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Configuring the Circuit Monitor Using The Setup M enu April 2001
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The featuresdiscussed in this section are not required for basic circuit
monitorsetup, but can be used to customize your circuit monitor to suit your
needs.
Anyquantity that is stored in a register in the circuit monitorcan be displayed
on the remote display.The circuit monitor has a list of viewablequantities
already definedsuch as average current, power factortotal, and so forth. In
additionto these predefined values, you can define custom quantities that
can be displayedon a custom screen. For example, if your facilityuses
differenttypes of utilityservices such as water, gas,and steam, you may want
totrack usage of the three services on one convenientscreen. To do this,you
couldset up inputs to receive pulses from eachutility meter, then displaythe
scaled registerquantity.
Forthe circuitmonitor display, custom quantitiescan be used to display a
value. D on’t confuse this featurewith SMScustom quantities. SMS custom
quantitiesare used to add new parameters which SMS can use to p erform
functions.SMS custom quantities are defined, for example,when you add a
new POWERLOGIC-compatibledevice to SMS or ifyou want to import data
into SMS from anothersoftware package. Youcan use the SMS cu stom
quantitiesin custom tables and interactivegraphics diagrams, butyou cannot
use circuitmonitor display custom quantities in this way.
Custom quantities
that youdefine for display from thecircuit monitor are not availableto SMS
.
They mustbe defined separately in SMS.
Touse a custom quantity, performthese tasks:
1. Create the custom quantity as describedin this section.
2. Createa custom screen on which the custom quantity can be displayed.
See “CreatingCustom Screens”on page 31 in the following section. You
can viewthe custom screen by selecting from the Main Menu, Meters >
Custom. See “Viewing Custom Screens”onpage 34 for more
information.
Tocreate a custom quantity,follow these steps:
1. From the Main Menu, select Setup.
The passwordprompt displays.
Engy/Dmd
ResetQ0–9998
Entera passwordin the Engy/DmdReset field
toc reate a password for rese tting Energy and
Demand.These options appearon the Reset
menu,and they can also be locked.See
“Advanced Meter Setu p”onpage 34 for
instructions.
Min/MaxResetQ0–9998
Enter a password in the Min/Max Reset field
to create a password for resetting the M in/
Max, which appears o n the Reset menu. Thi s
optioncanalsobelocked.See“Advanced
Meter Setup”on page 34 forinstructions.
QThe word “Locked”appears nextto a reset option that is inaccessible.If all of the
reset options are l ocked, “Locked”will appear next to the Resets option in the Main
Menu, and the Resets menu will be in accessible.
Table3–7: Optionsfor PasswordSetup
AdvancedSetup Features
Creating Custom Qu antities to
be Displayed