Chapter 1 - Introduction; Housing - Emerson ControlWave Instruction Manual

Chapter 1 - Introduction

In This Chapter
Features ControlWave process automation controllers have the following key
Revised Nov-2010
ControlWave Instruction Manual (CI-ControlWave)
This manual focuses on the hardware aspects of the ControlWave
Process Automation Controller (called the "ControlWave" throughout
the rest of this manual). For information about the software used with
the ControlWave, refer to the ControlWave Quick Setup Guide (D5084),
the ControlWave Designer Programmer's Handbook (D5125), and the
online help in ControlWave Designer.
This chapter details the structure of this manual and provides an
overview of the ControlWave and its components.
1.1 Scope of the Manual
1.2 Physical Description
1.3 Housings ..........................................................................................1-3
1.4 CPU Module ....................................................................................1-5
1.5 Power Supply/Sequencer Module (PSSM)
1.6 I/O Modules ......................................................................................1-7
1.7 Software Tools .................................................................................1-8
ControlWave products have been designed and integrated as a highly
adaptable, high performance distributed open controller family with
exceptional networking capability that provides a complete process
automation management solution for the natural gas, water, and
wastewater industries. The ControlWave was designed with an
emphasis on providing high performance with low power consumption,
scalability, and modularity.
features:
 Low power consumption
 Wide operating temperature range: (-40 to +70C) (-40 to 158F)
 Small size (enabling panel mount or 19 inch rack-mount
installations)
 Two RS-232 ports
 One 10/100 MB Ethernet port
 Optional secondary communication board (SCB) provides additional
options for RS-232, RS-485, and Ethernet communications
 Housings to support four or eight I/O modules
 Variety of I/O modules and support for hot swapping of I/O modules
 Support for redundant operation with another ControlWave process
automation controller
 LED status indicators on the CPU, PSSM, and certain I/O modules
 Port 80 display to present status codes
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