RLO5.1 FlexView For Operators

Wärtsilä Land and Sea Academy
V.1 Flex View for Operators

Version 1.0
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Flex View for Operators
Objective
The trainee should understand the function of flexView and meaning of its displays.
Trends can be created.
Basic information about flexView:

FlexView is the visualisation tool of WECS-9520, it runs on a standard Windows PC’s.
It can be started like a normal “Windows” program by selecting the icon on the desktop of the PC.
The PC in the ECR can be connected to WECS-9520 by using a CAN – USB converter.
It is recommended to leave the PC on and connected the whole time.
Service engineers can hook up their Notebooks via the “Service Port” in the ECR panel.
FlexView Connection
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CAN-USB Converter
Levels of Access
FlexView has different access levels, controlled by USB dongles of different colours:
FlexView Window
The two standard cards “Indic” and “Journal” are shown by default when the program is started. These two
cards show all necessary data for the average daily use at sea or during manoeuvring.
“Indic”(-ation) displays the actual engine speed, fuel command, common rail pressures and some
general injection and exhaust valve timing data.
“Journal” displays engine related failures and indications with time stamps for occurrence,
acknowledging time and restoring time. For a quick reference the different indication groups have a
colour code for easy separation of the groups.
Overview
Select a failure with mouse-click and press “Shift”+”Enter” to acknowledge.

All failures are transmitted to the Alarm Monitoring System.
Help Messages
Change Command Fields (How to access and change command fields)

Command fields which can be altered by the user have a white background.
Any selection of a command field option in the Operator flexView is done in the same way.
The desired field is selected with a mouse click.
To prevent any unwanted selection of a field option, it is necessary to push two keys simultaneously to
select an option or to enter the selected choice into action for the engine control.
First push the «Shift» key and keep it depressed.

