Pocket FloBoss User manual (September 2009
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1. SPARTAN CONTROLS SPARTAN CONTROLS We Serve the Customer First Spartan Pocket FloBoss User s Manual Document Version 2 0 Calgary Edmonton Fort McMurray Grande Prairie Regina Saskatoon Fort St John Surrey 403 207 0700 780 468 5463 780 790 0440 780 539 1161 306 721 6925 306 934 3484 250 785 0285 604 539 7250 305 27 St SE 8403 51 Av 300B MacKenzie Blvd 11419 98 Av 475 Maxwell Cres 206B 2750 Faithful Av 9603 112 St 104 19329 Enterprise Way Spartan Pocket FloBoss User s Manual For additional information on this manual Pocket FloBoss or Spartan Controls Ltd please contact Address Spartan Controls Ltd 305 27 Street S E Calgary Alberta Canada T2A 7V2 General Inquiries In Calgary phone 403 207 0700 Support 24h a day 7 days a week Phone 403 207 0700 Web http www spartancontrols com E Mail info spartancontrols com CONFIDENTIAL All rights reserved No part of this document may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system translated or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without prior written permission of Spartan Controls Ltd Copyright 2009 Spartan Controls Ltd TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface 1 Installation of Pocket FloBoss Application 1 1 Download Pocket FloBoss Application 1 2 Install Pocket FloBoss 1 3 Executing Pocket FloBoss 1 4 Running Pocket FloBoss on a Pocket PC 2003 2 Operatio2. Default password is 1000 The password must be set up in the FloBoss 103 configuration The items on this display can be saved by tapping the Save button If there is an error in the configuration the errant value will be colored red and the Save button will be disabled If the entries are valid the Save button will be enabled and when tapped the parameters will be saved and the Main display will appear To not save the configuration the OK icon on the top right hand corner of the display should be tapped 2 4 HOURLY HISTORY DISPLAY AJ FB103 Hourly Hist 4 11 01 i 11 13 03 11 01 59 AM Comm Status Normal Meter Name Case 1 Hourly Data for 11 13 D P KPA Hour 1 12 66 Hour 13 0 00 Hour 2 12 66 Hour 14 0 00 Hour 3 12 66 Hour 15 0 00 Hour 4 12 66 Hour 16 0 00 Hour 5 12 66 Hour 17 0 00 Hour 6 12 66 Hour 18 0 00 Hour 7 12 66 Hour 19 0 00 Hour amp 12 66 Hour 20 0 00 Hour 9 12 66 Hour 21 0 00 Hour 10 12 66 Hour 22 0 00 Hour 11 12 66 Hour 23 0 00 Hour 12 0 00 Hour 0 0 00 Cat Viewing Day Selection Ej The FloBoss 103 Hourly History display appears when the Hr Hist button on the Main display is tapped It allows the 24 hourly readings for either D P Press Temp or Flow Accumulation for any of the past 35 days to be viewed Two drop down menus allow the day and the parameters to be viewed and selected Each time the Viewing Day or Selection is changed the application sends a message out to the FloBo
3. Diff Press 12 66 KPA Av Static Press 2818 KPA v Temperature 20 0 Deg C Updated viewing Archive Status The FloBoss 103 Daily History display is obtained by tapping the Dly Hist button on the Main display It allows the daily values for the previous 35 days to be viewed for the Flow Accumulation Flowtime D P Press and Temp When the display first appears the application polls the FloBoss for all the data Subsequent changing of the Viewing Day drop down menu is for data display only The complete data can also be saved ina comma separated variable CSV and TXT file on the Report display see section 2 9 Selecting the parameter radio button and tapping the Chart button can graph the 35 days of daily data for a specific parameter To return to the Main display tap the OK icon in the top right hand corner of the display 2 7 B103 Dly Hist DAILY HISTORY CHART DISPLAY 4 11 03 Ok 11 13 03 11 03 24 AM Data for ACCUM KM3 3 323 2 492 1 661 0 831 0 000 35 Day 1 A The FloBoss 103 Daily History Chart display is obtained by tapping the Chart button on FloBoss 103 Daily History Display It shows the 35 previous daily values for the Parameter Selection The first entry is always the value for the oldest daily entry namely 35 days ago To return to the Daily History display tap the OK icon in the top right hand corner of the display 2 8 AGA DISPLAY iF FloBoss 103 AGA 11 13
