CONTROL SOLUTIONS ValuPoint 4 User manual

Model VP4-0630, VP4-2330
ValuPoint 4
Programmable I/O
for BACnet MS/TP
Rev. 1.2 – Oct. 2016
ValuPoint User Guide Contents
1 Overview
1.1 How to Use This Guide
1.2 Important Safety Notice
1.3 Overview of the ValuPoint Devices
1.4 Warranty
1.5 Required License Information
2 Installation and Connections
2.1 Installing the configuration software
2.2 Installing the USB to MS/TP adapter
2.3 Connecting the ValuPoint
2.4 Connecting the USB Adapter
2.5 Indicators on the VP4-0630
2.6 Indicators on the VP4-2330
2.7 Indicators on the MTX002 USB to MS/TP Adapter
3 Connect
3.0 Do This for First Time Startup
3.1 MS/TP
3.2 IP
3.3 Work Offline
3.4 Auto Connect
4 Who-Is
4.0 Do This for First Time Startup
4.1 Send Who-Is
4.2 Refresh
4.3 Select Target
4.4 Get Device Info
4.5 Get Object List
4.6 Clear Who-Is Cache
4.7 Read All Config
4.8 Who-Is via IP Router
5 Read/Write
5.0 Skip This for First Time Startup
5.1 Read Property
5.2 Write Property
6 Device Page
6.0 Do This for First Time Startup
6.1 Get Info
6.2 Change Info
6.3 Reassign Device Instance
6.4 Get Counts
6.5 Recalculate and Reconfigure Counts
6.6 Reinit Device
6.7 File Read/Write (Device XML)
7 I/O Point Assignments
7.0 Skip This for First Time Startup
7.1 Assigning Physical I/O Points to BACnet Objects
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8 Object Map Page
8.0 Skip This for First Time Startup
8.1 Common Parameters
8.2 Physical Hardware I/O Parameters
8.3 MS/TP BACnet Client Parameters
8.4 Global Object
8.5 Insert, Add, Delete
8.6 Read/Write Device
8.7 File Read/Write (Object Map XML)
9 Object Map List
9.0 Do This for First Time Startup
9.1 Read All, Write All
9.2 Select for Edit
9.3 File Read/Write (Object Map CSV)
10 PL/i Programming for Control
10.0 Skip This for First Time Startup
10.1 Program Loading and Execution
10.2 Program Editing and Debugging
10.3 Program Capacity
10.4 Program States and Error Codes
11 View Data
11.0 Skip This for First Time Startup
11.1 Read All
11.2 Data Definitions
12 Object Properties
12.1 Data Object Properties (Analog, Binary, Multi-state)
12.2 Device Object Properties
13 Physical I/O Connections
13.1 Connection of Inputs
13.2 Connection of Outputs
13.3 Connection of Power and Communications, VP4-0630
13.4 Connection of Power and Communications, VP4-2330
14 Trouble Shooting
14.1 Error Codes, Reliability Codes
14.2 Auto-Reset Errors
14.3 MS/TP Trouble Shooting - Connecting the USB Adapter
14.4 MS/TP Trouble Shooting - Device Behavior
14.5 System Fault Indications
15 Editing a CSV Object Map File
Appendix A – USB Driver Installation
Appendix B – BACnet Property Type Codes
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Model VP4-0630, VP4-2330
Programmable I/O for MS/TP Networks
Rev. 1.2 – Oct. 2016
© 2016 Control Solutions, Inc.
1.1 How to Use This Guide
Section 1 gives an overview of the ValuPoint programmable I/O device. Section 2 talks
about installing the configuration software and connecting the ValuPoint. Sections 3
through 11 are guides for each of the tabs found on the screen of the configuration
software. Sections 12 through 14, and Appendix A through C, are reference material.
The first subsection in each of sections 3 through 11 is titled “Do This” or “Skip This”.
The “Do This” sections are the minimum required actions necessary for connecting and
syncing the device with the tool for the first time. You can then go back and study
additional sections that follow “Do This” or go back and do the sections that initially
said “Skip This”.