Then («Shift» key still depressed) press «Arrow up» or «Arrow down» keys to have a choice option
indicated in the selected field. The option will be shown with a yellow background.
By pressing «Shift» and «Enter», the selected option is activated for the engine control and the
background colour of the field changes back to white.
Exhaust Valve Card
The Open Pos. & Close Pos. Sensor 1/2 columns show the valve stroke as a mA signal. A lower value
indicates an open valve in the left columns, whereas a higher value indicates a closed valve in the right
columns of this card section.
The “Deadtime” between WECS-9520 command and begin of the opening / closing stroke is indicated in
the columns for each valve and movement (open/close). This is the time delay between the command for
opening / closing and the beginning of the valve stroke into the corresponding direction.
The “On” Time Open / Close columns indicate the switch time that it used to switch the rail valves over
from one state to the opposite state. Times above 3,5 ms generally point out a rail valve failure.
These indications help troubleshooting normal and static exhaust valve system failures. For dynamic
exhaust valve failures, the exhaust valve curve trends give more detailed feedback.
Injection Card
The amount of injected fuel is measured by the fuel quantity sensor in the ICU. Each injection measurement
starts at a return value and ends at a injection value corresponding to the given fuel command.
The Injection begin dead time between sending a WECS-9520 command and the real injection begin is
shown in the next column.
Injection begin angle indicates the actual crank angle at injection begin and the duration time of the
injection is shown in the next column.
In the On Time Open / Close columns, flexView indicates the switch time that it takes to switch the rail
valves over from one state to the opposite state. Times above 3,5 ms generally point out a rail valve
failure.
These indications help troubleshooting normal and static injection system failures. For dynamic failures,
the injection curve trend gives more detailed feedback.
User Card
The user card allows setting FQS, selecting VIT- and “Heavy Sea Mode”,
Common start valve test modes and switching injection cut offs on separately selectable cylinders.
Further Injection venting and Exhaust valve manual test commands can be selected.
VIT + FQS
The VIT fields allow changes of the following settings:
Altering the Fuel Quality Setting FQS within a range of +/- 1,0<°crank angle.
Switching off the VIT function, e.g. for running-in of new components.
OPTION: If engine is delivered with Low NOx mode, this function can be switched on and off in the VIT +
FQS section. The Low NOx activates a different tuning mode to obtain minimum NOx output at reduced
firing pressure.
Control Oil Pumps (some engine types only)
Manual on and off commands can be set in these fields. If a single pump is selected “off” while the engine is
running, the second pump will start up before the first one is switched off.
Common Start Valves
This function allows separate testing of the two parallel acting solenoid valves for the automatic start air
valve.
With the next start, slow turning or air run the automatic start valve will be controlled only by the enabled
solenoid valve only. When starting air release is stopped again, the field automatically triggers back to
“enabled” condition.
Heavy Sea Mode
The heavy sea mode changes certain functions in the WECS-9520 to allow a safe and stable engine operation
during extremely rough weather and avoids possible failing of a cylinder unit, if a single injector fails.
The common rail fuel pressure will be set to a fixed value of 700 bar.
All injectors are used for fuel injection over the entire load range.
Injection cut off
The injection on single cylinder units can be cut off with these fields.
WECS-9520 automatically triggers a slowdown to prevent engine overload.
The exhaust valve will remain in operation while the injection is cut off.
Injection Venting
This function allows a venting of the injector pipes and ICUs. It can be selected to vent all or separate units.
The function is blocked if the fuel rail pressure is still higher than the injector needle opening pressure.
After selection, the venting process continues for 30 seconds, then the fields automatically revert to OFF
condition, until selected again.
Exhaust Valve Automatic / Manual CMDs
This function allows separate testing of exhaust valves during engine at standstill with reduced pressure from
the control oil pumps.
Pulse Lubrication User Interface (Option)
If the engine is equipped with Pulse Lubrication (Option), in these fields, manual lubrication to select
cylinder units and the feed rate can be set.
Feed rate adjustment is done by selecting the desired cylinder unit.
Adjust Card
This is password protected.
The Adjust page allows changing miscellaneous parameters like artificially optimize injection timing for ICUs
with disconnected FQ sensors and it allows modifying the injection timing and the exhaust valve closing
within a certain range for balancing the cylinder loads.
Slow Turning + Aux. Blower
Slow turning trigger pulse time and the period time are set with these parameters. Standard setting is a
pulse of 0.10s per each second for the starting pilot valves on the cylinder covers.
The auxiliary blowers start and cut off levels are set in the lower fields.
Servo Oil Pump
Servo oil Pump Pressure Setpoint Offset (not for Bosch pumps)
This function allows raising or lowering the pressure setpoint for separate pumps to influence their load
sharing.
Under normal conditions there is no offset required and settings should remain at 0 bar.
CA Sensor
CA Sensor Offset and TDC - CA Offset
With cylinder #1 at TDC, the CA-sensors should indicate 0.0<°in the fields Crank angle 1/2.
If required, any indicated offset can be entered in the upper CA 1/2 Offset field. The corrected crank angle
indication will change to 0.0<°.
TDC Offset
The TDC angle is measured with a pickup from a target on the flywheel. When the engine is at standstill or
turned with the turning gear, TDC indication changes from Gap to Tooth while the target is passing the
pickup.
The Measured TDC Angle is only updated when the engine is running! This angle shifts to a higher value in
dependence of the engine speed. The offset is adjusted to 0.0 <°at approximately the middle of th e
engine’s speed range, therefore it is not zero at engine standstill!
Injection Feedback
Artificial Injection Quantity Feedback Tuning
If a fuel quantity sensor is defective or disconnected, the WECS-9520 uses an artificial fuel quantity feedback
ramp instead of the sensor signal.
This ramp gives an artificially rising feedback, whose fixed steepness (injected fuel per ms) can be different
from the real injection. The ramp’s length corresponds to the actual fuel command from the governor.
WECS-9520 uses an injection-time control instead of the volumetric control. With a same fuel
command, the real injection time gets shorter the steeper the angle of this ramp is set.
This can lead to some load- and exhaust gas temperature deviation between the normal cylinders
and the one(s) working with this emergency setting.
The higher the “Artif.InjQtyRate” [%/ms] parameter is set, the faster the faked “virtual fuel qty.
sensor” moves and the earlier the injection cycle is terminated. => less cylinder power.
Also the real injection begin angle cannot be measured in this emergency mode. But the artificial
dead time allows a shifting of this angle, relative to the injection command given by the WECS-9520.
The higher the “Artif.Inj.Deadtime” [ms] parameter is set, the earlier WECS-9520 triggers the
injection command. => Higher firing pressure, lower exhaust gas temperature.
CAUTION:
The flexView injection begin angle and injection time indications for the affected cylinder unit(s) on the
INJECT card are not valid in this operational mode.
Wrong adjustment can lead to cylinder overpressure and consequent damage of liner and piston rings.
Any parameter change should be done in small steps and proper pmax and injection timing have to be
verified on the affected cylinder units with hand drawn pressure diagrams if no cylinder monitoring
system is installed!
Exhaust Valve Closing Offset
These fields allow the user to balance the cylinder compression by advancing or retarding the exhaust valve
closing angle of separate cylinder units in a range of 2.0<°(later closing, less compression) down to -
1.0<°(earlier closing, higher compression).
Injection Begin Offset
These fields allow the user to balance the cylinder load between separate units by advancing or retarding
single injection begin angles in a range of
0.5<° (later injection, less combustion pressure)
-1.0<° (earlier injection, higher combustion pressure).
Injection Correction Factor
The cylinder load on individual cylinder units can be reduced down to 80% of the actual fuel command.
This function can be used for running-in new liners/piston rings or in case of any operational trouble on a
specific cylinder.
View Menu
In the View Menu, different trend menus for monitoring the RT-flex common rail system and two special fast
trends to record the performances of the exhaust valve drive system and of the injection system including
the injection control unit ICU can be select.
Open Trend
The Open Trend menu offers 4 different trends.
Show shape indicates separate data points as dots on the measuring curves.
Update time defines how often the screen data-points are updated.
Max = All other flexView cards will be frozen, data exchange between WECS-9520 and fV is used only
for trend-data Visible time range defines the visible time frame on the trend screen.
High = All received values are indicated.
Visible Time Range changes the timescale.
Trend time range defines the time frame that will be stored in the flexView database. After this time has
elapsed, the latest data of the time range length remains stored, when a trend is saved.
Exhaust Valve Curve

