A036 NCU Diagnostic Displays and Switches

The NCU diagnostic features are found on the lower front face
and consists of a 7-segment display unit and 8 status-

LED Location

7 segment display Location

display.
The 7 segment display is found
beneath the light blue clip-on
cover.

LED Colour Explanation LED Colour Explanation

There is at least one fault (e.g. RESET, STOP orange PLC in the Stop status (PLC stop)
red Watchdog monitoring etc.), or the control unit
is in process of booting. SU/PF red FORCE activated (PLC force)

red/ flashing 0.5Hz. Error accessing SF red PLC group error

orange CompactFlash Card DP red PROFIBUS group error X126
orange Accessing CompactFlash Card DP/
red PROFIBUS group error X136
MPI
flashing (0.5 Hz).Updating the firmware of
RDY orange
the connected DRIVE-CLiQ components PN red PROFINET IO group error X150
flashing (2 Hz). Firmware update is complete Synchronization status (SY) of the
orange for components. Wait for POWER ON for the onboard PROFINET IO interface (X150)
components in question. SY/MT green
Maintenance status (MT) of the NCU
(presently without function)
green NC operative
The PROFINET system runs correctly;
gn/og Flashing (1 Hz). LED-supported recognition
off data exchange to all configured IO
or of connected DRIVE-CLiQ component is
devices runs.
rd/og activated: (p0124[0] = 1).
OPT Bus fault (no physical connection)
RUN green PLC operative (PLC run) red
Incorrect transmission rate
Failure of a connected I/O device.
red
Incorrect or no configuration

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7-Segment display 7-segment display during power up.

The 7-Segment display is located behind the lower cover of 7-segment Meaning
the control unit. display
The display can output a single numeric value (0 to 9) or a
1 Not applicable.
single letter (A, C, E, F, P). A decimal point is present to the
lower right of the numeric value. 2 Not applicable.
It serves as a status display during commissioning and can 3 Debugger was initialised.
be used to display the following information:
4 NRK operating system was successfully acti-
IP address of the NCU vated.
5 NRK operating system has booted, init task is
Test and diagnosis information
being processed (The application boots)
Status during booting 6 Initialisation was successfully performed; the
6. control is in cyclic operation and the cycles are
During normal operation a "6." is displayed with the point active.
F Internal error.
An "8" indicates that the fan is defective or that the Control 1 or 2 CF card and SRAM data do not match. To re-
Unit is operating without a fan. solve this problem, a general reset is required by
booting with NCK- Switch position 1 or 2.
During the boot phase the display changes to indicate the
different stages of the boot process.

System Errors

7 segment Meaning
LED and the 7-segment display. display
Permanent error

C
Meaning found in the system log-file.
Flashing red Permanent error: System stopped P
@ 2Hz (See below for 7-segment display) Temporary error
Flashing red/ Temporary error: System may continue with
orange @ restricted functions.
Compact Flash Card (An additional point is dis-
2Hz (See below for 7-segment display) E
that the CF card is defective.

ble that not all services will have started.

F When booting, the error is displayed for 1 minute;
the system will then continue to boot, however, it
can be assumed that problems will occur.

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NCK and PLC rotary switches NCK switch functionality

Two rotary switches, one for NCK functions and one for PLC Switch
Function
functions are also present. Certain tasks can be achieved Position
depending on the position of the switches.
0 Normal NCK boot up
1 NCK boot up with default values (Memory reset)
ton is conveniently located for this purpose.
7 Debug mode, NCK is not started.
8 IP address is displayed on 7 segment display
All others Not relevant.

PLC switch functionality.

RESET-button Switch
Function
Position

NCK start-up 0 Run

switch
1 Run (Protected mode)

PLC mode 2 STOP

selector switch.
3 Memory reset on boot up (MRES)
All others Not relevant.

NCK and PLC general reset

NCK and PLC = general reset !

NCK and PLC (incl. SDB) general reset

When commissioning the NCU for the first time, in order to
achieve a defined initial state of the whole system, a general
NCK and PLC reset must be performed. NCK general reset
Turn the NCK commissioning switch to position NCK commissioning switch to position
and the PLC commissioning switch to position Initiate a power on reset by switching-off the control and
Initiate a power on reset by switching-off the control and switching-on again or by pressing the Reset button
switching-on again or by pressing the Reset button.
Allow the system to Run-up and wait for 6 on the 7-Segment Run-up to wait for 6 on the 7-Segnent display
display NCK commissioning switch to position
LED "STOP" flashes and the LED "SF" is lit ! Turn the PLC
commissioning switch to "2" NCK = erased (standard MD loaded)!
The LED "STOP" first flashes faster and then changes to
steady light.

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