MODEL ROB-8A USER MANUAL - ACCES I/O Products, Inc.
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1. turning them on one by one then turning them off one by one RELSTATE 255 turn off the relays OUT PORTA RELSTATE FOR REL 1 TO 8 GOSUB WALKIT turn on the relay GOSUB DELAY NEXT REL Manual MROB 8A D1 RELSTATE 0 OUT PORTA RELSTATE GOSUB DELAY FOR REL 8 TO 1 STEP 1 GOSUB DOIT turn off the relay GOSUB DELAY one second delay NEXT REL RETURN DELAY FOR OURDELAY 1 TO 5000 NEXT RETURN QUIT Program exit END Manual MROB 8A D1 Page A 3 ROB 8A Manual Page A 4 Manual MROB 8A D1 Customer Comments If you experience any problems with this manual or just want to give us some feedback please email us at manuals accesio com Please detail any errors you find and include your mailing address so that we can send you any manual updates ya ACCES I O PRODUCTS INC 10623 Roselle Street San Diego CA 92121 Tel 858 550 9559 FAX 858 550 7322 www accesioproducts com2. current into a resistive load Manual MROB 8A D1 Page 1 1 ROB 8A Manual Specifications Logic Inputs 8 Lines e Logic High 2 0 to 5 0 VDC e Logic Low 0 5 to 0 8 VDC e Input Load Hi 70 microamperes e Input Load Lo 600 microamperes Logic Outputs 4 Lines Rel Logic High 8 2 5 VDC min load drive depends on signal source Logic Low 0 5 VDC max load drive depends on signal source ay Outputs Contacts Form C SPDT non latching DPDT optional Contact Material Gold overlay silver Contact Rating 28 V DC at 1 A 120 V AC at 0 5 A Max Switched Current 2 ADC or 1 25 A AC Max Carry Current 2 A AC or DC Max Switched Voltage 125V DC or 220 V AC Max Switched Power 30 VA DC or 60 VA AC resistive Operate Time nominal voltage 8 milliseconds max including bounce Release Time nominal voltage 8 milliseconds max Life Expectancy 2 x 107 operations at 18 000 ops hr Power Required 5 VDC at 0 15A all relays OFF and 0 9A all relays ON each ROB 8A Size 4 5 x 6 125 114 mm x 156 mm Environmental Page 1 Operating Temperature Range 0 C to 60 C Storage Temperature Range 30 C to 105 C Humidity 45 to 90 RH non condensing 2 Manual MROB 8A D1 PORT A OUTPUT ADDRESS PORT C LO OUTPUT R W SELECT CARD ADDRESS SELECT 1 OF 4 PORT B INPUT READBACK ml ju o PORT C Hi INPUT OUTPUT Y3MOd 1X3 0000 q Figure 1 1 Block Diagram If
3. your card is configured with optional sockets for easy removal and replacement of your relays it is marked as model ROB 8A S01 If your card is configured for optional DPDT relay outputs it is marked as model ROB 8A S02 Further if your application requires that the relays be in a known state at power up pull up or pull down resistors may have been specified when the card was ordered If for example all relays are to be de actuated at power up and the polarity switch is set for actuation on HIGH inputs then pull down resistors have been added at the input circuits and your card is marked ROB 8A S04 Conversely if the intent was to set the polarity switch for actuation on logic LOW inputs then pull up resistors have been installed at the inputs and the unit is marked ROB 8A S03 Manual MROB 8A D1 Page 1 3 ROB 8A Manual Page 1 4 Manual MROB 8A D1 Chapter 2 Installation The software provided with this card is contained on either one CD or multiple diskettes and must be installed onto your hard disk prior to use To do this perform the following steps as appropriate for your software format and operating system Substitute the appropriate drive letter for your CD ROM or disk drive where you see d or a respectively in the examples below CD Installation DOS WIN3 x 1 Place the CD into your CD ROM drive 2 Type HJE to change the active drive to the CD ROM drive 3 Type U NJ s J4J4J Jere to run the install program 4 Follow th
