3.3.2 Digital output wiring………………………………………………………….…16 3.3.3 RS485 wiring………………………………………………………………………16 Chapter 4 Using the PM1600……………………………………..…………………..17 4.1 Ways to operate PM1600…………………………………………………………….17 4.1.1 Operation through panel keys of PM1600 Host Machine……………….17 4.1.2 Operation through PM1600 Host Machine with USB mouse…………..18 4.1.3 Operating through Web Client………………………………………………...18 4.2 General Operations……………………………………………………………………20 4.3 Function Trees..................23...
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5.3 Relay Status…………………………………………………………………….………34 5.4 Individual Meter Display…………………………………………………………….35 5.4.1 Digital Display…………………………………………………………………….35 5.4.2 Summary Display………………………………………………………………..36 5.4.3 Real time Trend…………………………………………………………………..38 5.4.4 Historical Trend…………………………………………………………………..39 5.4.5 Graphical Display………………………………………………………………..40 5.5 Demand Control……………………………………………………………………….43 5.5.1 Blocking mode……………………………………………………….……………43 5.5.2 Rolling mode……………………………………………………………………….44 5.6 Time of Use……………………………………………………………………………...45 5.7 Alarm/Event Log………………………………………………………………………46 5.8 Report……………………………………………………………………………………47 5.8.1 Aggregate Daily Report………………………………………………………….47 5.8.2 Aggregate Monthly Report………………………………………………………48 5.8.3 Sub-Meter Daily Report…………………………………………………………49...
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6.4.5 Day Plan Setup…………………………………………………………………..84 6.4.6 Day type Setup using Calendar………………………………………………85 6.5 Demand Control Setup………………………………………………………………87 6.5.1 Parameter Setup…………………………………………………………………88 6.5.2 Load Shed Setup…………………………………………………………………91 6.6 Group Setup……………………………………………………………………………94 6.7 Data Backup……………………………………………………………………………95 Appendix…………………………………………………………………………………….96 Abbreviation………………………………………………………………………………96...
1.2 Caution 1.2.1 Danger The PM1600 meter contains hazardous voltages. The meter should never be disassembled. Failure to observe this practice can result in serious injury or death. Any work on or near energized meters, meter sockets, or other metering equipment can present a danger of electrical shock.
2.1 Main Features Manage up to 16 units of power transducer Flexible field communication interfaces (Ethernet and RS485) for different power transducer connection Rich electricity parameters and power quality display for main and sub-feeder transducers Easy integrated with 3 party supervisory control systems Remote power monitoring and control via intranet/internet Electricity demand control with 16 channel load shedding Multi-tariff management with TOU (Time-of-Use rate)
2.2 Hardware Specification 1. Power source:85~240VAC, 47~63Hz, 60VA, max. 23W 2. Display:6.4’’ TFT LCD, 640x480 pixels, 260,000 color 3. Memory:64MB, 32MB Flash, 32MB Disc on chip (DOC) 4. Memory Storage Module: (1)DOC:32MB/64MB to store V,I,P…etc. 54 real time power data for over 1 year(up to DOC capacity option), multi-tariff TOU report up to 3years and over 1024 alarm and event records.
2.3 Software Specification 1. Power demand control: (1)Provide both blocking and rolling mode to calculate demand control. (2)Provide shedding modes with a combination of sequence and priority load shedding. (3)Real time display of : (a)control capacity (b)selected control mode (c)current demand (d)average demand (e)demand control parameters (f)status of demand control...
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(d)24 months of monthly report storage. (2)Sub-meter: ( a ) various power information at different tariff can be recorded separately. (b) recorded information include : kWh, kvah, maximum demand, and happening time, average demand and load ratio. (c)300 days of daily report storage. (d)24 months of monthly report storage.
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(c)Alarm limit. (d)Load shedding limit. (2)Setup of demand control parameters: (a)calculation algorithm. (b)time interval of calculation. (c)load shedding mode(sequence or priority mode). (3)determine of load shedding mode and their involved control DO. 12. Schedule control setup (1)Start and end time setup for each season. (2)Date type setup.
The PM1600 is designed for indoor use and not in any hazardous area. It should be kept away from shock, vibration, and electromagnetic fields like such as variable frequency drives, motors and transformers.
3.3 Wiring Wiring Precautions 1. Care must be taken to ensure that maximum voltage rating specified on the label is not exceeded. 2. It is recommended that near the equipment an external fuse and an external switch rated at 2A/250 VAC should be equipped. 3.
