About the DS200ACNAG1ADD

The DS200ACNAG1ADD is an ARCNET (Attached Resource Computer Network) Card manufactured by General Electric for their Mark V series.  The Mark V is part of GE’s successful Speedtronic line of gas/steam turbine management systems. This series has been managing heavy-duty turbine systems since the 1960s, with GE developing more reliable, advanced systems as technology allowed.  The Mark V is built with triple-redundant backups on all critical controls and protection parameters and includes such features as built-in diagnostics and online maintenance. While this DS200ACNAG1ADD product offering is definable as an ARCNET Card in its own right, the originally-developed product of that functionality to feature within the Mark V Series would be the DS200ACNAG1 parent printed circuit board missing this DS200ACNAG1ADD product's three significant revisions.

Hardware Tips and Specifications

The DS200ACNAG1ADD card provides a connection point for ARCNET LAN communications within the MKV system.  Due to this specific intended functionality within its greater Mark V Turbine Control System Series automated drive assembly, this DS200ACNAG1ADD product necessitates its own series of functionality-introducing hardware components and component specifications. DS200ACNAG1ADD board signals travel on a pathway between the main processor board (LDCC,) through the ARCNET board, to the turbine control operator interface and back again. These signals travel via co-axial cables. The DS200ACNAG1ADD is a small circuit board with few components. The board has four metal film resistors (R1 through R4,) three capacitors (C1 through C3,) and one diode. Two factory-drilled holes located on either side of the board have a metal washer inserted into their opening. These two openings are marked as GND1/GND2. Two relays are located near the bottom edge of the board. Both relays include a relay diagram on their top surface.  Relay diagrams are visual representations of the relay logic that allows the relay to function. The DS200ACNAG1ADD has three communications devices.  This includes a vertical pin terminal connector with six pins that is placed in the very center of the board, as well as two BNC plugs (right-angled, female) that are placed with the openings off the top edge of the board. These plugs will accept the LAN coaxial cables.

The previously-described DS200ACNAG1ADD board-specific hardware information is reminiscent primarily of a visual inspection of the DS200ACNAG1ADD printed circuit board itself, which was accessed given this DS200ACNAG1ADD product offering's now-obsolete status given its attribution to a General Electric legacy series. This DS200ACNAG1ADD printed circuit board or PCB for short does benefit from its original General Electric manufacture, however, as it possesses a DS200ACNAG1ADD functional product number that can itself be considered a strong source of original hardware information, beginning with its dual-functional DS200 series tag. This series tag at the beginning of the DS200ACNAG1ADD functional product number describes this product's domestic location of manufacture and its normal style of Mark V Series assembly. Some of the other original DS200ACNAG1ADD board hardware details available upon an inspection of its DS200ACNAG1ADD part number include its ACNA functional product abbreviations, its normal style of PCB coating, its group one Mark V Series product grouping, and its full three-fold revision history with two functional product revisions and an artwork configuration revision. Before making any final purchase decision on this DS200ACNAG1ADD product offering, it is crucial to recognize that its originally-introduced performance specifications and dimensions have no doubt been altered as a function of its possession of three significant revisions mentioned earlier.