4. IN WSTATE amp H4 Use board 1 write function PORTA amp H300 port address also port A PORTC amp H302 port C CADDR amp H303 address for control word OUT CADDR CWORD program the ports OUT PORTC WSTATE program port C for board number and write function OUT PORTA RELSTATE turn off all relays Do menu selection here MENU CLS PRINT PRINT PRINT RELAY DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM PRINT COPYRIGHT ACCES PRINT PRINT PRINT 1 Toggle any relay PRINT 2 RUN asimple sequence PRINT 3 Quit PRINT PRINT ROB 8A must have ADDRO and REVB ON for sample to work Manual MROB 8A D1 Page A 1 ROB 8A Manual PRINT All other switches must be off The IOD 24 E must be at PRINT base address 300 HEX PRINT SELCT INPUT Your selection PICK PRINT IF PICK gt 1 AND PICK lt 3 THEN GOTO CONT PRINT OUT OF RANGE TRY AGAIN GOTO SELCT CONT ON PICK GOSUB TOGGLE SEQUENCE QUIT GOTO MENU This section will toggle a relay Page A 2 TOGGLE CLS PRINT PRINT RETRY INPUT Enter relay number to toggle REL IF REL gt 1 AND REL lt 8 THEN GOTO DOIT PRINT Invalid relay number try again GOTO RETRY DOIT TEMP NOT RELSTATE RELSTATE NOT TEMP XOR RELAYS REL OUT PORTA RELSTATE RETURN WALKIT RELSTATE NOT RELAYS REL OUT PORTA RELSTATE RETURN SEQUENCE Performs a simple sequence by turning all relays off then
5. MA number which must appear on the outer label of the return package All units components should be properly packed for handling and returned with freight prepaid to the ACCES designated Service Center and will be returned to the customer s user s site freight prepaid and invoiced Coverage First Three Years Returned unit part will be repaired and or replaced at ACCES option with no charge for labor or parts not excluded by warranty Warranty commences with equipment shipment Following Years Throughout your equipment s lifetime ACCES stands ready to provide on site or in plant service at reasonable rates similar to those of other manufacturers in the industry Equipment Not Manufactured by ACCES Equipment provided but not manufactured by ACCES is warranted and will be repaired according to the terms and conditions of the respective equipment manufacturer s warranty General Under this Warranty liability of ACCES is limited to replacing repairing or issuing credit at ACCES discretion for any products which are proved to be defective during the warranty period In no case is ACCES liable for consequential or special damage arriving from use or misuse of our product The customer is responsible for all charges caused by modifications or additions to ACCES equipment not approved in writing by ACCES or if in ACCES opinion the equipment has been subjected to abnormal use Abnormal use for purposes of this warranty is defined as any us
6. Read Write 12 13 Bit PC1 Address Select 14 15 Bit PCO Address Select 16 17 Bit PB7 Relay 7 Readback 18 19 BitPB6 Relay6 20 21 BitPB5 Relay5 22 23 Bit PB4 Relay4 24 25 Bit PB3 Relay3 26 27 BitPB2 Relay2 28 Bit PB1 Relay 1 31 Bit PBO Relay0 32 33 Bit PA7 to Relay 7 34 35 Bit PA6 to Relay 6 36 37 Bit PAS to Relay 5 38 39 Bit PA4 to Relay 4 40 41 Bit PA3 to Relay 3 42 43 Bit PA2 to Relay 2 44 45 Bit PA1 to Relay 1 46 47 Bit PAO to Relay 0 48 49 Not Connected 50 N NO UI o Table 3 1 Connector Pin Assignments Manual MROB 8A D1 Page 3 1 ROB 8A Manual Table 3 2 External Power Connections Page 3 2 Manual MROB 8A D1 Appendix A Demonstration Program The following program written in BASIC illustrates how easy it is to interface the ROB 8A to digital input output cards This example was written for the IOD 24E or IOD 24 but with minor variations could be used with any of the IOD Series cards This program allows any relay to be turned on or off This program expects an ACCES IOD xx board to be connected to a ROB 8A relay board with the base address of the IOD xx card set to hex 300 Set up the variables DIM RELAYS 8 mask for each relay RELSTATE 255 start all HI which is off RELAYS 1 1 first relay mask FORI 1TO7 setup the relay masks RELAYS I 1 RELAYS D 2 shift prev one left NEXT I Now initialize the board CWORD amp H8A port A and C lo are OUT others are
