DALI PLC Commissioning Tool

The PLC project DALI PLC Commissioning Tool offers the user the possibility to configure DALI devices and up to ten KL6821/EL6821 with the aid of the TwinCAT PLC HMI (see Tc3_DALI_PLC_Commissioning_Tool_V3.8.0.0.zip).

The TwinCAT project is available for download as *.zip file. This must first be unpacked locally so that the archive (*.tnzip file) is available for import into the TwinCAT project.

This project can be extended for specific applications, or it can only be used for configuration purposes. It initially supports ten KL6821/EL6821 via the global variable nNumberOfDALILines, but can be extended by the user to include more lines or the KL6811.

The dialogs offer not only functions for addressing DALI control gears and DALI control devices, but also for writing and reading parameters.

Using the drop-down menu, the user can select whether to parameterize DALI control gears or DALI control devices.

Addressing of the DALI devices and querying of the addresses that are already assigned takes place under the Addressing tab, which is available for both control gears and sensors.

Parameters can be read based on selected short addresses and can be written, as far as possible.

There are also dialogs for

• Executing DALI commands
• Reading current states
• Reading and configuring group allocations
• Reading and configuring assignments within scenes
• Reading and writing the configuration of the following device types of DALI control gears:
• 1 (Emergency lighting devices, Part 202) can be read out manually.
• 4 (Regulation of supply voltage of incandescent lamps, Part 205) can be read out manually.
• 6 (LED modules, part 207) can be read out manually.
• 7 (Switching functions, Part 208) can be read out manually.
• Reading and writing the configuration of the following device types of DALI control devices:
• 0 (Generic inputs, part 103) can be read out manually.
• 1 (Push button, part 301) can be read out manually and event-driven.
• 2 (Absolute value, part 302) can be read out manually.
• 3 (Occupancy sensor, part 303) can be read out manually and event-driven.
• 4 (Light sensor, part 304) can be read out manually.

For this purpose, one page is available for reading the configuration and one for writing.

• Adjustment of the fading settings
• Reading and, if the vendor wishes, configuration of the memory banks.
• Memory bank 1 for the control gears (part 102) contains the extension (device type 50).
• The device type 51 (energy report) is available by querying the memory banks 202, 203 and 204.
• The device type 52 (diagnostics and maintenance) is available by querying the memory banks 205, 206 and 207.
• Configuration of the KL6821/EL6821 (switching the power supply unit on/off, behavior on triggering of the K-bus watchdog, behavior in case of rising or falling edges on the two digital inputs of the terminal, enablement of the process image after the inputs were actuated, deactivation of the blocking of the process image when using the digital inputs of the KL6821/EL6821).