Microview for Windows Operator’s Manual (LT-MAN-MVIEW)

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Microview Operator’s Manual

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Contents

Where to Find More Information - - - - - Display and Keypad Basics - - - - - - - - - -

Microview Keys - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Special Characters on the Display - - -Viewing More Lines on a Display - - -Pressing the N Key to “Jump” to the NePressing the P Key to Backtrack - - - -Changing Values and Commands from

The System Menu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Logging in to the Microview - - - - - -Working with Schedules - - - - - - - - -Working with Trendlogs - - - - - - - - -

Adjusting the Contrast of the Microview LBasic Troubleshooting - - - - - - - - - - - - - -


Welcome to the Microview

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Your Microview is an Alerton® global controller—a powerfucomputer that controls equipment in your facility. It constantsophisticated programming sequences to save energy, optimiperformance, and control facility operations. With a 4-line byLCD and keypad, the Microview is also your window into theWhether the Microview is a stand-alone controller or part of awide IBEX system, its power and ease of use make controllinenvironment as easy as pushing a button.

Each Microview has a System menu where you login to the uschedules and trendlogs, and view information about the Micraddition to the System menu, your Microview can have up to displays. These user displays are custom-created by your AuRepresentative to meet the unique needs of your facility and caof dynamic operating data from throughout your facility.


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ation in this operator’s manual. If roview, connecting an chitecture with a Microview,

erator workstation to the Microview

ation requirements of the Microview

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Where to Find More InformNot all the information you need may be coveredyou want information about programming a Micoperator workstation to a Microview, or system arsee the resources listed below.

See For information about

Microview Installation and Operations Guide

� System architecture

� Ways of connecting an op

� Installation and communic

� Microview capabilities and

� How to program user disp


Display and Keypad BasicsYou use the keys on the Microview to scroll through displays, navigate

erform functions

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between displays, and change the value of data. Certain keys ponly when the cursor is positioned on specific items.


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N KeyUse it when the cursor ison an asterisk to view the next display.

P KeyUse it to view the previous display.

KEYSere you wantlay.

Microview Keys

PLUS KeyUse it to increase analog values, turndigital items ON, or change itemsmarked by an angle bracket.

MINUS KeyUse it to decrease analog values,turn digital items OFF, or changeitems marked by an angle bracket.

UP, DOWN, LEFT, AND RIGHT ARROW Use them to position the cursor whit and scroll through lines on a disp


Special Characters on the Display

y four lines at a gh a display and

Move the

tioned on

namic from the cket and ommand.

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Viewing More Lines on a DisplaA single display can be 100 lines long, but you can view onlytime. Use the UP ARROW and DOWN ARROW keys to scroll throuview additional lines.

Item Key functions

— The Cursor A flashing line that indicates the active item. cursor with the UP, DOWN, LEFT, and RIGHT ARROW keys.

* Asterisks Identify menu selections. With the cursor posian asterisk, press the N key to view a different display.

> Angle Brackets Identify items on the display that are dysystem data—values or commands. Some can be changedMicroview. Position the cursor to the right of the angle brapress the PLUS or MINUS key to adjust a value or change a c


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itional lines appear at the bottom of the ress the DOWN ARROW key again to view es. . .

With the cursor on the third line, press the DOWN ARROW key. . .

. . . AddLCD. Pmore lin

. . . and when you reach the last line of the display, the cursor moves to the last line. Just press the UP ARROW key to go the other way.

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Pressing the N Key to “Jump” to the Next Display

e data from your ce of equipment est office area,

his makes it easy

ted. If you can’t view a

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Your Microview probably has different displays to organize thfacility. A display might be created for each zone or major piein a building—one for the conference room, another for the wanother for the boiler, and another for lighting, for instance. Tfor you to find and change data quickly.

Note Menu items can have a security level assigned to them when they are creadisplay, you don’t have a sufficient security level.


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ng the cursor on a menu item rked by an asterisk.

then press the N key to view the associated with that menu item.

the cursor on the menu item and then again to view yet another display.

You “jump” from one display to another by placiand then pressing the N key. Menu items are ma

Scroll until the cursor is on the menu item (marked by an asterisk) you want . . .

. . . anddisplay

A different display appears. This one has another menu item on it, “VAV Box Details.”