4. 03 11 03 57 4M 4 11 03 Comm Mtr Name Status Updated Orf mm Pipe mm 5 G 0 Total 100 000 N2 CO2 C1 C2 C3 NC4 1 900 IC4 10 NCS 0 ICS 10 NCG NC NC8 0 NCI NC10 0 H25 2 600 H20 0 HE 02 0 CO H2 0 The FloBoss 103 AGA display is obtained by tapping the AGA button on the Main display When this is done the application obtains the data from the FloBoss The Status will indicate Updating until this is done Once it is done the Status will indicate Updated This display is also used to send new configuration parameters to the FloBoss Entries are checked for validity Any invalid entry will be colored red until corrected The Send button will only be enabled when no parameter is colored red The total analysis 20 parameters must add up to 99 to 101 or the Total parameter will be colored red and you cannot send the new values to the FloBoss If you choose not to send gas components not totaling 100 i e between 99 101 the FloBoss will automatically adjust the Methane C1 component to make the total 100 You can read the adjusted Methane value by returning to the Main display see below and then reentering the AGA screen again The Meter name can be from 1 to 10 characters in length The orifice and pipe size can be from 0 to 300 mm in value The S G can be from 5 to 9 in value Each analysis entry can
5. 20 Filtered EUs 11 04 03 09 32 24 Al 3 LOI 128 144 Mode 11 04 03 09 31 58 Al 2 LOI 2700 2701 Hi Hi Alarm EU 11 04 03 09 31 45 Al 2 LOI 38060 87109 2700 Hi Hi Alarm EU Note Some of the descriptions will be displayed as a parameter number If you want to find what that particular parameter is first look at the Type in the event file Next you can match the Type to a Short Description using the table below Note the point type number immediately to the left Using Emerson Process Management s ROC Protocol User Manual Form A4199 http Awww emersonprocess com flow Emerson documentation documentation_index html you can reference the point type with the parameter number For your convenience all AGA flow related parameters have been cross referenced for you Point Type Short Description Long Description OPC Configurable Opcode A A D Discrete inputs bo Discrete Outputs Pio Pulselnputs S PID PID Control S O 7 10 12 13 14 5 1 19 DBs Database Setup 33 UDP User Defined Typically Modem config for LOI amp Com2 User Defined Typically Modbus config for Com 35 UDP Used Defined Typically Function config for Com1 86 upp User Defined Typically Host config for Com1 User Defined Typically Modbus config for LOI amp Com2 User Defined Typically Function config for LOI amp Com2 39 UDP_ User Defined Typically Host config for Com1 43 ULST 4
6. A TROUBLESHOOTING Make sure to read the Comm Display section if you are experiencing any communication related problems Check for correct Baud rate Address Group and Login Password Additional technical support may be obtained by calling Spartan Controls 403 207 0700 during normal business hour Monday to Friday 8 00am to 5 00pm and asking for SCADA service Please note that technical support will be charged at the current Spartan Controls Service hourly rates The Pocket FloBoss program a Freeware program and subject to the software license agreement found on Spartan Controls website www spartancontrols com
7. Meter Data file The My Documents Business directory can be Auto Synced with a PC and when connected to the PC this file can be transferred automatically from the PDA to the PC The Daily Production Data is saved identically in two files One is saved with the extension csv and the other with the extension txt The files will contain 35 lines of comma separated values There are 8 values per line The format of a line is as follows Meter Name yyyymmdd mmm dd Flow Accum Flow Runtime D P Press Temp 2 9 1 ALARM LOG The Alarm Log file consists of 4 lines of header followed by alarms tagged with their time as illustrated below Alarm Log Roc Address 240 Roc Group 240 FloBoss 103 Time Downloaded 11 13 03 11 04 20 Operator LOI Date Time Tag Set Clear Value Description 11 04 03 09 33 18 RTD Alarm Clr 20 Rate Alarm 11 04 03 09 33 17 RTD Alarm Set 20 Rate Alarm 11 04 03 09 32 25 RTD Alarm Set 57 Hi Hi Alarm 11 04 03 09 32 25 RTD Alarm Set 57 High Alarm 2 9 2 EVENT LOG The Event Log file consists of 4 lines of header followed by events tagged with their time as illustrated below Event Log Roc Address 240 Roc Group 240 FloBoss 103 Time Downloaded 11 13 03 09 36 05 Operator LOI Date Time Type Pt ID Old Value New Value Description 11 06 03 14 58 11 CLK 1 LOI 11 2 Seconds 11 05 03 17 02 41 MCFG 1 ROC 0 1 Full Recalculation Flag 11 05 03 17 02 26 MCFG 1 LOI 0 779200017 0 778999984 Specific Gravity 11 04 03 09 33 16 Al 3 LOI 57
