Nicotra Gebhardt 9X7 Ec Blower Unit User Manual

9X7 Ec Blower Unit

NG FAN CONFIGURATOR

Operating Manual

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Description and Requirements

The NG Fan Configurator is a freeware tool that can be used to check and configure the Nicotra||Gebhardt EC fans (DDMP, RDP, FDP and PFP) available on the website http://www.nicotra-gebhardt.com. It runs only on a Windows operating system from 10 version onwards with a hard disk available space of 300MB. For the connection between the computer and the driver of the fan it is necessary to use an USB to 485 or an USB to 232 converters (OFFLINE cable, refer to the fan manual for more detail).
After downloading and decompressing the zip file, double click on the setup.exe file and the program will be installed in the main root of the system C:NG Fan Configurator

!!!NOTE!!!

Due to the shortage of electronic components in 2022 it was necessary to have the coexistence of different driver codes on the same fan model. For this reason, the NG Fan Configurator has been updated to the version 6.0 and lost the full compatibility with the previous version.

Therefore, before installing the new version is necessary to UNINSTALL the previous versions and DELETE the folder in C:NG Fan Configurator.

All the old configuration created by the customer (not present in the standard database) MUST BE RECREATED WITH NEW by SELECTING THE CORRECT FAN MODEL AND DRIVER.

End User License Agreement

To proceed with any further operation, the user must accept the END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT by clicking here.

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EULA content

Nicotra||Gebhardt, S.p.A END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR NICOTRA||GEBHARDT SOFTWARE IMPORTANT: READ CAREFULLY – These Nicotra||Gebhardt, S.p.A. (“Nicotra||Gebhardt”) software components and any portion of these software components, including any “online” or electronic documentation (“Components”), are subject to the terms and conditions of this end-user license agreement (“EULA”) as described below. BY INSTALLING, COPYING OR OTHERWISE USING THESE COMPONENTS, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS EULA. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, DO NOT INSTALL, COPY OR USE THESE COMPONENTS. Nicotra||Gebhardt grants you a license to use these Components under the terms and conditions set forth in this EULA, provided that you comply with all such terms and conditions. You are granted license to use these Components on any of the computers owned by you or within your immediate control, provided that you use these Components in accordance with the terms and conditions in this EULA. Except as provided in this EULA, Nicotra||Gebhardt retains all rights, titles and interests in and to these Components.
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The Components are protected by copyright law and international treaty provisions. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by Nicotra||Gebhardt and its suppliers. You acknowledge that no title to the intellectual property in the Components is transferred to you. You agree that any copies of the Components will contain the same proprietary notices which appear on and in this notice and the Components.

Without obtaining prior written permission from Nicotra||Gebhardt you may not (1) use, copy, modify, alter or transfer the Components, (2) translate, disassemble, decompile, reverse program or otherwise reverse engineer the Components, (3) sublicense or lease the Components, or (4) use the Components in a rental, time sharing or computer service business. Without prejudice to any other rights, Nicotra||Gebhardt may terminate this EULA if you fail to comply with any provision herein. In such event, you must destroy all copies of the Components.

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Software Menu

Accepting the EULA, the fan starts in the info page and the available menu is shown in figure 2.

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The single items are shown in figure 3.

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Menu items

Connection
This item contains two sub-items for the connection of the fan to a PC through a Modbus protocol.

Cable Connection
(Refer to the EC Fan Manual for details). Before connecting the user must select:

1. The Fan Address 2) The COM port (no preselection) 3) The Cable Type 4) The Baud Rate 5) The Parity

Fig. 4

An automatic procedure for finding the correct parameters is available. Once the “FIND” button is pressed the first step is to disconnect the cable on the computer side and then reconnect it in order to find the associated COM port associated.  Fig. 5

It is possible to deselect the known items in order to reduce the search time.

Fig. 6

During the search it is not possible to exit and if the fan is found the parameters are directly saved on the main screen

Fig. 7

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Connection through RS485 cable
The fan must be powered on and the connection is made through the opto- insulated contacts. For example, a FTDI cable can be used: USB- RS485-WE-1800-BT.

