Product Description
This DS200TBQDG1 General Electric printed circuit board or PCB for short is better-characterizable as a RST Extension Analog Termination Board, its original functional product description that it is referred to as in factory-printed General Electric instructional manual documentation. This DS200TBQDG1 RST Extension Analog Termination Board is, as discussed just above, a member of the Mark V Series of General Electric control systems, a now-legacy product series that was developed using the patented Speedtronic technology first seen alongside the rollout of the Mark I product series in the late 1960s. The Mark V Control System Series that this DS200TBQDG1 RST Extension Analog Termination Board belongs to has a set of specific applications in gas, steam, and wind turbine control and management systems. This DS200TBQDG1 printed circuit board can be defined as the original RST Extension Analog Termination Board that was developed for the Mark V Series, as its DS200TBQDG1 functional product number seems to be absent of any mention of a significant product revision.
Hardware Tips and Specifications
As with any product offering available in our inventory of new and reconditioned General Electric product offerings, this DS200TBQDG1 printed circuit board gains its originally-intended series functionality through the adoption and incorporation of several unique hardware components and component specifications. For starters, the GE RST Extension Analog Termination Board DS200TBQDG1 features 2 terminal blocks; each block contains 107 terminals for signal wires. The GE RST Extension Analog Termination Board DS200TBQDG1 also contains multiple test points, 2 jumpers, and 3 34-pin connectors, as well as 3 50-pin connectors for supreme interfacing potential. 50-pin ribbon cables are connected to the board and when you disconnect and connect the ribbon cables you must follow some steps to keep from damaging the ribbon cables. The ribbon cable is comprised of 50 small strands of copper wire that carry signals. The signals are transmitted to the board from other components in this DS200TBQDG1 PCB's Mark V Series automated drive. Some signals are transmitted from the DS200TBQDG1 board to other components; the strands of copper wire are easy to break away from the connector on the end of the ribbon cable. If they break the board will not receive the signals sent to it and will not be able to successfully send signals to other boards within the Mark V Series.
To handle a ribbon cable in the assembly of this DS200TBQDG1 PCB in a way that protects the copper wires from breaking off from the connector, grasp the connector only when you remove the ribbon cable from the board, while making sure to not pull the ribbon cable out by pulling the ribbon cable. When you install the ribbon cable in the connector, hold the connector and align it with the connector on the DS200TBQDG1 board, before inserting it in the connector and pressing it down into the connector. Route the ribbon cable along the same route as used when the defective board was installed. All of the individual hardware components in the assembly of this DS200TBQDG1 PCB should be at least somewhat-protected through use of the normal style of PCB coating that has been adopted into its assembly. This normal style of PCB coating exists as a thick, rudimentary layer of printed circuit board protection and insulation that envelops individual hardware components in the DS200TBQDG1 board's configuration on a functional priority basis.
