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CLIMATE AND MANAGEMENT COMPUTERS FOR POULTRY
USER MANUAL
PL-95x0-G-EN02400
PL-9500 series
PL-9500 (i), PL-9530(i)
PL-9500 / PL-9530
PL-9500-i / PL-9530-i
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  • Page 1 PL-9500 series CLIMATE AND MANAGEMENT COMPUTERS FOR POULTRY PL-9500 (i), PL-9530(i) PL-9500 / PL-9530 PL-9500-i / PL-9530-i USER MANUAL PL-95x0-G-EN02400...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of contents and Copyright/Disclaimer Table of contents General introduction ..........................1 1.1 Symbols and definitions ........................1 1.2 Customer service ..........................1 Safety instructions and warnings ......................2 2.1 Sound, independent alarm system ....................2 2.2 During use ............................2 2.3 Disposal............................
  • Page 3 No part of this publication may be copied and/or published by photocopying or any other means whatsoever, without prior written permission from Stienen BE (www.stienen.com). We do not accept any liability for the contents of this manual and explicitly waive all implicit guarantees of merchantability or fitness for a certain use.

  • Page 4: General Introduction

    Please read all information and instructions carefully before using the product. Symbols mark warnings, important notes, tips, etc. in this manual. Stienen has compiled this manual with all due care. If you find any errors, please let us know. Symbols and definitions Risk of injury by dangerous electric shock.

  • Page 5: Safety Instructions And Warnings

    2. Safety instructions and warnings Safety instructions and warnings Read the general safety instructions in this chapter carefully before using the device. A certified installer must install the device and resolve any faults, in accordance with the applicable guidelines. If this product is installed and used in any other way, the warranty will not apply.

  • Page 6: Operation

    3. Operation Operation Change language You can quickly change the language as follows: = select next language = select previous language Login Open login screen; Open numeric keypad; Enter login code and confirm with Control keys = Return to overview screen (HOME) = select next/previous screen = select input position = select choice...

  • Page 7: Led Bar

    3. Operation = decreasing/increasing setting = selecting from a choice box = cancelling a choice/selection in edit mode = confirming a choice/selection in edit mode = adding/removing a breakpoint to a list (curve, timer). = if (go to) is behind a setting, tap this symbol to go to the next screen. In the follow-up screen, the link (return to) is displayed in the top right-hand corner.
  • Page 8 3. Operation If the keyboard icon lights up, then tap it. One of the virtual keyboards below appears: Setting input terminals Setting output terminals = decreasing/increasing setting. Module screen Input/output already assigned. PL-95x0-G-EN02400...

  • Page 9: Main Menu

    4. Main menu Main menu Start-up screen 12 days Tap anywhere on the screen or tap (Home key). The main menu appears. Main menu Animals (mutations, overview, set-up data, growth curve, mortality) Animal weighing (settings, mutations, history, curve, alarms) Nutrition (water/feed, fed, bulked) Counters (overview, alarms, delete)

  • Page 10: Overview Screen Navigation Buttons (Installer Mode)

    4. Main menu Overview screen navigation buttons (installer mode) Tap a navigation button: The corresponding settings screen opens Main ventilation Ventilation Pressure 12 days Adding menu item to favourites bar Growth curve house temperature Growth curve House Settings Temp Growth curves Main ventilation Ventilation House...

  • Page 11: House Overview

    4. Main menu House overview Add measurement Swipe left/right or tap the bullet at the bottom of the screen to retrieve the house overview. Your installer can add/remove measurements, from different screens, to/from the barn overview. In addition, your installer can also add texts, with a maximum length of 15 characters, to the barn overview (installation screen 6.1.3).
  • Page 12 4. Main menu Choice of nine standard house types house1 house2 house3 house4 house5 house6 house7 house8 house9 (blank screen) Symbols Ventilation Air inlet valve Age of animals Carbon dioxide Temperature Pressure Time Number of animals Ammonia Wind speed PL-95x0-G-EN02400...

  • Page 13: Overview Screen Navigation Buttons (User Mode)

    4. Main menu Overview screen navigation buttons (user mode) Main ventilation Ventilation Pressure 12 days Tap a button to open the corresponding screen. to return to the overview screen. Tap the measurement value to open the corresponding screen. to return to the overview screen. PL-95x0-G-EN02400...

