E-T-A ControlPlex CPC12 Bus Controller Instruction Manual

E-T-A ControlPlex CPC12 Bus Controller

Product Information

The product is a CPC12 bus controller designed by E-T-A for machine and plant construction. It provides transparency through webserver and fieldbus connection, ensuring stable processes and  reliable DC24V protection and power distribution system

The CPC12 bus controller has a separate DC24V power supply, allowing independent supply of the circuit protectors. It records all status information and measuring values, which can be visualized using the internal webserver. The data can also be made available to the superordinate control systems via the field bus interface. The CPC12 bus controller is designed to work in combination with E-T-A’s REX12D modular power distribution system, meeting all the requirements of the machine construction and process control industry.

Product Usage Instructions

1. Ensure personal safety by following the safety instructions provided in the manual.
2. Check the delivery state of the product to ensure it matches the documented options.
3. Connect the CPC12 bus controller to the webserver using the provided instructions in section 3 “Connection with the Webserver”
4. Familiarize yourself with the menu bar functionality explained in section 4.1 “Menu Bar”. This includes user management, CPC-Info, configuration, and commands.
5. Understand the status bar functionality described in section 4.2 “Status Bar”.
6. Refer to section 5 “Circuit Breaker Overview” for an overview of the circuit breaker system.
7. Learn about the circuit breaker functionality in section 6 “Circuit Breaker Functionality”. This includes parameters and statistics.
8. Follow the disposal guidelines provided for packaging recycling.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Safety instruction
This manual points out possible danger for your per-sonal safety and gives instruction how to avoid prop-erty damage. The following safety symbols are used to draw the reader’s attention to the safety instruc-tions included in this manual.

Danger!
Danger to life and limb unless the following safety precautions are taken.

Warning!
Danger to machinery, materials or the envi-ronment unless the following safety precau-tions are taken.

Note
Information is provided to allow a better un- derstanding.

Caution!
Electrostatically sensitive devices (ESD). De-vices must exclusively be opened by the manufacturer.

Disposal guidelines
Packaging can be recycled and should gen-erally be brought to reuse.

Qualified personnel
This user manual must exclusively be used by quali-fied personnel, who are able – based on their training and experience – to realise arising problems when handling the product and to avoid related hazards. These persons have to ensure that the use of the product described here meets the safety require- ments as well as the requirements of the presently valid directives, standards and laws.

Use
The product is part of a continuous enhancement process. Therefore, there might be deviations be-tween the product in hand and this documentation. These deviations will be remedied by a regular re-view and resulting corrections in future editions. The right to make changes without notice is reserved. Errors and omissions excepted.

Delivery state
The product is supplied with a defined hardware and software configuration. Any changes in excess of the documented options are not permitted and lead to liability exclusion.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

CPC12 – transparency through webserver and fieldbus connection
The requirements of machine and plant construction regarding machine uptime and a consistently high production quality are increasing. Stable processes are based on a reliable and transparent DC24V pro-tection and power distribution system. E-T-A’s CPC12 bus controller has a separate DC24V power supply and allows independent supply of the circuit protectors. It records all status information and measuring values. These data are visualised with the internal webserver. Via the field bus interface, the data are also made available to the superordinate control systems.

E- T-A’s REX12D system in combination with the CPC12 bus controller was designed specifically for the requirements of the machine construction and process control industry. The REX12D modular power distribution system combined with the CPC12 bus controller meets all requirements.

• Maximises plant and machine uptime through clear failure detection, high transparency and remote diagnosis
• Saves space through a slim design of the circuit protectors and the potential modules
• Increases flexibility of system plan-ning through many different modules meeting the demands of DC24V power distribution

CONNECTION WITH THE WEBS ERVER

As soon as the electrical installation of the ControlPlex® system is completed, an Ethernet connection can be established via X1 interface on the CPC12 bus controller.

Image 3: Connections of the CPC12 bus controller To do this, the adapter options must first be set to the standard IP range 192.168.1.XXX (for example 192.168.1.254).

1. Under Windows Settings the submenu “Network and Internet” is selected
2. Clicking on “Change adapter options” opens the “Network connections” window
3. Double-click on the current Ethernet connection to open the “Status of WLAN” window
4. Clicking on “Properties” opens another window in which the “Internet Protocol, Version 4” is selected
5. Clicking on “Properties” opens a new window in which the item “Use the following IP address” is se-lected, the corresponding address is entered and confirmed with “OK“

After the network settings have been adjusted, the webserver of the CPC12 can now be accessed via a standard web browser. In the following example, the Microsoft Edge browser was used. In addition, the browser variants Chrome and Mozilla Firefox in the latest versions are possible. Only these variants are checked and available for the webserver. All other browsers are not supported.

To call the webserver of the CPC12, the default IP address 192.168.1.1 must be typed in the upper search field of the web browser and then confirmed.

After a successful connection, the following overview page of the ControlPlex® system is displayed.

WEBSERVER FUNCTIONALITY

Menu Bar
A menu bar is integrated in the upper part of the user interface. In this line various information and func-tions can be called and controlled. These are, for ex-ample, the tabs Configure, Commands, as well as the connection status and general information about the ControlPlex® system. In addition, an overview of the supply voltage and the total current of the ControlPlex® system is inserted on the right side.

User Management
Most of the further functionalities are controlled by the user management. Depending on the selection of a function, a pop-up window appears with the request to enter the username and password. The default username is admin The default password is admin  The user management is described in the further text.

CPC-Info
To get general information of the CPC12 bus control-ler, you have to navigate with the mouse pointer over the round information sign. The product ID, the serial number as well as the hardware and software version are displayed.

