Redundant Operating Characteristics - Overview
Revision 19 HC900 Process Controller Installation and User Guide 155
06/14
Redundant Operating Characteristics
Overview
This section describes operating characteristics specific to redundant controllers.
In a redundant HC900 system, the Lead Controller performs all primary tasks including interfacing with
remote I/O racks, communicating with a local HMI, exchanging data with peer controllers, interfacing with
Modbus slave devices, and communicating with a Host PC application. Detection of a fault or removing
power from a Reserve Controller will initiate a diagnostic prompt in the Lead Controller, but will have no
impact on the process under control. The detection of a fault or removing power from a Lead Controller
will initiate failover, that is, transfer all primary tasks to the Reserve Controller, establishing this controller
as the new Lead. Following a failover, the new Lead Controller will remain the Lead, even if the condition
that caused the failover is corrected.
Start-Up
• Assignment of Lead and Reserve status is determined at start-up
− First available C75 assumes Lead
− In case of a tie, CPU mounted in the left position of the rack will Lead
− No user configuration or manual operations required to establish Lead / Reserve status
• Lead Controller assumes control of I/O and all external communication interfaces.
• Reserve Controller receives the configuration from the Lead Controller
Modes of operation (Figure 83)
The modes of operation are:
• Run
• Run/Program
• Program
You can change modes with:
• key-switch on the redundancy control module
• HC Designer software
• HC Utilities software
• local 1042 or 449 operator interfaces.
• a command from a supervisory host
Both Lead and Reserve Controllers maintain the same mode. Placing the Lead Controller into the Program
mode will also place the Reserve Controller in the Program mode.
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