Its main function is to store events. It has 3 low voltage (SELV) digital outputs , referred to the bus ground. The MECing is designed to distribute the installation and installed behind mechanisms in mechanism boxes. This device is included in the following KITS:...
Its operation mode is very simple, you only need to press on the switch or pushbutton connected to the MECing to execute programmed events. 1.4. Programming the Device: As seen in the description of the Installation Modules, program the MECing by double clicking on it (or select and right-click on it Edit Properties).
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Once this has been done, the MECing programming window appears. NB: The MECing operates according to the KIT included and how it is programmed; see the corresponding KIT Help Manual. Mechanical Control 5 de 58...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 The node address for the MECing is given as shown on the right, in red, (address 40 in the image). You can use this address later to check the state of the MECing in the Diagnostics tab after the project has been finished.
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The programmed events are executed when the switch or pushbutton connected to the MECing is pressed and are organised as follows: There are 3 switches (2 positions for each switch) or 3 pushbuttons. Switch Mode: Each position of the switch executes the corresponding event.
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 the events programmed in the top boxes and in low level (position 2 in the switch) it executes the events programmed in the bottom box. Pushbutton Mode: In this mode, there are two flanks: One up flank (top box in the same column): If you press once (if it is a pushbutton, and if it is a switch when you put it in one position), an up flank is made and the events programmed in the top box are executed.
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Summary: Mode pushbutton switch Device The first time you press the The first time you press, pushbutton, it executes the the events in programming events in programming box 1 are executed, and box1 and on releasing it, the second time the those in programming box pushbutton is pressed it...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 As mentioned before, when events are executed they are done so in pairs per column: 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6. Following the explication given in this table, this is completely valid for boxes 1 and 2, for 3 and 4 and/or 5 and 6. SWITCH IN SWITCH MODE Mechanical Control 10 de 58...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 PUSHBUTTON IN PUSHBUTTON MODE Mechanical Control 11 de 58...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 PUSHBUTTON IN SWITCH MODE Mechanical Control 12 de 58...
ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 SWITCH IN PUSHBUTTON MODE You can program each box in two different ways: Assisted programming (not valid for KA, which is programmed by Scripts). Programming by Scripts. 1.4.1. Assisted Programming. Programming events in different programming boxes is all done in the same way, as described below: Double click on a programming box to assign the event you want.
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Development System Software will not respond). In other words, if you click on a device that does not belong to the group of actuators (KI, KP, KR, KA...) like a MECBUS, CGBUS, MECing, LDRBUS, the system will not respond.
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 NB: Outputs Z1 to Z6 correspond exactly to the arrows shown in the image above. You can modify these outputs. On the right side of the screen you have the following sections: Discrete switches: You can select an output to activate (on the left column) or deactivate (right column).
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 NB: Remember that all default programming has been erased, hence the boxes are empty. Double click on the corresponding actuator, for example, KI1. Then, click on each output you want to activate (this action is not applied to the remaining outputs you do not select).
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Click on Close to generate the following Script: Double click again on the same programming box and activate Z5: Mechanical Control 17 de 58...
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Toggles a selected output, i.e., the output state is changed: if its state is shown as activated then when it is pressed it will deactivate and vice versa (the control device is a MECing in this example). A blue circle is shown in the window as shown below:...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Figure: the circles indicate specific on/off executed by the device. If the circle is red, the output is deactivated (relay open, lights connected to this output are off); if it is green, the output is activated (relay closed, lights connected to this output are on).
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Once you have done this, click on Close to generate a Script which is the same as that generated by clicking on the circles as shown below: To create a new event, double click again on the corresponding programming box.
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 MECing A window appears as shown below: Mechanical Control 21 de 58...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 To carry out the example given above by Discretes switches: Double click on the programming box that you want and select KI1 (as you want to control lighting). A window appears where you select the light associated to Mechanical Control 22 de 58...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Click on Close to generate the following Script: Repeat the same steps for Z5 and Z6 to generate the following Scripts: Mechanical Control 23 de 58...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Repeat the same steps for Z2, Z3 and Z4 but instead of activating, deactivate the outputs. Deactivate Z2: Repeat the same steps for Z3 and Z4 to generate the following Scripts: Mechanical Control 24 de 58...