8. to the FloBoss Valid selections are 600 1200 2400 4800 9600 and 19200 3 No Response T O The no response time out is a value in milliseconds that a valid poll from PDA and response from FloBoss is required If this time out value is exceeded the poll is deemed to have failed and a retry occurs see below Valid entries are from 10 to 5000 milliseconds 4 Retry Count This number is the number of attempts by the application to obtain a valid response from the FloBoss before a pop up window occurs flagging a communication problem Valid entries are from 1 to 10 5 RTS Delay The application has the capability of raising RTS and waiting awhile before sending out a message to the FloBoss After the message is sent RTS is dropped If the RTS Delay is set to 0 RTS is always raised Valid entries are from 0 to 5000 milliseconds 6 FloBoss 103 Unit No This is the FloBoss address used to poll the attached FloBoss Valid entries are from 1 to 255 The universal polling address is 240 7 FloBoss 103 Grp No This is the FloBoss group used to poll the attached FloBoss Valid entries are from 1 to 255 The universal polling group is 240 8 Login This is the login ID used to access the FloBoss 103 The Login consists of 1 to 3 characters Default login is LOI The login must be set up in the FloBoss 103 configuration 9 Password This is the password for the login ID used above The Password must be a number from 0 to 9999
9. 8 PID PID Control Parameters 86 XHIST Extended History Parameters _ 2 9 3 METER DATA The Meter Data file contains all relevant data pertaining to the AGA flow Meter Data Roc Address 240 Roc Group 240 FloBoss 103 Time Downloaded 11 13 03 09 36 21 Operator LOI Meter Name Case 1 Meter Identification EUB Case 1 Current Time amp Date 11 13 03 9 36 15 AM Instantaneous Flow Rate 3 32 KM3 d Instantaneous Differential Pressure 12 66 KPA Instantaneous Static Pressure 2818 KPA Instantaneous Temperature 20 0 DEG C Contract Hour 0 Atmospheric Pressure 95 699 KPA Base Pressure 101 325 KPA Base Temperature 15 0 Deg C Upstream Pipe ID 52 370 mm Pipe Material is CS Orifice Plate ID 9 525 mm Orifice Material is SST Static Pressure Measurement is Absolute with an Upstream Tap Calibrated Static Pressure Range Min EU 0 KPA Calibrated Static Pressure Range Max EU 38061 KPA Calibrated Differential Pressure Range Min EU 0 00 KPA Calibrated Differential Pressure Range Max EU 15 48 KPA Calibrated Temperature Range Min EU 40 0 Deg C Calibrated Temperature Range Max EU 37 8 Deg C Low Differential Cutoff 1 00 KPA Specific Gravity 0 779 Measured Compressibility Zfl 0 88777 N2 1 840 C1 70 680 C2 14 140 C3 6 740 NC4 1 900 IC4 0 810 NC5 0 430 ICS 0 380 NC6 0 260 NC7 0 220 NC8 0 000 NC9 0 000 NC10 0 000 O2 0 000 CO 0 000 H2 0 000 HE 0 000 CO2 0 000 H2S 2 600 H20 0 000 3 APPENDIX
10. STALL POCKET FLOBOSS Using your Pocket PC cradle or sync cable connect the Pocket PC to your PC Make sure you are using Microsoft s Active Sync 3 5 or later software Once you have connected to the PC execute the Setup exe file that was unzipped from above Proceed through the following 1 The setup application will want to store setup files in a default folder on the PC Change this default folder C Program Files Pocket FloBoss if required Click OK 2 The setup application will now display Receiving application data from the mobile device If the Pocket FloBoss was already installed previously you will receive a message asking if you want to re install upgrade Click YES 3 If you are installing Pocket FloBoss for the first time you will see a message asking you if you want to install the Pocket FloBoss in the default application install directory Click YES 4 A status bar will appear to show how much of the application is installed on the Pocket PC 5 Once complete a message will ask you to Please check your mobile device screen to see if any additional steps are necessary to complete this installation Click OK 6 Check the PDA screen and follow on screen prompts Clicking YES to the screen prompts to replace existing files is ok the Pocket FloBoss application needs these files to execute properly 1 3 EXECUTING POCKET FLOBOSS To start up the Pocket FloBoss application Tap on START select PROGRAMS sc