7. T One executable can run under both operating systems and still have full access to the hardware registers The DLL is used exactly like any other DLL so it is compatible with any language capable of using 32 bit DLLs Consult the manuals provided with your language s compiler for information on using DLLs in your specific environment VBACCES This directory contains sixteen bit DLL drivers for use with VisualBASIC 3 0 and Windows 3 1 only These drivers provide four functions similar to the ACCES32 DLL However this DLL is only compatible with 16 bit executables Migration from 16 bit to 32 bit is simplified because of the similarity between VBACCES and ACCES32 PC This directory contains PCI bus specific programs and information If you are not using a PCI card this directory will not be installed SOURCE A utility program is provided with source code you can use to determine allocated resources at run time from your own programs in DOS PCIFind exe A utility for DOS and Windows to determine what base addresses and IRQs are allocated to installed PCI cards This program runs two versions depending on the operating system Windows 95 98 NT displays a GUI interface and modifies the registry When run from DOS or Windows3 x a text interface is used For information about the format of the registry key consult the card specific samples provided with the hardware In Windows NT NTioPC1 SYS runs each time the computer is booted thereby r
8. e card operation This switch is set to OFF when only one ROB 8A is to be used The card will respond to requests from any of the four addresses or oft off Switch 6 is set ON if a logic 1 is to actuate the relays and set to OFF if a logic 0 is to actuate the relays TB9 s screw terminals AWG 14 max size AWG 16 minimum recommended size or the Molex quick connect are used for external 5 VDC power input to the ROB 8A Manual MROB 8A D1 Page 2 5 ROB 8A Manual 4 70 gt Y 25 25 O SA GAs baa ee age RE 0282880 2 TT S SA EE RE a EAL TYPICAL OF S see i EIGHT 8 DT y NG OW o eo AA 8 REL7 La E l KO D e Ar D SU LO OI rr rr Fo ell ADRO e ADRI pama SU ADR2 a UZ b REL6 Af A FIO REM S ACTHL lo DL KKO Sf ITO Oil Ca E o N Naa 8 RELS KPH HO Ret IS gages Ol 2 1S DU dg AT NAY 7 8 OI gt MO E OW sf NS lle 8 ol le RANG A fol S Ai SE ap BIO do en GND 5V Figure 2 1 ROB 8A Layout Page 2 6 Manual MROB 8A D1 Chapter 3 Connector Pin Assignments A 50 pin ribbon cable header is used to interface to the digital output card in the host computer The mating connector is a type AMP 1 746285 0 or equivalent h Bit PC7 to Screw Terminal 2 3 Bit PC6 N N 4 5 Bit PC5 ii N 6 7 Bit PC4 3 N 8 9 Bit PC3 Unused 10 11 Bit PC2
9. e on screen prompts to install the software for this card WIN95 98 NT 2000 A Place the CD into your CD ROM drive B The CD should automatically run the install program after 30 seconds Ifthe install program does not run click START RUN and type d install click OK or press xed C Follow the on screen prompts to install the software for this card 3 5 Inch Diskette Installation As with any software package you should make backup copies for everyday use and store your original master diskettes in a safe location The easiest way to make a backup copy is to use the DOS DISKCOPY utility In a single drive system the command is Bl Sel all Aly AJ fines You will need to swap disks as requested by the system In a two disk system the command is gasgan A al l This will copy the contents of the master disk in drive A to the backup disk in drive B Manual MROB 8A D1 Page 2 1 ROB 8A Manual To copy the files on the master diskette to your hard disk perform the following steps a Place the master diskette into a floppy drive b Change the active drive to the drive that has the diskette installed For example if the diskette is in drive A type AL Jiro c Type Usioe and follow the on screen prompts Directories Created on the Hard Disk The installation process will create several directories on your hard disk If you accept the installation defaults the following structure will exist CARDNAME Root or base di
