Panel Features With Multiple Drives; Panel Views; The Help Page; Graph Data - ABB ACS-AP-I User Manual

Panel features with multiple drives

Panel views

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In a panel bus configuration, the control panel communicates with one drive at a time. Any
information shown on the control panel, such as the status bar or signals in the Home view
pertain to the currently selected drive. Similarly, the control panel stores data to its memory
only from the currently selected drive.
Changes to the Home view configuration and any parameter changes are saved in the
drive. They can be transferred to other drives using the backup feature.
You can view information on other drives in the panel bus and switch to another drive in the
Select drive menu.

The Help page

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The content of the Help page is drive-specific, and it always refers to the currently selected
drive.

Graph data

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The data for the graph format in the Home view is stored in the control panel only for the
selected drive. Upon changing the selected drive, any stored graph data is discarded, and
graph data collection begins for the new drive.
History graphs and all related settings (signal selection, horizontal timescale) are saved in
the drive, and the History graphs menu shows always the graphs for the currently selected
drive. Data collection takes places independently in each drive.

Backups

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The control panel can store backups from different drives. Conversely, backups from a drive
can be uploaded to another drive.

Customized content

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Each drive in the panel bus has its own custom content because all the customizations are
stored in the drive.

Assistants

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Assistants are drive-specific, which means that different drives in the panel bus can have
different assistants. However, the assistant framework is the same for all assistants in all
drives.
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