Configure GE Intelligent Platform Drivers and Deadbands
About this task
Procedure
- Access Historian Administrator.
- Select Tag Maintenance , and then select the item that you want to modify.
- Select Collection.
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In the Source Address field, add the following
fields:
|SIGNALCONDITIONING,LOWEGU,HIGHEGU,HARDWAREOPTIONS
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Repeat the steps for each item that you want to modify. If, however, you want
all the items to use the same data type, change the settings of the following
registry key:
\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\In-tellution\Drivers\SI7\OPC\ItemDefaults
. These values apply to all items not specified by the source address after you restart the driver.
Using Deadbands with the SI7 Driver
When you use the SI7 driver, it sets the global default values for EGU limits used
for deadband calculations to the following values:
- 1 Lo EGU = 0
- 1 Hi EGU = 65535
- 1 EGU Span = Hi EGU - Lo EGU = 65535
You may want change the default values for this driver if the items that you add use data types other than Integer (such as Float).
If, however, you want all the items to use the same data type, change the settings
for HiEGU
and LoEGU
for the following registry
key:
\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\In-tellution\Drivers\SI7\OPC\ItemDefaults
.
These values apply to all items not specified by the source address after you
restart the driver.