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George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips, June 2020

4-20mA to 0-10VDC Conversion When working with Analog Inputs, sometimes you may find yourself needing to work with a 4-20mA device. These devices can be powered from an external DC voltage source or the LX controller itself – please refer to the label on the controller for wiring diagram examples.

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CBAS Tips
George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips, May 2020

Enthalpy, Dew Point and Wet Bulb Calculations in CBAS We previously covered the topic of enthalpy and dew point in our article Enthalpy as it relates to free cooling in HVAC. In today’s article we will go over how to create these points in CBAS.

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CBAS Tips
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, 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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