Re: [foxboro] ATS

Rick,

If you replace a FT module on a V8.0 system FCP, ZCP, FCM100 or ATS. you 
don't have to set the letterbug.
It will receive the correct letterbug from the active one.

So you don't really need the "letterbug configurator" during nights, but 
it's still a nice tool because you can get status information out of the 
module.
This info can help you to diagnose some problems.
But It's a pocket pc so if it is not used for some time and the battery is 
flat, all programs are gone.

Regards,

Patrick Den Haese
Invensys Systems Belgium
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William C. Ricker" <wcricker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 27 January, 2006 18:09
Subject: Re: [foxboro] ATS


> We, too, have a V8 system recently connected to a V6.3 system
> running like a top.  Both are 70 series, and IA Batch.  The
> configuration is running with the two nodes linked together
> for about a week now, and is in final testinng before shipment
> to the site. (I can't claim credit for making it work.  My
> fellows in the office did that)  There were module and
> software upgrades since Foxboro shipped it to us, but these
> were in before we actually hooked the nodes together.  It went
> rather smoothly.
>
> Two things of note on this.  Among us guys in the office, we
> see the handheld letterbug config tool as a step backwards.
> Just picture the poor maintenance guy, three or four years
> from now trying to replace, say, a CP that failed at three
> in the morning.  He pulls one from spares, now he has to find
> the handheld unit that may not have been used for years.  Is
> the battery gone flat? Has somebody lost it? ... and so forth.
>
> I think the hard letterbug shorting pin arrangement is much more
> user friendly.
>
> Second, our ATS modules connect to mesh with fiber optic cables.
> The ATS has a little switch on it to select fiber or copper
> connections.  The location of the switch is such that when the
> lower fiber was plugged in, ever so slight missalignment while
> pushing it in place switched the unit from a fiber cable
> configuration to a copper cable configuration.  It took our guy
> hours to find that one.  It would be nice to see that switch
> sitting somewhere else.
>
> Regards,
>
> William C. Ricker
> FeedForward, Inc.
> Marietta, GA  USA
> 770.426.4422
> wcricker @ feedforward.com
>
>
>
>
>
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