Fig.8

Connection through RS232 OFFLINE cable
The fan must be POWERED OFF and the connection is made through the white connector of figure 9. For example, a FTDI cable can be used: TTL-232R-5V-WE.

Fig. 9

Bluetooth Connection

It is also possible to communicate through a Bluetooth device using the module in figure 10.

Fig. 10

NOTE:
Each cable requires its own drivers being installed on the PC. Once the drivers are installed and the cable connected a virtual COM port is assigned.

Set

This item contains sub-items to select the fan model, to change the Operating Mode, to set the fan Holding Registers and the password to access to higher privileges.

Fan Type

After the connection the most important operation is to select the fan type.

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Fig. 11

It is possible to sort the selection by family, Power OUT, Phases, Special Configuration, Driver Model and Motor Models.

Fig. 12

NOTE: The driver and motor codes are indicated on the fan label. Both the motor and driver code are abbreviated and M = 141 while D = 1431.

Fig. 13

NOTE: The special list can have SPECIAL customized configuration, configurations for higher temperature and so on. Then the fan must be selected from the list in the combo box of figure 14.  Fig. 14

Operating Mode

The Operating Mode can be changed only after the fan has been selected and connected and the available choices are depending on the fan type (refer to the EC Fan Manual for details).

Fig. 15

The Temporary Modbus Control can be set through the control field.
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Registers

The fan Holding Registers can be accessed and set depending on the fan selected (refer to the EC Fan manual for details).

Fig. 16

In figure 16 is shown the modifiable Holding Registers for the RDP 315 2.6kW 3Ph M6A5 DF0. The registers that can’t be modified are disabled and greyed out.

Password
This sub-item is reserved to the Nicotra||Gebhardt technical dept.

Tables
This item contains three sub-items to monitor the Input and Holding Registers and to LOG the fan functioning variables.

Holding Registers
This sub-item shows the status of the Holding Registers read from the connected driver compared with the Holding Registers loaded when the Fan Type is selected. Where the registers are at the same value the cell background color is white while (fig. 17) it is blue in the other cases (fig. 18).

NOTE:
When the Holding Register default values are different from the stored values:

1. The user changed the value of the accessible Holding Registers
2. Verify that the fan you own corresponds to the selected one.
3. Update the software. Some fan values could have been reviewed by Nicotra||Gebhardt technical dept.
4. The values of the default and stored registers Date and Serial are always different.

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The Holding Registers table is empty until a fan is selected and/or connected.

The parameter description changes depending on the firmware version and its relative algorithm.

Fig. 20

Input Registers

This sub-item shows the status of the Input Registers (refer to the EC Fan Manual for further details).

NOTE:
The Input Register may be not properly displayed when the numbers have the comma as decimal separator.
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Here below the procedure to change the settings is shown:

1. Open the “Control Panel”

Fig. 22

2. Select the “Region”

Fig. 23

3. Select “Additional settings…”

Fig. 24

4. Substitute the COMMA with DOT and as digit grouping symbol substitute the DOT with SPACE
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Log Record
This sub item allows the record of the Input Registers values followed by a description.

Fig. 25

There are two possibilities to acquire the values: either manually any single point or automatically point by point after a defined time.

Show
This item contains four sub-items to monitor the fan performance, the variables behavior and the alarms. In addition, there is the possibility to tune the PID coefficients when a transducer is connected to the fan.

Performance
This sub-item works on some types of fans (refer to the EC Fan Manual) and the fan working point is shown in real time.

Variables
This sub-item allows the user to monitor the behavior of two variables at the same time. The variables can be chosen from two combo boxes

Fig. 27
An automatic scaling zoom function and a clear button are available as shown in figure 27.

Closed Loop PID
This sub-item allows the user to test and set the PID parameters by monitoring the reference and the transducer variables. (Refer to the EC fan manual for further details)

Fig. 28

Alarms
This sub item has two clusters representing the driver errors and wrong selections.

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Fig. 29

Driver alarms
This cluster shows the possible alarms occurring during the driver functioning. (Refer to the EC Fan Manual for details)

Fig. 30

General Info
This cluster applies several cross verifications between generic data of the fan loaded with the data read from the driver. The figure 31 shows the starting appearance of the General Information Cluster when

1. The fan is NOT connected and NOT selected 2) The fan is connected but NOT selected 3) The fan is NOT connected, but it is connected.

