Introduction
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What’s not in this manual
Parameterisation tool
In the fixed-function (FF) version of the T640 you do not have to create your own strate-
gies from scratch — you need only adjust certain parameter values in the databases pro-
vided, to adapt them to your particular plant control needs. This can be done directly via
T640’s front panel, and all the information required to do this is given in the present
manual. The ‘hands-on’ tutorial in Chapter 3 also gives you some practice at this.
An alternative way to parameterise fixed-function databases is to use the PC-based Fixed-
Function Parameterisation Tool (FFPT) supplied in another section of this product manual
— section 4. Software and instructions for the FFPT, and also for the file-handling pack-
age LINfiler, are given there. You will need LINfiler to be able to download/upload data-
bases to/from the T640 via an ALIN link, as well as perform several other useful filing op-
erations.
Full block-structured strategy configuration using LINtools
If you wish to go on to create and configure your own strategies — or simply adapt exist-
ing ones — for running in non fixed-function versions of the T640, you will need to refer
to the LIN Product Manual (Part No. HA 082 375 U999) for details on all the LIN-based
function blocks, their parameters and input/output connections. You will need this data to
be able to select, interconnect, and parameterise the blocks in your control strategies.
How to use the PC-based LINtools database configurator to create and download control
strategies and sequences is described in the T500 LINtools Product Manual (Part No. HA
082 377 U999).
General information on installing, commissioning and using the LIN is given in Section 2
of the product manual you are now reading, in the LIN/ALIN Installation & User Guide
(Part No. HA 082 429 U005).
Getting started
The quickest way to get going with the fixed-function version of T640 is to turn directly to
Chapter 3 and work through the ‘hands-on’ tutorial set out there. For this, all you will
need is a T640 fitted with an M006 memory module, a power supply, and a piece of wire.
If you are new to the T640, there is no substitute for actual practical experience with the
instrument — just reading about it is not the same!
The tutorial will quickly teach you how to navigate around T640’s user interface — the
front panel — and also introduce you to the simplest of the fixed-function control strate-
gies supplied in the memory module. After that, you will be ready to start customising a
selected T640 strategy to suit your plant control needs, based on the detailed information
given in Chapter 5, Fixed function strategies.