Harmony eXLhoist User manual

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Harmony eXLhoist
Wireless Remote Control System
User Guide
12/2014

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Table of Contents
Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
About the Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 1 Wireless Remote Control System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Wireless Remote Control System Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Package Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Parts Identification and Main Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Certifications and Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 2 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2.1 Base Station Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Base Station Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
RADIO Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
2.2 Remote Device Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Remote Device Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Remote Device Charger Specification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
2.3 Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Base Station Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Remote Device Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 3 Safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
3.1 Generalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Standards and Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.2 Description and Safety Function Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Wireless Remote Control System Safety Functions Are Part of an
Overall System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Getting and Operating the Safety Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
E-STOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
STOP Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Standard Motion & Auxiliary Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Safeguarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Priority of Safety Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

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Safe State of the Wireless Remote Control System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Response Time and Process Safety Time (PST) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Legal RFU (Recommendation for Use) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Summary of the Reliability Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
3.3 Functional Safety Function Commissioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Safety Parameters and Steps to Configure the Safety Functions . . . . 74
Machine Signature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
3.4 Functional Safety Requirements for Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Base Station or Remote Device Replacement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Changing Machine Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Chapter 4 Installation and Wiring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
4.1 Base Station Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Base Station Installation Precaution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
4.2 Base Station Wiring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Base Station Wiring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Wiring Best Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Factory Setting Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
4.3 Functionalities Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Motion/Auxiliary Relays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Detected Applicative Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Unintended Operating Control (UOC) Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Safeguarding Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Special Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Safety Relay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
4.4 Remote Device Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Customize The Remote Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
First Commissioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Chapter 5 Using The Wireless Remote Control System . . . . . . . 117
5.1 Basic Uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Main Modes Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Power ON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
E-STOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
STOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
START . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Power OFF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

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5.2 Functionalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Standard Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Auxiliary Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Horn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
5.3 Discovering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Discovering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
5.4 How to Modify the Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
How to Modify a Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
5.5 Remote Device Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Remote Device Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Chapter 6 Diagnostic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
6.1 Base Station Diagnostic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Diagnostic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
6.2 ZART•D Diagnostic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Diagnostic Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Radio Communication Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Battery Level of the Remote Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
E-STOP LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Applicative Alarms Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Detected Failure Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
6.3 ZART8L Diagnostic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
ZART8L LED Diagnostic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Chapter 7 eXLhoist Configuration Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
7.1 Introduction to eXLhoist Configuration Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
What is eXLhoist Configuration Software? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Connect a Remote Device to the PC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
7.2 User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Starting Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Main Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

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7.3 Project Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Starting and Exiting eXLhoist Configuration Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Creating a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Edit a Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Project Passwords Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Load the Configuration into the Remote Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Save a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Export to PDF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
7.4 Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Device Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Relay Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Interlocking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Detected Applicative Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Chapter 8 Maintenance / Device Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
8.1 Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Regular Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
8.2 Device Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Base Station Replacement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
ZART•D Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
ZART8L Device Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
8.3 Remote Device Resets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Remote Device Resets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Appendices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Appendix A Architecture Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Tested Architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Vacuum/Magnetic Application Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Room Lighting Application Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

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Safety Information
Important Information
NOTICE
Read these instructions carefully, and look at the equipment to become familiar with the device
before trying to install, operate, or maintain it. The following special messages may appear
throughout this documentation or on the equipment to warn of potential hazards or to call attention
to information that clarifies or simplifies a procedure.

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PLEASE NOTE
Electrical equipment should be installed, operated, serviced, and maintained only by qualified
personnel. No responsibility is assumed by Schneider Electric for any consequences arising out of
the use of this material.
A qualified person is one who has skills and knowledge related to the construction and operation
of electrical equipment and its installation, and has received safety training to recognize and avoid
the hazards involved.

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About the Book
At a Glance
Document Scope
This manuel describes how to use the Wireless Remote Control System.
Validity Note
The technical characteristics of the devices described in this document also appear online. To
access this information online:
The characteristics that are presented in this manual should be the same as those characteristics
that appear online. In line with our policy of constant improvement, we may revise content over time
to improve clarity and accuracy. If you see a difference between the manual and online information,
use the online information as your reference.
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DANGER
HAZARD OF ELECTRIC SHOCK, EXPLOSION OR ARC FLASH
Disconnect all power from all equipment including connected devices prior to removing any
covers or doors, or installing or removing any accessories, hardware, cables, connectors or
wires except under the specific conditions specified in this user guide.
Always use a properly rated voltage sensing device to confirm that the power is off.
Unplug the power cable from both the equipment and the power supply.
Replace and secure all covers, accessories, hardware, cables, and wires and confirm that a
proper ground connection exists before applying power to the equipment.
Use only the specified voltage when operating this equipment and any associated products.
Failure to follow these instructions will result in death or serious injury.
WARNING
UNINTENDED EQUIPMENT OPERATION
Do not open the Remote Device.
Do not replace internal parts of the Base Station.
After a Base Station power off, wait until the STATUS LED becomes OFF (around 20 seconds)
before removing the cover.
Always comply with the local requirements regarding installation and use of the hoisting
devices.
Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, or equipment
damage.