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Click on OK to finalise programming. KP1-KP10: It is not possible to control only one blind using the MECing because if this were the case it can be controlled from the actuators inputs. However, it is possible to have an up/down control for various blinds.
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Click on the circles to configure it as shown below: Z1, Z3 and Z5 are the outputs that modify the motor on the three blinds to open them. Z2, Z4 and Z6 close the blinds. Z1, Z3 and Z5 are in green and the rest are in red.
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 To create a second event to close the blinds, double click on a different programming box to that which opens them. Click on the circles to configure it as shown below: Mechanical Control 27 de 58...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Z1, Z3 and Z5 are the outputs that modify the motor on the three blinds to open them. Z2, Z4 and Z6 close the blinds. Z2, Z4 and Z6 are in green and the rest are in red. The combination seen above is to close three blinds.
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 To carry out the example given above by “specific up/down for blinds": NB: For specific on/off, before opening or closing blinds, ALWAYS remember to check that it is not activated in reverse. In other words, to activate the blinds to open (up), the close (down) command must be deactivated to avoid errors (for example: if you do not deactivate the relevant up or down configuration, then when you press on the 'up’...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Click on Close to deactivate the ‘down’ configuration and to generate the following Script: Open the blinds by double clicking on the programming box and select up blinds, as shown below: Mechanical Control 30 de 58...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Click on Close to generate the following Script: Repeat the same steps for blind 2 (click on BlindsDown2OFF and then on BlindsUp2ON) and in blinds 3 (BlindsDown3OFF, BlindsUp3ON). Once you have done this, the following Scripts are generate to open (up) three blinds: Mechanical Control 31 de 58...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 To close (down) the blinds: Repeat the same steps as before. Remember that before you have deactivated the ‘up’ configuration. Click on Close to generate the following Script: Mechanical Control 32 de 58...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Once you have deactivated the ‘up’ configuration for blind 1, activate the ‘down’ configuration. Click on Close to generate the following Script: Mechanical Control 33 de 58...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Repeat the same steps to close the second and third blinds, to generate the following Scripts: You now have programmed the events. Double click on the corresponding programming box and in the window that appears, select the KR1: Mechanical Control 34 de 58...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 A window appears as shown below: There are two dimmer channels: Dimm Channel1 and Dimm Channel2. Each one has two vertical slide bars where you select the load power percentage value (i.e., greater or less light supplied to lightbulbs connected to each dimmer channel).
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Below on the right there are three fields to enter the following: Command, Data1 and Data2. You can enter parameters in each of them, although this is not necessary when using assisted programming. Example: Create two events: sitting-room lights to half power and hall lights to 75%.
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 You will note that the parameters have changed (see section “Registers Admitted”): Command: 4 (Write) Data1: 0 (refers to dimmer channel 1). Data2: 125 (where 0=0% and 250=100%). Click on ‘Close’ to generate the following Script: Mechanical Control 37 de 58...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Repeat the same steps for the second scene. Double click on a different programming box (Remember that in pushbutton mode, the boxes in the same column must be the same or else the bottom programming box should be empty).
ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 The two scenes are now programmed. Timer: Under each programming box there is a section where you enter the time, in seconds, when you want the corresponding event to be executed. Example: if you enter in the top left programming box: 10 seconds. The event programmed in that box will run 10 seconds after the command is executed.
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Example: Enciende sitting-room (Activate sitting-room) (activates the output called sitting-room). devices that respond this command are: CONTROL6E6S, CONTROL4E4S, CONTROL2E2S, KA. With this simple command, the Development System Software searches for the particular output of a particular node, which is named sitting-room and sends the required BUSing command to it to activate the output.
