5200

Foxboro Evo
Hardware Overview
Lab
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Introduction

This lab will introduce you to the various hardware components typically found in an Foxboro Evo system.
Although the quantities and series types in your plant will probably differ, the goal of this exercise is to expose
you to a typical setup of equipment.

Suggestions:
• Mark each lab step as it is completed. This will act as a bookmark.
• Read the whole step and any associated sub-steps before performing any part of it. In some instances, the
operation is followed by some observations that should be made when it is executed. If you perform the
operation before reading what you are supposed to observe, you may miss the point of the step.
Conventions:
• A pencil icon (
) indicates places where observations should be noted or questions answered.

To avoid complications in this lab, please do not:

• Disconnect or connect hardware unless explicitly instructed
• Power down any equipment
• Bring food or beverages into the lab area

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Overview
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1 HARDWARE OVERVIEW
Break up into groups of two students. You will work as a team on one of the Foxboro Evo systems. It
is important that each member of a team contribute to the learning experience. Please ensure that each
member performs each step in this and ensuing labs.

Stations and Associated Equipment

1. Choose one of the Foxboro Evo systems on which to work.
This system will be the one that you will work on in all the labs throughout the course.
2. Locate the Foxboro Evo system hardware in your system using the pictures below. After locating
all the items, connect the equipment together accordingly and power up the equipment.
a) 200 Series FBM(s) b) FCP270

c) Splitter/Combiner Pair d) Baseplate

e) Ethernet Switch

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f) Monitor

g) Mouse or trackball

h) Alphanumeric keyboard

i) Workstation
j) Termination Assembly

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P92 or H92 Workstation

1. Locate the Application Workstation in your lab setup.

What is the letterbug of this workstation? (see the upper left part of the FoxView window)
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

What is a letterbug? ____________________________________________

Locate the P-code/H-code label on the workstation and record the P-code/H-code below.
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

To decipher what each character of the P-code/H-code means, use the electronic I/A
documentation installed on your workstation. There is an icon on the desktop of your
workstation for the Foxboro Evo documentation. Double click the icon to open up the
document browser. Throughout this lab, you will refer to various Foxboro documents. Each
document has a unique part number. When searching for a specific document, you can search
by part number, title, or category by using the browser on the left side of the screen.

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Find the correct B0700 series document for your workstation type (e.g. HP Z400, HP Z420, Dell T3400,
etc). For example, if you have an HP Z400 running the Windows 7 operating system, you would open
document B0700FF, Hardware and Software Specific Instructions for Model H92 (HP Z400) with
Windows 7 Operating System. Then go to the section titled ‘Determining Your Workstation
Configuration’ in Chapter 1, Basic Workstation Setup. Based on the P-code/H-code, list the configuration
of your workstation. In the Value boxes, write the letter or number that appears in the code for that
position.

1st Position Value Foxboro Evo Version/Operating System Version

2nd Position Value Security Enhancement Options

3rd Position Value Pointing Device and Video Card

4th Position Value RAM

5th Position Value Internal Hard Drives

6th Position Value Backup Device

7th Position Value Ethernet Interfaces

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8th Position Value I/O Cards

9th Position Value Discount Options

2. Observe the fiber-optic network interface cards (NICs) between the switch and the P92/H92
Workstation. Note which ports the fiber cables connect to.

Upper NIC on the workstation connects to port #______ on switch

Lower NIC on the workstation connects to port #______ on switch

3 Verify the cabling from the P92/H92 Workstation to the items listed below (if these items are
present).
a) Monitor
b) Mouse
c) Alphanumeric keyboard
4. Observe the monitor connection on the back of the P92/H92 Workstation.

How many monitors can be attached to the P92/H92 Workstation?
__________

5. Using the electronic I/A documentation installed on your workstation, locate each of the following
components of the P92/H92 workstation. After you locate an item, check it off the list.
a. Power Button ______
b. DVI (white) video connector ______
c. VGA (blue) video connector (if available) ______
d. USB ports (front of workstation) ______
e. USB ports (back of workstation) ______
f. RJ-45 (copper) Network Connector ______
g. Fiber-optic network connection (1 of 2) ______
h. Fiber-optic network connection (2 of 2) ______

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Control Processors
1. Locate and examine the baseplate for your system.

How many equipment positions (slots) does it contain? __________

What equipment is contained in each slot?

Slot # ____ ________________________________
Slot # ____ ________________________________
Slot # ____ ________________________________
Slot # ____ ________________________________

What is the address (Baseplate ID) of this baseplate? (Hint: check the DIP switches on the
baseplate) _________

2. Locate the FCP270 for your lab setup.

What is the function of this module?
__________________________________________________________________

Is the FCP270 fault-tolerant? ___________ (Yes/No)

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3. The figure below depicts an FCP270; fill in the missing labels for the parts of this module. If you
need help, use the electronic I/A documentation on your workstation (document B0700AR –
FCP270 User’s Guide, Chapter 5 - Troubleshooting).

