About the DS3800NEPA1C1A
GE created the DS3800NEPA1C1A as a motor exciter power supply for the Mark IV Turbine Control System Speedtronic series. The Mark IV, which was created for gas and steam turbine control management, is created upon machine-verifiable redundancies and integrated chipsets.These intentional redundancies help keep the entire system working in the event of an electronics failure in one module, thus minimizing downtime. The Mark IV Series, as you have more than likely been able to tell based off of its full extended series name alone, has a set of specific applications in the management and control systems of General Electric-compatible gas and steam turbine automated drive assemblies, unfortunately not extending to the alternative energy-based wind turbine settings made possible in later GE Mark product series such as the Mark VI Turbine Control System Series. This DS3800NEPA1C1A product's greater Mark IV Series is also considered functionally obsolete generally, as it was discontinued by General Electric in one of the many years beyond its original date of manufacture due to a retailer-identifed functional whole-series obsolescence.
Hardware Tips and Specifications
The DS3800NEPA1C1A is a vertically bulky printed circuit board. This is due to the two Raycom Electronics 44B379508-G02 modules attached to the board. Other specs include:
- -two straight-pin (male) connectors on the left side of the board. The first of these, a 6-pin connector, has a 2-2-2 pattern. The second, a 7-pin, has a 2-1-1-3 pattern.
- -four circuits connected to the board.
- -one jumper. This can be set to "nr" or to "rev."
- -four potentiometers (rotary.)
- -nine each large resistors and large capacitors. The large resistors have orange, white and gold bands. The capacitors are orange. The board has other, smaller capacitors and resistors.
- -one terminal connector (male) located in the upper left of the board.
- -alignment marked on two edges (A through L and 10 through 80.)
- -factory drilled, twice each corner, along the edge of the board, and four times offset from the center.
- -one thermistor (red,) or thermal resistor. Since thermal resistors lose resistance as they heat, they can assist with voltage regulation and circuit protection.
Manuals and data sheets for the DS3800NEPA1C1A were originally provided by GE. Installation instructions and maintenance schedules may be found within these publications, and are an excellent resource for technical support. Most of this DS3800NEPA1C1A device's above-listed performance specifications and hardware qualities are indicative of characteristics available upon a simple visual inspection of the DS3800NEPA1C1A product itself. This is true as this DS3800NEPA1C1A product's Mark IV Turbine Control System Series' status as a legacy General Electric product series ensures that it is not surrounded online by any great amount of originally-printed instructional manual materials. With this lack being identified, the DS3800NEPA1C1A functional product number can be identified as a decently-strong source of DS3800NEPA1C1A Board hardware component and component specification information, as it codes for these details through its standard series of functional naming segments as delegated by General Electric. For example, the DS3800NEPA1C1A functional product number is started through an instance of the dual-functional DS3800 series tag describing this DS3800NEPA1C1A PCB's normal Mark IV Series assembly version as well as its domestic original manufacture location.