  • Page 14: Management

    5. Management Management Animals Mutations Entering mutations for up to ten mutation classes Total column: Overview per row, the sum of all mutations, from the last set-up to today. Removing animals in between: Under Out, enter the number of animals removed. Adding animals in between: Under In, enter the number of animals restocked.
  • Page 15 5. Management Overview Request week overview of mutations or request mutations of the past seven days ( ). In addition to the Number, the Percentage appears. This percentage is calculated based on the number of animals set up in the house (Number at entry). If two animal groups are present, you can request the mutations per animal group.

  • Page 16: Animal Weighing

    5. Management Animal weight growth curves Animal weight growth curve setting. The control uses the animal weight to calculate the ventilation capacity in m /kg/h. Mortality Set the mutation classes (max. 10) per animal group. Animal weighing ANote-AWeighing-N-ENxxxxx PL-95x0-G-EN02400...

  • Page 17: Feed And Water

    5. Management Feed and water Counters Today .. Monday Overview of the daily counter readings. Week The total counter reading of the past week. A week always starts on the First day of the week, see page 65. Total Total score (after the last time the counter was cleared). Clear counter Deleting the displayed counter.
  • Page 18 5. Management Overview Readout of water consumption, feed consumption and water/feed ratio per animal per day and the weekly totals per animal. Clearing Clearing all counter readings in one operation, including today's counter reading. Alarm Alarm All counter alarms are transmitted to the poultry computer. No counter alarm is transmitted to the poultry computer.

  • Page 19: Hour Counter

    5. Management Hour counter Today .. Tuesday The weekly overview per heating/cooling with the operating hours per day. Total The total number of operating hours, since last cleared. Clear running hours Here you can clear the running hours of the heating/cooling displayed. Minimum and maximum values Summary of measured Min/Max values (house temp., outside temp., RH, CO2, NH3 and sensors) for the past seven days with times.

  • Page 20: Logging

    5. Management Logging Logging heat exchanger Overview of the heat exchanger log data. Hour meter Total number of hours the heat exchanger was active. Temperature setting Temperature setpoint heat exchanger Actual temperature Current temperature heat exchanger Actual temperature Intake outside Current temperature of the incoming outside air.

  • Page 21: History

    5. Management History The History menu item only appears if there is sufficient free memory (at least 100MB) on the WEC-Board. If there is insufficient memory, you can have the WEC-Board upgraded (replaced). If no data is present, the screen is blank. Climate You can retrieve the history of temperature, ventilation, humidity, CO , NH...

  • Page 22: Climate Control

    6. Climate control Climate control Poultry house Compensation ventilation Temporary manual ventilation offset. This can be a positive and a negative value (see screen 2.2.1.1) and automatically deactivates at Compensation stops at. Behind it is the current compensation status: off, max or active. Compensation stops at Time at which manual compensation stops.
  • Page 23 6. Climate control Settings Here you can: change the house status;  change the house temperature setpoint and read out the current house temperature;  turn the growth curves on and off;  change the day number;  read out of the current Temperature Humidity Index (THI). ...
  • Page 24 6. Climate control Control options You can specify per control how it should react to the set House status. If a setting is displayed next to the status, this setting is adopted by the control, provided that the current program matches the corresponding status.
  • Page 25 6. Climate control On/Off light timer / Water timer / Dosage timer / General timer / Laying-nest timer Possible statuses: The timer is switched off. auto The timer follows the set program. The timer is switched on (similar to manual operation). slave The on/off times of the timer are related to the Master timer.
  • Page 26 6. Climate control Growth curves for: house temperature.  RH compensation  = graphical display of growth curve on; = graphical display of growth curve off. Compensations Compensations (offsets) for: night reduction (+ night period curve)  temperature  bandwidth (bandwidth compensation and maximum ventilation compensation are mutually exclusive) ...

  • Page 27: Main Ventilation

    6. Climate control Main ventilation = interval ventilation off = interval ventilation on = standard ventilation = tunnel ventilation Reading out settings and measurements of the following ventilation controls: main ventilation  AQC valve  interval ventilation  tunnel ventilation ...
  • Page 28 6. Climate control Current ventilation If the main ventilation is controlled using a measuring fan, the measured ventilation is displayed after the calculated ventilation. If no measuring fan has been installed or if it is defective, the calculated ventilation is equal to the measured ventilation.

