The Fault-Gate-3 logical device monitors three 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 .
--- The device info page.
--- The maintenance page.Configuration
| parameter | description |
|---|---|
| input-A.id | parameter ID first fault |
| input-B.id | parameter ID second fault |
| input-C.id | parameter ID third 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) |
| enable-A.Id, enable-A.Value | use the first parameter to calculate the summary warning and alarm only of the enable-A.Id has the value enable-A.Value |
| enable-B.Id, enable-B.Value | use the second parameter to calculate the summary warning and alarm only of the enable-B.Id has the value enable-B.Value |
| enable-C.Id, enable-C.Value | use the third parameter to calculate the summary warning and alarm only of the enable-C.Id has the value enable-C.Value |
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.input-C.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 |
| config.enable-A.Id | TEXT | SAVE SETUP | StringRange |
| config.enable-A.Value | TEXT | SAVE SETUP | StringRange |
| config.enable-B.Id | TEXT | SAVE SETUP | StringRange |
| config.enable-B.Value | TEXT | SAVE SETUP | StringRange |
| config.enable-C.Id | TEXT | SAVE SETUP | StringRange |
| config.enable-C.Value | TEXT | SAVE SETUP | StringRange |
| position | CHOICE | EnumRange (UNDEF OK WARNING ALARM) | |
| internal.a | BOOLEAN | BooleanRange (true false) | |
| internal.b | BOOLEAN | BooleanRange (true false) | |
| internal.c | BOOLEAN | BooleanRange (true false) | |
| internal.i | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 0) | |
| internal.dis | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 0) | |
| internal.ea | TEXT | StringRange | |
| internal.eb | TEXT | StringRange | |
| internal.ec | TEXT | StringRange | |
| faults.01 | ALARM | R/O | AlarmFlagRange R/O (Warning) |
| faults.02 | ALARM | R/O | AlarmFlagRange R/O (Alarm) |