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  • Page 1 CALCOMMS Manual CAL 3300 and 9300 Autotune Temperature Controllers CAL Controls Temperature Controllers...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    INDEX KEY TO PROGRAM ICONS OVERVIEW (inside front cover) INSTALLATION/CABLING RS232 RS485 Termination resistors Bias resistors RS232/RS485 features INSTRUMENT COMMS SETTINGS CONFIGURING INSTRUMENT COMMS SETTINGS INSTALLING CALCOMMS SOFTWARE 9-10 GETTING STARTED CALCOMMS INSTRUMENT SCREENS PC COM PORT SETTINGS 13-14 INSTRUMENT PARAMETER CONFIGURATION SOFTWARE ALARMS SETPOINT ADJUSTMENT INSTRUMENT CLONING...

  • Page 3: Key To Program Icons

    Key to Program Icons Change comms settings & Print chart recorder Create new file start monitoring Toggle Modbus comms Open existing file Scroll chart up 100% de-bug window Add new instrument 3300 Export file in text format Scroll chart up 10% Add new instrument 9300 Find chart zero Select units to record...

  • Page 4: Overview (Inside Front Cover)

    OVERVIEW CALCOMMS is a graphic WINDOWS based software PC Requirements package designed for PC supervision of CAL Model 3300 and Model 9300 controllers. It offers the capability of To gain the full benefit of CALCOMMS software, it is remote adjustment, instrument configuration, cloning, saving recommend that the PC is fitted with a Pentium processor and retrieving instrument settings to files together with and is running WINDOWS 95 or Windows NT programs.

  • Page 5: Installation/Cabling

    Installation/Cabling RS232 Connections 10 11 12 13 14 15 Port 3300/9300 PC Com 1 COM port DB-9 Pin rear terminal RS-232 Is the standard most widely used for interfacing peripherals to PC's and is designed for serial communications with single instrument up to a distances of 15 metres, in a low electrical noise environment.

  • Page 6: Rs485

    Installation/Cabling RS485 Connections RS-485 Is a half duplex serial communications link and is the standard most commonly used for industrial applications due to it's high noise immunity and multi-drop capability. It enables a PC to communicate with up to 32 instruments over distances up to 1200 metres, and requires the addition of an RS-485 interface card, or a separate RS-232/485 converter.

  • Page 7: Termination Resistors

    Installation/Cabling Each RS485 interface has specific connection and termination biasing requirements which will be detailed in their installation instructions. The general principles are as follows. Terminations Because each wire is a transmission line, it must be properly terminated to prevent reflections. Where multiple instruments are daisy-chained together, a 120 ohm terminating resistor should be fitted at the connection to the PC and to the last instrument in the chain.

  • Page 8: Bias Resistors

    Installation/Cabling Bias resistors When transmission lines are not transmitting, they remain in an indeterminate state which can allow receivers to receive invalid data bits due to electrical noise on the cable. To prevent this, the the lines should be forced Bias resistors Instrument 1 Instrument 2...

  • Page 9: Rs232/Rs485 Features

    Installation/Cabling For a continually updated list of recommended RS-485 interface cards, contact CAL. Feature RS232 RS485 Type of transmission lines Unbalanced Differential Maximum number of drivers Maximum number of receivers Maximum cable length 1200M Maximum data rate 19.2Kb/sec 19.2Kb/sec Maximum CMV +/- 25V + 12 to - 7V Table lists the features of both RS-232 and RS-485...

  • Page 10: Instrument Comms Settings

    Instrument Comms Settings Immediately after power-up, both instrument, and PC comms (Debug). Commissioning and DBUG settings need to be made compatible before communication troubleshooting aid. Display shows between them is possible. Instrument defaults are shown when the instrument is transmitting or below together with the available options.

  • Page 11: Configuring Instrument Comms Settings

    Configuring Instrument Comms Settings This should also be done immediately after power-up, and Note: Level C is only visible when the comms interface is only possible from the instrument front panel. board is fitted to the unit On power-up the controller will display the self test To set up Instrument comms address and nonE and 0...

  • Page 12: Configuring Instrument Comms Settings

    Configuring Instrument Comms Settings To enter settings into memory Press and hold for 3 seconds display alternates and nonE INPT To check settings; repeat the above procedure The unit is now ready to be configured from the PC. Note: Where more than one instrument is connected to the system, it is useful at this point to list them by location, title and comms address.

  • Page 13: Installing Calcomms Tm Software

    2. Click the Control Panel icon then double click on the Type in Command line panel using syntax Add/Remove Programs icon. exactly as shown: 3. Click on the Install button and follow the screen "c:\Program Files\Cal Controls\ prompts. Cal Comms\Calcomms.exe" Click Next In Select name for shortcut panel the text will appear;...
  • Page 14 Installing Comms Software (continued) To delete a shortcut, Click on the desktop icon then press the delete key...

  • Page 15: Getting Started

    Getting Started Start the program running from either; ADDING INSTRUMENTS Windows Start menu Click the appropriate Add New Instrument icon to Shortcut icon (if created during call up the type and number of instruments that CALCOMMS installation) are to be shown on the screen. Each click This will open the CALCOMMS window.

  • Page 16: Calcomms Tm Instrument Screens

    CALCOMMS Instrument Screens...

  • Page 17: Pc Com Port Settings

    PC Com Port Settings When the instruments are positioned on the screen, they are automatically configure the com port settings. Where an RS485 automatically numbered in sequence Inst.1, Inst.2 etc. Each PC card is being used, refer to the manufacturers installation one can be individually named in it's own title bar, and must instructions.
  • Page 18 PC Com Port Settings (continued) Wait!! For update to be fully completed by observing the Uploading bar turning from red to green in the CALCOMMS Instrument screen. This may take several seconds. Check Virtual instrument display readings against real instrument readings. If the check is satisfactory, proceed with Instrument Parameter Configuration...

