DS200ADGIH1AAA Auxiliary Interface Board

Part Number: DS200ADGIH1AAA

Series: Mark V DS200

Manufacturer: GE Boards & Turbine Control

Product Type    Auxiliary Interface Board    

Revision Quantity    3 Revisions    

This DS200ADGIH1AAA product offering from General ELectric is a printed circuit board originally manufactured for the Mark V Turbine Control System Series, as referenced to in the brief product description above. The Mark V Series that this  DS200ADGIH1AAA printed circuit board or PCB for short belongs to, as you may have been able to guess based on its full extended series name, has a series of specific applications in the management and control systems in General Electric-compatible steam and gas turbine automated drive assemblies. The Mark V Series that features this DS200ADGIH1AAA device, while pertaining to newer-developed turbine control applications, can still be considered obsolete as a whole, as it is a legacy GE product series discontinued for manufacture due to a retailer-introduced functional series obsolescence in one of the many years past its initial release. While obsolete generally, the Mark V was one of the lastly-developed GE product series to make use of the patented Speedtronic control system technology first seen in the roll-out of the before Mark I Series in the mid to later 1960s.

Hardware Tips and Specifications

As with any product offering made available to the Mark V Turbine Control System Series, this DS200ADGIH1AAA device's intended functionality is introduced with its normal Mark V Series assembly's acceptance of a specialized series of hardware components and component specifications. The GE Auxiliary Interface Board DS200ADGIH1AAA features one 40-pin connector, 60 jumpers, and one 6-pin connector. The GE Auxiliary Interface Board DS200ADGIH1AAA also is populated with multiple test points. The board is 8 inches in width. DS200ADGIH1AAA is 6 inches in length and it is designed to be installed in the board cabinet of the drive. It has four screws and they align with a location on the board rack for installation with screws. This DS200ADGIH1AAA product offering, as explained before, belongs to a now-obsolete legacy product series. Because of this, it is not surrounded by any great wealth of originally-printed instructional manual materials online. With this being the case, the DS200ADGIH1AAA functional product number itself can be identified as a decent primary source of DS200ADGIH1AAA Board hardware component and component specification information; coding for specific details in a designed collection of functional naming segments. For example, the DS200ADGIH1AAA functional product number contains details including this PCB's normal Mark V Series assembly, its conformal coating style, and its three-fold product revision table including three seemingly-identical A-rated product revisions.

The test points in this DS200ADGIH1AAA device's assembly provide a means to test the circuits on the board. However, only a qualified servicer should test the board. The servicer must have testing equipment that is calibrated and designed for the task. The controls must be set properly and the probes must be designed for use with the tester. Place the board on a flat surface and have a protective bag under the board. Also, the DS200ADGIH1AAA Board servicer must wear a wrist strap at all times because of the risk of static. When the wrist strap is properly installed, one end of the strap is attached to your wrist and the other end is clipped to a metal leg of a workbench or desk. It can be attached to other metal structures too. The static is attracted to the metal ground and exits the board or your body. Another appropriate step to lessen the buildup of static is to avoid moving around while holding the board in your hands. The friction of walking causes the static to build up. This is especially true during cool and dry weather conditions. If a wrist strap is not available, you can also touch the static bag with the board inside it to a metal structure, like a chair or metal desk leg.