In this chapter, focus will be given on things that you should understand before you actually start setting PM1600, including method of entering data, procedure, function trees. 4.1 Ways to operate PM1600 4.1.1 Operation through panel keys of PM1600 Host Machine Press the function keys on the front panel to operate the PM1600.
4.1.2 Operation through PM1600 Host Machine with USB mouse Using USB mouse to operate PM1600, simply move the cursor to the desire item and click the button to access, like using the mouse of PC. You can use the hard key mixed with soft button by mouse at the same time which make you operate the PM1600 in the field conveniently.
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In order to use PC as a web client to access PM1600, TCP/IP setting must be completed first. Please see page 48, TCP/IP setting. (chapter 6.1.5)
4.2 General Operations Change the operation mode between Runtime and Configuration Run CFG Press the Mode key to switch between the Runtime mode and the Configuration mode. Menu navigation Select the desired function and press the Enter key to perform Press the Esc key to back to the parent menu.
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Textual fields with screen keyboard 1. Use the Arrow key to locate the desired textual field and press the Enter key to begin editing. 2. While the screen keyboard appears, use the Arrow key to move the mouse cursor, hover it above the letter you want, then press the Enter to type it.
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Toggled check boxes 1. Use the Arrow key locate the desired check box. 2. Press the Enter key toggle select the check box. Time picker fields 1. Use the Arrow key to locate the time picker field and press the Enter key to begin editing.
4.3 Function Trees PM1600 has Runtime and Configuration two kind of operation model, and provide Run/Config. key to switch it: 4.3.1 Runtime Mode Runtime mode displays the meter real-time reading, demand control, alarm, and event report. Ru n Mo de...
4.3.2 Configuration Mode Configuration mode is used to set-up the system parameters, metering parameters, TOU and demand control parameters. Config ura tion Mod e Date/Time Adjust Serial Communication Mailing List Mail Server S ys te m S e tup TCP/IP Password Modification User’s Data Basic Setup...
4.4.1 Pier to pier connection 1. Connect PM1600 with PC by a pier to pier Ethernet cable. (Cross over cable) 2. On PM1600 side using hard keys or USB mouse, change to configuration mode and setting TCP/IP as IP:192.168.2.240, Mask:255.255.255.0 (refer to TCP/IP setting in chapter 6)...
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If communication is not proper, then it will show the reply as follows.. In this case, you need to set TCP/IP settings in both PC and PM1600. Please note that you should use proper cable and it should be connected at the label...
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In the browser, you need to enter the following Format: http://IP address of PM1600/ipmisapi.dll Ex: Assume IP address of PM1600 is 192.168.0.201, then http://192.168.0.201/ipmisapi.dll...
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User name: admin Password: admin Now click on “OK”, please do not enter on the keyboard, use mouse and then click on OK. If every thing is proper, then u should able to see data updating in the PC as follows..
4.5 Setting the PM1600 Wire and install Power on Switch to configuration mode System setup Meter set up TOU Setting * * * * If needed Demand Setting * * * * If needed Scheduling control * * * * If needed Schedule setting *...
Chapter 5 Run Mode This chapter describes the complete functions of PM1600. Please first refer to the function tree chart to get familiar with PM1600 systematically. This will help you to use the powerful PM1600 quickly and properly. 5.1 System Overview System overview is the designated root page when PM1600 is powered.
5.2 Meter Group or Meter Display According to the group configuration setting, real time power value of each group of meter is displayed here in digital form or bar chart. 5.2.1 Digital Display Display for up to 4 meters as a group, including real time Voltage, Current, Power, Power Factor in digital form.
This page display real time Voltage, Current, Power, Power Factor in bar- charts from your each meter group. 2. Group Name 1. Max/Min 1. Max/Min current:Display each power max. and min. current of this day value. 2. If the meter does not return max and min values, PM1600 will show 0.
5.3 Relay Status This page shows the status of all the controllable relays. The status of relays can be controlled by the demand control, schedule control or manual control. You can use the check box to over right the status by checked the check box or use the manual button to change.
5.4 Individual Meter Display According to how the meter was configured, each meter will display its real time and historical power value in digital and graphic form. (see chapter 6.2.4 Trend/Data Recording) 1. Trend Display 5.4.1 Digital Display This section displays real time values of voltage, currents, power factor energy, THD for each meter.