11. be from 0 to 100 in value If there are no invalid entries the Send button is enabled When tapped the Status goes to Sending and is followed by Updating as the values are read back from the FloBoss for verification To return to the Main display tap the Ok icon in the top right hand corner of the display 2 9 REPORT DISPLAY 7 FloBoss 103 Report 9 09 12 12 03 9 09 19 AM Comm Status Mamma Meter Name Alarms per Poll 1 to 10 Events per Poll 1 to 10 Daily Production Alarm Log Event Log Meter Data Collect All Ej There are four reports that can be generated from this display This display is selected by tapping the Report button on the Main display The reports can be individually obtained or all obtained by tapping the Collect All button To the right of each button is a status display that will display either Pending Saving Saved or Failed depending on the particular state of the report generation There are 240 possible Alarms for the Alarm Log and 240 possible Events for the Event Log Normally 10 Alarms and 10 Events are retrieved per poll for a total of 24 polls The Alarms per Poll and the Events per Poll are changeable however All reports are saved in the directory My Documents Business The file name is the Meter name less any trailing spaces followed by _prod txt and _prod csv for the Daily Production files _alm txt for the Alarm Log file _evt txt for the Event Log file _aga txt for the
12. ed will be About Comm and On The Comm Button should be tapped to verify the parameters used for communication with the FloBoss 103 see Comm display section If the communication parameters are correct a cable should be connected from the PDA serial port to the FloBoss 103 serial port null modem and the On button tapped Once this is done polling of the FloBoss commences The On button text will change to Off and the button background will turn green The Comm Button will be disabled If communications cannot be established with the FloBoss a popup window will appear indicating this condition If communications is established the application successfully logged on to the FloBoss and obtained the time the Hr Hist Dly Hist Report AGA and Sd Time buttons will be enabled and the Comm Status will go to Normal and be colored green The Meter Name FloBoss time and the current operating parameters will now be updating If the FloBoss time differs from the PDA time by more than 5 minutes the background color of the FloBoss time will be red The current PDA time can be sent to the FloBoss by tapping the Sd Time button Once this is done the button color will change to yellow until the command has been successfully sent to the FloBoss On some units the serial port is also used for Auto Syncing with a PC In this case Auto Sync must be turned Off when the FloBoss application is active If not the application will pop up a window indica
13. n Operator Displays 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 5 2 6 2 1 2 8 2 9 Main Display About Display Comm Display Hourly History Display Hourly History Chart Display Daily History Display Daily History Chart Display AGA Display Report Display 2 9 1 Alarm Log 2 9 2 Event Log 2 9 3 Meter Data 3 Appendix A Troubleshooting aa Aa Aa A O oO N OD UO 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 PREFACE Pocket FloBoss is a Windows CE application written to interface a PocketPC 2002 with the Fisher FloBoss 103 It does this using a RS 232 serial port of a PDA Personal Digital Assistant to communicate with the FloBoss using ROC protocol The FloBoss 103 calculates Gas Flow for one flow run Pocket FloBoss is programmed to retrieve current operating parameters modify operating parameters view and chart hourly history data from the past 35 days view chart and save daily history data for the past 35 days save alarm log save event log and save meter data for the single flow run All data displayed is assumed to be in metric units 1 INSTALLATION OF POCKET FLOBOSS APPLICATION 1 1 DOWNLOAD POCKET FLOBOSS APPLICATION The Pocket FloBoss application can be downloaded from the Spartan Controls website at http www spartancontrols com downloads downloads asp CSS spartan The Pocket FloBoss application will be a set of zipped archive setup files Once the application is downloaded to your PC create a folder and unzip the setup files 1 2 IN
