CircuitWerkes Sicon-8 Specifications

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Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.10Controls & ConnectionsSicon-8 Main ChassisFront PanelRemote/Local: Allows you to switch operationa

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.100Sicon-8 Event Scheduler; Actions Setup Sheet.Set Events Action # Set Action RPLMR Channel # R or L Dur

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.101SchematicsALL Schematics and other drawings are proprietary property of CircuitWerkes, Inc. and may not

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.11Sicon-8 Rear PanelPower: The Sicon-8 accommodates power from 100 - 240VAC at 50/60Hz.SX-8: This RJ-45 j

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.12commands or change the state of any of its relays. By default, the Sicon-8 cannot remotely exit from the

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.13Metering & Status ConnectionsMeteringEight metering channels are brought into the Sicon-8 on a deplu

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.141-7 with equipment that sources voltages instead of sinking to ground. The status converter supports AC

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.15Resetting & updating the firmware:The Sicon-8 can be returned to factory default settings at power u

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.16Programming mistakes while using DTMFIn most cases, if you make a mistake while programming the Sicon-8,

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.17* Status  Status polarity is set to normal  Status alarms are set as action, b

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.18Operating/Programming Your Sicon-8Most functions can be accessed in one of two ways, either via the USB/

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.19The Sicontroller Interface Software Overview:The Sicontroller software lets you monitor, control and set

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Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.20TIP: The “Save/Upload” button uploads the access code changes to the Sicon-8. There is a “save”and a “

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.21Serial port users must choose a port prior to actually connecting to your Sicon-8. When setting up your

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.22If connected serially, you can choose to upload any data that you have entered into the Sicontroller for

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.23Sicontroller MenusThe Sicontroller Menus are grouped by function. Each menu and function is described b

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.24The User Menu lets you switch users. Administrators can also“manage” users by adding and deleting user

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.25Site Menu:CONNECT & DISCONNECT: Clicking on CONNECT will attempt to connect to your hardware. If y

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.26Tower Light Alarm Muting:EVENT SCHEDULER: (below)The event scheduler provides access to time related fun

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.27NOTIFICATIONS: brings up the Master Telephone List or the Master E-mail list for editing. TheSicon-8 s

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.28Reading Meters and Controlling Your Sicon-8DTMF controls:DTMF 00 – AutoScan. This DTMF command reports

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.29Sicontroller Metering Display:The Sicontroller software gives you a quick overview of each channel bank

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.3Table of ContentsIntroduction...

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.30Modifying Your Sicontroller Display for your Environment:A handy feature of the software is the single p

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.31Handling Alarms:About how the Sicon-8 handles alarms internally:If an action alarm and a critical (dial-

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.32Configuring Sicon-8 hardware through the Sicontroller Software:The Sicontroller software’s configuration

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.33Connection Type lets you selectbetween a serial port connectionor a modem, or the Webserver.Web Server a

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.34Software logging is the mostdetailed. Setup for this log letsyou specify:Log folder & name,frequenc

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.35Formatting the Software log:The software log consists of four elements. These are:-Log header gets prin

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.36Resulting print:======================= This example has a CR/LF appended after each channel is read =

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.37When you click on the“additional Options” buttonabove, you will open a formwhere you can add a custommes

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.38Site Setup ContinuedWorking With Digital Audio FilesOne of the most tedious jobs in most talking remote

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.39Site Setup ContinuedSetting Up Digital Audio FoldersWhen moving or creating a new sound file, you may n

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.4Basic Control Using the Sicontroller Software:...

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.40Once you have all of the words in place, you can program individual lines, groups of words or the entire

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.41Channel setup functions:Sicontroller channel main setup. The“Telemetry” tab lets you set the text that

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.42Setting status alarms & actionsStatus alarms are similar to meteralarms, but simpler. Each channel’

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.43About Modems and Modem-to-Modem Setup:The serial port of the Sicon-8 performs two duties: First it is t

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.44Template Y1DIAL=TONE B0 F1 M1 X4BAUD=38400 PARITY=N WORDLEN=8&A3 &B1 &G0 &H0

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.45Basic DTMF Commands01 –32 = Channel menu:When you enter a channel, the Sicon-8 immediately reports all

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.4671 – Setup metering. This function lets you configure the metering modes and values and you must be on

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.47Two ways to setup metering:The Sicon-8 allows you to setup meters in two ways. The normal method requir

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.48About how the Sicon-8 handles alarms:If an action alarm and a critical (dial-out) alarm occur simultaneo

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.49 Metering Alarm Setup Quick ReferenceAlarm Type beep AlarmtypeBeep AlarmlimitConfirmor Retrybeep Setting

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.5IntroductionThe CircuitWerkes Sicon-8 is a value-priced, full-featured dial-up transmitter site

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.50Channel Menu ContinuedAlarm Reference Readings: Like most remote controls, the Sicon-8 takes reference

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.51Channel Menu Continued80 - Record meter labelMeter Label Recording Quick Setup ChartRecord Meter Label E

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.52Relay CommandsSerious injury or death can occur if a command channel is activated while you are performi

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.5363 – Speak the ambient room temperature (onboard sensor)Requires hardware version 5.60 or newer64 – Spea

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.54System Setup Detail (DTMF):68 – Set a Static IP address for the Internal Web Server:When a Static IP add

