About the DS215SCMAG1AA
The DS215SCMAG1AA board is a Mark V Drive Control Card. The board is designed to be used with the General Electric Mark V Speedtronic turbine control system. As you have probably deduced based off of its full extended series name, the Mark V Series that this DS215SCMAG1AA printed circuit board or PCB for short belongs to has specific applications in the management and control systems of popular and compatible wind, gas, and steam turbine automated drive assemblies. While applicable to relatively recently-developed alternative energies, the Mark V Series that this DS215SCMAG1AA PCB belongs to has to be considered a now-obsolete legacy product series, as it has been discontinued in one of the many years following its initial General Electric product series release. With this being true, this DS215SCMAG1AA PCB's greater Mark V Series is still something of a desirable General Electric product series, as it exists as one of the final GE Mark product series to make use of the patented Speedtronic control system technology first released alongside the rollout of the previous Mark I Series in the later 1960s. This DS215SCMAG1AA PCB, while definable as a Programmable Coprocessor in its own right, is not the originally-developed product of this specific Mark V Series functionality; that would be the DS215SCMAG1 parent Programmable Coprocessor missing this DS215SCMAG1AA PCB's two A-rated functional product revisions.
Hardware Tips and Specifications
This is one of three versions of the board. The MAG1A board is used in AC2000, EX2000, and DC2000 drive applications. If you need something for DC1000 drive applications, use a G3A card. If you need something for a TC2000 turbine application, use a G4A card. The DS215SCMAG1AA holds the primary software and control circuitry used for Mark V drives or exciters. The board has interface circuitry to allow the board to connect to other boards. This circuitry controls motor signals, drive processes, and customer inputs & outputs. The board includes eight connectors. Generally, voltage limitation and suppression in the assembly of this DS215SCMAG1AA Mark V Series product is handled as it is with most other Mark V Series hardware components; through its base circuit board's inclusion of Mark V Series-standardized voltage-limiting hardware components including various styles of capacitors, resistors, diodes, and specialized integrated circuits. This DS215SCMAG1AA printed circuit board product offering, while making use of a standard Mark V Series voltage limitation strategy, is still quite the unique Mark V Series product, as it utilizes an abnormal number of two total A-rated product revisions. Due to the placement of these two revisions within the DS215SCMAG1AA functional product number, it can be inferred that they both exist as functional styles of Mark V Series product revision.
The DS215SCMAG1AA has a bank of 10 LED indicators that offer fault codes in binary code. These can occur in a slow blink rate or a BCD pattern for faults 1 to 399, a faster blink rate or binary pattern for faults 400 to 1023, and sequential blinking of two LEDs at a time for a “no-fault” or “drive not running” fault code. Additionally, the board includes multiple wire and berg-type jumpers that will need to be configured before board installation. Additional information regarding the board components, diagnostics, installation guidelines, and handling procedures, can be sourced from original documentation from GE like manuals and user guides. This documentation was provided with your OEM purchase. If you need replacements, let us know. We are happy to help if we can. As a now-obsolete Mark V Legacy product series device, this DS215SCMAG1AA PCB is not generally available with a plethora of pertinent GE instructional manual materials. With this being true, the DS215SCMAG1AA functional product number can be considered a primary source of DS215SCMAG1AA Board hardware component and component specification information, coding for various DS215SCMAG1AA Board details in a series of consecutive functional naming chunks. For instance, the DS215SCMAG1AA functional product number begins with the dual-functional DS215 series tag delegating this DS215SCMAG1AA PCB's special Mark V Series assembly as well as its domestic original manufacture location. Some of the other details revealed through the DS215SCMAG1AA functional product number include this Mark V Series assembly's:
- SCMA functional product abbreviation
- Group one Mark V Series product grouping
- Normal PCB coating style
- A-rated primary functional revision
- A-rated artwork configuration revision
