Maintenance

10.5 Testing

Forcing a Switchover

Testing a Hot To test your Hot Standby system, you may force a switchover manually or through

Standbysoftware.

Switchover

Note: In systems with scan times of 200 ms or greater and more than 15 RIO drops, it is recommended that the drop holdup time be increased to 1.5 seconds to ensure that communication with remote drops is maintained during switchover.

Forcing a

Switchover

Manually

Take the following steps to force a switchover manually.

Step

Action

1Be sure that the Standby controller has been fully programmed.

2Place the function keyswitch on the CHS 110 Hot Standby module in the Run position.

3Observe that the Standby indicator on the CHS 110 module is steady amber.

4Be sure that the designation slide switch on one Hot Standby module is in position A and that the switch on the other Hot Standby module is in position B.

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