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Kataeb Associate Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 26	Disconnect BOU Honeywell DCS TotalPlant Alcont 12/19/2013 8:41 AM
	Hy, we have a Honeywell DCS TotalPlant Alcont, to which we added a new digital output module BOU. On this module there is a Disconnect or D switch which sets all the channels on the card into a passive state. We put this switch to Connect position, but no outputs are enabled. Has anyone seen this before? How can we solve this problem? In the Honeywell manuals it is mentioned: For card replacement the outputs are reliably switched off by turning the front panel DISCONNECT lever to the right. This must be done both to the old and the new card. The lever must not be operated during normal operation, because an erroneous control would be caused by clearing all the output channels. Thank you __________________ ...anything that can go wrong will go wrong...
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lyn Guru Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 42355 Good Answers: 1693	#1 Re: Disconnect BOU Honeywell DCS TotalPlant Alcont 12/19/2013 9:00 AM
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North of 60 Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Iqaluit, NU. Canada Posts: 1854 Good Answers: 140	#2 Re: Disconnect BOU Honeywell DCS TotalPlant Alcont 12/19/2013 9:27 AM
	As I do not know this equipment, the following is pretty generic to such systems... Are you replacing a card or adding a new one? You said you were adding a card. If you are adding one... The switch you enabled on the card is a "hardware" interlock. Besides the hardware needing to be in the enabled configuration, it is a pretty sure bet that you will need to go over the software configuration for this system to let it know the new card is there. The software will need to add the physical bus addresses for the discrete I/O points into its operating environment. You may also have to "declare" the I/O points in other areas of the software. You cannot just plug in the board, enable its hardware portion and expect it to work. Also... check the card out... it may had address switches on it that must be set properly. Time to read the manuals... __________________ Joe Contractor to Electrical Inspector, "What do you mean you are going to make me follow the code?".
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SHOCKHISCAN Guru Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Eastern Arizona mountains on Route 666 about a mile from God's country Posts: 1676 Good Answers: 122	#3 Re: Disconnect BOU Honeywell DCS TotalPlant Alcont 12/23/2013 9:52 AM
	Hopefully you followed the directions: "The lever must not be operated during normal operation, because an erroneouscontrol would be caused by clearing all the output channels. If you installed the module into a running/operating system you very well may have damaged the module or you have caused a major fault in the system. I have seen this same error on the Honeywel TDC 3000 DCS systems and normally it is caused by improper configuration instructions. The Honeywell DCS systems I have worked on are not "Plug and Play" and require configuration parameters to be entered via the engineering node telling the programming where the module is being installed, the type of module, and the address block (tags)assigned to the I/O. __________________ They said; "Brain size?" I heard; "Train size?" so I said: "I'll take a small one, thank you."
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Zulyadein Participant Join Date: Jul 2019 Location: Indonesia Posts: 1	#4 Re: Disconnect BOU Honeywell DCS TotalPlant Alcont 07/10/2019 7:57 PM
	For the first this BOU card must configuring , by Engineering design computer. Second step, create any block that use one channel of this new BOU Try to on and off SCAN or cycle time of this block, and see your BOU now already work properly... Tq...i am happy can help you... best regards Zulyadein34@gmail.com __________________ My facebook is Zuluzulu
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