Reference, Installation, and Operations Manual

Upgrading a Mark II to a Mark III

3-9000-743 Rev S

June 2013

 

 

 

•FEWER BOARDS. The Mark III consists of fewer boards than the Mark II resulting in increased reliability, easier servicing, and fewer spare parts to keep on hand.

•EASIER FIRMWARE UPGRADING. The Mark III meter offers easy, fast firmware upgrades via the Daniel MeterLink program and does not require a programming key.

•FIRMWARE UPGRADE PRESERVES ARCHIVE LOGS. The Mark III firmware can be upgraded without deleting existing archive logs.

•IMPROVED WAVEFORM VIEWING AND EXPORT. Whereas the Mark II meter offered the ability to retrieve a single waveform for each chord, the Mark III meter offers the ability to output a succession of waveforms for each chord. With Daniel MeterLink connected to the meter via the optional Ethernet, several waveform updates per second are possible.

•SYSTEM LOG. In addition to the hourly, daily, audit, and alarm logging capabilities offered by the Mark II, the Mark III meter adds system log capability to provide more detailed information on the health and status of the meter.

•LOG-OVERWRITE CONTROL. For each log, the user can select whether or not new records can overwrite older, unread records.

•COMPRESSED XML-BASED LOG FILES. The Mark III optionally exports log data in industry-standard and highly-flexible XML format. This allows the Mark III log files to be forward compatible with features that may be added in the future. The files are then optionally transferred to the PC using Daniel MeterLink in compressed format for fast transfers.

•CONFIGURATION CHECKSUM AND DATE TIMESTAMP. The Mark III meter checksums the configuration parameters and maintains a checksum change date timestamp for easy determination of a configuration change. Both checksum value and date timestamp are audit logged for traceability. They are also Modbus-readable for remote monitoring.

•IMPROVED PARAMETER CONFIGURATION FEEDBACK. When using Daniel MeterLink to configure a Mark III meter, informative messages are displayed when trying to set an invalid parameter configuration. For example, when trying to set a data point to a value outside the point’s valid range, a message is displayed identifying the data point, the valid range, and the invalid value.

•MONITORED SYSTEM TEMPERATURE AND VOLTAGE RAILS. The Mark III monitors the internal enclosure temperature and voltage rails and generates alarms when out of preset limits.

•DRY-CONTACT CLOSURE INPUT. The Mark III provides an uncommitted dry-contact closure (configurable for logic polarity) that can be monitored via Modbus.

What’s new In Mark III

301