Positionpress N

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Pressing the P Key to BacktrackWith the cursor positioned anywhere on a display, you can press the P key to

example, once key to return to isplay.

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ket >. Some isplays at the , for example. temperature and ge from the icroview was

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backtrack through displays you have viewed. In the previousyou were viewing “VAV Box Details” you could press the P“Conference Room B,” and then again to view the original d

Changing Values and CommandUser DisplaySystem values and commands are marked with an angle bracsystem values and commands can be commanded from user dMicroview—room setpoints and manual ON/OFF commandsOthers can’t be commanded from the Microview—outside airroom temperature, for example. What you can and can’t chanMicroview depends on the nature of the data and how your Mprogrammed.


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ith the cursor on the 7, press the MINUS e to change it to 6.

Changing a Value

Say you want to change the setpoint from 70 to 68 degrees. Use the arrow keys to position the cursor to the right of the angle bracket on the part of the value you want to change.

Next, wkey onc

Move the cursor to the next digit and press the PLUS key eight times to change it from 0 to 8. The setpoint now reads 68.

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Changing a Command

et when the Microview ut Day or Night.

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Note Commands can appear as any word up to seven letters. These words are sis programmed. The Zone Status at right, for example, doesn’t read ON or OFF, b

Press the PLUS key to change a value from OFF to ON.

Press the MINUS key to chaON to OFF.

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w. It’s where you log in and learly labeled and accessible

stem menu can be summoned ithout using a menu item—

the P key.

y pressing and holding the MINUS key n pressing the P key from any display.! When you use this method, make ur cursor isn’t positioned on a nd or value you can change with the ey. You might change it by accident.

The System MenuThe System menu is the same for every Microviework with schedules and trendlogs. It is usually cfrom the first display on your Microview. The Syfrom any display on your Microview, however, wjust press and hold the MINUS key and then press

View the System menu—either by pressing the N key while the cursor is on the System menu item. . .

. . . or band theCarefulsure yocommaMINUS k

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Logging in to the MicroviewThe Microview stores up to eight passwords, each four characters long. Each

security level s in the System

d appears. Four e you enter

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password is associated with a security level from 0–10. Yourdetermines which user displays you can view and which itemmenu you can access.

In the System menu, position the cursor on the Login/Logoff menu item and press the N key.

The Enter Password fielbackslashes mark whercharacters of your passw

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our password appears, press the P key n to the System menu.

Position the cursor on one of the backslashes and press the PLUS or MINUS key until the character you want appears. Repeat for all characters of your password.

When yto retur

Your current access level is listed—in this case, 7. If your access level is still 0, your password was entered incorrectly or is invalid. Enter it again or contact your system administrator.

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Working with SchedulesThe Microview stores 32 time schedules and one holiday schedule with 32

tion and were set lls you how to

ure of the equipment sirable results.

edule has up to en days of the

mands dictated time schedule is

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entries for the year. These schedules control equipment operaup when your Alerton system was programmed. This topic teview schedules and edit times, dates, and commands.

Caution Before you change schedules at the Microview, you should be sand processes the schedules affect. Changing schedules could have unde

Viewing and Editing Time SchedulesTime schedules control day-to-day operations. Each time schfive ON/OFF commands for certain times on each of the sevweek. From the Microview, you can change the times and comby a time schedule. You cannot change the items to which theassigned from the Microview.

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ime Schedules display, position the n the Time Schedule number and then e PLUS or MINUS key until the schedule

nt to edit appears.

ay. Instead of a 12:00 time, the the first command of the day.

e next, do this: enter an ON command d day, enter a 12:01am ON command.

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In the System menu, position the cursor on the Time Schedules menu item and press the N key.

In the Tcursor opress thyou wa

Note A command of 12:00 midnight cannot be entered for a dcommand disappears; this is how you clear an entry. 12:01 am is

Note To keep a point ON through midnight from one day to thfor the first day, with no subsequent OFF command; on the secon

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press the PLUS or

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Press the DOWN ARROW key until the day for which you want to edit schedule entries appears.

Position the cursor on thchange—hour, tens of mpm, ON/OFF—and thenMINUS key to change it.

To create a new entry, position the cursor on a blank entry and press the PLUS key. A time and command appears, which you can then edit.

