Smartrise HYDRO:EVOLVED User guide

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Hydro:Evolved Start-Up Guide

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Table of Contents
1Introduction: Hydro:Evolved Start-Up Guide.................................................1
1.1 Number of Floors ................................................................................................................3
1.2 Floor Openings....................................................................................................................4
1.3 Learning the Hoistway.........................................................................................................4
1.4 Contract Speed....................................................................................................................5
2Level Maximum Run Distance.......................................................................6
3NTS Buffer Distance Up and Down................................................................7
4Destination and Relevel Offsets ....................................................................8
4.1 Destination Offset...............................................................................................................8
4.2 Relevel Offset .....................................................................................................................9
5Speed Thresholds........................................................................................10
6Slowdown Distance.....................................................................................11
7Hydro Speed Setup .....................................................................................12
7.1 Car Overshooting ..............................................................................................................13
7.2 Adjust Leveling Time .........................................................................................................14
8Adaptive Slowdown™system (U.S. Patent Pending) ...................................15
8.1 Procedure .........................................................................................................................15
8.2 Troubleshooting Adaptive Slowdown™system (U.S. Patent Pending).................................16
8.3 Monitoring Adaptive Slowdown™system (U.S. Patent Pending).........................................17
9Floor Adjustment........................................................................................17
9.1 Car is Too Low...................................................................................................................17
9.2 Car is Too High ..................................................................................................................18
10 NTS Alarm...................................................................................................19
11 Outside of Dead Zone .................................................................................20
12 Adding Weights to an Empty Car.................................................................21
12.1 Car Overshooting ..............................................................................................................22
12.2 Adjust Leveling Time .........................................................................................................23
13 Store Floor Level .........................................................................................24

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1 Introduction: Hydro:Evolved Start-Up Guide
The following information will provide detail and instructions on how to setup the Slowdown
distance and steps for troubleshoot the equipment. Prior to setting up the Slowdown distance
we must verify following:
1. Number of Floors
2. Floor Openings
3. Learning the Hoistway
4. Contract Speed
Several peripherals affect the acceleration rate, deceleration rate, and speed of the car in the
up or down direction which includes, the temperature and viscosity of the oil, and weight.
Once all faults and alarms have been resolved during Construction and Inspection Mode, place
the DZ magnet 2” above the floor level for the bottom floor and 2” below the floor level for the
top floor. This creates an extra precaution for the car not to hit the ring buffer while travelling
in up direction and car buffer when traveling in down direction to avoid any unexpected
scenarios.
For proper operation, the controller and valves must be configured so the car has the proper
acceleration and slowdown time.
For a better/faster performance, the acceleration time should be less than 1 second.
If the deceleration rate of the car is slow and the car hits the Terminal Stopping Distance
(TSRD), reduce the deceleration rate of the valve (transition rate from high valve to leveling
valve).

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A. Acceleration Rate - Rate at which the car accelerates before reaching maximum speed.
B. High Contract Speed - The maximum speed the car will achieve based on the contract
speed setting and the high valve setting.
C. NTS Buffer Distance: The distance added to the slowdown distance to cut off the high
valves.
D. Deceleration Rate - Rate at which the car decelerates after it reaches maximum speed.
E. Leveling Time - The duration the car moves during level speed before reaching the
destination.
F. Destination Offset - The distance from the destination position that the car will cut its
leveling valve when moving on a non-releveling run/correction run.
G. Slowdown Distance - Sets the distance from its destination where the car must cut its
high-speed valves when moving at a speed above the speed threshold.
H. TSRD Distance - The safe distance from the top and bottom floor level for a car to stop
before it hits the buffer. If the car is traveling more than 50 fpm within this distance, a
TSRD fault occurs and the car performs an emergency stop.
Place the car in Normal Operation. Prior to learning the hoistway verify the number of floors
and openings are correct. Learning the hoistway allows for learning the positioning of all floors.
1.1 Number of Floors
Navigate to MAIN MENU | SETUP | FLOORS |NUMBER OF FLOORS.
Verify the number of floors are correct.
NOTE: The number of floors should include any express zones that are serviced by other
cars in the group. The opening map will reflect the floors the car serves.

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1.2 Floor Openings
Navigate to MAIN MENU | SETUP | FLOORS | OPENING (FRONT AND REAR).
From the FLOOR OPENING (Front and Rear) menu, verify the front and rear doors for
the floors are going to open.
1.3 Learning the Hoistway
Bring the car to the top or bottom floor terminal.
Check the top right corner of the Main screen to verify the DZ input to the CT board is
high by.
On the MR board, turn on DIP 5A.
The Main screen changes from Normal to Hold UP/DN To Start.

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1.4 Contract Speed
The contract speed is the maximum speed the elevator travels and is dependent upon the job
configuration.
Set the maximum speed of the car to run at contract speed.
Set the Contract Speed.

