Planning And Application; Automatic Dali Addressing - ABB i-bus KNX Product Manual

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ABB i-bus KNX

Planning and Application

4 Planning and Application
In this section, you will find some tips and application examples for practical use of the group-orientated
DALI gateway DGN/S 1.16.1.
4.1

Automatic DALI addressing

In order to better appreciate the functionality of the DGN/S, the addressing of the DGN/S is described in
this chapter.
For the DGN/S, it is necessary to perform DALI commissioning (configuration). It automatically detects the
connected DALI equipment and assigns an address in ascending order, if no DALI address is available.
Note
The DGN/S 1.16.1 does not automatically allocate DALI addressing for DALI equipment if in
window General
As soon as the Gateway operating voltage on the DGN/S has been applied to the DGN/S, it automatically
and independently checks the DALI devices connected to the DALI output. This process is also started af-
ter a download as well as KNX voltage recovery or Gateway operating voltage recovery, and may take
about 60 seconds depending on the number of connected DALI devices. If equipment with DALI interfaces
is detected, which has not been assigned with a DALI address (default delivery state, DALI short address
255), the DGN/S will automatically assign a DALI address. The detected DALI devices will be assigned
with the first free DALI address (0...63) in the DGN/S. If no DALI addresses are detected, it will receive the
first DALI address 0. The second DALI device receives the DALI address 1, etc. The sequence, in which a
DALI master, e.g. the DGN/S, identifies a device with a DALI interface, cannot be influenced. If the con-
nected DALI device already has a DALI address, e.g. an exchanged device from another system, it will not
be changed.
If the new DALI device has a DALI address, which is used in the DGN/S, one of both DALI devices with
the same address will be assigned with a new and unused DALI address. Here, the old DALI device, which
is already connected to the DGN/S, may receive a new address.
With the DGN/S 1.16.1, you can now control the connected DALI devices with the communication objects
DALI output via the KNX without additional DALI group assignment.
The connected DALI devices must be assigned to a lighting group to control individual lighting groups. The
assignment is implemented with the external ETS independent DALI-Software-Tool.
For further information see: Description DALI-Software-Tool, page Fehler! Textmarke nicht definiert.
on page 27, the parameter Enable automatic DALI addressing has been set to no.
Parameter
DGN/S 1.16.1 | 2CDC 507 114 D0201 129