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Fieldbus Modules
1. Provide the missing information in the figure below (4 blanks for you to fill in).

2. Fill in the missing information regarding FBM status indicators in the table below. If you need
some help, use I/A document B0400FA (DIN Rail Mounted Subsystem User’s Guide, Chapter 8 –
Maintenance, section titled ‘LED Indicators’) to help you fill in the table.
FBM Operational Status LEDs
Red LED Green LED Status
Off Off
On Flashing
On On
Off On
Off Flashing

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List the current status of the two FBMs in your system

Red LED Green LED Status

FBM in
slot 3
FBM in
slot 4

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LETTERBUG CONFIGURATOR
NOTE: This section of the lab is optional, as it is dependent on whether or not a pocket PC
Letterbug Configurator is present.

INSTALLING LETTERBUG CONFIGURATOR SOFTWARE ON A POCKET PC

Before you can use the Pocket PC to assign letterbugs to IR enabled stations, you must install the
Letterbug Configurator software from the SD memory card or Internet. Because most of the
applications and data you install on your Pocket PC are held in main memory, you will need to
reinstall them if the battery completely discharges.
For replacement purposes, the memory card used with the I/A Series Letterbug Configurator is a
standard, secure digital (SD), read-write, flash memory card with a minimum of 32 MB of
memory. The typical 9-pin, non-volatile, 32 MB SD memory card serves as a functional
replacement.

Figure 2-1 SD Memory Card

Before Installing the Letterbug Configurator

Before installing the Letterbug Configurator from the SD memory card, Internet, or host computer,
you must first perform the following:
1. On the Pocket PC, disable at least one of the Start menu commands:
a. Tap Start > Settings to open the Settings window.
b. Tap Menus to display the Menus options.
c. Clear one of the nine selected check boxes so that the HPS Configurator can be displayed
in the Start menu. Only nine commands can be displayed in the Start menu.
d. Tap OK.
2. On the Pocket PC, disable the Beam application:
a. Tap the Connections tab at the bottom of the Settings window.
b. Tap Beam to display the Beam option.
c. Clear the Receive all incoming beams check box.
d. Tap OK.
e. Close the Settings window.
You are now ready to install the Letterbug Configurator software on your Pocket PC.

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Installing the Letterbug Configurator from the SD Memory Card

1. Insert the provided SD memory card into the secure digital I/O port on the top side of the
Pocket PC and push the card until it locks in place. Insert the card with the label facing up and
the truncated corner positioned as the lower left corner.
2. Tap Start > Programs > to open the Programs window.
3. Tap File Explorer to open the File Explorer window.
4. Tap My Documents > My Device to display the device folders.
5. Tap the SD Card folder to display the HPS Configurator.ARMV4.CAB installation program
(because of screen size limitations, only HPS Configuration. is displayed).
6. Tap HPS Configura....
The HPS Configurator application is automatically installed on the Pocket PC. You have
completed installing the Letterbug Configurator on the Pocket PC.

Reading Letterbugs from Stations

The Letterbug Configurator allows you to read status information for FCP270, ZCP270, FCM100Et,
FCM100E, and ATS modules. This information includes date of manufacture, hardware part number,
and station MAC address. To read the status of a module, perform the following steps.

1. On the Pocket PC, tap Start > HPS Configurator. This is the software used to communicate
with an Foxboro Evo module. (Note: HPS stands for ‘High Performance System’, which is a
term used to describe a Version 8 I/A Series system.)
2. Open the example.csv file. This spreadsheet contains two columns of importance, ID and
Letterbug. The ID column contains the last 6 characters of an I/A module ‘s MAC address,
while the Letterbug column contains the 6-character letterbug for the module.
3. Locate the row of the spreadsheet which contains the correct ID for your FCP270. If no rows
contain the correct ID, create a new row and add the ID yourself. The ID for your FCP270 can
be found on the small white sticker on the face of the FCP270 module.
4. If the Letterbug field for your row has a letterbug entered, clear the letterbug. Your row should
have your FCP270’s ID in the ID column and nothing in the letterbug column.
5. Tap your hardware ID to select it (it will highlight blue).
6. Now, point the Pocket PC’s infrared port at the infrared port of your FCP270 and tap the S in the
toolbar in the bottom-right part of the screen. Hold the Pocket PC steady for several seconds.
If the Pocket PC successfully establishes communications with the FCP270, you will see the
FCP270’s IR LED illumiate. The Pocket PC reads the status of the module and prints the
information onscreen.
If the Pocket PC fails to establish connection, you will get a message onscreen after a few
seconds indicating such. If it failed, try again, ensuring that you hold the Pocket PC at the
correct angle.

What is the Letterbug of your device? ___________________

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