14. roll down if necessary until you see an icon named Pocket FloBoss Tap once on the Pocket FloBoss icon wait a few seconds for the application to load You may see an animated timing icon while application is loading To exit the Pocket FloBoss application tap on the OK icon on the top right of the screen You may need to tap on more then one OK icon as the available Pocket FloBoss screens are layered one over the other 1 4 RUNNING POCKET FLOBOSS ON A POCKET PC 2003 Running this application on a Pocket PC 2003 requires the installation of the eMbedded Visual Basic Runtime for Pocket PC 2003 software from Microsoft It can be downloaded from http msdn microsoft com en ca library ms838188 aspx These runtime files must be installed prior to installing the Pocket FloBoss application 2 OPERATION OPERATOR DISPLAYS AF FloBoss 103 Main 4 11 01 11 13 03 11 01 12 AM Comm Status Meter Name Case 1 FloBoss Time 11 13 03 11 01 04 AM Current Flow 332 KM3 Day Curr Bly Accum 1 523 KM3 Prev Dly Accum 3 322 KM3 Curr Diy Flowtime 660 0 Mins Prey Dly Flowtime 1440 0 Mins Curr Diff Press 12 66 KPA Curr Static Press 2818 KPA Curr Temperature 20 0 Deg C Curr Mly Accum 40 52 KM3 a Ble a 2 1 MAIN DISPLAY When the application Pocket FloBoss is started the FloBoss 103 Main display will appear The current PDA time should appear in the top left hand corner of the display The only buttons enabl
15. ss to retrieve the required data It is possible that no data exists for a selected day In that case the request will fail and a pop up window will occur requiring acknowledgement Then a valid day can be selected The header above the data should be checked to see that the day matches the expected viewing day The first entry in the first column is always the data for the first hour after the start of the contract day on the day selected i e If 8 am is contract hour the first hour displayed will be 9 The 24 values can be viewed graphically by tapping the Chart button To return to the Main display the OK icon in the top right hand corner of the display should be tapped 2 5 HOURLY HISTORY CHART DISPLAY J FB103 Hourly Hist 4 11 02 11 13 03 11 02 27 AM Hourly Data for 117 13 D P 12 66 9 49 6 33 3 16 0 00 1 Hour 0 Ej The FloBoss 103 Hourly History Chart display is obtained by tapping the Chart button on FloBoss 103 Hourly History display It shows the 24 hourly values for the Viewing day and Parameter Selection The first entry is always the value for the first hour after the start of contract day To return to the Hourly History display tap the OK icon in the top right hand corner of the display 2 6 DAILY HISTORY DISPLAY AJ FB103 Daily Hist 4 lt 11 02 11 13 03 11 02 54 AM Comm Status Normal Data For 2003 11 13 00 00 Meter Name Case 1 Bly Accum 3 322 KM3 Dly Flowtime 1440 0 Mins Av
16. ting that the serial port cannot be opened In addition the pop up window can also occur if the application has not been allowed to exit properly bombs and is subsequently restarted The only way correct this condition is to invoke a soft reset of the PDA After this is complete the application can once again be invoked 2 2 ABOUT DISPLAY F FloBoss 103 About 4 9 07 D 12 12 03 9 07 42 AM Pocket FloBoss Rev 2 00 03 12 10 Pocket FloBoss was developed for Spartan Controls Limited Calgary Alberta Canada http spartan ab cal by Calta Computer Systems Limited G Calgary Alberta Canada http fcalta com Ej When the About button is tapped on the Main display the FloBoss 103 About display appears The information displayed is self explanatory To return to the Main display tap the OK icon in the top right hand corner 2 3 COMM DISPLAY AF FloBoss 103Comm 11 05 GD 11 13 03 11 05 28 AM Comm Port Baud Rate No Resp T O ms Retry Count 3 RTS Delay mfo FloBoss 103 Unit No 240 FloBoss 103 Grp No 240 Login LOI Password Ej The Comm Button on the Main display can only be tapped when the application is not polling the FloBoss 103 It allows the communication parameters to be modified and saved Parameters are as follows le Comm Port Only ports 1 and 2 can be selected and port 1 is the only valid choice for most PDAs 2 Baud Rate This is the communication baud rate from the PDA
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