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Pickering Interfaces strives to fulfil all relevant environmental laws and regulations and reduce wastes and releases to the environment. Pickering Interfaces aims to design and operate products in a way that protects the environment and the health and safety of its employees, customers and the public. Pickering Interfaces endeavours to develop and manufacture products that can be produced, distributed, used and recycled, or disposed of, in a safe and environmentally friendly manner.
If this product is heavy reference should be made to the safety instructions for provisions of lifting and moving. STATIC SENSITIVE To indicate that static sensitive devices are present and handling precautions should be followed. DIFFERENTIAL BUS FAULT INSERTION CARD 50-200 Page (IV) REED RELAY MODULE 40-110/115/120/125 Page (IV)
Not to be used in safety critical circuits, refer to the Pickering Interfaces’ terms & conditions of sale. This card must not be used for the switching of Mains Circuits. For the switching of voltages up to the card’s full specification, Secondary Circuit power supplies and the Device Under Test must be...
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• For suitably equipped products in the event of an emergency press the red “emergency stop” button situated on the front of the unit. DIFFERENTIAL BUS FAULT INSERTION CARD 50-200 Page (VIII) PCI REED RELAY CARD 50-110 / 115 / 120 / 125...
Supported by eBIRST ™ y 3 Year Warranty The 50-200 is for the simulation of common faults on two wire communication interfaces such as CAN Bus. It has 4 or 8 two wire serial channels which can be used to simulate open faults on either or both wires, shorts between wires or shorts to one of eight externally applied fault conditions –...
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50 MHz Differential PCI Compliance Operate Time: 4 ms (typical)† The 50-200 complies with the PCI Specification 2.0 (issued * For full voltage rating, signal sources must be fully Feb 2004). isolated from mains supply and safety earth. Signalling Environment: 33 MHz, 32-bit Universal †...
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78-pin D-type connector data sheet where a complete list and documentation can be found for accessories, or refer to the Connection Solutions catalog. Note: To use the 50-200 up to its full operating frequency, cables with twisted pairs must be used. pickeringtest.com DIFFERENTIAL BUS FAULT INSERTION CARD 50-200 Page 1.3...
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To learn more, please go to: pickeringrelay.com Programming Pickering provide kernel, IVI and VISA (NI & Keysight) drivers which are compatible with all Microsoft supported versions of Windows and popular older versions. For a list of all supporting operating systems, please see: pickeringtest.com/os The VISA driver is also compatible with Real-Time Operating Systems such as LabVIEW RT.
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Three Year Warranty & Guaranteed Long-Term Support All standard products manufactured by Pickering Interfaces are warranted against defective materials and workmanship for a period of three years from the date of delivery to the original purchaser. Extended warranty and service agreements are available for all our modules and systems with various levels to suit your requirements.
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SECTION 1 - TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION pickering THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK DIFFERENTIAL BUS FAULT INSERTION CARD 50-200 Page 1.6...
Modular products require installation in a suitable chassis. The card is designed for indoor use only. PREOPERATION CHECKS (UNPACKING) 1. Check the card for transport damage and report any damage immediately to Pickering Interfaces. Do not attempt to install the product if any damage is evident.
8. Power-up the host system. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION First install the appropriate Pickering PCI switch card drivers by running the installer program Setup.exe (provided in a compressed zip file), either from the CD-ROM supplied, or by downloading the latest version from our website pickeringtest.com...
Figure 3.2 - General Soft Front Panel Icon A selector panel will appear, listing all installed Pickering PCI, PXI or LXI switch cards and resistor cards. Click on the card you wish to control, and a graphical control panel is presented allowing operation of the card.
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SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE PROGRAMMING OPTIONS FOR PICKERING INTERFACES PCI CARDS For information on the installation and use of drivers and the programming of Pickering’s products in various software environments, please refer to the Software User Manual. This is available as a download from: https://www.pickeringtest.com/support/software-drivers-and-downloads...
CARD ARCHITECTURE The Pickering 50-200 Fault Insertion Card is available in versions with either 8 or 4 channels, both versions have four fault buses which can be switched to one of two fault connections as shown in the diagrams below: Fault Connections CH1.1 IN...
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SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE pickering The Pickering 50-200 card is designed with 8 sub-units. There are two modes of operation embedded within the card. Mode A partitions the switches into different sub-units with respect to their function and Mode B allows user to control all switches within one sub-unit.