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2 Level Maximum Run Distance
Set the maximum run distance where level valve speed run is allowed. Longer runs outside of
door zones may start with a higher speed valve. When set to zero, a short distance run will start
with the higher valve and have a high likelihood of overshooting the destination.
The following procedure describes how to set the level maximum run distance.
Navigate to MAIN MENU | SETUP | HYDRO.
From the HYDRO SETUP menu, scroll and select Level Maximum Run Distance.
From LEVEL MAXIMUM RUN DISTANCE menu, enter the maximum run distance.
Scroll right and press Save.

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3 NTS Buffer Distance Up and Down
An NTS alarm may be generated in any direction during normal mode of operation. When this
occurs, the NTS buffer distance needs to be increased
The following procedure describes how to set the NTS buffer distance up and down.
Navigate to MAIN MENU | SETUP | HYDRO.
From the HYDRO SETUP menu, scroll and select NTS Buffer Distance Up or NTS Buffer
Distance Down.
From the NTS BUFFER DISTANCE UP or NTS BUFFER DISTANCE DOWN menu, enter the
buffer distance.
Scroll right and press Save.

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4 Destination and Relevel Offsets
There is some delay at the end of a run between cutting the leveling speed valve and the
coming to a stop. By default, the user may see the car overshoot its destinations and relevel
back. To address this situation, the car’s destination offset has to be adjusted. The offset
destinations cause the car to stop its run shy of the ON position in order to compensate for the
movement that occurs after the leveling valve is cut.
4.1 Destination Offset
The destination offset determines when to cut the leveling valves, when the car is leveling
towards the destination landing. This is the sliding distance after the leveling valves are cut and
the car comes to a stop to the destination landing.
If the car has a proper steady state leveling time but still overshoots the learned floor position
and stops outside the dead zone and relevels, set the destination offset up or destination offset
down depending on which direction the car is moving.
Perform the following procedure to set the up or down offset.
Navigate to MAIN MENU | SETUP | HYDRO.
From the HYDRO SETUP menu, scroll and Destination Offset Up or Down. The values are
set after determing how far the cars have overshot the landing.
Does the car stop outside the dead zone?
a. If the car is moving in up direction and stops outside the dead zone, got to step 4.
a. If the car is moving in down direction and stops outside the dead zone, go to step 5.
Increase the up offset by 0.5in. Go to step 6.
Increase the down offset by 0.5in.
Scroll right and press Save.

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4.2 Relevel Offset
Relevel Offset is the distance from the destination position that the car cuts its leveling valve
when moving in the up or down direction on a releveling run.
Perform the following procedure to set the up or down offset.
Navigate to MAIN MENU | SETUP | HYDRO.
From the HYDRO SETUP menu, scroll and Relevel Offset Up or Down. The values are set
after determing how far the cars have overshot the landing.
From the RELEVEL OFFSET UP or RELEVEL OFFSET DOWN menu, enter the offset. The
values are set after determing how far the cars have overshot the landing.
Scroll right and press Save.

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5 Speed Thresholds
The speed threshold is compared to the current speed to determine the slowdown distance
used to reach the destination. This distance determines when to slow the car in either the up or
down direction.
The following procedure describes how to set the speed threshold.
Navigate to MAIN MENU | SETUP | HYDRO.
From the HYDRO SETUP menu, scroll and select Speed Thresholds
From the SPEED THRESHOLD menu, scroll and select the slowdown distance.
Scroll right and press Save.

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6 Slowdown Distance
The slowdown distance is the distance in which the car transitions from high speed to leveling
speed in the up or down direction.
The following procedure describes how to set the slowdown distance.
Navigate to MAIN MENU | SETUP | HYDRO.
From the HYDRO SETUP menu, scroll and select Slowdown Distance UP or DOWN.
From the SLOWDOWN DISTANCE UP or SLOWDOWN DISTANCE DOWN menu, scroll and
select the slowdown distance.
Scroll right and press Save.

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7 Hydro Speed Setup
The Hydro Speed Setup takes the slowdown factor of the distance and time relative to the
speed to generate the slowdown distances and threshold for each landing. The up and down
adjustments depend upon the selected factor in which the greater the factor the greater the
distance. For example, if the factor is 1 second, the slowdown distance will be 2’ 1” where as if
the factor is 1.78 seconds, the slowdown distance will be 3’ 8”. Depending upon the high speed
and type of valve setup, the factor can be determined.
To have a proper slowdown for up or down direction, adjust the up and down time.
Note: Changes made on Up Adjustment and Down Adjustment will not take affect while
Adaptive Slowdown™system (U.S. Patent Pending) is active, turn off Adaptive Slowdown™
system (U.S. Patent Pending) before proceeding.
Navigate to MAIN MENU | SETUP | HYDRO | HYDRO SPEED SETUP | UP and DOWN
ADJUSTMENT (need to set both).
Adjust the time to set the distance the car will begin slowing down from high speed to
leveling speed in the Up Distance and Down Distance
Scroll back to GENERATE THRESHOLDS AND DISTANCES and select YES. If YES is not
selected, new thresholds and slowdowns are not generated.
Selecting yes will generate the values for slowdown distance up, slow down distance
down, and threshold.
a. if overshooting occurs, following instructions on for Car Overshooting and repeat
step 1-4.

