Standard Lamp
This modul is used to control lamps over a digital and/or analog ouput. In order to build groups with lamps of other sorts, e.g. DALI, the original range of 0..32767 for an analog lamp at a dimmer-terminal is displayed in percentage. For digital lamps a value of 0% means that the lamp is off and any other value on. The values however are taken over for further group-calculation, if needed.
Settings
Parameters
- Minimum Control Value: The minimum value, to which the lamp can be dimmed, if analog.
- Maximum Control Value: The maximum value, to which the lamp can be dimmed.
- Fade Rate: The amount by which the lamps value is increased / decreased with a Fade Up / Fade Down-command.
- Startup Control Value: Initial value of the lamp, when the PLC-application is started. If the lamp is explicitly set to a value lower than its minimum or greater than its maximum value, it will be automatically set to the appropriate limit. The exception is 0%, which turns the lamp off.
- Resetting Mode: When selected, the last value, before turning the lamp off will be stored. If the lamp is turned on again by the On-command, it will be set back to this value.
- Negate Digital Output / Negate Analog Output: 0% means completely on and 100% completely off. The limiting rules mentioned above however, are still the same: values lower than the Minimum Control Value will be set to the minimum and values greater than the Maximum Control Value to the maximum. 0% is allowed but in this case the lamp will be turned on.
Online
Commands
- Fade Up: This command will increase the light value by the entered fade-rate. The command will only work when the lamp is already turned on. Increasing the value above the maximum level is not possible.
- Fade Down: This command decreases the light value by the entered fade-rate but will not let a lamp turn off completely.
- On: Turns the lamp on either to the maximum or the Resetting Value, which depends on the fact, if the Resetting Mode is activated or not.
- Off: Turns the assigned lamps off. When the Resetting Mode is activated the light value prior to the off-state will be stored.
- Call Maximum Control Value: The lamp will be turned to its maximum level.
- Call Minimum Control Value: The lamp will be turned to its minimum level.
- Set Control Value Direct: The entered value will be taken over, when the Apply-button is pressed. If the lamp is explicitly set to a value lower than its minimum or greater than its maximum value, it will be automatically set to the appropriate limit. The exception is 0%, which turns the lamp off.
- Set Operating Hour Counter Direct: The entered value will be taken over, when the Apply-button is pressed.
State
- Control Value: Actual output value.
- Resetting Value: When Resetting Mode is selected and the lamp is turned off, the last value, before turning off will be stored. If the lamp is turned on again by the On-command, it will be set back to this value.
- Operating Hour Counter: Service life of the lamp.
State PLC Module
- Execution State: Shows, if the module is running or stopped.
- Error: In case of an error, the error code and the error parameter are displayed in this box.
- Start/Stop: Starts/stops the module.