Ctc parker automation Powerstation p1 User manual

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Model P1 User Guide

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TATION

Model P1 User Guide

CTC Parker Automation Phone: 513-831-2340

50 W. TechneCenter Drive, Milford, Ohio 45150 Technical Support: 513-248-1714

A3-05087-102

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system, in any form or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording or

otherwise, without the prior written consent of CTC Parker Automation.

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this manual, CTC

ParkerAutomation and theauthor assume noresponsibility for errors oromissions.

Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the informa-

tion contained herein. All product and company names are trademarks of their

respective companies and licenses.

Product Warranty Information

CTC ParkerAutomation provides topquality products through rigid testing and the

highest quality control standards. However, should a problem occur with your

hardware or with the software protection key, CTC’s standard product warranty

covers these itemsfor 15 months from the date of shipment from CTC. Exceptions

appear below:

• PowerStation backlight bulbs have a 90-day warranty. Push button lamps

are not covered under warranty.

• Third-party products, such as PCMCIA cards, carry the manufacturer’s

specified warranty.

• For all displays, image retention (burn-in) is not covered by warranty.

• Software revisions that occur within 60 days after purchase are available

under warranty upon request. Please review the Interact License Agree-

ment for additional software warranty information.

Should you have any questions about your application or need technical assistance,

pleasecall CTC’s Product TechnicalSupport department at 513-248-1714, 8:00am

to 5:00pm, EST. You may call this same number after hours for emergency assis-

tance. See Customer Support Services on page 5 of this manual for more informa-

tion about CTC’s support products and services.

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Table of Contents

P1 PowerStation User Guide

Chapter 1 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Documentation Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Documentation Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Important Concepts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Before You Be

in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Confi

urin

the PowerStation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Developin

an Interact Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Create an application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Test the application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Download the application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Installin

the PowerStation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Customer Support Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Customer Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Technical Support Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Product Support Pro

ram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Chapter 2 Understanding the P1 PowerStation . . . . . 7

Display Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Color STN Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Monochrome Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Drive Definitions and Memory Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

P1 PowerStation Memory Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Memory Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Available Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Serial Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

COM1 pinouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

COM2 pinouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

COM2 DIP switch settin

s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Cable dia

rams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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Connecting to a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Connecting a serial mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting to a serial printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Parallel Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connecting to a parallel printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Keyboard Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Connecting a PS/2 mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Ethernet Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Physical Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Electrical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Testing Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Environmental Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Faceplate Chemical Resistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Replacement Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Flash Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

DRAM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Touch Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Backlight Bulb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Optional Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

AC Power Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

PC/104 Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Chapter 3 Configuring the P1 PowerStation. . . . . . .25

Powering Up the PowerStation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Using the Shell Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Selecting Screen Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Menu Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Main Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

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Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Touch Screen Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Go To Interact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Exit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Calibrating the Touch Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Configuring the Ethernet Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Modifying the AUTOEXEC.BAT File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Address/IRQ Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Chapter 4 Installing the P1 PowerStation. . . . . . . . . 39

Selecting a Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Environmental Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Faceplate considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Electrical Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Field terminal wiring requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Temperature Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Enclosure Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Backlight Accessibility Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

AC Power Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Preparing the Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Creating the Cutout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Preparing to Use an AC Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Installing the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Mounting the PowerStation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Mounting the AC Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Installing the PC/104 Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Electrostatic Discharge Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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Installing the PC/104 Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Chapter 5 Maintaining and Troubleshooting the

P1 PowerStation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Cleaning the Touch Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Using the Compact Flash Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Removing and Replacing the Compact Flash Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Performing Internal Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Electrostatic Discharge Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Disassembling the PowerStation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Replacing the DRAM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Replacing the Touch Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Replacing the Backlight Bulb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Reassembling the PowerStation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Resolving Common Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Resolving Problems When Powering the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Resolving AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS problems . . . . . . . 59

Resolving other problems during power up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Resolving Problems After Powering the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

PowerStation Dimensional Drawings. . . . . . . . . . . . .67

P1 Side View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

P1 Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

P1 Top View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Frequently Asked Questions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

General Interact Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Configuration Questions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Run Time Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Printing Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

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Chapter 1

Getting Started

Thank you for purchasing the P1 PowerStation. The P1

PowerStation is a rugged, compact PC that is designed to be

used as an industrial operator interface. You will find that the

P1 PowerStation has been built to provide years of trouble-

free operation even in the harshest environments.

The P1 PowerStation features a durable 5.7” STN color LCD

or Mono LCD display, an all-in-one PC board with a parallel

port, two serial ports, and an Ethernet port. The P1 PowerSta-

tion’sPC architecture allows you torun CTC Parker’sInteract

software.

Please take a moment to review this manual and all other

documentation included with the P1 PowerStation.

Chapter Contents

Documentation Components 2

Documentation Standards 2

Important Concepts 3

Customer Support Services 5

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Documentation Components

P1 PowerStation User Guide

Documentation Components

The P1 PowerStation documentation set contains all the information you

need to configure, install, and use the P1 PowerStation as well as informa-

tion about the PowerStation Shell Utility program and the Interact Project

Manager. The P1 PowerStation documentation set is described below.

P1 PowerStation Template - This document is a full-size template of the

P1 PowerStation you can use to prepare the location where you want to

install the unit.

Release Notes - This document provides important information about the

P1 PowerStation that does not appear in this manual. Be sure to read the

release notes before operating the unit.

P1 PowerStation User Guide - This document is the document you are

reading. It provides detailed information about the P1 PowerStation and

describes how to configure, install, and use the unit. It also contains infor-

mation about the PowerStation Shell Utility. Please read this manual in its

entirety prior to operating the unit.

IPM User Guide - This document describes how to install and use the

Interact ProjectManager to download Interact projects from a PC to the P1

PowerStation.

Program Disks - A disk sleeve contains the source disks for the CTC

Parker software that was installed on your unit at CTC.

Documentation Standards

As you read this manual, you will notice that the following documentation

standards have been followed.

1. Important terms are shown in bold.

2. Text to be entered from the keyboard is shown in Courier font.

3. Buttons, menu titles, and keyboard keys are shown in Initial Caps.

4. Indented paragraphs denote one of the following:

•Note - Describes alternative approaches or issues you should be

aware of while using a particular function.

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