  • Page 29: Interval Ventilation

    6. Climate control Interval ventilation Interval ventilation Interval ventilation Duty-cycle Interval ventilation till Duty-cycle till Maximum cycle time Cycle time Step 1 Main ventilation Main ventilation Period on Step 1 Period on Interval ventilation active Duty-cycle Period on active Period on Period off Period off Cycle time...
  • Page 30 6. Climate control Heat exchanger ANote HeatExcP-N-ENxxxx Options If the main ventilation consists of several fans, at Start fan 2 and/or Start fan 3 you enter the percentage at which the fans should switch on. The switch-on percentage is relative to the total ventilation capacity of the controlled ventilation group.
  • Page 31 6. Climate control Main ventilation curve This growth curve can be set via ventilation rates or in m /kg/h, provided that your installer has set the Capacity per kg to yes. If you change the percentage, the value in m /kg/h will automatically be adjusted.
  • Page 32 6. Climate control Compensation (correction) Enter here the compensation factors for RH, CO and NH Alarm ❸ ❶ ❷ Enabling and disabling main ventilation alarms: ventilation alarm , provided that a measuring fan has been installed.  temperature alarm.  If no cooling has been installed and the Outside temperature ❶...

  • Page 33: Auxiliary Ventilation

    6. Climate control Auxiliary ventilation At Temperature setting, you specify the temperature based on which the auxiliary ventilation controls. In this screen you also enter the required bandwidth and minimum and maximum ventilation. Furthermore, you see the currently measured temperature and ventilation and the calculated total capacity and the calculated capacity per kilogram/capacity per animal.

  • Page 34: Heat Exchanger

    6. Climate control Compensation (correction) Entering the compensation factors for RH, CO and NH Alarm ❸ ❶ ❷ If no cooling has been installed and the Outside Temperature ❶ rises above the Temperature setpoint ❷, the Maximum Alarm Limit ❸ will be compensated. In that case the values concerned will be displayed in blue.

  • Page 35: Air Inlet Valves

    6. Climate control Air inlet valves The air inlet control can be based on the following parameters: Temperature  Pressure  Ventilation  Tunnel ventilation  An air inlet control based on (tunnel) ventilation does not need temperature sensors. Settings Temperature Pressure PL-95x0-G-EN02400...
  • Page 36 6. Climate control (Tunnel) ventilation Wind direction meteo station affects the air inlet position (see screen 2.1.3.9) For each ventilation group, you can enter the following parameters: Temperature difference with respect to the House temperature setpoint at which the inlet valve ...
  • Page 37 6. Climate control Ventilation curve per ventilation group Here you enter the curve values for each ventilation group: Temperature, Min. and Max. ventilation. This does not apply to valves which are set to Tunnel. Compensations Setting the RH, CO and NH compensation factors.

  • Page 38: Manure Belt

    6. Climate control Here you can turn the alarm ON and OFF for each ventilation group and for each inlet valve control. At Minimum and maximum alarm limit, you enter the minimum and maximum values for the control concerned. After the setpoints are displayed the calculated or actual values. At Delay time, enter the number of minutes the system will wait before actually activating the alarm.
  • Page 39 6. Climate control Settings This screen shows the settings of the cooling control selected. At Temperature setpoint, you enter the desired temperature based on which the cooling should control. The second value reads the corrected value based on outside temperature. This value only appears if an outside sensor has been connected. Above the value entered at Maximum RH, the cooling switches off.
  • Page 40 6. Climate control Compensation (reduction) Start reduction + Enter the temperature difference relative to the cooling temperature setpoint. Reduce until Reduction The reduction function prevents too much cold air from being sucked into the house when the outside temperature is low and the house temperature is higher than the house temperature setpoint.

  • Page 41: Temperature Control

    6. Climate control Temperature control Settings The temperature control can be a heating, cooling or delta-T control. On/off Proportional Delta-T For each temperature control, you can specify whether the relevant control should be switched on or off. At Temperature setpoint you enter the temperature based on which should be controlled. For a proportional temperature control, you also enter the Bandwidth, Minimum and Maximum heating and the Highest and Lowest temperature.

