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Niagara4 Technical Certification Progiam niagara4 Lab Exercise Guide — Lab 4 - Hot Water Pum ntrol, Part 1 Using a Tstat object: For this lab procedure, use the TrainingXX station running on your JACE. Italic text in brackets represents menu selections you can use to complete the procedure. 1. In the station running on your JACE, right-click the Config object, choose New, then Folder. Name the new folder Control_Logic. se —— 2. Locate the new folder in the Nav SideBar. Right-click the Control_Logic folder, choose New, then Folder. Name the new folder HeatingSystem. 3. Locate the new folder in the Nav SideBar. Right-click the HeatingSystem folder, choose New, then Folder, Name the new folder PumpControl. 4. Open the wire sheet of the new PumpControl folder { double-click the PumpControt folder} 5. Open the Palette SideBar [click the Left SideBar icon on the toolbar, choose Palette]. 6. Click the Open Palette button on the Palette SideBar to view a list of all modules. The palettes are located in the modules. Select the module and click OK to open the module's palette. Palette ela a eenrewce] Moy 112017 @Peisexvices Niagara Technical Centlication Program niagara4 Lab Exercise Guide — ?. Choose the kitControl module and click OK to open the module's palette. 8. Expand the view of the ControlPalette folder. 2. In the ControlPalette’s Points folder, select a BooleanWritable point. b. Drag the point to the wire sheet and drop it. As you add the point to the wire sheet, rename the point to HotWaterPump_1. = Palate BO tina! ~ Qcemtoee One ¥ Osment O tata + Oteowe Double-click the point to open the point’s property sheet. Wore: recnnically, this yew is called the AX Property Sheet. If you pull down the View menu in the upper right comer of the Workbench, youll see there ts also a Property Sheet option. This view uses HIMIL 5 and offers some adaitional options. 10. In the point’s Property Sheet, set the point’s facets to Pump_On for the true text and Pump_Off for the false text. Save the changes to the point. Property Sheet ‘sooleayireabe) eeimmesnseTecnabe >> May 11. 2037 OPservces ‘Niagaraé Techrical Cerification Program niagara4 Lab Exercise Guide 11. Return to the wire sheet of the PumpControl folder [click the PumnpContro! folder in the focator bar, or double-click the PumpControl folder in the Nav SideBar]. 12. Open the Pin Slots window for the HotWaterPump_1 point. Pin open the Auto slot and the in slot. | Right-click the point, choose Pin Slots). 13. Add @ NumericWritable point to the wire sheet. Name the point Outside_Temp as you add it to the wire sheet. 14. Open the Property Sheet of the point and set the point facets (engineering units) to °F. TT 15. After making the desired changes click OK and then Save at the bottom of the screen. 16. Right-click the name of the point in the property sheet (The point name is at the top of the property sheet window). Choose Actions, then Set. Set the point's Fallback (default) value to 40°F (Verity that the Fallback (defauit) value updates). 17. Right-click HotWaterPump_1. Use the Set action to set the point default value to Pump_On, 18. In the kitControl palette in the Palette SideBar, locate the HVAC folder. 19. From the HVAC folder in the kitControl palette, add a Tstat object to the wire sheet of the PumpContro! folder. 20. Open the property sheet of the Tstat object (double-click it) and make these settings: a, Reverse Action. b. A Diff setting of 4. 7? ¢. Nullon In Control to False. ~~ 5 d. Null on Inactive to False. —~ Z 7 e, Facets: trueText=On / falseText=Orf. S w May 11, 2017 OPEservices Niagarad Technical Gertiication Program niagara4 Lab Exercise Guide al 2. 22, 23. 24. 25. 26. 27, 29. ‘Save the changes. Return to the wire sheet of the PumpControl folder. Right-click the Tstat object and choose Pin Slots. Pin open the Cv and Sp inputs. Right-click the Outside_Temp point and choose Duplicate. Name the new point PumpEnableSetpoint. Connect the out slot of the Outside_Temp numeric writable point to the Cv input on the ‘Tstat object. Connect the out slot of the PumpEnableSetpoint point to the Sp input on the Tstat object. Connect the out slot of the Tstat object to the InS slot of the HotWaterPump_1 point. - Right-dick the HotWaterPump_1 point and choose Copy. 28. Right-click the wire sheet and choose Paste Special. Set the Number of Copies setting to 1 Select the Keep All Links check box Select the Keep All Relations check box Click OK to create another point called HotWaterPump_2. Note the link between the ‘Tstat output and the new BooleanWritable points. Modify the Outside_Temp valve by setting the value above and below the Tstat PumpEnableSetpoint and monitor the effect on the Hot Water Pumps. Notice the impact of the differential on the status of the pumps. (J would suggest you right-click the point, choose Actions and then Set to change