Equipment View

To access the Equipment View
From the View menu, click
Equipment View
.
The
Equipment View
 displays a graphical tree view of the application hardware. From the
Equipment View
, configure the system type, processor safety time, and battery alarm for each controller. Also define the
Status
,
Control
, and
RTC
variables for controllers. The
Equipment View
 contains an IO Bus 1 and IO Bus 2 for each Standard or Mixed controller defined in a project. Each IO Bus has 24 slots available for assigning I/O modules. Eurocard controllers only have IO Bus 1, containing 18 slots. The
Equipment View
 displays the digital and analog I/O modules in their defined slots. From the
Equipment View
, enable the HART protocol and HART Pass-Through features for analog I/O modules.
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Actions to perform from the
Equipment View
 are:
  • Configure the system type, process safety time, and battery alarm for a controller
  • Wire processor variables
  • Manually set the real time clock
  • Add or edit I/O modules
  • Configure I/O modules
  • Configure the process safety time for an I/O module
  • Wire a status variable to an I/O module
  • Wire the channels of an I/O module
  • Define threshold values for input modules
  • Configure analog I/O channels to support the
    HART®
    protocol
  • Configure the controller to support the
    HART
     Pass-Through feature
To refresh the content in the Equipment View
  • Select the
    Equipment View
    , then from the
    View
    menu, click
    Refresh
    .
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