5.4.2 Summary Display Summary display graphically shows the real time power value for each meter. It also provides the summary information of energy and peak demand for various tariff band. This will also be seen in report section. Electricity Values...
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Demand & Energy 2. Date / Month 3. Date/Month Navigation 1. Daily / Monthly 4. Demand Rate 1. Switch to daily or monthly data display. 2. Select date and month. 3. Based on current page, select different time zone accordingly. 4.
5.4.3 Real time Trend PM1600 can display various power values including voltage, current, power factor…etc. alone the time for each meter. The displayed item for each meter is varied according to the setting in the configuration mode(see chapter 6.2.4). Auto scale is the default for trend display. User can modify Y-axis scale by using Y maximum and minimum button.
5.4.4 Historical Trend Similar to real time trend, PM1600 can display various power data for each meter. The display items are the same as real time trend which are pre determined in the configuration mode for each meter. 1. Measure Type 9.
5.4.5 Graphical Display PM1600 provides three graphic displays for each meter phasor display, harmonic profile and bar chart. Some meter may not have phasor display or harmonic data because the wiring mode or meter itself does not measure harmonic profile.
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2. Save Profile 3. Clear Profile 1. PM1600 will trace the latest harmonic reading every 30 seconds. Do not click the refresh button during reading while the button display “waiting for data”. 2. Save the harmonic data to the area assigned by users.
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Bar Chart Display This section shows Voltage, Current, Power, Power Factor, Voltage THD, Current THD in bar chart form for each meter similar to group display in previous section. 1. Meter Name 1. Push METER/GROUP buttons to switch to different meter.
As the end of predict demand line(light blue color)exceed the alarm limit, the alarm check box will turn from green to red. PM1600 also allow the operator to change the I/O status in this page by selecting the relay and click the enter key. There are three choice:Manual off, Manual on and automatic by demand control.
Red color means on status and green means off status. Since the IO relay will be controlled by demand automatically, a small “A” will display by the relay. PM1600 will allow users to change the relay status in this page, the small letter there will be signed as “M”.
5.6 Time of Use 2. Rate Band 1. Demand Rate 4. Target Rate Band 3. Current Rate Band 5. Rate Band Detail 1. This column shows rates type in one day. 2. This column shows time duration of each rate type. 3.
5.7 Alarm/Event Log 1. Alarm / Event 3. Page Navigation Acknowledgement 1. The red background will express after the Alarm occurred, and will turn to green color after the status back to normal. 2. Press the acknowledge button, to acknowledge of that page message of alarm/event.
5.8 Report PM1600 provide daily and monthly reports for main meter also for every submeter. 5.8.1 Aggregate Daily Report 1. Date 2. Date Navigation 3. Rate Band 1. Select the desired date. 2. Move to previous or next date. 3. Display detail power information for various rate bands separated by various...
5.8.2 Aggregate Monthly Report 1. Month 2. Month Navigation 3. Rate Band 1. Select the desired month. 2. Month navigation. 3. Display detail information for various rate bands separated by different color background. Please note that the time is displayed as “dd:mm ss” slightly different from daily report.
5.8.3 Sub-Meter Daily Report 1. Meter 2. Date 3. Date Navigation 4. Meter Detail 1. Display all sub meter daily data in a summary form. 2. Date selection. 3. Date navigation. 4. To examine any particular sub meter in detail, select the meter you like and click the meter detail button.
5.8.4 Sub-Meter Monthly Report 1. Meter 2. Month 3. Month Navigation 1. Display all sub meter monthly data in a summary form. 2. Month selection. 3. Month navigation. 4. To examine any particular sub meter in detail, select the meter you like and click the meter detail button.
Again, please first refer to the function tree chart, to obtain a systematic idea. There are seven functions can be set for PM1600, some are required, some are not. From part one, users can easily distinguish the required from non-required.
6.1.1 Date/Time Setup It is important to set the correct data and time for PM1600, because it involves the schedule control, rate type and also demand control. After entering all the correct data, click the apply key to finish the change.
6.1.2 Serial Communication Setup In order to obtaining data from each meter, PM1600 must be entered the needed information for each meter. PM1600 requires baud rate, data bits, stop bits and priority from each meter. The above data should be provided by meter manufacturer.
6.1.3 Mailing List Setup In this section, PM1600 need to know where to send the alarm report and regular report. Use the set button in the bottom left of the screen to move around alarm or report mailing list. If edit, add, delete is required, use the respective button to make the necessary change.
