METRON FD4 User Manual

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IftheoriginalSDmem orycardisnolongeravail ableablankSDmemorycard(formattedtoFAT)canbeused.
Thefirm ware ofthecontrollerwillcreatethenecessarylogfilesandwillcontinuetooperate.WhenthenewSD
memorycardisinse rtedalloftheeventsand
pressurelogsthatweremissedwillbeautomatic allycopiedfrom
theintern allymemorytothenewSDmemorycard.Asthelogsar ecopyingtotheSDcardtheOIDwilldisplay
thefollowmessage.
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PLEASE WAIT....
CAPTURING UNSAVED
EVENT LOGS 13
PRESSURE LOGS 159
Afterthecontrollerhasfinishedcopyingthelogsstore dinternallytotheSD
cardthealarmswi llbecleared.This
operationcantakeafewsec ondsuptomanyminutesdependingonthequantityoflogstocopyandthespeed
oftheSDcard.
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2. SDLoggingError
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ThecontrollercandetectproblemsloggingtotheSDcard.Ifthereisa
loggingerrorthepanelbehavesinthe
samewayaswhentheSDcardisremoved.TheonlydifferenceisthattheSDcardwillstillbeinthecontrol
panel.Thecontrollerwillperiodicallytrytorecoverfromloggingerrorsandifsuccessfulthealarmsandmessage
onthe
OIDwillclear.However,ifthemessageontheOIDcontinuestodisplayforover15minutestheSDcard
shouldbereplace dwithanewcardortheoldcard canbereformatted toFAT(notFAT32orexF AT)usingaPC.
Itisrecommendedthatanyfilesthatare
readablefromaPCarecopiedbeforethecardisre format ted. 
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3. Descriptionofthefile sstoredontheSDmemory card
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Filename Description
EVENTS.TXT The main log file. Contains a maximum of 3000 events occurred on the controller in date order. After
the 3000 limit is reached the oldest events will be overwritten from the top of the file.
FD4FW.HEX Original firmware, Metron Eledyne use only.
FW_DEF.TXT A file containing the version number of the FD4FW.HEX firmware file. Metron Eledyne use only.
SETTINGS.TXT This file is created when ‘save all settings’ is executed from the controller, contains the saved settings.
SCREENS.NEW Data file used for the screen messages on the OID, Metron Eledyne use only.
MISCTEXT.NEW Data file used for the messages on the OID screens, Metron Eledyne use only.
AUXALM.TXT Obsolete. Replaced by SETTING.TXT but may still be on the SD card.
CONFIG.TXT Configures the LEDs on the OID, Metron Eledyne use only.
PRESS**.TXT Contains the pressure log where ** is the day of month 01 through 31. Each month will overwrite the
previous month’s data day by day. At the start of each matching day number the old file is deleted and
a new file recreated.
TheSDcard maycontainotherfiles.Normallythesewouldbedrawingsorotherdocument sinPD Fform at.See
PartIXab ov eforadesc ript ionoftheformatofthepressureandeventlogfiles.
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METRON FD4 Specifications

General

Brand	METRON
Model	FD4
Category	Controller
Language	English