Configure
By pressing the Configure button a drop-down menu opens. This in turn includes various functionalities, which are described below:

Switch Language
After selecting the function, a pop-up window with a drop-down menu appears. Different languages are available and can be confirmed with the blue “Done” button. (No admin rights needed).

Network Settings
After selecting the function, a pop-up window ap-pears with various information about the Ethernet in-terface and the fieldbus interface. The network set-tings of the Ethernet interface can be adjusted. For this press “Submit” (The function is only possible in Admin mode).

Reset Controller
After selecting the function, the CPC12 bus controller is reset and restarted. This resets the IP address of the webserver on port X1 to the default address 192.168.1.1. The language setting is also reset to English and the user management is reset. (The function is only possible in Admin mode).

Edit Users
After selecting the function, a new window opens with the overview of the current administrators and users of the system. New users can be created and exist-ing ones can be edited and deleted (The function is only possible in Admin mode).

After pressing the “Add User” button, a window with possible settings for the new account will open. Please note the role of the account! In the admin mode all functions are available. In the user mode it is only possible to switch the channel on or off with an already deactivated lock command. Furthermore, the statistics data and the error counter can be reset.

Firmware-Update
After selecting the “Firmware Update” function, an Explorer window opens to access the location of the firmware file. The latest firmware updates are availa-ble in the download portal of the ControlPlex® sys-tems via the E-T-A homepage.

You can find the portal under the following link:

After the file has been selected, the firmware update begins. Attention: The file can only be loaded into the controller in Admin mode. Otherwise, the file will be declared as not valid.

• After the update is complete, a window appears with a request to reload the browser.

Back-to-Box
The function “Back-to-Box” resets the CPC12 to the factory settings. All configurations are set to default. (The function is only possible in Admin mode). Without a reload, the changes will not take effect (The function is only possible in Admin mode).

Commands
By pressing the Commands button a drop-down menu opens. This includes various functionalities, which are described below:

Turn all Devices off
By selecting this function, all electronic circuit break-ers can be turned off. This function is only possible if there is only one connection to the webserver and the “Lock” function of the circuit breaker is set to the “OFF” status (the function is only possible in Admin mode and without connection to the fieldbus).

Reset Devices
By selecting this function, after a short circuit or over-load trip, all circuit breakers will be reset after the fault has been solved (the function is only possible in Admin mode and without connection to the fieldbus).

Enable Power Save
By selecting this function, the LED indicators on the electronic circuit breaker are dimmed or brightened again (The function is only possible in Admin mode).

Batch Edit Devices
Selecting this function opens another window with an overview page of all configured parameters. First, a pop-up window asks whether the existing parameters of the current system should be loaded (Download Config), an already saved configuration file should be loaded (Load Config File) or a new standard configu-ration should be started (Continue with Factory Set-tings).

The table displayed in the window consists of the fol-lowing parameters:

The upload of the configuration to the CPC controller is only possible with admin rights.

Adopt Device Types
With the function “Adopt Device Types” selected, the currently used structure is automatically read out from the used hardware. The circuit breakers must therefore no longer be configured manually. (The function is only possible in Admin mode).

Status Bar
Below the menu bar, the status of the various elec-tronic circuit breakers can be evaluated immediately using the boxes in the area “Device”. This box is di- vided into two areas. By clicking on these areas, it is also possible to navigate the circuit breaker overview page to the different parts of the system. The cur-rently displayed area is shown with a blue line below it.If the system is operating, the colour is green. If there is a warning or an error, it will be highlighted with the colours orange or red. A gray filled rectangle means that the circuit breaker was switched off manually at the device. If the rectangle is only outlined, no device is connected.

CIRCUIT BREAKER OVERVIEW

After the functionality of the system has been de-scribed in the previous chapter, the middle overview of the interface will be discussed now. This shows the various electronic circuit breakers lined up. Each channel shows the output voltage and current as well as different status messages. The upper rectangle contains the currently set cur-rent rating. Depending on the recent switching state or message, the box changes its colour. Gray = Off, Green = On, Yellow = Warning, Red = Trip Below that, different points clarify the status of the channel. These can also light up in the colours green, yellow, red. The blue line above and below illustrates the se-lected circuit breaker.

CIRCUIT BREAKER FUNCTIONALITY

The last third of the overview page displays addi-tional information and functions for the selected cir-cuit breaker. Three different tabs can be selected on the left-hand side. These are explained below:

Parameter
The first tab displays general information about the circuit breaker, such as the serial number and the hardware and software version. Furthermore, the last error reason can be read out. The possible parameters that can be set have al- ready been explained in the “Batch Edit De-vice” function. The different input fields can be adjusted by the integrated arrow keys. If the required value is reached, the new setting can be loaded into the de-vice via the “Write Parameter” button. The “Restore Factory Settings” button resets all pa- rameters to the factory settings.

The “Lock” selection option blocks switching the cir-cuit breaker off or on from the software. As soon as the function is set to status “OFF”, the cir- cuit breaker can be switched. As soon as the circuit breaker is switched off from the software, the hard-ware LED at the channel shows the colour orange.

Attention:
The role of the logged in account has to be checked. The differences between the Admin and the User mode are explained in chapter 4.1.3.4. In addition, the function for resetting a circuit breaker and switching it on and off is not available with a con-nected fieldbus interface. The PLC software has a higher priority. Furthermore, control and writing via the webserver can be deactivated via the PLC software (Configura-tion data of the CPC12 – Byte 0 Bit 0)!

Statistic
In the second field the values of minimum and maxi-mum current and voltage of the selected circuit breaker are listed.In addition, calculated values for the average value in each case are listed. (No admin rights needed).

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References

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