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Add a new E-Mail address 1. Use the Arrow key to select the Add button and press the Enter key begin to add. 2. Select the Apply button and press the Enter key to apply the new value.
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Modify an E-Mail address 1. Use the up/down Arrow key to highlight the desired E-Mail address. 2. Use the left/right Arrow key to select the Edit button and press the Enter key to begin to modify. 3. Use the screen keyboard to edit both the name field and the address field. 4.
6.1.4 Mail Server Setup Each PM1600 connected to Ethernet has its own identity as sender address and login name. Therefore, the receivers will knows where these reports are from. Obtain the server address and server port from your internet system provider (ISP)...
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1. Use the up/down Arrow key to navigate among the fields. 2. Use the left/right Arrow key to select the Edit button and press the Enter key to begin to edit. 3. Type the screen keyboard to fill out the field. 4.
Please note-that if DHCP is enable as the selected option, it is possible that the client PC from remote area may not read PM1600 data since it uses floating IP address. However, the email function still can send the report.
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1. Select this option to obtain an IP address from the DHCP server automatically. 2. Select this option to set the IP address manually using the screen keyboard. 3. The DNS server must be specified if you set the IP address manually, or it becomes optional.
In guest level, all he can do is “look”. For user’s convenient and security, PM1600 in this page is allow users to set if the system will check operator or engineer ID or not. If check engineer box is clicked, then password will be asked every time the system switches to configuration mode.
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Add a new account 1. Press the Add button to start adding an account. 2. Select the authority level and in put the user data. 3. Press the Apply button to apply all changes.
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Set up the security check 1. Check the “Check Operator” to enable security check in the runtime mode. 2. Check the “Check Engineer” to enable security check while switching into the configuration mode. 3. Press the Apply button to apply all changes.
6.2 Meter Setup In this section, users can setup every individual meter for their own properties. There are four setup have to completed. 1. Use the up/down Arrow key to navigate among the functions, then press the Enter key to perform. 1.
6.2.1 Basic Setup In this section, PM1600 like to know every meter’s ID like the Tag name, the location and the Model of the meter. To enter the right meter address, users have to set the address code in meter side or obtain the address code from meter’s manufacturer and enter this number in this page.
These data for alarm from each meter are data provided by meter or defined by users, and PM1600 will perform the alarm function with comparison of set point setting. On the other hand if meter dose not provide data, then PM1600can not perform the alarm function.
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1. Use the screen keyboard to fill out these fields. 2. Toggle the status of these check boxes by pressing the Enter key 3. Select the Prev/Next button and press the Enter key to navigate among the alarm pages. 4. Select the Apply button and press the Enter key to apply the change.
6.2.4 Trend Setup/ DATA Recording PM1600 allow users to select the measuring data to save for further display and analysis. User select the item listed in the left grid and click the add button to the right grid which display the item of data will be saved and displayed in the runtime mode.
6.3 TOU Setup Tariff change as season, weak, day etc. In order to understand the expense of electricity at different time interval, TOU is designed to let the user to specify the various time type according to the local utility tariff policy. 1.
6.3.1 Season Setup PM1600 allow you to setup up to four seasons in one year. Users have to specify the start date for every season. Operations are described below.
6.3.2 Day Type Setup This section mainly to define the day type in one week, for examples: weekday and weekend. Users only need to specify the state date and PM1600 will provide end date as one day before next start date.
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1. Use the screen keyboard to type the day type. Select the end weekend and press the Enter key to choose. 2. The Delete function deletes the last day type. 3. Select the Apply button and press the Enter key to apply the change.
6.3.4 Rate Type Setup To calculate the expense of electricity, PM1600 allow users to enter different rate type, for instance: peak rate, non-peak rate, semi peak rate…, or rate1, rate2, etc. Detail operation is described below.
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Add a new Rate Type 1. Use the four Arrow key to select the Add button and press the Enter key to begin to add. 2. Use the screen keyboard to type the rate type name.
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Modify a Rate Type 1. Use the up/down Arrow key to locate the rate type, then press the Enter to begin editing. 2. Use the screen keyboard to type the rate type name.
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Delete a Rate Type 1. The Delete function deletes the last Rate Type. 2. Select the Apply button and press the Enter key to apply all the changes.
6.3.5 Tariff Band Setup After setting season, day type, rate type, Tariff band can then be determined in this section. At each band, users have to specify season, day type, rate type, and start time complete the each band setting. For instance, summer, weekday, rate1 is from00:00 to 07:00 as band1, rate3 is from 07:01 to 21:00 as band2 and rate1 is from 21:01 to 23:59 as band3.
