Introduction; Functional Overview - ABB SM500F User Manual

SM500F
Field mountable paperless recorder

1 Introduction

1.1 Functional Overview

The recorder features the following functionality:
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12 Software Recording Channels as standard, divided into 2 Process Groups, each with a maximum
of 6 Software Recording Channels.
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4 Alarms and 2 Totalizers (if Totalizer option is enabled) are assigned to each Recording Channel.
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Signal sources derived from universal analog inputs, Modbus communications, digital inputs or
internal analog and digital signals.
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Any source can be assigned to any recording channel.
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Data from assigned sources can be displayed in:
– Vertical or Horizontal Chart view format
– Indicator view format with optional integrated Bargraph view
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Three logs record alarm events, totalizer values and system/configuration changes.
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Modbus TCP – communicate with Modbus master and slave devices over an ethernet LAN.
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Modbus (RS485) 2-wire – enables communication with Modbus master devices over a a 2-wire
RS485 network.
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Screen Capture facility – saves an image of the operator views to external archive media providing
external archive media with sufficient free space is inserted in the recorder. It is not necessary for
Logging to be 'online'.
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Internal flash memory for the storage of recorded data.
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The ability to archive data to external archive media in either text (*.csv) or binary formats.
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Integrated web server and file transfer protocol (ftp) support for remote monitoring and data
acquisition.
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The ability to store batch data (if Batch option is enabled).
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Math and Logic (if Math and Logic option is enabled).
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