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Once the fan is connected and connected all the led should be green and red color below the column indicates incoherence between the data read or selected, while the red color on the right of the rows represents the incoherence between the data read and selected.

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Fig. 32

There are two other possible condition (fig.33):

A) The firmware version of a product is updated
B) The software database is NOT updated

Fig. 33

Save
This item allows the user to save a personalized fan configuration, the LOG file of the data previously recorded and the Holding Registers comparison file.

Fan Configuration
A pop-up window opens and the user must insert the name of the personalized configuration.

Fig. 34

For example, a DDMP 9/9 2kW 1Ph has been set in Fixed Modbus Constant Airflow (see figure 35)

Fig. 35

Once the configuration is saved, the Fan Type combo box is automatically updated with the new configuration

Fig. 36

The selected configuration can be removed pressing the red button

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Log File
This sub-item saves in a file the data recorded in the Log Table.

Fig. 37

Registers Comparison
This sub-item saves in a file the comparison between the Holding registers loaded and read.

Fig. 38

Load
This item allows the user to upload his own configurations and upgrade the NG Fan configurator software. Moreover, it allows a firmware upgrade of the driver if necessary through a remote assistance of the Nicotra||Gebhardt technical dept. staff.

Fan Configuration
This sub-item allows the user to upload his own configuration selected from the Fan Type combo box. A progress bar indicates the uploading status

Fig. 39

Printing Customized Labels
The “Print Label” button is disabled and greyed out when the Holding Registers read from the driver are different values from those selected.

Fig. 40

When the “Print Label” button is pressed the standard fields to print are showed in figure 41.

It is possible to customize the label by pressing the button In this form it is possible to select which data must be printed and in which order

Fig. 42

And it is also possible to create customized fields with fixed (once saved there is no more possibilities to change by the operator) or changeable values (the operator must fill the fields at each print process).

Fig. 43

Firmware upgrade
This sub-item can be activated only by a Nicotra||Gebhardt technician through a remote assistance.

Fig. 44

Software Update
The NG Fan Configurator software must be updated when a new fan is released or some fan configurations or a new driver’s firmware versions are created. The file ZIP can be downloaded from the web site and it must be copied in the corresponding software folder: C:NG Fan ConfiguratorUpdates. Then the “Update the Software Configuration” button must be pressed. A blue LED indicates when the update process ended with success.

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The “create the Update ZIP file” button can be used only by the Nicotra||Gebhardt technicians.

Help
In this item the user can find the Software Manual and Product Manuals link.

Technical Info
It is possible to have a fast view about the products, motor and driver.

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Changing the Menu items

When the user selects a menu item, automatically other menu items change depending on the information correlated to the selected item.

In Table 1 all the combinations:

Selected item

Connection Set Tables Show Save Load Info

Cable Connection Bluetooth Connection Fan Type Operating Mode Registers Password Holding Registers Input Registers LOG Record Performance Variables Closed Loop PID Alarms Fan Configuration LOG File Register Comparison Fan Configuration Firmware Upgrade Software Update Software Manual Product Manual Info

Item combinations

Cable connection Bluetooth Connection Fan Type Operating Mode Operating Mode Password ————Variables Operating Mode ————Fan Configuration Firmware Upgrade Software Update ——Info

Holding Registers Holding Registers Holding Registers Holding Registers ——Holding Registers Input Registers LOG Record Performance —Closed Loop PID ————Holding Registers ————Info

Table 1

Alarms Alarms Alarms Alarms Registers ——————Registers Alarms ———Alarms ————Info

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Revisions:

Revision 2.0

Integration of all the old revision and added a new file organization due to the introduction of variants on the microcontroller model of the drivers.

Revision 2.1

Added the new relay feature. The Holding Register 61 can be set to 0 (default) or to 1.

 In the standard configuration the relay indicates an alarm, while in the new configuration it indicates a RUN status.

Revision 2.2

Added a new combo box for sorting by fan size.

Revision 2.3

Added a new alarm: Missing Input Phase for the three phases model only. This could occur when one of the three power supplies wires is not properly connected to the terminals.
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NOTE:
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