Siemens SINAMICS G120 - Settings for the Know-How Protection

Backing up data and series commissioning
9.5 Write and know-how protection
Inverter with CU230P-2 Control Units
338 Operating Instructions, 11/2013, FW V4.6.6, A5E02430659B AG
9.5.2.1
Settings for the know-how protection
Activating know-how protection
Preconditions
● You are online with STARTER.
If you have created a project offline on your computer, you must download it to the
inverter and go online.
● You have inserted the recommended Siemens card. See also Section: Technical data for
CU230P-2 (Page 373).
Procedure
Proceed as follows to activate know-how protection:
1.
Select the inverter in the STARTER project, and then select "Know
-how protection drive
unit/activate ..." in the shortcut menu (see also Write protection (Page 334)).
2.
Enter your password. Length of the
password: 1
… 30 characters.
For the password, we recommend
that you only use characters from the
ASCII charact
er set. If you use any
character for the password, then if
changes are made to the Windows
language settings after activating
know
-
how protection, errors can occur
when subsequently checking the
password.
3.
In this screen form, press the "Copy
RAM to ROM" button. This means
that you save your settings so that
they are protected against power
failure.
You have activated know-how protection.
Backing up settings on the memory card
When the know-how protection is activated, you can save the settings via p0971 on the
memory card.
To do this, set p0971 = 1. The data is encrypted before being written to the memory card.
After saving, p0971 is reset to 0.