the values) (End of lab, save station and stop here!) May 11,2017 OPecervices iagarod Techricat Corincatien Progam niagara4 Lab Exeraise Guide ars Lab 5 - Hot Water Pump Control, Part 2 Configuring the pumps to follow a schedule with freeze protectio 1. Open the Schedule patette. (click Open Palette, type and °S" into the filter siot. Select the Schedule module and click OK) 2. In the Schedule palette, select a BooleanSchedule and add It to the wire sheet. Name the schedule PumpSchedule, 3. Double-dick the new schedule to open the Scheduler view. Select the Properties tab at the bottom of the Scheduler view. Edit the schedules facets to use the following: a. True text = Pumps_Enabled b, False text = Pumps_Off Set the default value of the schedule by selecting Pumps_Off from the pull-down menu, Return to the wire sheet of the folder. Connect the output of the schedule to input 16 on HotWaterPump_1. Connect the output of the schedule to input 16 on HotWaterPump_2. Note: We now have two input connections to the hot water pumps. Remember that the point will follow the input with the highest priority when more than one connection is made ta.a point. In this case, our pumps will not follow the schedule at all, because the input from the Tstat at ingut 5 is always a valid value. We need to change that! 10. Open the property sheet of the Tstat block. 11. Change the setting called Null on Inactive to True. 12. Save your change and return to the folder's wire sheet. 13. Modify the Outside_Temp point again to a value of 30°F. Note the status of the pumps and the priority slot the point is following. (Kottatertm + oO Boaieanrtable lo Hoe ess 14. Modify the Outside_Temp point again to a value of 50°F. Note the status of the pumps and the priority slot the point is following. 15. Open the Scheduler view of the schedule. 19 May 14, 2017 ORTsepvices Niagared Technical Certfication Program niagara4 Lab Exercise Guide a 16. Click the Weekly Schedule tab at the bottom of the Scheduler view. Set the schedule for Monday to have the pumps running from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm. 17. Right click on Monday and choose Apply M-F to copy Monday's schedule to the remaining 4 days of the work week. Leave Saturday and Sunday set for the default output of Pumps_Off. 18. Return to the wire sheet view of the PumpControl folder. At this point, your wiresheet should loak something similar to this: Seed = —— — fas =m = 19, From the Schedule palette, drag a Calendar Schedule to the wire sheet of the folder. Call the new schedule HolidayCalendarSchedule. 20, Double-click the new HolidayCalendarSchedule to open up the Calendar Scheduler view. 21. Click the Add button. Enter the name Christmas 22. Note the default Type setting is Date, this is what we want 23. Remaining settings: Any Weekday, 25, Dec, Any Year 24. Click OK to save the special event 25. Add Thanksgiving as a special event. Make theses setting: 26. Click the Add button and name the event 27. for the Type setting, choose Week and Day 28. Select Thursday, Week 4, November for the remaining settings. 29. Save your changes and return to the wire sheet of the PumpControl folder. 30. Open the Scheduler view of the PumpSchedule. Click the Special Events tab. 31. Click the Add button to add a special event. Call the event Holidays. a. Set the Type setting to Reference b. In the Calendars slot that appears, select the HolidayCalendar schedule (click on it!), then dlick the OK button ©. On the right side of the view, note the schedule setting. Set this event to output a Pumps_Off command all 24 hours of the day. 32. Add another event called Inventory that will have the pumps running from 5:00 am to pm on every Tuesday in January of only next year. a. Use the Custom Type setting when creating the event. b. Choose: Any Day, Jan, Tue, Any Week as the event settings. Specify the next calendar year. Click OK. c. Set the 5:00 am - 9:00 pm times in the schedule on the right side of the view. d. Allow the remainder of the day to remain Unscheduled. This way, the Inventory special event merely deviates from the |______! normal weekly schedule for the defined period of time. Outside this defined period, normally scheduled events are unaffected. fe. Save your changes. 20 May 11,2017 @Petsernces egsree Technical Ceifcation Pigrem niagara4 Lab ise Guide 33. Click the Summary tab on the bottom of the page. In the calendar view, locate and select a ‘Tuesday in January of next year. Verify that the schedule has the pumps running from 5:00 am to 9:00 pm on this day. Note » The order that the events appear in the Special Events view, top to bottam, reflects the priority of the event. The higher in the list, the higher the priority. If you have contlicting special events, this is important! (End of lab, save station and stop here) 2 May 11, 2017 QA services

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