Product Description
The IS200BICLH1AED printed circuit board was manufactured by General Electric shell company GE Industrial Systems; specifically for use in their Innovation Series of drive assemblies and drive assembly component parts. This PCB is more explicitly definable as a IGBT Drive/Source Bridge Interface Board, which lends itself to to the industry-recognized functional acronym BICL. This BICL-abbreviated board is a crucial component in any Innovation Series drive assembly, as it has multiple functionalities. For starters, this IS200BICLH1AED PCB's primary use is to provides an interface between the Innovation Series' drive assembly's main control board and its correspondent Bridge Personality Interface board, of which there exist several options. This BICL-abbreviated board extends additional interfacing support for panel and system fault string, bridge and ambient temperature monitoring, and pulse width modulated (PWM) speed control applications.
Hardware Tips and Specifications
While a swathe of relevant information is available through just an investigation into the IS200BICLH1AED interface board's intended functionality; it is important to recognize the availability of various hardware components on the IS200BICLH1AED board's overall configuration. For starters, this is a modified version of the original IS200BICLH1 parent board; featuring three significant product revisions which may alter the factory-recognized performance specifications of the product. All of the information on this page was sourced from original factory-issued instructional material concerning the IS200BICLH1 parent PCB. With that being said, a number of other hardware components play strong hands in altering this board's functionality; beginning with its fault string inputs. The IS200BICLH1AED board features two total fault string inputs; included with the intention of reinforcing both interlock contact and more general system string processes. During normative drive assembly function, if either one of these two fault string inputs is dropped out, a controlled shutdown of the overall drive assembly will commence.
This BICL-abbreviated printed circuit board additionally makes use of four total resistance thermal detector or RTD sensor inputs. These inputs make use of two accessible modes for the customization of RTD access temperatures; single and dual mode. Other crucial hardware components of note for this IS200BICLH1AED model include its Fan Speed PWM Output, as well as its Serial Board Identification. The IS200BICLH1AED Fan Speed PWM Output is an isolated open collector transistor that, rather fittingly, controls the fan speed and power function processes for the BICL board. Generally, the longer the pulse-width-modulated output is increase through use of the PWM Output, the higher the fan's actual speed will be. The IS200BICLH1AED PCB's Serial Board Identification is a serial 1024-bit memory device affixed to the base board of the BICL Interface Board; programmed with relevant board identification and board revision information.
