Siemens SINAMICS G130 - Deactivating Know-How Protection

Functions, monitoring, and protective functions
9.2 Drive functions
Inverter chassis units
Operating Instructions, 07/2016, A5E00331449A
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Note
Password check for know-how protection and Windows language settings
A change to the Windows language settings after activating know
-how protection can cause
errors for a subsequent password verifica
tion. As a consequence, only characters from the
ASCII character set should be used for the password.
Note regarding know-how protection
Note
Safely deleting existing unencrypted data
If unencrypted data have already been saved on the memory card bef
ore saving encrypted
data, then this data will not be safely deleted. No special deletion method is applied in order
to completely and finally remove unencrypted data from the memory card.
In this case, users must ensure that the unencrypted data are safel
y and reliably deleted, for
instance by using special PC
-based tools.
9.2.21.3
Deactivating know-how protection
Know-how protection can be deactivated via STARTER in the online mode.
Deactivating know-how protection
Know-how protection is deactivated via STARTER in the online mode as follows:
● Select the drive unit via
Project
>
Know-how protection drive unit
>
Deactivate
.
● A dialog appears in which the know-how protection can be temporarily or permanently
deactivated:
– Temporary deactivation:
Select
temporary
and enter the password, accept using
OK
.
– Final deactivation:
Select
final
and enter the password, select
Copy RAM to ROM
and accept using
OK
.