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Chapter Topics
1 Introduction Summary of T640 features, packaging, & place in the wider network
2 Installation & startup Getting T640 going, from unpacking to power-up
3 Hands-on tutorial Practical experience in using the T640 controls, with a real strategy
4 User interface Using T640 — front-panel controls & displays explained
5 Standard strategies Details of the four simple pre-configured control strategies supplied in ROM
6 Changes logfile How T640 records every change to a loaded database
7 T640 task organisation How the running of T640 & the control strategy interact. Timing optimisation
8 Data coherence The concept of ‘data coherence’ and how T640 achieves it
9 Inside T640 Internal hardware, pcbs, and communications
10 Error conditions & diagnostics Error displays & diagnostic messages
11 Specifications Hardware & software specs. Resources supported. Example I/O circuits
12 Ordering information How to order T640 with its various options & accessories
Appendix A Setting up early boards (Issue 6 and older)
Appendix B MODBUS/JBUS-LIN communications. Implementation in the T640
Appendix C Front-panel foreign language support. Customising the standard messages
Table 1-1 Topics covered by this manual
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 your 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 instru-
ment, a power supply, a piece of wire, and a screwdriver.
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 ‘standard’ control strategies
supplied in the memory module. After that, you will be ready to start customising a se-
lected T640 strategy to suit your plant control needs, based on the detailed information
given in Chapter 5, Standard strategies.