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Hi, welcome to Technicons
Technical video on DriveWindow Light version 2.9
specifically for the DC Drive
the ABB DCS 800
so we just want to cover some brief things that will help you get started
and get rolling with the DriveWindow Light communication software
now quickly, usually the most difficult part is getting connected to the drive initially
one of the things to help you, click on the help file
and contents under settings you'll see
communications settings
and there is the basic communication settings for the ACS product
and for the other ACS product
and specifically here at the end of this
is the specific communication settings for the DCS 800
specifically these are different from the other settings
so make a note of this here
38 thousand 400 bits per second
8 bits, odd parity, 2 stop bits
as far as the mode bus address it should be 247 to 247
so were going to go ahead and connect
so first communication settings are under Communication
and you can see I have those set here
this one is set up for Comm zero
I need to change that to Comm 3
let's try that out
ok, so we connect, see it's creating parameter groups
so it's pretty much a simple program
get all your parameter groups, double click on each group
it takes a second to upload those from the drive
and show you what the status of the system is
we have a local remote control button here
where we can take control of the drive
we also have the Monitor and Wizard buttons here that we can use
to set up monitoring and to go through some of the setup wizards
What I want to focus on right now is
the application log programming software
We're going to go to Tools
and DriveAP for DCS800
this sometimes takes a little while because it has to load up
all the parameters in groups 83, 84, 85, and 86
which are
basically,specifically for
the Drive AP for DCS800
and we'll see how this works, just a couple of quick features we want to show you
so now we have the screen here with the
DriveAP software
it's basically like a drawing
there's actually places to put in your projects name
did you notice it says stopped and unprotected?
before we can edit this, you have to put this in an edit mode
and if it's running you have to put it in Stop mode
now if we want to edit anything on here
the control key must be held along with a left click
I'm going to repeat that, the control left click is how we edit the blocks
or edit anything on this page
if you want to edit the Title Block
with the control key pressed we left click
and here we can enter in all the Title Block information
and it will populate
that's so we can print it out and it looks like a nice print
so here if we want to edit our block number 1
we use the control button again, click
we can insert a block, and if later on we want to change the order of blocks
we can insert "After" or "before" the current Block
and here's our Function Block set that we have to choose from
so let's say we're going to use an AND Block, I want to insert that Block
so now if we want to edit each Pin same thing
we hold the Control button down
when we do the click it will load up
what this input is going to be to this Block
and because it's a Modbus serial 232 cord
it isn't exactly speedy
but it does get the job done
so now we can make that input a parameter
click on that and it lists all the parameters
and if it's specific to a certain
bit within a parameter
I mean we're looking at a control order status word function
we can actually select the bit over here in this box
we can edit it, we can put a constant in that input
we can also leave it just undefined
if we get completed here with this Block
we want to set up the output for this Block
now this is Block 1, and this is Block 1 output
we want to take this signal again, we hit the Control button and a click
and we come up with a list of things we can do with the output of that Block
so if we want to take that Block into a parameter this is the way to do it
do we want it to be a digital output, we can select a number of digital outputs
if it's a value we can make it a analog output
we can make a display parameter, we could make it part of the PID
so there are a lot of different options we can do there
but for now I'm going to say we want to make that a digital output Block
and we see the tie in here between the output and the input
so that's a way we can work with this
if we wanted the value to be a constant we could put it in 85.01 and 85.02 parameters
and that way once the program is running we can edit those constants on the fly
and vary them
so next I'm going to show you a copy of a
program that was already written up here
ok so I'm going to put parameters into the Drive
so let's go back in here and open a parameter file
and show you how to put in back into the Drive
so we're going to open a file
and use this particular file
so here's a set of parameters from my PC
I go to Drive, Parameters & Signals
and then upload
upload all parameters
so now it's going to upload all the parameters to the Drive
ok so now all the parameters are uploaded I'm gonna go into the DriveAP Tool
and this again takes a minute to load
ok so now we're going to show you how
to put the parameter set from the file on the PC into the Drive
so I'm going to open up the file from my computer
there's the parameter, Drives, Parameters & Signals
download all the parameters
this is where I download these parameters into the Drive
this might take a little time
ok now we're going to go into the DriveAP studio and see
what the setup for this particular program was
so give it a minute for the DriveAP to load
okay now if you notice this particular status is running
unprotected, this is a couple different functions, this is kind of a
add speed set up
so what I want to show here is that
as we're running we can actually monitor this during running
so if we use the shift key now and click on any individual pin
here on the
we can actually get the value
so we click right here on the little pink area
and the line goes away but the actual value of that item
comes into play so we can see live view
at whatever update this is
you can see a live view at what the status of that pin is
input or output
so you can see how this operates
this is the window that this program works with...and so forth
again if you want to edit this program you have to stop the program
and go into the edit mode
and then we can use the edit using the control key
when we're done we need to
start the program
we can protect it with a password as well
okay, so let's exit out of this
so now we're running again
and basically we'll review the tools here
so we can do a new online Drive which is what we're in now
you can create a new offline Drive if you want to start parameter sets without a Drive
that works except in the case of the DCS800
we have basically our control panel operations if we're in local mode
we can do step functions, here's where we do parameter backups and restore
we can upload all the parameters here
or upload single parameters here
we can do a compare function which is nice
if we want to compare our file in the computer to the Drive to see the differences
again we have our CoDeSys, and DriveAP tools, Communication settings
and the standard Windows settings
this is version 2.9 of DriveWindow Light version 2
Thanks for watching hopefully this is helpful
and will help you in the future to use this software
Thanks for visiting, have a great day
Dave Wagner: dwagner@techniconiec.com (814) 756-4900