1.2 Important Safety Notice
Proper system design is required for reliable and safe operation of distributed
control systems incorporating any Control Solutions product. It is extremely
important for the user and system designer to consider the effects of loss of
power, loss of communications, and failure of components in the design of
any monitoring or control application. This is especially important where the
potential for property damage, personal injury, or loss of life may exist. By
using ANY Control Solutions, Inc., product, the user has agreed to assume all
risk and responsibility for proper system design as well as any consequence
for improper system design.
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1.3 Overview of the ValuPoint Devices
Control Solutions' ValuPoint® controllers are designed to be building blocks in a
distributed control system where controllers communicate peer to peer via BACnet
MS/TP. Each ValuPoint controller can access BACnet objects in other BACnet devices,
both ValuPoint controllers and other manufacturer’s devices. Remote objects are
mapped to local objects that mirror the value of the remote object. The ValuPoint®
Programmable I/O for BACnet MS/TP provides the standard profile BACnet Application
Specific Controller (B-ASC).
All of the ValuPoint features available to local objects are also available to the remote
mapped objects. This means the remote objects can be incorporated into the local
i.CanDrawIt® program.
The user has the ability to assign object allocation as part of setup of the controller.
Resources are allocated from a common pool, and the user has the ability to decrease
the number of one type of object in order to increase the number of another type.
Total object count will range from approximately 100 commandable objects (with full
priority array) to 200 read/write objects. Object types include analog, binary, and
multi-state variations of input, commandable output, and writeable value.
Model VP4-0630
ValuPoint VP4-0630 is a scaled down, low cost version of the VP4-2330 featuring 2
universal inputs that may be configured as analog or discrete, 2 dedicated discrete
inputs, and 2 Form A relay outputs.
Hardware Features of Model VP4-0630
• 2 Analog/universal inputs, software selectable types
• 0-10VDC, discrete, pulse count
• 10-bit A/D resolution
• Non-volatile totalizing count inputs
• 2 Discrete Inputs
• Dry contact closure to ground
• Pulse count (10Hz) capability
• Non-volatile totalizing count inputs
• 2 Discrete outputs
• Form A relay
• 2A @ 120VAC
• 2A @ 30VDC
• BACnet MS/TP at 9600 to 76800 baud
• Hardened RS-485 port
• 128KB non-volatile EEPROM configuration file capacity
• 64K Flash for User Program
• ARM 32-bit processor, 512K Flash, 56K RAM
• Powered by 18-30VDC or 24VAC 50/60 Hz
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• 0.2A @ 24VDC
• DIN rail mounting, 100mm H x 70mm W x 60mm D
• -40C to +70C, 5%-95% RH non-condensing
• Certifications: FCC, CE, UL 916
Model VP4-2330
ValuPoint VP4-2330 features 14 universal context sensitive inputs. When configured as
an analog input, the continuously self-calibrating sigma-delta converter produces
15-bit resolution with high noise immunity. When configured as a discrete input, the
converter switches to 10-bit resolution at 1,000 samples per second for fast response.
ValuPoint 4-2330 also includes 3 analog outputs, 6 Form A relay outputs, and pulse
counting capability on all inputs.
Hardware Features of Model VP4-2330
• I/O points and undedicated BACnet objects
• Input objects: AI, BI, MSI
• Commandable output objects: AO, BO, MSO
• Writeable value objects: AV, BV, MSV
• Configurable object allocation for I/O and program use
• 14 Analog/universal inputs, software selectable types
• 0-10VDC, thermistor, discrete, dry contact, pulse
• 0.1% reference, up to 16-bit resolution
• Continuously self-calibrating sigma-delta converter
• Non-volatile totalizing count inputs
(to 20Hz on all channels, to 5kHz on 2 channels)
• 3 Analog outputs
• 4-20mA (0-20mA), 8-bit resolution, 500 ohm load max.