The exhaust valve curve records precise trends from single opening or closing strokes of individual
exhaust valves.
These functions help to detect erratic performance of single units. Each trend is triggered by the
corresponding WECS-9520 command.
Curves from different cylinders can be recorded together to verify suspicious behaviour with “normally”
performing exhaust valves.
Injection Curve
The injection valve curve records precise trends of individual ICUs. This function helps to detect erratic
performance of single units.
Each trend is triggered by the corresponding WECS command.
Curves from different cylinders can be recorded together to verify suspicious behaviour with “normal”
performing ICUs.
At high engine load the screen shows only the important part of the curves.

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Basic information about flexView:

Select a failure with mouse-click and press “Shift”+”Enter” to acknowledge.

Change Command Fields (How to access and change command fields)

First push the «Shift» key and keep it depressed.

The VIT fields allow changes of the following settings:

Common Start Valves

Heavy Sea Mode

Pulse Lubrication User Interface (Option)

Feed rate adjustment is done by selecting the desired cylinder unit.

This is password protected.

Slow Turning + Aux. Blower

CA Sensor Offset and TDC - CA Offset

Artificial Injection Quantity Feedback Tuning

Exhaust Valve Closing Offset

Injection Correction Factor

Visible Time Range changes the timescale.

Exhaust Valve Curve

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