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.5572 – Set up phone dialer memories:There are twenty phone number memories in the Sicon-8. Each memory ca

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.5676– Global enable/disable critical alarm dial-out.This setting supercedes the individual alarm settings

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.5782 - Enable/disable Pust-to-talk (PTT) relay actionThe push-to-talk function is used when a half-duplex

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.5888 – Programming Time/Date Events & Actions using DTMFThe Sicon-8 has a battery-backed, real-time cl

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.59Setting the event time:Enter event setup command: 88Enter 3-digit event number: 001 - 128- Set event ti

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.6Contacting CircuitWerkesFor help with setting up or operating the Sicon-8, please contact us at the follo

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.60Note: Individual acknowledge beeps are notshown in the first table to save spaceSetting the action for a

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.61If you need to split a month, just set the duration to the number of days that you need the event to occ

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.6292 – Alarm reporting menuThe Sicon-8 maintains two alarm queues. In the current firmware versions, the

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.635. Use the 78 command to immediately remove (kill) all alarms from all alarm stacks. This is veryconven

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.64About readings, alarms & Alarm Dialing:Like most remote controls, the Sicon-8 takes reference readin

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.6598 – TAD Mode - Briefly disables Sicon-8 auto-answer feature so that you can use other answeringdevice

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.66Using the Event Scheduler:The Sicontroller’s event scheduler interface is designed to take much of the t

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.67Scheduling is very flexible, but that tends to also make it kind of complex, at first.When creating a sc

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.68Scripting with the Sicontroller SoftwareThe Sicontroller Softwareincludes scripting that enablesyou to p

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.69Indent/DetentFunctionsTestSelectedscriptsectionShowavailableoperators(seebelow)Opens abrowser toshow MSF

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.7Product OverviewInputs and OutputsAs seen in Figure 1 below, the Sicon-8 has a number of connectors on th

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.70Site dedicated functions.Each function is preceded by site name to identify which site the function is p

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.71Function: Meter_GetAlarmCriticalLowValueParameters: param1Returns: Floatparam1 = channel number (1 – 32)

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Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.74Function: LED_GetStatusParameters: param1Returns: Booleanparam1 = channel number (1 – 32)Example: MyLED

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.75Function: LED_SetONColorParameters: param1Returns: Nothingparam1 = channel number (1 – 32)Set to values:

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.76Function: LED_GetAlarmWarningStateParameters: param1Returns: Booleanparam1 = channel number (1 – 32)Exam

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.77Function: Relay_OperateLowerParameters: param1, param2Returns: Nothingparam1 = channel number (1 – 32)pa

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.78Function: IsConnectedParameters: NoneReturns: BooleanExample: MyConnectState = IsConnected()Set value of

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.79Function: EmailParameters: param1, param2, param3, param4, param5Returns: Nothingparam1 = Sender's

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.8Front panel controls, indicators and inputs:Name Type DescriptionFault LED Indicator Indicates an interna

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.80Global Scripting Functions.These function do not require a site identifier in front of them as they are

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.81Global Variables.Each site contains 5 global variables to be used between the scripts if needed:MyByte(I

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.82Scripting Example:Example script that turns on a backup transmitter if the main fails. If the station h

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.83Using the Sicon-8’s Internal Web ServerNetworking basics:Before reading any further, we would like to me

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.84Using the Sicon-8’s Web server:Your Sicon-8 contains an onboard Web server.This Web server has proved to

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.85By browsing to whatever IP address your Sicon-8 has, you will be presented with a login screen.The defau

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.86Mobile (PDA) BrowsingThe Sicon-8 Web server can also serve up a simplified page designed todisplay on ma

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.87 Changing a Label (Admin & Super-Admin Only)Usually, if an alarm condition exists for a period of ti

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.88Additional Methods of Web Control:1. The Sicontroller software is Web enabled. You can use it tolog in

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.89Adding SX-8 expansion chassis:The Sicon-8 can be expanded up to 32 channels by adding SX-8 expansion cha

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.9Figure 3.The Sicontroller software main display.SicontrollerSoftwareThe Sicon-8includes a Windows-based

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.90Commonly Changed Units & Labels Words Used in the Sicon-8:For a full listing of all words, phrases a

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.91Sicon-8 complete word list (8 to 32 channels)Phrase Word #Size (sec)Actual Recorded Word or Phrase (if d

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.92Phrase Word #Size (sec)Actual Recorded Word or Phrase (if Different)Local 45 1.3Remote 46 1.3Mode 47 1.3

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.93Phrase Word #Size (sec)Actual Recorded Word or Phrase (if Different)Meter Label 6 842Meter Label 7 852Me

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.94Phrase Word # Size (sec)Actual Recorded Word or Phrase (if Different)Status Label 17 1272Status Label 18

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Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.96Figure 2. Sicon-8 Hardware Block DiagramMain ProcPIC18F4620I/O InterfaceModuleExpansionPortTelemetryPort

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.97SpecificationsDimensions 1 ¾” H x 19” W x 6 ¼” D 1RU rack-mountableWeight approx. 6 lbs.Power 100-250 V

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.98WarrantyCircuitWerkes, Inc. (Manufacturer) warrants that this product is free of defects in both materia

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.99To minimize errors we strongly suggest filling these sheets outfully before programming events and actio