  • Page 42: 6.10 Miscellaneous Controls

    6. Climate control Alarm ❸ ❶ ❷ For each temperature control, you can turn the alarm on and off. For all controls, except the Delta-T control, you can set the alarm limits (with respect to the house temperature setpoint). Alarm status shows the current status of the alarm.
  • Page 43 6. Climate control The second value shows the value corrected on the basis of the outside temperature. This value only appears if an outside sensor is connected. Below the entered Minimum position (minimum RH), the humidification control is optimally active. Above the entered Maximum position (maximum RH), the humidification control switches off completely.

  • Page 44: Feeding

    7. Feeding Feeding to open the feed summary screen. You will see the following: 9.296 silo contents;  current silo status: green = active, blue = blocked, grey = empty;  14 days calculated number of days that can still be fed from the active silo. This ...
  • Page 45 7. Feeding Silo contents 1 silo multiple silos For each silo, you can see which component it contains and the status of that silo. The last column (Contents) shows how much component is in the relevant silo: stock or shortage (negative value). When feed is bulked, enter the amount of bulked component in the penultimate column (Bulked).
  • Page 46 7. Feeding Silo assignment Active silos If several components of the same type are present, enter the silo numbers containing the same component type under Silo order. If the silo becomes empty - for example in the case of a silo alarm or if the current silo from which the component must come is set to 0 - the program automatically searches for the next silo containing the same component type.
  • Page 47 7. Feeding Alarm The Alarm menu selection appears only if a PFB-35/70 feed weigher is used. Feed system alarm All feed system alarms are transmitted to the poultry management computer. The main alarm on the PFB-35/70 feed weigher is switched off. The alarm LED on the PFB-35/70 flashes*.

  • Page 48: Feed Composition

    7. Feeding Feed composition Feed mixture Curve OFF Curve ON The numbers displayed in the Curve, Corr. and Units columns show the ratio between the various components. From this mutual ratio, the percentage (Perc. ) in the feed mixture is calculated for each component.

  • Page 49: Distributed Per Day

    7. Feeding Distributed per day Water Overview of the distributed water quantities in litres. If the water counter is assigned to one animal group, the second column shows the average quantity in ml per animal. Feed Overview of distributed feed quantities in kg. The second column shows the average feed quantities in grams per animal.

  • Page 50: Distributed Per Period

    7. Feeding Miscellaneous Overview of other, distributed quantities. The left column shows the total quantities, the right column the quantities per animal. Distributed per period Water Overview of the water quantity dosed in ml per animal per period. Feed Overview of the feed quantity dosed in grams per animal per period. PL-95x0-G-EN02400...
  • Page 51 7. Feeding Miscellaneous Summary of the remaining, distributed amount per animal per period. PL-95x0-G-EN02400...

  • Page 52: Timers

    8. Timers Timers ANote-Timers-N-ENxxxxxx Master timer The master timer synchronises the slave timers. If you set Slave instead of ON, the times are related to the master timer. Afterwards, you can adjust the start and end times per timer locally. Timetable You can switch the timer ON and OFF according to a local time schedule.

  • Page 53: Dosage Timers / Sequential Timers

    8. Timers Dosage timers / sequential timers With a dosage timer, the timer output is linked to a counter input. You can then limit the water and/or feed intake. If the intake is too low, you can have the control generate a dosing alarm and stop the water/feed distribution.
  • Page 54 8. Timers Rinse timer You can use the renew timer for e.g. legionella prevention in water systems or administering medication. In this case, you flush the water pipe before the water nipples are reactivated. To prevent medication from being lost during flushing, you can set the amount of water to rinse the line per output (your installer has activated Stop at water amount).

  • Page 55: Week Program

    8. Timers Based on rinsing amount Rinsing Output 3 Output 1 Output 2 pulse pause pause pause Water counter Counter output 1 Counter output 2 Counter output 3 Not based on rinsing amount Rinsing Output 3 Output 1 Output 2 Amount 2 Amount 3 pause...

  • Page 56: Timers / Laying Nest Timer / Pop-Hole Timers

    8. Timers Alarm Alarm All dose alarms are transmitted to the poultry computer. No dose alarm is transmitted to the poultry computer. time Only when the Alarm schedule status is active, dosing alarms are transmitted to the poultry computer. Alarms occurring during the Alarm Schedule off status will not be transmitted.

