WIENER powered NIM, CAMAC and VME / VXI crates as well as low voltage power supplies of the PL500 and MARATON series can be equipped with a CAN-bus interface for remote monitoring and control.
The WIENER crate manager is a program for Windows 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP systems to monitor and control a chain of WIENER crates or power supplies via CAN bus. Then Can-bus access is done via the CAN-USB interface using the PCAN light driver.
The software detects automatically all connected crates and power supplies. The status of each is reported in the "Crate status window". Every crate can be controlled by remote (on/off, SYSRES). In case of crate failures error message are generated which are transferred and processed with highest priority.
For each connected crate or power supply all parameters can be shown in the "Individual crate window". To better present the data the display can be defined as crate or power supply mode.
The Windows Crate Manager further provides information about hardware idents and internal software releases.
Within the menu system the CAN-bus interface initialization and the hardware set-up (bit rate, general call ID) is available.
- automatic WIENER crate and power supply identification for up to 99 devices
- global crate network window with status display
- individual crate window with display of voltages, currents, temperatures, nominal and monitored fan speed, firmware versions
- individual power supply window with display of voltages, currents, over / undervoltage trip point, current maximum, firmware versions
- remote on / off, system reset (VME/VXI)
- remote change of fan speed
- programming of nominal output voltage, current limit, over and under voltage trip off points, current maximum
- broadcast / group mode for on / off
- CAN-bus parameter definition (bit rate, broadcast address)
- system Requirements: PC with Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP, 200MHz or higher processor, CAN-USB interface connected to USB port, 16MB RAM, 5MB RAM on hard disk
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