Welcome to our first in a series of power core training videos.
This video is called getting to know power core. PowerCore family consists of three controllers:
the MPC-20R2 which is featured here, the MPC-10, and the TEC-10.
They all have the same user interface and they all have the same menu structure.
There are some items in the menus that might vary between the 20 and the two 10s, the two 10s are
identical. other than that once you learn one you've pretty much learned all of them.
Let's start with the with the user interface. Starting from left to right we have the start
and stop manual start and stop of the engine with the green and red buttons,
auto button toggles you between auto and manual, the alarm silences the beeper on an alarm,
the rabbit and the tortoise were manually increasing and decreasing engine speed in manual,
the menu button that toggles you from the main screens in the front to the menus and back,
the back button allows you to step back out of a menu the same steps that you use to get
into it so you only need to go back one step you only have to go back one step.
The enter button in the middle is used for entering set points and entering the
menu you want to get into and passcode. The up and down arrows navigate the front screens
you can also make set point changes change the values with the same up and down arrows
and the passcodes are done with the up and down arrows. let's talk about the home screen
the home screen is where the controller goes after it's initially powered up.
The top pretty much the top half of the display is for the tachometer and you'll notice the
target rpm which is an internally generated rpm that we use to throttle the engine to.
Oil pressure engine temp battery voltage, below that you would see depth level or soot level if
you selected those gauges, and the running hours for the engine. Below that you have the stopped
it says stop for the status for the state the controller is in as a stop state we're
in manual operation and there's an hour meter running time meter that's timing down which
is the standby timer that could be any time delay though it could be warm up and cool down depending
on what time delay this time it could show how much is remaining on it. Below that we have the
tier 4 icons and any other alarm icons that are to be displayed. So navigating the front
screens you can use the upper down arrows to go to in either direction you want hit the up
arrow once and we go to our first six up screen. These could be populated it allows six variables
to be shown at once these can be populated from a menu in PowerVision for controllers
which you can download from our website so you can change these or you can blank them out
there's our second six up display
here's the application screen it shows engine rpm oil pressure and engine temp dual contact start
stop which is the factory default shows the floats are inactive basically floats or dual contact
and it shows the throttle percentage on the right because we go to a running loaded rpm with floats
next screen is the system information
it shows what model you have what version of software you have tech services will more than
likely have you go to the screen so they know what they're dealing with they know what you have
analog input status it shows the analog number along the left
column and then what it's configured for. They're all disabled from the factory but if i chose
420 milliamp discharge pressure for analog one it would show that on here
digital output status digital output number on the left
what it's configured for and whether that output is on or off
relay status relay number on the left what it's configured for and whether it's on or
off and these are all factory settings we're looking at here i haven't changed anything
from the factory. Digital input status. digital number input number what it's configured for
and whether that input's opened or closed so without knowing any passcodes
just on the front screens you can tell what the controller is configured for
as far as start stop goes, throttling, and what the i/o is configured for without getting into it
one more page and one more screen and we've got uh back to our home screen. Let's get into the menus.
Hit the menu button once ask for a four digit passcode if you hit the menu button again it
just brings you back to the front screen that's about all that button does. Asks for four digits,
so you have to know your four digit passcode hit the enter button and the cursor will go over to
the right for your second digit you can go either direction up or down for entering the number.
So let's say i enter the wrong the wrong passcode and i hit enter. it just goes
back and waits for you to do it again. Okay there's our correct code. This is the main
the first screen of our main menu. There's more to the menus than this just it's just one screen
the way i know that is in the upper right hand corner we've added a little up and down arrow
to tell you there's more to it because you can only put some so much information on one screen.
So you can toggle in either direction up or down you have the system menu engine settings advance
engine settings throttle input output application configuration start stop timer communication
passcodes and load configuration and you go back to system. If you want a certain
menu you toggle down to it you highlight it and you hit enter. It's that simple and you
you do what you need to do in that menu. The system menu, let's make a set point change.
You hit enter now we're in the system menu. Toggle down to units, hit enter. These are all
the units that you can change. the pressure units default to psi well i don't want psi,
hit enter again. I want kpa i can choose kpa bar or psi but i want kpa. Toggle down to kpa. Now
here's here's the trick to making a set point change - you have to hit enter after you've
selected what you want that set point to be. If you don't hit enter the controller won't take it
so i hit enter, now it's kpa. Had i just hit the back button in that case it would still be psi
you you thought you changed it but you didn't really change it. So we're changed to kpa now.
Now we can hit the back button because we've already changed it. There's
there's the system menu the first screen of it and there's the main menu okay.
Let's talk about factory settings. When these controllers leave the factory they they all have
factory set points the TEC-10 and MPC-10 of course have the same set points the factory set points.
the MPC-20 it's slightly different but they're all from the factory and they're all in bold on the
appropriate owner's manual that you can download from the website.
If for some reason you need to go back to factory settings after you've been there making set point
changes maybe your customer's customer calls tech services doesn't know what's been changed
doesn't know where it is and it's not acting like it should, tech services might have you do
a factory reset okay that puts you back to square one when it first came out of the box when it left
the factory. So it's kind of a do-over, so if you go to systems menu and toggle down and find
restore factory defaults. okay hit enter and it says reset configuration.
Now when you do this if you've changed to one set point like we did
or 100 set points, they're all going back to the factory setting but sometimes you need to do that
to to find out where you are and to start over. So you hit enter the controller goes through reset
flash screen home screen okay so let's see let's hit the menu button do our entry code
and go to system menu. Let's go to units and see what it says. It says psi. Again
one or 100 set points it doesn't matter it's going to go back to
whatever the factory settings are in this case it's psi, so we're back to square one.
So that's just, it's a good do-over it's a good exit plan if you have to do that.
So hit the back button and we're out of the we're in the system menu now we're in the the
main menu and at any time you can hit the menu button and get and get out to the front display.
There we are. Well this concludes our getting to know PowerCore video. Thank you very much.