  • Page 57: Time Schedules

    8. Timers Time schedules Setting nine separate time schedules for each group: on/off timers, lighting controls and dose timers. For more detailed information on setting time schedules, see Master timer, page 49. Water on demand The Water-on-demand control (one control per poultry computer) is a pressure control for the water pipes. During the day, the water pressure in the system can be varied based on the drinking needs of the animals.
  • Page 58 8. Timers Water on demand Water on demand is disabled. auto Automatic water level setting. If the curve is off, there is no difference between auto and manual. Manual water level setting. Pressure setting Here you enter the required water level. Growth curve level The required water level is calculated from the curve depending on the state start, active and end.
  • Page 59 8. Timers Alarm Under Alarm, you can enable and disable the Water-on-demand alarm. Furthermore, you can read the current status and activity of the Water-on-demand alarm here. PL-95x0-G-EN02400...

  • Page 60: Alarm

    9. Alarms Alarm Turning the main alarm ON and OFF Main alarm Here you switch the main alarm on and off and can test its operation. Alarm code Here you can see whether there is an alarm and if so, the type of alarm and which control it concerns, possibly with terminal number or address.

  • Page 61: Snooze Function

    9. Alarms Snooze function The snooze function allows you to suppress the alarm notification until a set time. If the set snooze time is before the current time, you can snooze the alarm up to the next day. Alarms resulting from a configuration error cannot be snoozed. Think for example of an incorrectly ...

  • Page 62: Alarm Schedule

    9. Alarms Alarm schedule Alarm active With Begin and End you set the period, during which the time-set alarms should be active. Status Only when the Status is active, then time-set alarms are transmitted to the poultry computer. Alarms that occur when Status is off will no longer be transmitted. External alarms Here you can enable and disable the external alarms (up to 10).

  • Page 63: Thermo-Differential Alarm

    9. Alarms Thermo-differential alarm Comparison of the current measurement per sensor (maximum 8 sensor) with the reading one minute ago...:  If the temperature rise in that minute equals or exceeds the relative alarm limit entered, an alarm is triggered. ...

  • Page 64: Alarm Codes

    9. Alarms Alarm codes Alarm code Description Alarm silo x  Silo number x is blocked/empty.  Alternative component is not in any of the silos present; more components than silos. Alarm unknown (xxx) Alarm code cannot be translated to text. Make a note of the displayed number and contact your supplier.
  • Page 65 9. Alarms Alarm code Description Invalid combination Dose timer and animal group are both set to communication. This is not allowed. Either set only dose timers via communication (augers) or send animal data via communication (valves). In the silo allocation, a component has a silo that does not contain the Invalid component correct component.
  • Page 66 9. Alarms Alarm code Description Meteo faulty  Meteo measurement (wind direction, wind speed and/or rain level) falls outside set limits. These limits depend on the sensor type: ME-54 or PL- MWA.  Wire bridge missing, PL-Meteo without rain sensor. For wire bridge, see appendix PL-Meteo.
  • Page 67 9. Alarms Alarm code Description Not closed Laying nest is still open after expiry. Not open Laying nest is not open after the runtime has expired. Output already allocated Output is assigned to two or more controls. Potentiometer faulty Measurement potentiometer outside set limits (EGM-100P, winch motors, etc.).

  • Page 68: System

    10. System System This screen shows the Device type, Software version and Software date as well as WEC board software version, Operating system version number and Touch firmware version. 10.1 Device Temperature unit Temperature Temperatures are displayed in degrees Celsius. Temperatures are displayed in degrees Fahrenheit.

  • Page 69: 10.2 Remote Control

    10. System Brightness Brightness Display brightness setting in operation mode. Display brightness setting in sleep mode. On-time Number of seconds the backlight illuminates after the last key press. 0 seconds = lighting does not switch off. 10.2 Remote control ANote-Remote-N-ENxxxx 10.3 Login / logout to open the numeric keypad, enter login code and tap to log out again.

  • Page 70: Maintenance And Monitoring

    11. Maintenance and control Maintenance and monitoring Good climate control is indispensable for good management. Disease prevention starts with optimising the house climate. Responsible and regular inspection and cleaning of fans, air inlet valves, measuring fans, ventilation chimneys, sensors and climate controls is therefore necessary. ...

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