REGARD

CONTROLLER

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System Solutions

Control systems
for all kinds of applications will be
supplied by the Dräger System
Centres tailored to the customers
requirements meeting the highest
demands.

REGARD is a modular gas detection control

System designed for the continuous monitoring
of flammable, toxic and/or other gases.

The base of REGARD is a special Cardframe

(rack) in combination with the different types of
Control-, Channel-Cards and Modules
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Input cards & modules

• 4..20 mA channel card

• SE EX channel card

• Optical card

• HART card

• 8 channel input module

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Output, control and display cards

• Master card

• Modbus card

• 8-channel display
card

• Relay display card

• Relay modules

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General informationen

• Each channel card is connected to an individual

transmitter
• Each channel card provides alarm relays, an analog
output and a remote reset.
• A four character display indicates the gas concentration
of the connected transmitter.

• Push buttons at the front allow to display the gas name

and the measuring range as well as configuration of the
system.

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4-20 mA / SE Ex channel cards

Four character LED-Display to show the current gas

concentration and the configuration commands.

Six LED´s to show A1, A2, A3/FAULT-STATUS,

POWER ON- and INHIBIT-STATUS.

Control buttons RESET,UP,DOWN for alarm

acknowledgement and Card-configuration.

4..20mA Card only:

One analog input for all 2- or 3-wire 4-20mA
measuring heads (24V DC max 700mA).
SE-Ex Card only:
One Analog input for all 3-wire SE-Ex
measuring heads (PELLISTOR) (max. 9V DC
at 100-350 mA).

Three Alarm Relay A2, A2, A3/ Fault.

Each relay provides a single pole change over contact
rated at 5 AMP 250 V AC.

One anlog output 4-20mA, 0-20mA, 1-5V AND 0-5V

for data processing to other systems.
Remote reset input.

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Master card

Provides common and voted alarms, common Reset

push button and a common remote Reset Input.

Four character Led-Display to show the configuration

commands.

Six Led´s to show MA1, MA2, MA3/FAULT-STATUS,

POWER ON- and INHIBIT-STATUS.

Control buttons RESET,UP,DOWN for alarm

acknowledgement and Card-configuration.

Three Alarm Relays MA1, MA2, MA3 for common or

voted alarms

Each relay provides a single pole change over contact

rated at 5 AMP 250 V AC.

Remote reset input.

Note:
Presently only a one way communication is provided.
A bi-dirctional communication will come later.

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Modbus card

Provides a interface for the REGARD-system with

the Modbus Protocol.

Other systems with the Modbus Protocol, for example

Foxboro or PC´s runnig Software like FIX-Intellution,
can read gas level information and alarm status out of
REGARD system.

Connection to the Modbus card is via RS-232, RS-422

and RS-485.

Fourt character Led-Display to show the configuration

commands.

Six led´s to show A1, A2, A3/FAULT-STATUS (no

funktion), POWER ON- and INHIBIT-STATUS.

Control buttons: RESET,UP,DOWN,LEFT,RIGHT for

card-configuration.
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HART card

•Eight character Led-Display to show the current

gas concentration of each Meassuring head
and the configuration commands.

•Six led´s to show A1, A2, A3/FAULT-STATUS,

POWER ON- and INHIBIT-STATUS.

•Control buttons: RESET,UP,DOWN,LEFT,RIGHT for

alarm acknowledgement, head selection and
card-configuration.

•Digital input to connect up to 9 Transmitter

POLYTRON 2 in HART-configuration ("Multidrop").

•Three Alarm Relay A1, A2, A3/ Fault.

Each relay provides a single pole change over contact
rated at 5 AMP 250 V AC.

•Remote reset input.

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8-channel display card & module

•Eight charater Led-Display to show the

current gasconcentration and the
card configuration.

•Module connection via

RS-485 link to the DISPLAY- CARD.

•Only 2 wires are neede.

•The distance between module and card

is up to 1000 m.

•Each Module has 8 inputs for

2- or 3-wire 4-20mA measuring heads.

• Three Alarm Relay A1, A2, A3/ Fault.

Each relay provides a single pole change over contact
rated at 5 AMP 250 V AC.

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 Relay display card & module

•Eight charater LED-Display to show

relay on/off Status and card configuration.

•Module connection via RS-485 link to the DISPLAY-CARD.

•Only 2 wires are needed.

•The distance between module and card is up to 1000 m.

•Each Module has 16 Relays.

The RELAY-DISPLAY- CARD controls up to 16 MODULES
(256 relays).

•Each relay provides a single pole change over contact rated at

5 AMP 250 V AC.

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REGARD Profibus-DP Gateway
PROFIBUS = PROcess FIeldBUS

The Regard PROFIBUS-DP Gateway is a additional Fieldbus Interface for our

modular REGARD Control system. It is NOT a replacement for the REGARD
Modbus card !!

Two versions in one device:

1. One-directional Gateway:
- current status of the alarms A1, A2, A3, Fault,
- calibration, inhibit signal and critical card faults,
- current gas concentration including extra informations
about the decimal places, plus/minus sign and over-
range of the gas concentration value.

2. Bi-directional Gateway
- All features of the one-directional Gateway and furthermore reset and inhibit
function of single channel cards or for the whole system.

The complete functionality of the gateway is linked to the Profibus-DP with 3

byte input data and 10 byte output data.
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Why Profibus? (1)

Market information about PROFIBUS:

• Profibus is more than 10 years available in the market.

• PROFIBUS has grown from a small national user organisation into the
largest international fieldbus user organisation in the world with over 1000
company members in 23 regional country organisations. No other fieldbus
organisation can equal this.

Therefore PROFIBUS is one of the well known communication systems for

production- and process automation.

The Market share is approximate 50% in Europe and 20% world-wide. That
correspond to 3,000,000 installed PROFIBUS nodes with a market value of
approximate 3.5 billion US$.

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Why Profibus? (2)

Technical features of PROFIBUS:

PROFIBUS is always a good choise if the customer wants to control a process

depending on the current gas concentration and/or the current status of alarms
by a PLC (example: ventilation control).

- The reason for this is, that most of big players in the PLC market,
like Siemens S7, supports PROFIBUS as an already integrated
standard fieldbus input on the PLC.

- PLC programmers are more familiar with an already integrated

fielbus standard as with other fieldbus systems.

- The settings are carried out with a software file with the device description
data (GSD = GeräteStammDatei).

- Using the Modbus instead of PROFIBUS will stress the customer

or our project with additional costs between € 1.500,- or € 2.500,- for
serial input modules and the Modbus protocol driver.

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Implementations of Profibus

3 different types of PROFIBUS implementations available:

• PROFIBUS-FMS (FMS=Fieldbus Message Specification)

- Suitable for applications on sensor /actor level and for
data communication between intelligent and decentral
working control systems.

• PROFIBUS-DP (DP=Decentral Peripherie) = REGARD Profibus-DP Gateway!!

- Primary for applications where fast data communication
on sensor/actor level is required.

• PROFIBUS-PA (PA=Process Automation)

- For applications where explosion proofed equipment is
required. Offers intrinsic safety and remote power supply
through the buscable. Almost the same protocol as Profibus-DP.

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