to complete

the creation of the chart.

A new chart document will appear and will start charting data from the selected source. To set

the chart properties see Setting chart properties.

Setting chart properties

To set chart properties select the "Properties" option from the "Chart" menu which opens the Properties tabbed dialog. The Properties tabbed dialog contains three pages, the Chart properties dialog.

Which contains the properties for the chart including the timescale settings, the update frequency and archive and timed chart control.

The next page is the Chart trace selection dialog.

Which is used to add, remove traces and set trace properties using the Modify Trace Details dialog.

The last page is the Format properties

Which contains the properties for the chart presentation colors and formats.

Adding a new alarm

To add an alarm to an application select the "Add alarm" option from the "Alarms" menu which opens the Select data source dialog.

The OEM.ModbusServer server is displayed in the dropdown server list. If no instruments appear in the instrument list then see Select devices dialog. Select a data source tag from the instrument display list and press Next, this opens the Alarm triggers dialog.

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