  • Page 19: Instrument Parameter Configuration

    Instrument Parameter Configuration The instrument(s) will not be operational until configured Check The Enable Display Mimics box if you with the following basic settings. want the virtual instrument to mimic all * Sensor type actual instrument displays as well as * Units of measurement reading setpoint and process values.

  • Page 20: Setpoint Adjustment

    Instrument Parameter Configuration (continued) the main manual.Autotune routines can be found on page 7. To set Software Alarms (in User Level) Adjust Spin buttons in Low Alarm/ High Alarm SETPOINT ADJUSTMENT boxes to set the required high/low level Check The Enabled boxes. During normal use, instrument setpoints can be adjusted from the CALCOMMS instrument screen, by using the three TO ENTER THE ABOVE INSTRUMENT PARAMETER SETTINGS...

  • Page 21: Instrument Cloning

    Instrument Cloning When a satisfactory instrument configuration has been Cloning Settings to another instrument on the bus. achieved, either from the initial configuration with the basic parameter settings, following Autotune or other further Right Click in the display window of the instrument adjustments, these settings can be cloned to other that settings are to be cloned from.

  • Page 22: Saving Settings To File

    Saving/Retrieving Instrument/Application Settings Saving the settings of a single instrument Opening an Existing Application File Click Save in the menu bar of the Internal Click File in the menu bar, then Open Parameters for Inst.n screen Application from menu Type Your filename in the File name box Click File name to select application from the...

  • Page 23: Security Lockouts

    Security Lockouts When the instrument parameters have been established you may wish to password protect the settings against accidental or unauthorised adjustment. It is possible to make individual protection for each instrument function at each level, and for each instrument on the network Please study the lock hierarchy diagram below before implementing your security strategy.
  • Page 24 Lock Hierarchy To implement your security lockout parameters you want to lock, or the All strategy, begin from the CALCOMMS box or the None box. instrument screen, supervisor mode. Click OK then Click the tab for the next level, and repeat the procedure until all levels of Inst.1 have been protected.

  • Page 25: Logging And Charting

    Logging and Charting The CALCOMMS software is capable of logging readings from From the CALCOMMS instrument screen. up to 32 instruments which it stores in data files. The data Click the add new chart recorder icon in the can be exported into text files which will enable the data to menu bar, and in the Chart recorder be displayed in c.s.v.
  • Page 26 Logging and Charting (continued) using the Add to Custom Colour feature. Click the OK box in the colour screen. Click the transfer button to list them in the In the Sample Frequency panel, Instruments to record table. For each Click the spin buttons to set the log reading instrument to be charted from, double frequency.
  • Page 27 Click the buttons in the deg C/F box to set up Click the buttons to move the chart up or a suitable temperature scale in the chart down by 10% Y axis. Click the buttons in the time/div box to set Click the buttons to move the chart up or down by 100%...

  • Page 28: Logging And Charting

    Click the make chart bigger or make chart option in the chart screen and the chart smaller icons to adjust the size of the option in the instruments screen. chart on your screen. Click the pause button to stop logging and Click in the chart recorder blue title band, and stop the chart recorder.

  • Page 29: Log On Change

    Other Logging and Charting Options LOG-ON-CHANGE (ONLY LOG/CHART OUT OF LIMITS The chart will now only register out of READINGS) limits readings which will be separated This feature reduces the size of log and chart files by by grey vertical bands signifying periods ignoring readings that are within adjustable specified limits.
  • Page 30 The chart recorder screen will open with Saving Charts the chart settings returned to default. If To stop recording preferred, reset the chart to your Click Either the close button or from the original settings, then; menubar chose File then Exit. The file will automatically be saved with the Click Append button to add the new readings...

  • Page 31: Exporting Log Files

    Exporting Log Files as Text Files Log files can be exported as "Comma Separated Variable" (csv) text files, which appears as column of logged instrument readings, set against its time, date and line number. In this form the data can be exported into other applications such as spreadsheets or data bases for use in the preparation of reports or other management documents.

  • Page 32: Trouble Shooting

    Trouble Shooting Error Message Fault Suggested remedy Comms error Check that the comms address setting of the real and the virtual instruments are the same. _ _ _ _ Comms inactive Make sure that comms is open. Click Change comms settings and start monitoring icon.

  • Page 33: Glossary Of Terms

    Glossary of Terms The following definitions apply to terms as they are use in Comms Abbreviation of serial communications. this manual, and have been worded for ease of Daisy chain The method of connecting instruments understanding. They may differ in detail to definitions together.
  • Page 34 Glossary of Terms Glossary of Terms (continued) P.C. Personal computer, desktop or laptop. Protocol See Modbus. Radio button A PC "screen" switch shaped like a push button that can be clicked and off RS232/RS485 Sometimes EIA232/EIA485 defines the two standards for serial communication. More detail can be found under Installation/Cabling.
  • Page 35 Copyright CAL Controls Ltd. 1997 Not to be reproduced without prior written permission from CAL Controls Ltd. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the specifications contained in this manual, due to our policy of continuous development, CAL Control Ltd.

  • Page 36: Cal Contact Information

    CAL Controls Temperature Controllers CAL Controls Ltd Bury Mead Road, Hitchin, Herts, SG5 1RT. UK Tel: + 44 (0)1462-436161 Fax: + 44 (0)1462-451801 email: support@cal-controls.co.uk http://www.cal-controls.com CAL Controls Inc 1580 S.Milwaukee Avenue, Libertyville, IL 60048. USA Tel: (847) 680-7080 Fax: (847) 816-6852...

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