10. e to which the equipment is exposed other than that use specified or intended as evidenced by purchase or sales representation Other than the above no other warranty expressed or implied shall apply to any and all such equipment furnished or sold by ACCES Page iv Table of Contents NONG sitio tats Bae ei te Sek at crea ete te ee ge eee eas ere um er as ANG iii Warranty 23222 os Weser ANDY a Pano are ee eee ee eae iv FOREWORD s AR N RR ne aa a iii eT Te TTT iv Limited Ta CAIN oe isa io A Naa NO ANA lee Se ayer ee iv Return Procedure ascos e a R ba RT R eee Pe eae Pewee eres v Limitation of Liability sss x x x x x ei v POVISONES cs da pace ores AAA SAR Ao vi Chapter 1 Introduction 43s 83 IET EA A 1 1 Specifications Ka Goenka a A A 1 2 Chapter 2 Installation cis a AN AA is AN AG 2 1 EDB lnst llation zur cbc Z t E a KA Sd A BR en eed tea de a 2 1 3 5 Inch Diskette Installation 0 0002 eee 2 1 Directories Created on the Hard Disk 0 000000 cee eee 2 2 Installing the ROB O At nasad patie cand KK pas peAa KAR Sate Rhee eh eee See Ee 2 4 Chapter 3 Connector Pin Assignments 222222 eee eee eee 3 1 Appendix A Demonstration Program 2 e eee eee A 1 Page v List of Figures Figure 1 1 Block Diagram 2 222 ee Botte dna NG fe Beet ad Paang hipag Na an 1 3 Figure 2 1 ROB BA Layout as saure AA EA IT A Pee NG NANG 2 6 List of Tables Table 3 1 Connector Pin Assignments eee ee
11. ee eee eee ee eee eee 3 1 Table 3 2 External Power Connections 2 2 2200 eee 3 2 Page vi Chapter 1 Introduction ROB 8A is an eight channel electromechanical relay output accessory card that accepts inputs from parallel digital I O cards As many as four ROB 8As can be connected to one 24 bit I O port Provide 5 VDC from an external power supply via screw terminals at TB9 or from the computer s hard disk drive power cable Molex connector The card can receive inputs from Port A of any 24 bit group of any ACCES digital I O card via a CABS50F xx ribbon cable A read back capability is provided for Port B of that same 24 bit group The lower nybble Port C bits PCO and PCI are used for card address decoding when multiple ROB 8As are used and Port C high nybble bits are coupled to screw terminals TB10 on the card for general purpose use ROB 8A contains eight Form C relays SPDT Dual Form C relays DPDT are an optional configuration Relay connections are brought out to eight sets of labeled screw terminals Two LEDs one green and one red are associated with each relay The green LED is illuminated when the relay is de energized and the red LED glows when the relay is energized A Polarity Select switch on the card provides means to energize the relays from either high or low logic levels The relays used are UL recognized non latching polarized units designed to FCC Part 68 isolation requirements and can switch up to two amperes
12. efreshing the registry as PCI hardware is added or removed In Windows 95 98 NT PCIFind EXE places itself in the boot sequence of the OS to refresh the registry on each power up This program also provides some COM configuration when used with PCI COM ports Specifically it will configure compatible COM cards for IRQ sharing and multiple port issues WIN32IRQ This directory provides a generic interface for IRQ handling in Windows 95 98 NT Source code is provided for the driver greatly simplifying the creation of custom drivers for specific needs Samples are provided to demonstrate the use of the generic driver Note that the use of IRQs in near real time data acquisition programs requires multi threaded application programming techniques and must be considered an intermediate to advanced programming topic Delphi C Builder and Visual C samples are provided Manual MROB 8A D1 Page 2 3 ROB 8A Manual Findbase exe DOS utility to determine an available base address for ISA bus non Plug n Play cards Run this program once before the hardware is installed in the computer to determine an available address to give the card Once the address has been determined run the setup program provided with the hardware to see instructions on setting the address switch and various option selections Poly exe A generic utility to convert a table of data into an nth order polynomial Useful for calculating linearization polynomial coefficients for the
