Product Description
This DS200SDCCG4A printed circuit board, as mentioned immediately above, was originally manufactured for the Mark V Turbine Control System Series of respected industrial retailer General Electric. As hinted at in its name, the Mark V Series is one of the more recently-developed General Electric product series intended for specific applications in gas, steam, and wind turbine control systems and related automated drive assemblies. The Mark V Series is a product series created using General Electric's patented Speedtronic system technology. This DS200SDCCG4A printed circuit board is more specifically definable as a Drive Control Card, the official functional description that it is referred to as in original General Electric and Mark V Series instructional manual documentation. While this DS200SDCCG4A product offering's official functional description might be that of a Drive Control Card, fringe Mark V Series instructional manual materials also refer to it as a Drive Control Board. This DS200SDCCG4A Drive Control Board is not the original product with its specific functionality to exist within General Electric's Mark V Turbine Control System Series, however; that would be the DS200SDCCG4 Drive Control Card missing this DS200SDCCG4A product's singular functionality-enhancing product revision.
Hardware Tips and Specifications
The GE Drive Control Board DS200SDCCG4A is the primary controller for the Mark V Series automated drive assembly that it exists as a component part of. With this in mind, this DS200SDCCG4A General Electric product offering makes use of its own series of hardware component inclusions and specifications. The GE Drive Control Board DS200SDCCG4A is populated with 3 microprocessors and RAM that can be accessed by multiple microprocessors at the same time. The GE Drive Control Board DS200SDCCG4A contains EPROM chips that must be removed from the defective board and installed in the replacement board; four of them contain the configuration files defined at the factory for the DS200SDCCG4A board. One contains configuration files that the site defines for the specific function of the board. The DS200SDCCG4A functional product number itself is another source of SDCC-specific hardware information, beginning with the DS200 Series tag detailing this DS200SDCCG4A product's normal Mark V Series assembly style and its Salem, Virigina location of original manufacture. Some of the other evident hardware details in the DS200SDCCG4A functional product number include the SDCC functional acronym, a normal style of PCB coating, a group four Mark V Series product grouping, and a singular, A-rated functional product revision.
When you replace the DS200SDCCG4A board, you must carefully swap the EPROMs from the old board to the replacement board. One important consideration for this DS200SDCCG4A PCB is that its EPROMs are highly sensitive to static and can lose the information stored on them when mishandled. In handling this DS200SDCCG4A device's EPROM modules, make sure you wear a wrist strap to drain off any static that is present on the board or your body. The wrist strap used for this can be clipped to a bare metal surface on the workbench or other metal structure; other wrist straps are designed with a plug-in connector that you can connect to a connector on the workbench. Another best practice is to always keep the board in the protective bag in which you received it when not in use, as this bag protects the board from static.
