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Parameter jumpers, Live data display, Drag-and-drop variables – GE Industrial Solutions Control System Toolbox For AV-300, DV-300, AV-300i (AVDV Series) Drives User Manual

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Chapter 4 Configuring an AVDV Series Drive

GEH-6405A Toolbox for an AVDV Series Drive

Parameter Jumpers

In the Overview diagrams, parameter jumpers show how different paths of the block
diagram are connected together.

Live Data Display

If the toolbox is connected to the drive, all variables on the diagram display live
values. On the Status bar, the scan rate shows the time it takes to update all the
variables on the currently selected page.

Variables

Green values are valid
numbers received from the
drive.

Variables can be monitored by the toolbox. Live values display in the color green.

Actual spd (rpm)

422 rpm

Live value

Drag-and-Drop Variables

Variables in the block
diagram can be copied to the
Trend Recorder using the
drag-and-drop feature.

Choose the Windows menu
and Tile Horizontal or Tile
Vertical.

À

To drag-and-drop a variable in the Trend Recorder.

1.

From the toolbox

Outline View

, click

Diagram

to display the

Overview

diagram in the Summary View.

2.

Click the link buttons to locate the desired variable(s). The Diagram (Summary
View) becomes full screen.

3.

From the button bar, click

to open the

Trend Recorder

.

4.

Resize and move the Trend Recorder window so that it and the block diagram
can be viewed (using regular Windows features).

Tip

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To view both the toolbox and the Trend Recorder, from the Window menu,

choose

Tile Horizontal

or

Tile Vertical

and adjust the size of the windows.

5.

From the

Diagram

, place the mouse pointer over the desired variable.

6.

When the pointer changes to a hand, press and hold the left mouse button. The
pointer changes to the drag-and-drop cursor.

7.

Continue to hold the left mouse button down and drag to the Trend Recorder
window. At the Trend Recorder, the cursor changes to the drop pointer.

8.

Release the mouse button and the variable will drop in the Trend Recorder.