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b. If leveling time is too long or short, follow instructions for Adjust Leveling Time
and repeat step 1 - 4.
7.1 Car Overshooting
Overshooting is where the car goes beyond floor level. To prevent overshooting, increase the
time. This causes the car to slow down sooner which increases the slowdown distance.
The following procedure describes how to resolve car steady state if overshooting occurs:
Navigate to Adjustments and adjust the up or down distance by increasing the time.
Increasing the time causes the car to slow down sooner which increases the slowdown
distance.
Scroll back to GENERATE THRESHOLDS AND DISTANCES and select YES. If YES is not
selected, new thresholds and slowdowns are not generated.

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7.2 Adjust Leveling Time
When weight is added to the car, it might take longer than normal (three to five seconds) for
the car to level. Decreasing the slowdown distance decreases the time it takes for the car to
level. The speed threshold to adjust is dependent upon the speed the car is traveling.
The following procedure describes how to resolve car steady state if leveling is longer:
Navigate to Adjustments and adjust the up or down distance by decreasing the time.
Decreasing the time causes the car to have a shorter slow down period which decreases
the slowdown distance.
Scroll back to GENERATE THRESHOLDS AND DISTANCES and select YES. If YES is not
selected, new thresholds and slowdowns are not generated.

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8 Adaptive Slowdown™system (U.S. Patent Pending)
The following feature operates on top of the Hydro Evolved Setup Slowdown Distance
instructions. When active, the Adaptive Slowdown™system (U.S. Patent Pending) monitors the
operation of each run. After each run, the software adjusts a reference slowdown distance
variable based on previous runs so that subsequent runs result in leveling times closer to the
target Leveling Time selected. Run-to-run variances in elevator operations will not have a
significant effect on the reference slowdown distance.
8.1 Procedure
Complete the following steps after successfully setting the adjusted slow down distance:
Measure the Leveling Time from when the car reaches the level speed until the car
stops. The measured Leveling Time will be used as the base line for the Target Time
used on step 2.
Navigate to MAIN MENU | SETUP | HYDRO | ADAPTIVE SLOWDOWN™SYSTEM (U.S.
PATENT PENDING) | LEVELING TARGET |, set the Target Time to the measured time on
step 1 then select save.
Navigate to MAIN MENU | SETUP | HYDRO | ADAPTIVE SLOWDOWN™SYSTEM (U.S.
PATENT PENDING) |ENABLE SLOWDOWN |, set to ON.
Allow the car to run from Floor to Floor for 2 full cycles to adjust the slowdown distance.
It is recommended to run the car empty during the first 2 cycles to allow the car to
measure the slowdown distance accurately.
Note: Turning off Adaptive Slowdown™system (U.S. Patent Pending) will reset all the
slowdown distance learned and will cause the car to operate based on the settings on
Hydro Speed Setup.

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8.2 Troubleshooting Adaptive Slowdown™system (U.S. Patent
Pending)
The following steps are used to troubleshoot the car based on different occurrences:
•The car is overshooting the landing - Overshooting occurs if the leveling time is set too
short to allow for the weight fluctuation in slowdown distance, then car will take a
significant step back by increasing the slowdown distance. the Adaptive Slowdown™
system (U.S. Patent Pending) will decrease the distance until an overshoot occurs.
•Increase the Target Time in increments of .5 seconds and repeat step 4 of the
procedure.
•Car is taking too long arriving to the landing –The car will decrease the leveling time in
increments of .1 seconds based on the initial Hydro Speed Setup until the Target Time
on Adaptive Slowdown™system (U.S. Patent Pending) is met and will continue to
fluctuate between the range. Decreasing the range will decrease the fluctuation of the
learning distance.
•Decrease the Target Time in increments of .5 seconds and repeat step 4 of the
procedure.
•The car is misaligned with the landing –The car is at the door zone, but slightly above
or below the landing.
•Follow instructions on the for Floor Adjustment to adjust the floor height to align
the car with the landing.
•Car is getting a TSRD fault when you are reaching the landing –Fault occurs when the
range of the TSRD distance to the landing is too high for the Slow Down Distance.
•Navigating to MAIN MENU | SETUP | HYDRO | TSRD DISTANCE
•Decrease the TSRD Distance to a lower value and repeat step 4 of the procedure.