Platinum Plus
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The leftmost light in the row of four
lights at the top of the board blinks whenever the
card receives communication. The 2
nd
light
blinks whenever this Platinum Plus attempts to
communicate to the personal computer. The right
two lights pertain to the upper connector and are
not used in the Platinum Plus.
Alarm Card
The rightmost card in each Platinum
Plus is the mandatory alarm card. It is included
with each Platinum Plus to connect to your alarm
system.
Install Menu
Setup
1. Ventilation Mode: Select between Standard
and Precision mode. The Installation and
Control Menus are different between the two
ventilation methods. The details of each
method appear in their own sections below.
2. Language
: Version 2.21 of the Platinum
Plus supports the English and Spanish
languages throughout the menus. The built
in context sensitive Help files are available
only in English.
3. Temperature Unit
: Choose Celsius or
Fahrenheit.
4. Pressure Unit
: The standard unit of
pressure in North American poultry
buildings is Inches of Water Column.
Typical pressure readings range from about
0.4” to 0.12” Water Column. This is a very
low pressure, approximately the size of the
meniscus in a glass of water, or perhaps
slightly more than the dimple a water bug
walking on water makes. Other units
available are Milibars, Pascals, Centimeters
of Water Column (CM.W.C.), Millimeters
of Water Column (MM.W.C.)
5. Fan Air Capacity Unit
: This is the fan
capacity typically given in CFM (cubic feet
per minute) in North America, or M
3
/H
(cubic meters per hour) in many other
regions. The Platinum Plus uses these
numbers to estimate the wind chill effect.
The Platinum Plus will automatically
convert units form one system to another.
6. Length Unit
: The length unit is meters or
feet. It is needed to enter the poultry house
dimensions so the Platinum Plus can
calculate wind chill effect.
7. Baud Rate
: Baud rate is a measure of the
communication speed for local or remote
communications to a personal computer.
The factory default of 9600 represents a data
rate of approximately 1000 characters per
second. In the event your connections fail at
this speed, you can try lower speeds from
the choices given. You can try the higher
speeds available. The Service Menu
provides a modem programming command
to set US Robotics external fax modems for
various speeds.
8. House Number
: Each controller on a
network must have a unique number so
Rotem’s PlatiNet communications software
can distinguish individual controllers. House
numbers go from 1 to 32.
9. Growing Zones
: Most poultry producers
raise their birds in part of the building for a
period of time. Some grow the young birds
in half the building, and then expand to full
house after a time. Others start in the center
1/3, and expand to 2/3 and then all of the
building, and there are other variations. For
each of these circumstances a different
The mandatory alarm card has two
independent connectors for up to two alarm
systems. You might connect an automatic
dialer to one, and an audible alert to the
other.
Alarm Card, C-PP-RALC-2
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