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George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips, April 2020

What do the lights on the LX controller mean? Most Computrols hardware products include various LEDs – these lights can be very helpful in providing visual feedback of various controller conditions and the status of communication channels. The LX controller features several differences and improvements over the X-line with regards

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CBAS Tips
George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips, March 2020

How to Program Software Points in CBAS The easiest way to program Software Points is by going to Hardware View, finding the controller then going to Points. In Editor Mode or in Live Edit you will see a line at the bottom of the points that says Add A Software

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CBAS Tips
George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips, February 2020

Add or Change Point Type Did you know that you can now use 10K Type II temperature sensors in addition to 10K Type III in CBAS? This means that if Type II sensors are in place when retrofitting controllers at a site, you don’t have to change them. The use

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CBAS Tips
George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips, January 2020

Controller Voltage Did you know that Binary Outputs can be locked out if your power supply is inadequate?  If the power being supplied to the controller is inadequate, all binary outputs will be locked in the OFF state until adequate power is returned. This way the controller continues to run,

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CBAS Tips
George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips, December 2019

The MN-S series of LCD Display Sensors are a popular choice due to their simplicity and flexibility.  Did you know that you can also use the sensor to view the serial address of the UNI, VAV or Stat Interface Board that the MN-S sensor is connected to?

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CBAS Tips
George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips, November 2019

Using CO2 sensors with VAV-B We were recently asked if it would be possible to utilize CO2 sensors with the VAV-B in order to control CFM setpoints. At this particular site, they want to add CO2 sensors to some of the VAV-Bs and command the CFM setpoint to the MAX

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CBAS Tips
George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips, October 2019

Did you know that you can simulate your logic programming without having to go into Real Mode or wiring up controllers? This can be really handy, especially when testing central plant operation without having to do it live.

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BAS Education
George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips, September 2019

What is Priority in CBAS? When you look at the list of points, either in Text View or Hardware View, you see the point name on the left. To the right of that is the status of the point, and to the right of that is the priority of the

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CBAS Tips
George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips, August 2019

New BACnet Settings Editor In July of 2018, I wrote an article about The Importance of Probe in BACnet. As a quick recap, when you probe a BACnet Controller in CBAS, the resulting probe file allows points to be imported into the database easily with minimum manual data input. Probing

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