13. g ACCES I O PRODUCTS INC 10623 Roselle Street San Diego CA 92121 TEL 858 550 9559 FAX 858 550 7322 MODEL ROB 8A USER MANUAL FILE MROB 8A D1 Notice The information in this document is provided for reference only ACCES does not assume any liability arising out of the application or use of the information or products described herein This document may contain or reference information and products protected by copyrights or patents and does not convey any license under the patent rights of ACCES nor the rights of others IBM PC PC XT and PC AT are registered trademarks of the International Business Machines Corporation Printed in USA Copyright 2000 by ACCES I O Products Inc 10623 Roselle Street San Diego CA 92121 All rights reserved Page iii Warranty Prior to shipment ACCES equipment is thoroughly inspected and tested to applicable specifications However should equipment failure occur ACCES assures its customers that prompt service and support will be available All equipment originally manufactured by ACCES which is found to be defective will be repaired or replaced subject to the following considerations Terms and Conditions If a unit is suspected of failure contact ACCES Customer Service department Be prepared to give the unit model number serial number and a description of the failure symptom s We may suggest some simple tests to confirm the failure We will assign a Return Material Authorization R
14. rectory containing the SETUP EXE setup program used to help you configure jumpers and calibrate the card DOS PSAMPLES A subdirectory of CARDNAME that contains Pascal samples DOS CSAMPLES A subdirectory of CARDNAME that contains C samples Win32 language Subdirectories containing samples for Win95 98 and NT WinRISC exe A Windows dumb terminal type communication program designed for RS422 485 operation Used primarily with Remote Data Acquisition Pods and our RS422 485 serial communication product line Can be used to say hello to an installed modem ACCES32 This directory contains the Windows 95 98 NT driver used to provide access to the hardware registers when writing 32 bit Windows software Several samples are provided in a variety of languages to demonstrate how to use this driver The DLL provides four functions InPortB OutPortB InPort and OutPort to access the hardware This directory also contains the device driver for Windows NT ACCESNT SYS This device driver provides register level hardware access in Windows NT Two methods of using the driver are available through ACCES32 DLL recommended and through the DevicelOControl handles provided by ACCESNT SYS slightly faster Page 2 2 Manual MROB 8A D1 SAMPLES Samples for using ACCES32 DLL are provided in this directory Using this DLL not only makes the hardware programming easier MUCH easier but also one source file can be used for both Windows 95 98 and WindowsN
15. rmocouples and other non linear sensors Risc bat A batch file demonstrating the command line parameters of RISCTerm exe RISCTerm exe A dumb terminal type communication program designed for RS422 485 operation Used primarily with Remote Data Acquisition Pods and our RS422 485 serial communication product line Can be used to say hello to an installed modem RISCTerm stands for Really Incredibly Simple Communications TERMinal Installing the ROB 8A The ROB 8A is installed external to the host computer The card is supplied with four 0 375 stand offs and may be installed in either T Box enclosures from ACCES or on user supplied panels chassis To install the card without the box in your own enclosure see Figure 2 2 for the hole spacing ROB 8A provides two 50 pin headers for 50 conductor ribbon cable connection to the host computer and to another ROB 8A when more than one ROB 8A is in use Screw terminals are provided for the relay outputs The screw terminals used can accommodate wire sizes as large as 14 AWG Silk screen labels on the card identify the relay elements and other related functions As you read the following descriptions refer to the layout drawing on the next page for the locations of switches jumpers and terminal strips Page 2 4 Manual MROB 8A D1 DIP switch S1 sets various modes of operation as follows Switches 1 through 4 set the card address in multiple ROB 8A applications Switch 5 must be set to ON for multipl
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