Month: June 2025

Board installation parameters provided by the manufacturer should be met to minimize 

the risk of equipment failure or error. Board functionality is dependent on proper wiring of the system.

An illustrated guide for wiring and installing the DS200FCGDH1B is provided in the equipment manual and data sheet.

The entire Mark V series was originally powered by General Electric.

The above additional information for this DS200FCGDH1B printed circuit board product

is largely reminiscent of the general Mark V Series instruction documentation

and visual inspection of the DS200FCGDH1B unit itself.

This strategy was deemed necessary due to the legacy series status of

this DS200FCGDH1B product and the concomitant lack of on-line instructional

manual material that could be utilized for research purposes on this page.

With this in mind, the DS200FCGDH1B functional product number itself

can be considered an important source of information on DS200FCGDH1B Board hardware components and component specifications.

as it encodes a range of details in a series of consecutive function naming blocks.

For example, the DS200FCGDH1B Functional Product Number begins with

a dual-function DS200 series label representing the normal Mark V series components of

that DS200FCGDH1B product and its original domestic manufacturing location.

Some other relevant hardware details revealed through the use of

the DS200FCGDH1B Functional Product Number include this Mark V Series PCB:

.FCGD Functional Product Abbreviation

.First Mark V Series Product Grouping

.Conformal pattern of PCB protective coatings

.Class B Functional Product Revision

basic layer of daily wear protection provided by its conformal PCB surface coating.

Hardware Tips and Specifications

The DS200FCGDH1B is a door assignment and status card (FCGD). 

Developed by General Electric for its Mark V board family,

the card can be installed in many GE-branded drives.

Once installed, the card acts as the interface system for a six-pulse phase control non-inverting bridge.

the DSPC (Digital Signal Processing Card) relays information to the board for decryption.

This generates signals about diagnostic information and system feedback.

This generates signals for diagnostic information and system feedback,

which are then sent out using the drive’s integrated VME backplane.

This DS200FCGDH1B product collects a large amount of data from the drive’s integrated DSPC.

The signals received by the board are converted to unit gating signals.

All system bridge pins receive this cell gating signal and return multiplexed cell

status information to the card. the FCGD board also receives and scales feedback signals.

The three FGPA boards send feedback signals through fiber optic connections on the board.

The included feedback includes frequency, voltage, and board status information.

The integrated IMOK LED status indicator provides the user with basic system status.

This DS200FCGDH1B printed circuit board product manufactured by General Electric

was originally designed and manufactured for placement in its Mark V family of turbine control systems.

This DS200FCGDH1B printed circuit board, or PCB for short, is considered a member of the Mark V family.

It has specific applications in the management and control systems of popular and compatible wind,

gas and steam turbine automatic drive assemblies, as evidenced by the full extended family name provided above.

This Mark V family of DS200FCGDH1B Printed Circuit Boards, or PCBs for short,

while related to newly developed alternative energy technologies

must still be considered an obsolete GE legacy product line, as it was massively discontinued

due to obsolescence many years after the release of the original Mark V line of products.

The Mark V series of this DS200FCGDH1B PCB, while generally obsolete due to its legacy series status,

still offers many highly sought after products.

This is because it exists as one of the definitive General Electric Mark product lines,

utilizing the company’s patented Speedtronic control system technology.

In addition, the DS200FCGDH1B PCB does not exist as the original development

of its intended Mark V series functionality; this would be the case with the lack of the DS200FCGDH1B PCB.

This would be the DS200FCGDH1 female PCB that lacks the single Level B functional product revision of the DS200FCGDH1B product.

The single plug-in connector that can be used to assemble this DS200ITXDG1ABA Dynamic

Braking Buffer Board is also fully discussed in the associated General Electric instruction manual material.

This connector is accompanied by a DBPL factory printed naming label and

connects this DS200ITXDG1ABA product to the accessible IMCP cousin PCB product in the larger Mark V series automatic drive assembly.

For convenience, the plug-in connector location for this DS200ITXDG1ABA PCB is described separately in the available guidance material.

Before making any single final purchase decision on this DS200ITXDG1ABA Dynamic Brake Buffer Board,

it is important to realize that it was originally designed to be used as a dynamic brake buffer board.

It is important to realize that the performance specifications and dimensions it

was originally introduced with have undoubtedly changed as a result of its receiving a full triple revision history.

The ITXD board allows for adjustment of the various outputs in the Mark VI series.

There are three different connector types on the board, allowing the board to be connected in a variety of different ways.

This DS200ITXDG1ABA printed circuit board product or PCB for

short has the normal style of Mark V series assembly, although it has been edited

by accepting the full range of three Mark V series feature and illustration configuration product revisions.

Hardware Tips and Specifications

The required operation of the IXTD board is provided through the circuitry

of the connected power supply/interface board (IMCP).

When the IMCP and the IXTD board are connected, they are connected via a four-pin connector.

When the board is installed, it will be externally mounted and must

be sized to meet the worst-case switching requirements of dynamically braked IGBTs.

The purpose of the snubber board is to be used to limit voltage transients

​at both ends of the IGBT and at all known operating conditions of the driver.

Another function of the DS200ITXDG1ABA board is to regulate the output

of the IGBT gate driver board to match the electrical characteristics of the AT frame driver.

AT frame drivers are available in variable and constant torque applications.

The drive output current rating for variable torque applications is 500 ARMS.

The DS200ITXDG1ABA board has three connector types: bus I/O connectors,

input connectors for DBPL, and board pin connectors.

All of these connector types have different pin numbers, nomenclature,

and descriptions, which are explained in depth and in detail in the 

DS200ITXDG1ABA instruction manual included above for your convenience.

Bus I/O connectors and pin I/O connectors are also oriented. 

Two examples of pins associated with the stab I/O connectors are the

E-6 and E-9 connectors, both of which are output connectors.

The E-6 connector is the DB IGBT gate signal and the E-9 connector is the connection for the external buffer resistor.

About the DS200ITXDG1ABA

The DS200ITXDG1ABA board is labeled as a Dynamic Brake Buffer Board and

is part of the Mark V Series manufactured by General Electric.

The Mark V Series, of which this DS200ITXDG1ABA product is a part,

was one of the last of General Electric’s Mark product line to incorporate

Speedtronic control system technology into its various products.

And since it was eventually discontinued many years after its initial release, it exists as a legacy product line.

This DS200ITXDG1ABA Printed Circuit Board, or PCB for short, is not an original development for

its specific Mark V Turbine Control System family of functional roles;

it is actually the DS200ITXDG1 Parent Dynamic Brake Buffer Board.

The DS200ITXDG1ABA PCB is conspicuously missing all three versions

of the three important product versions of the DS200ITXDG1ABA PCB.

The assembly of this DS200ITXDG1ABA PCB has been specifically

altered to utilize a Level A Major Function Revision, a Level B Minor Function Revision, and a Level A Drawing Configuration Revision.