GE 750 - Upgrading Relay Firmware

GE Power Management 750/760 Feeder Management Relay 4-
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4 750/760 PC PROGRAM 4.4 USING 750/760 PC
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To begin communications click the
ON
button in the COMMUNICATION CONTROL section of the dialog box.
The Status section of the dialog box will indicate the communication status. If communication is established the
message
750PC is now talking to 750
will be displayed and the status at the bottom right hand corner of the
screen will indicate
Communicating
.
4.4.2 UPGRADING RELAY FIRMWARE
Prior to downloading new firmware into the 750/760,
save
the relay’s setpoints to a file (see Section 4.4.5:
SAVING SETPOINTS TO A FILE on page 4–9). Loading new firmware into the 750/760’s
flash memory via the
front panel port is accomplished as follows:
1. From the
Communications
menu select
Update Firmware
(Note that units that do not have a bootware
revision 3.00 or newer must be set to a baud rate of 9600 and a slave address of 1 before downloading
new firmware. Check the bootware revision of the relay shown on page A5 Revision Codes).
2. The following warning message will pop-up. Click on the
Yes
button to proceed or
No
to abort.
Figure 4–6: UPGRADE RELAY FIRMWARE WARNING
3. The following dialog box will then appear requesting the name of the file containing the new analog board
firmware to be loaded.
Figure 4–7: ANALOG BOARD FIRMWARE DIALOG BOX
4. Locate the appropriate file(s) by changing drives and/or directories until a list of file names appears in the
file list box. File names for released 750/760 firmware have the following format:
27 g 400 a4 . 000
Modification Number (000 = none)
a4 = Analog Board file; c4 = Control Board file
Firmware Version
Required 750/760 hardware
Product code (27 = 750)