Chell flightDAQ-Mk2, Installation And Operating Manual

Page 1: ...Road North Walsham Norfolk NR28 0AJ ENGLAND Tel 01692 500555 Fax 01692 500088 flightDAQ Mk2 Pressure Scanner Acquisition System INSTALLATION AND OPERATING MANUAL e mail info chell co uk Visit the Chel...

Page 2: ...0203 Issue 1 9 ECO 3801 Date 27th November 2020 Chell s policy of continuously updating and improving products means that this manual may contain minor differences in specification components and soft...

Page 3: ...nner in run mode 15 4 2 Scanner in calibrate or purge mode 15 5 Operation of the instrument 16 5 1 Powering up the flightDAQ 16 5 2 Connecting to the FlightDaq 16 5 2 1 Connecting to the Webserver 16...

Page 4: ...g 35 9 flightDAQ INT Connector interface adaptor 36 9 1 Case Assembly 36 9 2 Power Connector Mating connector 2 1mm DC power jack 36 9 3 Can Connector Mating connector 9 way D type male 36 9 4 Trigger...

Page 5: ...lightDaq2 features an SQDC quick disconnect coupling for the measurement lines meaning a wide variety of tubing types can be connected to it Other pneumatic interfaces are also available The flightDAQ...

Page 6: ...st significant programmable device ID Address 0xn n Next most significant programmable device ID BRP CAN bus timing see Infineon data sheet TSEG1 CAN bus timing see Infineon data sheet TSEG2 CAN bus t...

Page 7: ...CAN Lo Power supply return is internally bonded to the product case EMC ground may be made via the product mounting flange Hot plugging the power to the flightDAQ at the connector can cause permanent...

Page 8: ...Page 7 3 Mechanical Specifications 3 1 Product Mechanical Drawing 32 channel SQDC version A 3D CAD model of the product is available from Chell Instruments Ltd on request...

Page 9: ...Mechanical Overview 73 ZOC Version A 3D CAD model of the product is available from Chell Instruments Ltd on request Measurement Port 73ZOC Power and Communication Connector TVP02ZN Control Purge Air S...

Page 10: ...Page 9 3 3 Product Mechanical Overview QDCM 64 Channel Version A 3D CAD model of the product is available from Chell Instruments Ltd on request...

Page 11: ...connector for 0 040 1 0mm i d flexible tubing SQDC R 32 04 Mating connector for 0 063 1 6mm i d flexible tubing SQDC R 32 07 Mating connector for 1mm o d solid tubing SQDC R 32 02 Mating connector fo...

Page 12: ...n dry gas with a pressure 7 to 8 bar gauge Purge Purge supply pressure Clean dry gas with a pressure 7 bar gauge Care must be taken if the purge pressure exceeds the pressure range of the scanner Cali...

Page 13: ...Page 12 3 5 Measurement Connector 64 channel Scanivalve 73ZOCFB 040 use gasket 6557 1...

Page 14: ...Page 13 3 6 Measurement Connector TE QDCM 3601000101 use gasket QDCM 3600000100 Channels 1 32 Connector 1 Channels 33 64 Connector 2...

Page 15: ...are all connected to the calibrate port and the measurement lines are connected to the purge supply valve Purge gas supplied to the purge port on the top of the flightDAQ2 can then be switched by usi...

Page 16: ...Page 15 4 1 Scanner in run mode 4 2 Scanner in calibrate or purge mode...

Page 17: ...If the power supply should move outside of these limits the FlightDaq will sense this and shut itself off until a correct power supply is restored 5 2 Connecting to the FlightDaq One the blue LED is f...

Page 18: ...ion 900170 X X When using high data rates Windows may require some registry modifications to enable the higher speeds Please refer to section 4 1 4 in the MicroDaq2 and flightDaq2 user programming gui...

Page 19: ...ading new coefficients and the means to managing calibration data Data from the calibration procedure and resulting coefficients may be loaded stored and exported for filing reuse and examination in o...

Page 20: ...the scanner to cal purge 2 Wait 1 second 3 Vent C1 valve 4 Wait 0 5 second 5 Acquire 128 pressure values average them together and calculate the zero offsets 6 Actuate C2 valve to move the scanner to...

Page 21: ...sure is used where there is a possibility to charge a blocked measurement line to this pressure When the scanner is returned to RUN mode the differential transducer would be exposed to this pressure a...

Page 22: ...pend on the comms protocol selection Protocol option list Selects the format that the data will be transmitted as options are 16 bit LE 16 bit BE for all protocols and eng units as an extra option for...

Page 23: ...it should be noted that due to an oddity in the protocol firmware when switching protocol from UDP back to TCP the user has to select a data rate as well to complete the switch back to TCP Settings a...

Page 24: ...lightDAQ uses standard CAN message arbitration id s and the unit is assigned the most significant 2 digits of the Hex base address For the digits 0x1A for example data for the first 4 channels will be...

Page 25: ...ture values as raw unsigned 16 bit and calibrated engineering units may be displayed Values are updated automatically once a second with the default view being Pressure Eng Use the Select button to st...

Page 26: ...a non temperature calibration may be performed at a single temperature Figure 5 7 shows the Calibration tab controls which are further explained in table 5 6 The Live values section is an indicator of...

Page 27: ...mperature calibration Unchecked only temperature point 1 is available to the user and the system will calculate coefficients for a non temperature calibration Live Values The live values of the curren...

Page 28: ...trol Function Range Shows the floating point value for the range contained within the scanner x3 derange Shows the floating point value for the sensitivity derange constant contained within the scanne...

Page 29: ...ion controls Figure 5 9 Filtering group Control Function Pressure Input Impulse Filter Check box to apply impulse filter to pre calibration data will remove single impulse noise events in the pressure...

Page 30: ...1 on start up which details the flightDAQs serial number IP address etc in an ASCII comma separated list should not be used if remote UDP address port has been configured and auto streaming has been s...

Page 31: ...number of channels on the attached scanner should be chosen from the Channels drop down It is important that this number is correct when performing any calibration or reading data from flightDAQ Full...

Page 32: ...tput data will be in BAR of PSI Pressure type Chooses whether the data stream values are represented as absolute pressure approx 2psi to scanner full scale 15psi or differential pressure Heater contro...

Page 33: ...the time in a user friendly format Figure 5 13 Timestamp PTP synchronisation on checkbox This allows the user to select whether any timestamps that may be added to the data stream are PTP synchronise...

Page 34: ...t the applied pressure either manually or by clicking the defaults button The accept button will store the current values of the line selected by the radio button and move the radio button down to the...

Page 35: ...on When the hardware trigger is activated the flightDAQ will wait for the first pulse The time that this first pulse is generated can be measured by the user and therefore the time of the first set o...

Page 36: ...ual basis and Chell Instruments Ltd Provides a fully traceable facility for this purpose 8 3 Adjustment There are no user adjustments in the instrument The user is strictly forbidden from removing the...

Page 37: ...er Gnd 9 3 Can Connector Mating connector 9 way D type male Pin Number Designation 2 CAN_L 5 Gnd 7 CAN_H 4 N C 5 0V 9 4 Trigger Connector Mating connector 50 Ohm BNC Pin Number Designation Centre TTL...