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SUB-UNIT 8 FAULT BUS 4 FAULT MUX CH1 OUT CH1 IN Figure 4.5 - Restricted Usage - Multiple Fault Bus Relays CH2 OUT CH2 IN on One Signal Path. CH3 OUT CH3 IN DIFFERENTIAL BUS FAULT INSERTION CARD 50-200 Page 4.4...
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Figure 4.6 - Restricted Usage - Permitted Relay Closure Examples for a Single Channel (A relay closure shown in green is allowed and a red cross indicates a relay with restricted operation) DIFFERENTIAL BUS FAULT INSERTION CARD 50-200 Page 4.5...
SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE pickering PROGRAMMING THE CARD Here are examples of using the drivers with the 50-200-008 (8-channel version) Using PILPXI To operate a relay the user could use the simple OpBit command or the WriteSub commands OpBit (Single Sub-Unit) DWORD sub_unit = 8;...
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// Connects Fault bus 1 to channel 1.1 pipx40_setChannelState(vi, sub_unit, 89, VI_ON); // Connects input F1b to Fault bus 1 pipx40_setChannelState(vi, sub_unit, 89, VI_OFF); // Connects input F1a to Fault bus 1 // (Default state) DIFFERENTIAL BUS FAULT INSERTION CARD 50-200 Page 4.7...
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// All Fault bus 4 relays disabled pipx40_setChannelPattern( card_num, sub_unit, data); sub-unit = 7 // Fault selection MUX data[0] = 1; // Connects input F1b to Fault bus 1 pipx40_setChannelPattern( card_num, sub_unit, data); DIFFERENTIAL BUS FAULT INSERTION CARD 50-200 Page 4.8...
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// Connects input F1b to Fault bus 1 pi40iv_Disconnect(vi, comG1, chG1); // Connects input F1a to Fault bus 1 // (Default state) Note: The IVI Swtch driver specification contains no bulk setting capabilities. DIFFERENTIAL BUS FAULT INSERTION CARD 50-200 Page 4.9...
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SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE pickering Table 4.1 - Channel Name Table for 50-200-008 (8-channel) BIT / RELAY FUNCTION / CHANNEL NAME CROSS REFERENCE TABLE (50-200-008) Sub- Sub- Function IVI Channel Name Function IVI Channel Name Unit Unit CH1.1 ISOLATION...
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SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE pickering Table 4.1 - Channel Name Table for 50-200-008 (8-channel) - Continued BIT / RELAY FUNCTION / CHANNEL NAME CROSS REFERENCE TABLE (50-200-008) Sub- Sub- Function IVI Channel Name Function IVI Channel Name Unit Unit CH1.1 ISOLATION...
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SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE pickering Table 4.2 - Channel Name Table for 50-200-004 (4-channel) BIT / RELAY FUNCTION / CHANNEL NAME CROSS REFERENCE TABLE (50-200-004) Sub- Sub- Function IVI Channel Name Function IVI Channel Name Unit Unit CH1.1 ISOLATION...
USING PICKERING DRIVERS IN LabVIEW Most Pickering drivers include a LabVIEW wrapper to permit full operation of the Pickering product from the LabVIEW environment. These wrappers are normally installed to the current LabVIEW folder system during installation of the Pickering driver.
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CH7.2 IN CH7.2 OUT CH8.1 IN CH8.1 OUT CH8.2 IN CH8.2 OUT Figure 5.1 - Pinout: Differential Bus Fault Insertion Card 50-200-008 - 8-Channel (78-pin Male D-type Connector Viewed From Front of Card) DIFFERENTIAL BUS FAULT INSERTION CARD 50-200 Page 5.1...
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CH3.2 IN CH3.2 OUT CH4.1 IN CH4.1 OUT CH4.2 IN CH4.2 OUT Figure 5.2 - Pinout: Differential Bus Fault Insertion Card 50-200-004 - 4-Channel (78-pin Male D-type Connector Viewed From Front of Card) DIFFERENTIAL BUS FAULT INSERTION CARD 50-200 Page 5.2...
PCI configuration, highlighting any potential configuration problems. Specific details of all installed Pickering switch cards are included. All the installed Pickering switch cards should be listed in the “Pilpxi information” section - if one or more cards is missing it may be possible to determine the reason by referring to the PCI configuration dump contained in the report, but interpretation of this information is far from straightforward, and the best course is to contact Pickering support: support@pickeringtest.com, if possible...
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PCB layout diagrams to identify the position of faulty relays. Users of eBIRST switching system test tools do not need to use this information to locate faulty relays. PCI REED RELAY CARD 50-110A /115A DIFFERENTIAL BUS FAULT INSERTION CARD 50-200 Page 7.1 Page 7.1...
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