• 6 Discrete outputs
• Form A relay, 5A @ 24VAC (120VAC industrial)
• Battery backed real time clock/calendar
• BACnet MS/TP at 9600 to 76800 baud
• Hardened RS-485 port
• 128KB non-volatile EEPROM configuration file capacity
• ARM 32-bit processor, 512K Flash, 96K RAM
• Powered by 18-30VDC or 24VAC 50/60 Hz
• 0.3A @ 24VDC
• DIN rail mounting, 100mm H x 105mm W x 60mm D
• -40C to +70C, 5%-95% RH non-condensing
• Certifications: FCC, CE, UL 916
Configuring the ValuPoint Programmable I/O Device
The ValuPoint is configured by writing various BACnet properties to the respective
objects being configured. Each BACnet object, such as Analog Input, Analog Output,
Binary Input, etc., includes properties defining which physical I/O point or remote
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BACnet object should be mapped to this BACnet object. The usual mandatory object
properties are included in each BACnet object found in the ValuPoint. There are
additional proprietary object properties defining the physical I/O or BACnet client map
parameters.
You can configure the ValuPoint using any BACnet client capable of reading and writing
object properties. This process is streamlined in the ValuPoint configuration software
tool available for free download at www.csimn.com. The configuration tool provides
easy-to-use templates you fill in, and then click a ‘Write’ button to send multiple
properties to the ValuPoint at one time. Once configured, you can save your entire
configuration to an XML format file on your PC for later re-use. To replicate the same
configuration, simply load the XML file back into the configuration tool and click the
‘Write All’ button.
The ValuPoint configuration tool uses Control Solutions’ MTX002 USB to MS/TP port
adapter. The MTX002 allows connecting to MS/TP devices via the USB port on your PC.
The MTX002 is intended primarily as an aid in configuring Control Solutions devices,
but the tools do include general purpose BACnet object browsing capability usable with
any MS/TP device.
The MTX002 operates as an MS/TP client device on the network, reading and writing
properties in the device being configured as directed by the configuration tool
applicable to the product being configured. As a client, the MTX002 can also read/write
any standard BACnet properties in any MS/TP device using the BACnet diagnostic page
of the software tool available for free download on the support pages.
MTX002 USB to MS/TP Adapter
1.4 Warranty
This software and documentation is provided “as is,” without warranty of any
kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties
of fi tness or merchantability for a particular purpose. Control Solutions may make
improvements and/or changes in this documentation or in the product(s) and/or the
program(s) described in this documentation at any time. This product could include
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software bugs, technical inaccuracies, typographical errors, and the like. Changes are
periodically made to the information herein; these changes may be incorporated in
new editions of the software.
1.5 Required License Information
No licence is required for use of the ValuPoint configuration tool or programming
software. The only licence requirements are that the following notices are provided.
The ValuPoint configuration and line programming tools include the SmartWin library
(http://smartwinlib.org) under the following terms:
License agreement for SmartWin++ (BSD license)
Copyright (c) 2005, Thomas Hansen All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are
permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of
conditions and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of
conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials
provided with the distribution.
* Neither the name of the SmartWin++ nor the names of its contributors may be used
to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior
written permission.
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OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
i.CanDrawIt includes, licensed under LGPL, TinyCAD, Copyright 1994-2009 Matt Pyne.
Source code is available at http://tinycad.sourceforge.net. Open source products
included under either GPL or LGPL include TinyCAD v2.70; Unicode/Font
Conversions: iconv.dll version 1.9.0.0; PNG Image Support: libpng13.dll version
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2.1 Installing the configuration software
Look for the installer icons in the directory where you unzipped the download that got
you to this document. The installer icons look like this:
The installation is a 2-step installation. Install VP4-BACnet first. Then install
i.CanDrawIt second.
Double click the icon to run the setup.exe. You will be questioned about whether to
continue because Windows cannot verify the publisher of the software. Permit
installation to continue. The sequence of installer screens include the following on
Windows 7:
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The installer will check to see whether Visual C++ support is already installed on your
system, and install it if not. This is standard software provided by Microsoft.
When you get to the “Finish” screen, you are ready to go.
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