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Click on “OK” and double click on the MECing and write the following Script: Enciende sitting-room (Activate sitting-room). Mechanical Control 41 de 58...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 It is now programmed. Mechanical Control 42 de 58...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Apaga (Deactivate): Syntax: Apaga Name (Deactivate Name) Example: Apaga sitting-room (Deactivate sitting-room) (switches off the output named sitting-room). devices that respond this command are: CONTROL6E6S, CONTROL4E4S, CONTROL2E2S, KA. With this simple command, the Development System Software searches for the particular output of a particular node which is named sitting-room and sends the necessary BUSing command to execute the ‘deactivate' command.
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 can range between 0 (corresponding to the ‘off’ state of the device) and 100 (corresponding to 100% power of the device). Programming example: Dim the dining-room lights to 50% (half power). You need a KR1 in the project. Once added, double click on it.
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Do not write a name in Channel 2 Namebecause you are not going to use it for this example, where you only need one. Click on OK and then double click on the MECKR1 (remember that for these examples, the default programming has been erased) and then write the following Script in the corresponding programming box: Regula dining-room (Dim dining-room) 50...
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Syntax: Espera Value (Wait Value) Example: Espera (Wait) 30 (Waits for 30 seconds) Devices which implement this command: MECing, Thermostats, IRBUS, LDRBUS, CGBUS, SRBUS, TECBUS, BUS Sensors, KA, PPC10, MECBUS. With this command, the device running it waits for Value (30) seconds to run the next command.
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Programming example: Turn on a light in the hall and then turn on the sitting- room lights after 10 seconds. You need a KI1 in the installation. Double click on the KI1. Assign the names hall and sitting-room to the first two outputs. Mechanical Control 47 de 58...
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 Click on OK and then double click on the MECK1 and write the following Scripts: Enciende hall (Activate hall) Espera (Wait) 10 Enciende sitting-room (Activate sitting-room) It is now programmed. Mechanical Control 48 de 58...
In the Diagnostics tab, you can communicate with the device and check its status. In the example shown above, you have a MECing at address 40. NB: All the devices respond to address 255, including the one programmed. Connect a device and run the diagnostic on it at address 255 to find out its address.
Read 0, 255 activated) Activate input3 in repetition mode Write 0, 1 (0: deactivated; 1: activated) Activate a MECing event by BUS where: 0: activate input1 event 1: deactivate input1 event Write 2: activate input2 event 3: deactivate input2 event...
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MECing is functioning correctly. See below. In the Sent section you will see: Command: Reads (because this is what you want it to do: read if the MECing is functioning correctly (i.e., that it does what we command it to do when pressing the switch or pushbutton).
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Once this has been done, click on Send and in the section Reception, the MECing will show its present state. Example: If MECing in Data2 returns 0, then output1 is deactivated; if it returns 1, it is activated. When you press the switch, it is functioning correctly when it returns 1 in Data2 and if it is not, it returns 0 in Data2.
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Escribre (Write) 30 100 0, where: 30: is the MECing address which you want to access. 100: is Data1 to activate the event shown in Data2. 0: is the top left event in the MECing. The remaining events are numbered as follows: Mechanical Control...
ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 1.6.2. EEPROM Addr Type Range Description Read/ 0-255 BUSing device Address. Write Read/ Time in sec. to activate the input1 0-255 Write activation event Read/ Time in sec. to activate the input1 0-255 Write deactivation event Read/ Time in sec.
V1.0 1.7. Uploading Data to the Device: First connect the MECing correctly as follows: The device is in the Installation Modules tab in the KITS Development System Software. Right-click on the device and select Reprogram this Node and in the next window, select Program.
Uploading data 1(recommended): 1. Correctly connect the device as shown below: 2. The internal condensers in the MECing might be charged, impeding the device to be programmed correctly. Therefore it is recommended to discharge previously by pressing the common wire and one of the three other cables together, as shown below: 3.
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ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 do this from when you insert the battery, which is when the device is in low consumption mode and does not receive data. Then wait for the bar under the Program button to reach the end and you will have uploaded the data.
ROGRAMMING MANUAL V1.0 NB 2: When you change the channel in an installation or a device, the BPC- USBW also changes channel. In other words, to work on an installation for which you have already selected a channel, you need to program the BPC-USB so that it works in this channel.
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