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5. Select the Save button and press the Enter key to apply the change. If seasons, day type or rate type has been modified, PM1600 will ask users to redefine all the tariff band before leaving the configuration mode. Since these...
In this section, all the time zone are redefine to setup a day plan to control the relays. Therefore, PM1600 require you to enter the season setup, day type setup…etc. again for day plan to control relays which should differ from tariff bands in chapter 6.3.
6.4.1 Season Setup Users can define seasons according to its own application, such as: winter break, spring semester or summer energy saving season, etc. Users key in only the start date (mm/dd). One day before next season start day will be the end date of the previous season automatically.
6.4.2 Day Type Setup Like day type setup in TOU section, PM1600 provide up to 7day types in a week for users to define. Like previous section, one day before the next day type will be assigned to be the end date of previous day type.
6.4.3 Recurring Holidays Setup All the recurring holiday is entered in this page. 1. Press the Add button to start adding a recurring holiday. 2. Select the month and day, then input the description. 3. Press the Apply button to apply all changes.
6.4.4 Special Day Type Setup Besides recurring holiday, PM1600 is allowed to set special day type other than weekday, weekend according to user’s application, for instance, the New Year eve day, long week end etc. The setting in this section is similar to previous section.
6.4.5 Day Plan Setup After season, day types are determined, for every relay users should plan this particular on/off schedule. For example, chill relay will be off from 00:00 and on at 7:30, off 12:00, then turn on again at 2230. The user can set this relay accordingly.
4. Press the Apply button to apply all changes. 6.4.6 Day type Setup using Calendar PM1600 provide the user a convenient way to setup day type directly through calendar. We suggest that users should use this function to setup those non-recurring special day types.
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1. Select the month and the year to change the monthly calendar, then locate the target date to schedule. 2. Choose the desired event for the schedule date. 3. Press the Apply button to apply all changes.
6.5 Demand Control Setup This section is one of the most important function of PM1600. Users are required to setup all the parameters for PM1600 to carry out the demand control accordingly.
The demand time interval is depend on the local power company policy, usually is 15 minutes. If blocking mode is selected, PM1600 will ask the time then it will start doing control. Here we suggest 3 min. The PM1600 won’t do any control action until 3min.
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The last item is shed mode which users will determine the priority of shedding. If sequence mode first is selected, PM1600 will do load shedding starting from the sequence first mode list, then followed by the priority first mode list. If priority first is selected here, PM1600 will do the load shedding starting from priority first list then sequence first list later.
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1. Select the target seasonal demand rate to edit. 2. Set properties and limits of this target demand rate. 3. Choose a meter as the power usage feeder. Then determine the method to calculate the demand. 4. Specify the demand interval. If “Rolling” mode is adopted, the subinterval should also be assigned.
In this section, load control will be carried out through turn the relay off and on. In this page, PM1600 will list all the available relays on the right hand side grid. Users will establish the priority of the relay that will be controlled accordingly by selecting the available relays and add to left side grid as the priority list.
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Enable a relay to shed load 1. Select the target relay group to edit. 2. Choose the desired relay and press the Add button to join into the target relay group. 3. Press the Modify button to change the relay name and the amount of power. 4.
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Adjust sequence of load shedding The priority list can also be adjusted when it is necessary, by the following steps. 1. Highlight the target relay and press the Up/Down button to change its sequence. 2. Press the Apply button to apply all changes.
6.6 Group Setup Since PM1600 can connect up to 16 meters, users can group up to four meters as one group, and then the data will be shown together in the runtime mode. This function will allow users to compare data conveniently.
6.7 Data Backup In this section, PM1600 allow users to backup the data in its memory to either PC or USB flash driver. If back up is carried out by web client, the data will be stored in PC. If back up is performed by host machine through USB, the data will be stored in USB flash driver.
Appendix A. Abbreviation TOU:Time of use V.:Voltage I.:Current KW:Kilowatt KWh:kilowatt-hour Va:Voltage of phase A Ia:Current of phase A Vb:Voltage of phase B Ib:Current of phase B Vc:Voltage of phase C Ic:Current of phase C THD:Total harmonic distortion PF:Power factor MWh:milliwatt hour VAR:The unit of reactive power KVARh:kilovar hour Std.:Standard...
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