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edulesFF on holidays. It supersedes 12:01 a.m. on dates that you e Microview for the holiday

the cursor on the holiday you want to —the month or the date—and press S or MINUS key until the date you want .

Viewing and Editing Holiday SchThe holiday schedule is used to turn equipment Othe time schedule and sends an OFF command atchoose. Up to 32 holiday dates can be set up at thschedule.

In the System menu, position the cursor on the Holiday Schedules menu item and press the N key.

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Working with TrendlogsThe Microview enables you to establish up to 56 trendlogs each with 236

ecify at regular anged from the se trendlogs to se.

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entries. The trendlog records the value of a data point you spintervals. Every time the value or status of a data point has chlast sampled value, the trendlog records the value. You can uanalyze your system operation and create an historical databa


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the cursor on the trendlog number ss the PLUS or MINUS key until the you want appears.

Samples are recorded only if the value nged from the previously sampled

hange of state). Thus, values may not at each sample interval (8:30, for e, has been skipped.)

Viewing Trendlog Data

In the system menu, position the cursor on the Trend Log menu item and press the N key.

Positionand pretrendlog

Scroll down below the header information until the date end time for which you want to view sampled values appears.

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Clearing Trendlog DataOccasionally you may want to clear all the samples from a trendlog and start collecting samples from scratch.

S key. All trendlog the trendlog you are

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Caution Once trendlog data is cleared, it cannot be recovered.

While viewing the trendlog you want to clear, position the cursor to the right of the angle bracket on the line that reads “Clear Log” and press the PLUS key . . .

. . . then press the MINU

entries are cleared fromviewing.

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f a trendlog’s setup. For each ntrol how the Microview

nd seconds—at which the renced. A value will only be

alue or if it varies by a greater

or branch point from which

will be recorded only if it ed value.

alues in the range ±3276.7 FF labels will appear.

ach label can be up to seven n sampled, the trendlog will ayed when the point is OFF.

Trendlog SetupThis topic introduces you to the basic elements otrendlog, these items appear in the header and cosamples data and displays information.

Interval The time period—in hours, minutes, aMicroview will look to sample the data point referecorded if it has changed from the last sampled vamount than the deadband.

Point The TUX I/O, IBEX point, global point,the Microview will sample data.

Deadband A value from 0—3276.7. A samplevaries by this amount from the previously sampl

Type Digital or analog. If analog is specified, vwill be recorded. If digital is specified, ON and O

ON and OFF label Defaults are ON and OFF. Echaracters. When the point referenced is ON whedisplay the ON label; the OFF label will be displ


Adjusting the Contrast of the Microview LCD

just the display r facility. To e the Microview

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side of the Micro-

slowly lift it away

slide it to the left.

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The Microview’s LCD has an adjustable contrast; you can adfor maximum readability under the lighting conditions in youaccess the adjustment screw for the contrast, you must removfrom its mounting plate.

� To remove the Microview cover and adjust the contra

1 With one hand, push in the retaining clip on the right view with a small screwdriver (Figure 1).

2 Grasp the Microview cover with the other hand and from the back plate.

3 When the cover is in the position shown in Figure 2,

The cover will now lift away from the back plate.


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4 Locate the adjustment screw labeled Display Contrast on the back ofthe Microview in the upper left corner.

5 With the hex wrench provided with the Microview, adjust the screw un-

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til the desired contrast is achieved.

Contrast adjustmentscrew


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. If you have never changed rity to do so. Otherwise, you may have logged you off f inactivity. Try logging in rized Alerton Representative.

me problem as above. Try your Authorized Alerton

. The Microview may have ta value originates. In the atus menu item and press the us for TUXs that should be lerton Technical Manual or

Basic Troubleshooting

I can’t change any values or issue commandsthe items before, you may not have sufficient secumay have logged in incorrectly or the Microviewautomatically, which happens after 45 minutes oagain. If the problem persists, contact your Autho

I can’t view any user displays. May be the salogging in again. If the problem persists, contactRepresentative.

Where a system value should be, I see a blanklost communications with the TUX where the daSystem menu, position the cursor on the TUX StN key. Look for a high error count or an NX statcommunicating. For more information, see the Acontact your Authorized Alerton Representative.


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