1.248 Fault-Gate

The Fault-Gate logical device monitors two faults flags from other devices and creates a summary warning or alarm depending on the number of fault flags which are active or not.

The device has 4 return states:

Device window pages

The following table shows which device window pages are available with this individual device type. Tool-bar functions not mentioned here are described at the general description of device windows .

Configuration

parameter description
input-A.id parameter ID first fault
input-B.id parameter ID second fault
polarity NORMAL = true means fault, INVERTED = false means fault
config.warnMsg text of summary warning (will also used for the event log entry)
config.faultMsg text of summary fault (will also used for the event log entry)

Variables defined by this device driver

name type flags range
info.driver TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
info.type TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
info.port TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
info.frame TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
config.input-A.Id TEXT SAVE SETUP StringRange
config.input-B.Id TEXT SAVE SETUP StringRange
config.polarity CHOICE SAVE SETUP EnumRange (NORMAL INVERTED)
config.warnMsg TEXT SAVE SETUP StringRange
config.faultMsg TEXT SAVE SETUP StringRange
position CHOICE EnumRange (UNDEF OK WARNING ALARM)
internal.a BOOLEAN BooleanRange (true false)
internal.b BOOLEAN BooleanRange (true false)
internal.i INTEGER IntegerRange (0 .. 0)
faults.01 ALARM R/O AlarmFlagRange R/O (Warning)
faults.02 ALARM R/O AlarmFlagRange R/O (Alarm)